Creating a blog takes a lot of work. One thing you need to do when creating a blog is to drive traffic to that blog. If you do not drive traffic to your blog then you will not make any money! It is very important to have ways of driving traffic to your blog so you have a steady stream of traffic or you will never be successful with your blog.
Below is a list of a 9 great ways to get a steady stream of traffic to your blog (a bunch I have already mentioned in previous posts on my blog):
1. Article Submission
Submitting articles to article directories is a great way to get traffic to your website. Check out my technique of submitting articles HERE. By submitting your articles to article directories you are creating most visitors through links on the articles and also creating backlinks. These backlinks are important because they increase the rank of your blog. So when trying to generate traffic to your blog this is one of the main steps to keep in mind.
2. Social Networking
I have mentioned this as well in a previous blog post. In that previous blog post I mentioned a list of 77 social networking sites you can submit content to. By doing this you can drive lots of traffic to your website through links and backlinks. If you can get to the front page of some of these websites such as Digg you can expect to see so much traffic that the server your website is hosted on might melt. This is something every blogger hopes to do is to get to the front page and just watch the traffic role in.
Another type of website that is very similiar to social networking is social bookmarketing websites. The difference with these sites is that people can browse the sites and bookmark them and come back to them later very easily if they are interested in the site.
3. Submission to Directories
This is a pretty easy one. All you need to do is find a list of free directories to submit to and submit your website or blog to them. There are also paid ones that might send more quality traffic to your blog so its your choice. Another option is adding a recipocial link which means that the directory links to your site and you link to the directories site. By doing this you also get better quality visitors and more traffic.
4. Reviews
You can ask for people to review your blog in forums and blogs. Some blogs such as DigitalPoint’s forum allow you to ask for reviews of your site in a particular thread. It is a good way to improve you website by having other people take a look at your website and constructively criticize your blog so you can improve it and also you get traffic from the people visiting your website.
5. RSS Feed
This is something I have mentioned in the past that is important to do. You should have a link on your blog somewhere so people can signup for your RSS feed easily. By doing this you encourage people to keep up with your blog and also come back to visit it from time to time. The more RSS readers you get the better. One of the best things you can do is signup for FeedBurner and you will be able to track the amount of RSS readers you have and give visitors an easy way to signup for your RSS feed.
6. Forums
Another great way to get traffic is through forums. There are many forums out there that are Do Follow forums. These forums are great because you can add links to your signature and when you post it will add links back to your website. Therefore the people visiting the forums can click on your links and also search engine spiders will crawl those links and increase your page rank.
7. E-Books
One thing many bloggers do is produce a free e-book that users can download from their site. Usually the e-book is a list of most of the things on their blog that have made them money in the past. It is a great way to interest people to come to your website because everyone likes FREE things. So consider creating an e-book and posting it on your blog as a free download and people will be sure to download it. Also the more reputation you have in the blogging world the more like people will want to download that free e-book.
8. Yahoo Groups
You can find Yahoo Groups which are relevant to your niche and join and participate actively. This works similarly to forums where you put a link in your signature and get traffic the same way as you do from forums. You can also post and answer questions with Yahoo Answers and put a link to your website in there which will generate traffic to your website.
9. Audio (Podcasting)
This may be something that isn’t for everyone but it can work if you are willing to broadcast yourself on the web. Basically what you do is create audio on Audio Acrobat and submit it to podcast directories and you will usually get some good traffic.
So there you have it. 9 great ways to generate traffic to your website. If you have any other good ideas of how to generate traffic for your blog and would like to share please reply to this post.
Online boosting software are also a reliable resource for building stable traffic. I’ve tried http://www.increasesiterating.com for a few days and the results were astonishing.