The main key to success in blogging is definitely traffic, there is no alternative.
If you want to make money from online you need lots of traffic, if you want to express your thoughts and ideas you need traffic.
Whatever the reason of your blogging is, you need more and more traffic.
Successful and fellow bloggers are getting well traffic everyday. But for a new blogger it’s very tough to get traffic from the beginning.
The following tips will be helpful for any beginner blogger or publisher to increase traffic to their blog or website.
1. Write Valuable Content:
I wrote in my several previous posts about the importance of quality content. The first step to build a better relation with your audience is updating your blogs regularly with great content. Try to understand your readers, write something that is meaningful to them and always give priority to their interests, it will help you to turn them into your loyal readers.
Regularly posting will increase the chances of your site to appear on search engines first page or closer to it.
2. Comments on other blogs:
Making comments on other blogs is a common and easy way to drive traffic to your blog. Read other posts and make valuable comments on them.
Don’t forget to leave your blog’s URL in the URL field. A valuable and interesting comment will definitely bring traffic.
Commenting on other blogs is a common way to get backlink.
Don’t write any worthless comments or don’t give your URL in the wrong field. Avoid copy-pasting same comments in different blogs. Your comments may be counted as spam.
3. Use RSS services in your blog:
Web definition for RSS is Really Simple Syndication. It’s an easy way to keep your readers updated with your posts. Using RSS feeds in your blog is a great way to drive traffic. Submit your RSS feed link to several feeds directory. Many free RSS feed services are available on the web like FeedBurner.
4. Submit URL to Search Engines and Directory:
Submit your blog or website to several Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing (msn), etc. You can do it by click on the submit link or add url or other similar link to their sites.
It does not mean that your site will appear on the search result for your chosen keywords by this submitting. It increases the chances to get indexed quickly. And once you get indexed on some search engines it will be easier for you to bring more traffic to your site.
There are lots of blog directory that you can submit your blog too. Go to http://www.addurl.nu/, here you will find a lot SEO friendly directory list to submit your blog. It will help to build a powerful backlink to your site.
5. Use Social Sites:
The most interesting way to drive traffic to your blog is using Social sites like FaceBook, Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Delicious, Reddit etc. These sites will bring enough traffic to your sites but you need to do some hard work. Registered with those sites and submit details about your blog.
These sites will provide your some powerful backlink to your site. I will describe in my upcoming posts how to use those social bookmarking sites and how to get real benefit from these. Sites those are not dependent on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) based traffic, are mainly depend on Social sites for traffic.
6. Use Trackback and Link:
Another traffic source to your blog is use of Link and Trackback to your blog. Creating link with other site helps to drive traffic and increase search engine ranking. A publisher can identify who is linking with his sites and this can bring more traffic.
Leaving a trackback inform other bloggers that you are linked to him.
7. Use of Tag:
Use Tag at the end of your post. It will help to drive traffic from other sources. It’s one kind of link that helps search engines to find related pages.
Readers can find out easily related posts with tags. Popular blog search engines like technorati use tags to make search.
8. Search Engine Optimization (SEO):
The most important, valuable and tough traffic generation technique is SEO. It’s a long term traffic generation method. To optimize a site or blog for search engine is not easy, it requires long time practice.
Google is the best and most widely used search engine on the web. For any specific keyword to appear on the 1st, 2nd or 3rd pages is not so easy in Google. Hence Google change their search engine ranking criteria regularly. So if you want to build an optimized blog or website, start it from the very beginning. Keep attention to choose keyword, page optimization etc.
You can drive huge traffic to your site by joining your blogging topic related forums, communities, web rings, groups etc. Create your own thread or posts, make reply on other posts and don’t forget to leave your blogs URL.
Traffic comes from users, so the most you can spread your sites to others, you will get much traffic.
10. Start Guest posting:
Publish posts on other blogs as guest blogger and invite others to publish as a guest blogger in your blog. Audiences from other bloggers blogs will come to your blog. It will help to build a better profile of you.
11. Include Images in your posts:
Many users make image search on search engines.
So, use related pictures or images in your posts, it will make your posts pretty. Naming properly your images can increase the chance of your blogs to be appearing on search engine result.
12. Offline Publicity:
You can increase you traffic by providing your URL to your friends, relatives etc. If possible publish some ads of your sites and blogs. Spread your URL to all over, encourage people to browse.
There are lots of other traffic increasing methods. But as a beginner the above methods will be enough for you to drive traffic to your blog or site.
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