13 Ways to Get Traffic to your Blog

Like any business, your blogging journey is best travelled when you have groups of peoples around the world that follow your blog.

Whether you are blogging for fun or blogging for money, you want to have more visitors to your blog. Like me, you’ve probably tried to read up on different ways to get traffic. You’ve probably experimented with a few and found some methods that have worked.

Here are methods that I’ve used to bring traffic to my site:-

1. Write Great Content:- This goes without saying. Writing good, quality & original content is a must if you want readers to return to your blog and read your content. Not only that, but it’s good for the search engines crawling your site and finding the long tail keywords. By putting a poll on your blog you can also get much more.

2. Blog Design:- You must have some attractive design templates. Don’t go in complexity it’s difficult to manage it. Just chose simple but attractive templates.

3. Submit Your Site to the Major Search Engines:- You can submit your site manually to google, bing and yahoo. This way your site is indexed faster. In some cases, it will only be a matter of hours for your site to show up. Where as if you wait for it to happen organically, it can take weeks or months. Here are a few links where you can submit your url directly:

Google

Yahoo

Bing

4. Yahoo Answers:- Now a day’s yahoo answer also becomes a great source of traffic for your blog & website. This system is quite time consuming as you have to answer a number of questions left by others. After you answer a certain amount of questions, your status becomes elevated to level 2 and you are able to answer the questions which are related to your website or blog content with website/blog URL. You can also use linkedin answers. You can also give related keywords with your website or blog URL.

5. Submit You Blog Articles to Social Media and Social Bookmarking Sites:- Social media is an excellent way to drive traffic to your site. Twitter, Facebook, and StumbleUpon are the largest contributors of my traffic.
You can either manually send out your updates with a link back to your blog, or use a plugin to automate the process. If you can’t find a good plugin for the purpose, you can use a third party service such as twitterfeed to route your rss feeds to various social media outlets.

6. Ping Your Blog:- Pinging your blog, is simply sending out notifications to search engines and directory sites whenever you update your blog. There are several services that you can use to automate the process of pinging such as Pingler, pingomatic, and pingoat.

7. Article Marketing:- Now that you have submitted your site to the search engines, it’s time to start establishing your site’s reputation.
Write some articles about your choice and submit them to some article directories. Make sure you include the author bio information with a link to your site.

This is not only good for building backlinks, but people who read your articles will begin visiting your site.
I would suggest submitting your articles to some authority article directories such as ezine.

At the same time, you may want to use a service such as the free traffic system to submit your articles to other blogs for publishing.

8. Advertising on other blogs:- You can use either paid advertising or a free ad exchange network like entrecard. The concepts are basically the same. An advertisement for your blog is placed on another person’s website. Clicking on the ad will bring a visitor to your site. Adwords will require you to pay for each click to your site, whereas advertising exchange requires you to place a widget on your site to advertise other people’s blogs.

9. Blog Commenting:- I would say that blog commenting probably brings some of the most targeted visitors to my blog. So, on the other related blog leve some comments with your link. But remember only leave related comments and urls.

10. Guest Posting:- There are two ways to create traffic through guest posting. The first is to guest post on other blogs. This will get your name out in front of others and help you build a reputation for yourself. This is particularly useful if you are able to guest post on some of the more popular blogs.

The second way is to allow guest posting on your blog. When other authors post on your blog, their followers may come to your site to read their content. Recently, I had a guest post from Ashley, that received over 200 views over the course of a week. People that read that post, voted for it on blogengage, retweeted the post out to their twitter followers and shared it with their friends on other social media sites.

Sometimes, it just helps to get posts from a different perspective.

11. Send updates out to your list:- It doesn’t matter if you are just starting out and only have a couple of people on your list. When someone signs up for your list, they are actively telling you that they are interested in your content. Simply sending out a monthly/weekly update to your list and telling them of some of your recent posts will generate great returning traffic.

12. Posting in forums:- Posting in the forums also a great deal to get more traffic.

13. Translator plugin:- Language always creates a problem to communicate the different people living in different regions. Put a language translator on your blog or website will help your visitors to read in their own languages.


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