5 Best methods to get traffic to your blog

Written on October 1, 2007 – 11:01 pm | by aditya |

Well the most popular question which new bloggers have in their mind is “How can I get more traffic to my blog ?” And its the single most important factor which judges your success with blogging. Just building it and writing great content won’t bring great visitors to your blogs. You need a ass-kicking marketing strategy to popularize your blog and have people come to it and most importantly, read it. Here I would like to state a bit off topic important fact that, if you start marketing your blog, make sure that the people who are coming to your blog are reading it or subscribing it. There is no point in marketing a poorly designed blog, stuffed with adsense without any content. Have something worthwhile for the people and then watch how your marketing effors deliver excellent results.

To start with here are 5 great sources of traffic for your new blog. If you follow them properly while maintain the on page quality of your blog, it won’t take you much time to start getting somewhere more than 500 uniques per day in just some weeks.

1. Commenting on other popular blogs :- Do find out the popular bloggers in your niche and become their regular readers. Comment on their blogs frequently with meaningful points. It will attract you a lot of worthwhile visitors. Many of them do have a top commentors list and being on top of the list is a good way of getting great traffic.

2. StumbleUpon :- Build a great stumbleupon profile by frequently stumbling good websites. You can do stumble exchanges with good people and members but remember don’t ever stumble MFAs or crap sites as it will hurt your profile’s reputation. Bloggers do have a reputation to build and thats the most important factor in social networking too. Never forget the word “Social”

3. Getting Reviewed by big bloggers :- This is only for those with big pockets. If you have great blog with laser targetted expert written and large amount of content, and you are looking for readership, then Big Blogs like John Chow, Yaro Starak, and Bob Jones (JohnCow.com) and many others who have very loyal readership and high traffic review products and sites for a fees. John Chow’s review costs 400$ which is really worth much much more than that. Yaro Starak does on his Entrepreneur’s Journey for 250$ and John Cow for 200$. All these blogs when review you, you will shoot to instant fame in the blogosphere with tons of publicity.

4. Link Bait :- The single best and the most effective method to get heavy traffic, tons of organic and natural links with Search Engine benefits. Write a article which makes to the frontpage of digg which creates a buzz on the internet. Thousands of people commenting and talking about you, blogging about you and linking to you. This will shoot you to fame instantly.

5. Run a Contest, Give some freebies like a eBook with your link and market the eBook. This will bring returning viral traffic which will gradually convert into loyal readers of your blog.

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  1. One Response to “5 Best methods to get traffic to your blog”

  2. By Andrius on Oct 7, 2007 | Reply

    Good article. I use 1 and 2 methods :D Your blog is good :)

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