Bloggers are always wondering how to get traffic to their blogs. Beginners specially are oblivious to the different methods they can employ to increase traffic to their blogs. Blog traffic is an essentiality and chances are your blog will not survive for long unless fed with stream of visitors continuously. You'd eventually lose interest if no one cares to visit, as simple as that.
An active and popular blog can add greatly to your online assets. It's one of the fastest ways to promote yourself to others and create followers and buyers within a particular niche, however there is no way you can make any niche blog a success without significant amounts of traffic. So what can you do to get significant traffic to any blog? There are a few quick things you can do that will help instantly increase visitors count and help make your blog popular and profitable. However, I am not going to tell you all the fluff or the dirty shortcuts like emailing everyone in your conta ct list to ask to visit your blog or getting in chat rooms and mindlessly pasting links. The following ways will help your blog prosper and set your marketing efforts in right direction.
Be a Content Producer
How many times do you actually sit and write your own content? Content producing is time consuming. People avoid time consuming things. Website owners and bloggers are no different. Majority want to get done with without much effort.
We'd rather copy others, just google information over, pick/steal someone else's content or idea, spin/reword it a bit and post it with our name tag than actually creating something out. That's why genuine good quality content is precious. People come looking for genuine content. Be a content source, content producer, create content and people will come looking for you.
What to do:-
Generate likeable content
Write Good blog posts
Write long posts, properly conveying your messag e
Possibly Post more often. Majority of highly successful blogs generate good quality content regularly.
Write something that fulfils a need, solves a problem, helps people learn, grow better.
Advantages:
Builds authority and credibility
Increased search engine trust & rankings
Good content attracts traffic mystically
Increased chances of repeat visitors
Better ad conversion & revenues
People will like to listen to you therefore increased chances of loyal subscriber base.
Learn to Spread the word
Spreading the word is important. Telling others about your blog is obviously helpful. How do you spread the word?
Where do you find others? To let others know your blog exists, put your blog link in all the prominent places where people frequent. No, I am not going to suggest to include your blog link in your email signature, your facebook, your gtalk, yahoo messenger status, your visiti ng to pull massive amount of traffic, although that does its bit. Lets' do something better.
Article Marketing
Articles marketing is what every serious blogger should incorporate in its marketing strategy. All the seasoned internet marketers take advantage of this vehicle, why? Simply because it works and works in the long run. Beginners usually are unaware of the power article marketing holds and that's probably why they fall short of properly utilizing it.
Make a habit of submitting atleast two of your best written articles per week or every 10-12 days to article directories. You don't have to submit what you have already written and posted on the blog. If you'd rather like to keep your well written stuff to your blog, no problem, just reword the information, modify a little, give it a unique touch, submit!
Article directories to target primarily:-
Ezinearticles :- http://www.ezinearticles.com/
Buzzle :- http://www.buzzle.com/
Articlesbase :- http://www.articlesbase.com/
Goarticles :- http://www.goarticles.com/
Articledashboard :- http://www.articledashboard.com/
Articleset :- http://articleset.com
ArticleBiz :- http://www.articlebiz.com/
ArticleCity :- http://www.articlecity.com/
Advantages
Faster indexing, higher ranking. Your submitted articles will be indexed faster and ranked higher in SERPS.
There are much bigger chances of other bloggers and website owners noticing, picking and publishing your content.
Lots of good quality incoming links.
Finding Ezine publishers
It is not much different to article marketing and guest posting. It is however very under utilized marketing tactic and very few marketers leverage it properly. We can call it a subset of email marketing.
You just have to look out for good ezine pubishers in your niche and offer your content to be included freely in their ezines with a link back to your blog. It sounds a little more time consuming but worth the hassle. There are ezine publishers having very huge lists. You know what that means? They have Hundreds of thousands of subscibers and their marketing efforts are focused primarily on list building.
As always make sure your Bio is convincing enough to give people a reason to click & check your blog.
Publishers to target primarily
Amazines :- www.amazines.com
BestEzines :- http://bestezines.com/
Google newsletter publishers in your particular niche
Advantages:-
Gain exposure & repeat visitors.
Increased chances of repeat visitors
Utilization of other marketers' list.
Guest Posting
Guest posting is also similar kind where in your contact bloggers or website owners in your niche and offer them your articles to be published on their blogs. Many blog owners are looking for content and they will generously publish your articles with the Bio included if they find that their the information will be helpful for their readers. Check with bloggers if they will accept guest posts on their blog.
Advantages:-
More exposure, faster and better way to reach new audience
Engage in conversations
Visit blogs in your niche, the ones that attract sizeable amount of visitors. Engage in conversations, make comm ents that make sense. Simply saying 'thanks for the useful post or info' will not do. Just like you, other bloggers also like to feel appreciated/elated, feel good when someone visits and contributes.
Don't always look for Do follow blogs. If a blog incorporates Do follow or CommentLuv or similar things, better. However, do not make no follow' an excuse for not commenting.
It doesn't take much to comment. Even if you are out there reading or researching for your new article, why not spare few seconds of your time to comment before closing the tab.
What to do
Each day make a habit of frequenting blogs in your domain and comment on atleast 10 of them. It won't take sizeable amount of time.
Social Networking, sharing, bookmarking, Time killing
Social media web has evolved exponentially in the last few years. Utilize social media marketing to bring in an avalanche of traffic to your blog. Social t ime killing isn't something as of now..but yes, over indulgence in social media may have its repercussions. You may end up wasting much of your precious time. Twitter is a good example. Telling the whole world what you're doing at the moment isn't a wise thing all the time specially if you are not doing nothing more than tweeting.
Creating a web presence in social networking websites such as Facebook, Twitter is important only until it doesn't make you an addicted online junkie.
Sites to target primarily:-
1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. StumbleUpon
3. Bebo
Blogging, Community driven
Vox
Squidoo
Gather
Ibibo
My Opera
Spicypage
Social bookmarking
Digg
Del.icio.us
Slashdot.org
Reddit
Advantages:-
Link building at its best. You'll have thousands of incoming links in no time.
Faster way of getting your new blog indexed.
Leverage social media wisely and you'll have loads of visitors coming to your blog in a very little span.
Submit to Blog & Feed Directories
Another good method to get some blog traffic is to submit your blog and RSS feed to blog & feed directories. Blog directories act as an additional network of traffic by generating back links for search engine optimization and creating an additional path for visitors to be lead to your blog.
Which directories to target:
Technorati
BOTW Blog Directory
Blog catalog
BlogFlux
Bloggernity
BlogPulse
BlogHub
BloggingFusion
Blogarama
EatonWeb
Getblogs
Globeofblogs
Blogged
Feeds directories to target
http://5z5.com
http://blogdigger.com
http://www.blo.gs/
http://www.feedage.com
http://www.rssfeeddirectory.org/
http://leighrss.com
http://www.syndic8.com/
http://www.topix.net/
Begi n incorporating the above ways to attract traffic and you'll soon notice visitors turning to your blog from a variety of sources. Remember, the success will largely depend on two factors:-
1. How disciplined your efforts are.
2. How wisely you make use of above methods
Happy Promoting!
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