Online world is very competitive now, same thing applies to blogging. Four years back when I started blogging, there were only few renowned bloggers around, and now I see many of them. Online visitors have got variety of choice in blogs to read through. They are not dependent on few of them for quality content.

The competition is tough now, and in efforts to establish yourself as blogger – you would need to build your authority online as a well-known blogger. Developing an unique and quality content is a default key in this process. There are some supporting activities that we should not ignore as those can help you to establish quicker. You are lucky if you come across those who are finding freelance writers like you and can popularize you or if you don’t come across, I can help you in there.

One of my online friends has started a website to find good freelance writers to provide them a platform establishing them as authors. Keep in mind, there is a thin line between a blogger and author. It’s a journey you have to take, that changes you from a blogger to author. Author is someone who has an authority, correct? Not every blogger around might have that authority! I am cent percent sure that you want to build that authority.

If you have that aspiration for yourself, what you write about is not a restriction. You shall strive for the quality in your articles in your favorite subjects, and those can be published in relevant categories on popular websites. Your content will get a platform that can promote your authorship online for no cost. As I start my new ventures in online business, I am inclined in informative business related writing to share my knowledge with others and also establish myself as business blogger.

Not necessarily, the subject you choose should be something very popular only, but you can focus on what is your favorite topic. That gives you an inbuilt authority to write quality articles due to your interest in that subject. To understand this better, you can check out this article written by one of the authors, Marius at edubook.com. The article talks about the latest Blackberry news that might be of the author’s own interest and the article appears in a flow. The topic if you see, you might think that even you can write about it. Exactly the same thing I want to emphasize on! You just needs to get motivated to bring out the writing instinct in you and use article publishing websites like edubook.com to get a free platform and build an authority as blogger.

When we discuss about displaying the ads or textlinks or even banners only on homepage (either on the page or sidebar), first thing comes to my mind is to state the difference between the blog and website because many of the visitors here are newbies.

Blog: A blog is a Web site with regular entries that are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blogs are dynamic form of web presence.

Website: Serveral webpages form a website that is almost always accessible via HTTP, a protocol that transfers information from the Web server to display in the user’s Web browser. Websites are static and the content on the website might not change as regularly as blogs.

Blogs are designed in a way that the content on homepage keeps changing and gets settled down in categories, archives and permanent pages dedicated to each post.

If the need arises that you need to display something only on homepage, and nowhere else in archives or post pages, not on navigavtion links or footer to make sure that the content like links or ads remain only on homepage, you cannot do it with the help of wordpress I believe as a default feature.

There are many advertisers that want their textlinks to be displayed on homepage *only* and some of them want it sitewide. It’s upto their plans and knowledge in SEO, it’s altogether a different ball game to discuss. But for now, your requirement to display the textlink only on homepage and how to do that.

I think this small piece of code below would help you to display the links at top, bottom or in sidebar of the blog. For example:

<?php if(is_home() && $post==$posts[0] && !is_paged()) { ?>
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<?php } ?>

And this shall work for you. Let me know how it works for you or if you find this tip useful.

Are you a new webmaster and continuously banging your head in frustration on not receiving all the internet traffic you would like to get to your web site? Are you tormented from information overload listening to all the latest free website traffic tactics and not being able to understand any of it – which is very likely to happen when you jump into the blogosphere without proper guidance? Or more funny question from me would be – are you dejected of people trying day and night to harassing you to max out your credit card and get loans for Google clicks, and in the process loose your credit score? Are you stupefied by the way your website just dropped out of the Google search results? Or are you just too broke and all you have to rely on is getting some free website traffic tactics?

Here I bring three quick free traffic tactics that won’t Cost you a dollar or even fraction of dollar

Link it Buddy

Of all the effective website traffic tactics that can get you best results, linking to and from other websites is the one of the most widely-used method. Just make sure that the Internet business you are exchanging links with is relatively if not utterly related to your own business. And of course, don’t overkill as this might ban you from search engines. This is not for pagerank reason, but you can link to good blogs with huge traffic and be noticed – if you are lucky they would some or the other day link back to you sending you loads of traffic otherwise your trackback is anyways there.

Use Meta Tags, they are still working

Another way of to acquire your desired traffic for your website is through having your Meta tags contain usually used keywords that target your business. Meta tags seem to still help search engines in describing your web page. If you’re quite adept with the HTML aspect of your web pages, manipulating your meta tags would be a breeze. Keep in mind this would just help to bring your website on first page of search engine result pages at times.

Keyword Rich but Sensible Content

A very important “but” here. Writing or acquiring articles that provide solid information regarding your business is one of the best ways. Making use of effective keyword suggestion tools such as keywordcountry will help you on which keyword or phrases to work on to better lead more traffic to your website. Making these write-ups very readable and genuinely informative will make you many repeat visitors to subsequently become repeat clients.

Submitting these articles to various article directory listings will provide more visibility for your business as long as you keep your resource box in tact to create for yourself numerous back links.

These are few of the traffic ideas in my mind currently than what I had posted earlier. Will come up with some more sooner.