This may be a given for some people but might be new to others. One thing that you should be doing to spread the word of your blog is to post a link to your blog/website from every online profile you have. There are plenty of places you can post a link to your website. Websites such as: Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, etc. Sometimes you go to these sites to talk with friends and sometimes you may just go to them because you are curious about the service. Whatever the reason is you should be thinking about spreading the word of your blog while you are at it.
The Idea: Basically how the concept works is if there is a field to enter in your URL for your blog you put it there. If there is a place to put in your RSS feed then you put that in. However if there is no field to put in your URL then you should get a bit creative and put it in a text box or somewhere else where people can see it.
Does it work? Don’t expect to see a ton of traffic right away because that isn’t going to happen. Yes, it will bring traffic to your website but usually very slowly. It really depends on what websites you are on and how big of a following you have on these online profiles. Some may be bigger then others and therefore when you first post the URL you may get more traffic then you get later. That is one thing I noticed when I first put my blog URL on Facebook is that I got a bunch of traffic right away and then after that it just died. So what I have done now is added my RSS feed to Facebook to generate more traffc for my blog.
How should you get started? You can first get started by being signed up to many of the above profiles I mentioned. If you get signed up to those sites you can start adding your links. I suggest that if you can be be activate in those online communities so you build up friendships and therefore have more people checking out your website. The more people clicking on the links the better. If they see the website and like it they may recommend it to friends and it will get spread by word of mouth.
So remember to generate traffic to your website there are a ton of ways to do it so you just need to keep at it and constantly update the content on your website so it is fresh and new. Also the more content you have on the website the better as long as it is quality content. So keep at it and eventually you will get plenty of traffic to your blog / website.
