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In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader – you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.

Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.

What are the Best Affiliate Networks? I don’t necessarily know if just one person could pick out a best affiliate network considering there are new ones popping up all the time. There are those that have been reliable through the years for many and ones that I have found to be extremely worthwhile.

First, let’s define an affiliate program vs. and affiliate network. An affiliate network is a sort of host that provides affiliates to collide with merchants. The merchants provide a digital product such as an e-book or online course and those are know as the affiliate programs and then the affiliates obviously market that. Think of the programs as the eggs and the networks as the basket.

Of course there are blogs you enjoy reading, those you get tips from, and brand new ones you are introduced to daily. Are you giving other bloggers the respect, comments, and encouragement that you want?

Throughout my blogging experiences, new, powerful blogs are always popping up. Blogs with new perspectives, great ideas, and good website development. However, the recurring things I continue to notice is other bloggers are not commenting on other’s blogs, becoming online friends etc. You get frustrated with the connections that visit your blog often and leave no comments. But are you doing the same?

Getting one-way or reciprocal links to your website can help increase your traffic. Many individual however do not understand the difference between the two types and how to get them. Below is a brief summary of both one-way links and reciprocal links.

One-way links are links that go to your site without having a link from your site. One-way links can increase traffic and improve the popularity of your page. You can gain one-way links by writing articles and publishing them to article directories. You may also make a page on your site for articles that has your link on it; if others republish your article your site will be linked with your republished article.

If you are not marketing your business, sites, or blogs on social networks yet, it is high time you do. The majority of my traffic comes from different social networks. Although there are many sites out there that list the top social networks, below are the handful that I have been using frequently to make friends, promote business, and get results.

Top 10 Social Networks

Facebook

MySpace

Bebo

Friendster

Hi5

Orkut

PerfSpot

Yahoo 360

Zorpia

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