The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Build Blog Traffic
Posted on January 30, 2008
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There are a lot of small bloggers out there with great and original content that no one will ever know about. I have hunted deep into Google search and found some excellent blogs with original, well written posts. Most of them have little if any signs of activity. There are no comments, no trackbacks and in most cases, those bloggers have posted less and less often.
What happened? They started off to set the world on fire and had some interesting things to say and then they fizzled out. Why? Because they built it and no one came. Folks, that might work in baseball but it doesn’t work for blogs. If you want traffic, DO SOMETHING.
The following is a list of different ways to build blog traffic, pick a few of them and do them on a regular basis.
- Submit to blog directories
- Write Comments on other blogs
- Participate in a Blog Carnival
- Submit to Social Media Websites
- Participate in Forums and put your blog address in signature or profile
- Guest Post on popular blog
- Submit articles to article directories
- Be Really Good at SEO
- Hand out Business Cards
- Have a Contest
- Raise Money for a Charity and write a Press Release about it. Submit to newspapers
- Be Generous with Link Love, What goes around, comes around
- Write great content and then write more great content
- Look at your site stats for keywords that brought traffic to your site and make a series
- Make Friends with other bloggers in your niche and exchange links
- Be nice to your readers, answer questions, thank them for comments
- Link to your own posts, on this blog and any others.
- Join Technorati, claim your blogs
- Put a Poll on Your Website
- Write a post about the election or one of the candidates
- Review other blogs for free. A friend of mine does this on her small blog and it has given her tons of traffic from other blogs.
- Run a classified ad in a paper.
- Join an email list and post regularly with your blog address in your signature
- Put your blog address in your regular signature
- Email Your Friends and ask them to check it out.
If your content is good, people will read it and they will want to come back for more. Stay focused on your main topics because that is what got your readers there in the first place and will keep them there once they have arrived. And once you have content, DO SOMETHING to get people’s to your blog. Do it every day for a month and then review the stats. If it didn’t work, do something else but if you don’t promote your blog, it will not grow.
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Hmmmm. Interesting that it has links to blogowhatever’s website. That will have to go