November 9, 2008
Building Traffic To Your Blog
How many of the following things do you do on a regular basis to drive traffic to your blog?
Listed below are easy to use, and free, tactics that will help you to build traffic to your site. Apart from number 1 they are not listed in any order of importance or effectiveness.
- Post great content! Unless you have something valuable to offer people will not visit more than once.
- Include your blog URL in forum signatures.
- Include your blog URL in your email Signature.
- Submit articles to the most popular directories with your blog URL in the resource box.
- Post thoughful and good quality comments to other blogs with link back to your blog.
- Tell your list of subscribers about your latest blog posts.
- Post videos on the popular video sites and include your blog URL in the video.
- Make sure your blog is listed in your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and other social profiles.
- Alert your Twitter followers about your latest blog posts.
- Add your blog to the most popular RSS Feeds such as FriendFeed
- Book mark your own blog posts at Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Delicious, etc.
- Link to your blog from HubPages, Squidoo, GoogleKnol, etc.
- Add your blog URL to testimonials for other people's products.
- Include a link to your blog in special reports and ebooks you sell or give away.
- Submit your blog URL to relevant directories.
- Create and give away blog themes with a link back to your blog in the footer.
- Create and give away WordPress plugins which include link back to your blog.
- Put a link to your blog on your ezine sign up "Thank you pages".
- Add your blog URL to your business cards, letter heads and other stationery.
- Make sure your blog is search engine optimised.
Of course, you can also invest in Pay Per Click, ezine advertising and advertising on Classified sites such as Craigslist too.
Please do post below if there's anything I've missed…
Comments on Building Traffic To Your Blog »
Great tips, John, although I'd recommend using the likes of Digg and Stumbleupon judiciously for bookmarking your own sites.
Both these apps use algorithms to check on what you're submitting – too much of your own stuff and they'll put a block on your access.
(Although Stumbleupon is pretty good at relaxing this "ban" after you share quality reviews of other sites).
Hi John
thanks for this very useful list which is extremely timely
I've just finished the new version of our marketing site and will be starting to offer it up tomorrow
John,
Great free summation of a lot of the material people are paying to get. Good checklist format too.
Traffic seems to be a dynamic that compounds as a result of multiple approaches like the best practices you included here, and not so much the "silver bullet" that does it all at once.
Thanks,
Shane
http://www.InnovativeEconomy.com
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Hi John,
I think that's a brilliant post you made for building traffic on the blog. I have a similar sort of blog through which I wish to provide useful affiliate related information to people, especially to the affiliate beginners but, I was facing difficulty reaching out to the masses.However, with the tips you have provided, I think I can aim for greater viewing so that I can help as many people as I can through my blog.
thankyou
John,
Great post, and straight and to the point, just the way I like it. I knew most of these but was able to pick up a few.
Van
John,
This list is a great list of all basics one has to do. Great you put them together. Sometimes, we forget about doing it, sometimes we don't know, or didn't think it could be done.
Thank you.
Ewa vel. Vibrant Community:)
Blog carnivals can bring huge traffic to your blog. I was ignorant about blog carnivals until now. The concept is pretty simple. I have also written a post about it here – http://prochow.blogspot.com/2008/12/get-killer-traffic-with-blog-carnivals.html
Nice synopsis, John. Traffic is the big stumbling block that "guru's" leave out of their sales pitches. No traffic = No Money! Simple as that.
Blog Carnivals work really well. I have noticed a big uptick in traffic using them.
I, too, have a blog that gives lots of free tips on driving traffic http://on-line-tribune-you-can-blog-too.blogspot.com but I have been looking into PPC lately. Seems like less work than always working the free sources. We'll see.
Jim
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