Dec 25 2009
Possible ways to get blog traffic
As promised in the post A good blog,this post will try to define how you could get traffic.
I am not sure what will work for you but, I will try to attempt to give you how it could be done. Before, we go into the traffic building detail, you must post atleast 6 or more post on your blog. This will help you when the search engine spiders come to visit your blog.
Search Engine Submission
When I started my first website, I went took time to submit it on google via this http://blogsearch.google.com/ping. Then I used http://www.google.com/addurl/ . This two are an absolute must. There are so many free websites which enable you to submit your website to other search engines. http://www.addme.com/submission/free-submission-start.php is an example. Please use them.
Over the years, the search engine submission and using google webmaster tools has done a lot good for my sites. The “search” traffic is the most important traffic you should look into.
Blog Broadcasters
There are a lot of sites like Digg, technorati, stumble upon etc where you should submit your article links. It helps a lot. A lot of time, the traffic it brings will boost your confidence.
RSS Feeds and Email Alerts.
Once some traffic comes to your blog, offer them RSS Feeds (default with many blog softwares) and Email Alerts Facility to them.
Blog Directory
Just search google for “Blog directories” and see the results. Try to submit your blog there. Most of the Blog directories have minimum criteria like “unique URL / Domain name”, minimum 6 months of existence and recent posts.
Posting links
You can post your links to other similar blogs. You should not spam. You can participate in their discussion and link to your article for adding to your debate. If you don’t, your post will be deleted and your time will be wasted.
Content Uniqueness
Though, I will address the content is a separate post in “What makes good content for a blog.” The uniqueness of the content will bring traffic back.
Social Networks
Now a days social networks like twitter and facebook will help you bring in traffic. Use them.
Paid Traffic
I have seen may blogs advertising in in google adwords. This is fine. There are other options like revisitors .Personally, I have not used them. But if you are looking at paying for traffic, this could be an option.
As I wrote before, there are only the possible ways. Some people are already well connected and they can email their blog url to them. Some blogs are interest group centric and hence get the traffic. Your method could be different. You can post your comment on how you increased your traffic. My next post will be “What to do once the blog traffic starts.”
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