If you've got a blog, perfect, it's a great way to establish your online presence. Blogs however, just as with any website, need traffic. There are tons of ways to get traffic to your blog but here are 6 practical yet sound blog traffic tips that are easy to do and aren't complicated, in fact they are quite easy.
1. Design your blog around a single topic.
Most people searching for information on the internet are looking for specifics. Within your blog's topic also choose relevant, popular categories. The more focused your topic and relevant your categories the more effective your blog will be for giving your viewer what they are looking for.
2. Add content often and in a consistent manner.
This does not mean you must post to your blog every day, however you should try to post at least three times a week. Once you establish a posting schedule, be consistent. Frequent, consistent postings condition the search engines to expect content from you. This means they will consider you a good source of information and visit your blog often.
3. Submit to blog directories.
Get your blog submitted to as many blog directories as possible. Here are some sources to get your started:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory
4. Submit your blog to the RSS feed submission sites.
RSS subscribers can bring you a ton of traffic. Submitting your blog to these feed submission sites is an excellent way to create one way links to your blog.
5. Post your articles or product reviews on Book marking Sites
I don't recommend doing this manually. Try using onlywire.com. They will submit your posts or articles to other book marking sites like backflip, del.icio.us, blinklist, furl, etc.
6. Comment on other blogs often
Commenting on blogs is a great way to get additional exposure and one-way links. Comment should, however, be informative and genuine, typing meaningless comments that say, "love your blog", or "great post" will often get deleted by blogmasters. Useful informative comments are the ones that will get posted and also encourage readers to click through to your blog.
I like to use Comment Kahuna, it’s a free tool that will help you find blogs based on keywords that you enter. It will also find blogs that don't use the nofollow tag meaning the search engines will follow your link.
For even more more ideas here are over 200 tips that will increase your blog traffic
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I don’t think anyone of us can do without a blog, It:
1.provides fresh content – search engines just love that and highly relevant pages from which to link into the main pages of your website.
2.keeps you in touch with your topic, not just the SEO part of it.
3. It lets you trade contents not just links with other bloggers.
4.opens doors to real-people networking on the Internet, and good for link-building, blogrolls exchange and other forms of joint ventures.
Peter Lee
That’s a great list of resources!
Blogging is such an incredible tool, but without traffic it’s not going to do any good. You’ve done a great job of sharing some very simple ways to get traffic, no matter how new the blog is.
Nice post!
Susanna
Hey Susanna, thanks so much
Twitter: WebTrafficCafe
says:
Great tips, Liz, especially Comment Kahuna. I wish I could use it on Mac!
Also, thanks for the mention!
Ana Hoffman
Hello Ms. Liz,
This is a great list of resources. Not only will I share but
I will definitely take advantage of some of them.
Thank you for the value!!
Have a great night!
Tommy D.
Twitter: prfuller
says:
Hey Liz
Two years later and this post is still solid advice.
Twitter: nemac1
says:
Hi Liz,
Thanks for the great links to the blog directories. I’ve heard of Technorati before but never knew about these ones.
Your blog looks great . I’m definitely going to check out in more detail.
Take care,
Neil
Twitter: luckyoliver70
says:
Hi Liz,
this post contains exactly the pieces of information I was looking for, especially blog directories.
Thanks for sharing.
Cheers
Oliver
Very good blog – with some very good practical tips. Thank you.
Nice tips. Thank you.
Adding infographics, and multimedia content can help get links and traffic too.
Hi Liz, great info you’ve shared here. I can certainly use everything! One can never have enough ways to drive traffic, but on the other hand you can’t do it all at once. I’ve been applying a couple of methods that are working well, but now I need to do something else.
Your post couldn’t have come at a better time!
Thanks.
Twitter: MavisNong
says:
Hi Liz,
Thanks for sharing these great blogging tips. This is a very informative and helpful post on how you can have a blog that produces a massive traffic for your business.
All the best,
Mavis Nong
Hey Michael, It’s good to try new things, but if something is working you should stick with it, however adding new things to your repertoire, so to speak, can be a good thing, as long as they are working for you