Stop Milking Me! - Cow’s Journey To Financial Freedom

Setting up a website is always the easy part. Putting the new website in front of the public eyes is seriously a pain-in-the-butt job. I have done it once and now I have to do it again for this Cow site.

In order to draw more readership, I spent probably 2 days worth of time to do the following:

1. register with feedburner.com and coded a list of the RSS options on the site. You can see these pretty pictures at the bottom of the right bar.
2. Setup email subscription service with Feedblitz.com and coded a form on this site. If you roll your eyeballs to the right, you’ll see it.
3. I went to www.mymoneyblog.com and went though it’s fairly complete list of the Personal Financing blog sites. I emailed 4 owners to swap links and 3 returned favors.
4. Setup a Link Swap program on this site too to encourage blog owners to swap links with me. It is located on the right hand side bar.
5. Networked with my former fellow bloggers from www.b5media.com to swap links. So far, two sites agreed to add me.
6. I restored my old personal site and redesigned it in the attempt to utilize its high Google PR. I have cross linked between these two sites.
7. I am viewing 2 – 3 new Personal Financing sites a week to participate in discussions and leaving comments on some interesting posts. This is always one of the best ways to establish network and attract more visitors.

Based on my past experiences, search engine is the most powerful source in generating traffic. Of course, if your site becomes famous and gets mention in any news media, that’s a different story. The search engines not only generate large volume of traffic, but also bring in the Ads friendly readers simply because most of the search engine readers are looking for specific information and they are more likely to click on something that is relevant to the materials they are searching for. That’s why I spent most of my time trying to generate links for this site. I know the magic won’t happen overnight. But as long as I keep producing quality contents on a regularly basis; as long as I keep marketing my site and networking with other blog sites, I will be able to get the traffic I need.