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Top 20 Strategies in Driving Traffic towards your Blog

We find ourselves to be the one that is the most loyal reader of our traffic. I experienced it once when I first take my first steps in blogging (the time that I thought blogging is just simple way to do and I am just sort of playing), at first when I have few post (that are just a simple post) I always surf the net for the traffic and I found these sites and make me obsessed. But, I don’t realize at once that what I am doing is just surfing and not blogging. Several months have pass and here I am, who acquired some sort of knowledge (as I see it) which I think came from my great mentors, my experiences. So, by reading hundreds of blogs (which I enjoyed) and learning from great bloggers, I list down some of the most common and the most effective techniques in driving traffic towards my blog. So, I offer this post for my fellow bloggers, so that you can acquire readers and reach your climax.

The 20 top strategies

1. King Content

Actually this quotation is what I always read in almost all of the bloggers that “content is the king” so when it is the king then we can call it King Content. Well, the point here is that it is very important, to keep the ball rolling. It is the one which is responsible for your blog to interact with your visitors. And it must be rich in ideas and of always high in quality to develop great readership in your blog.

2. Queen Update

If the content is the king then I may consider that update is the queen. Well, the queen (update) is also very significant factor in your blog. Once you have viewers (eventually it will happen sometime and I know you can) and saw your blog’s post (the King) and it is great, and If they return another day and saw the queen (update) then they will have the very first impression that you have a blog that is always fresh in post and is always up to date. Take note also that when you always update your blog, the chance that “search engine spiders” will index your blog and will bring more visitors and more opportunity will come.

3. The Master Article

This article [the master article] is atleast compose of 600 words or more, in high quality and great sense. This article can be a guide for you in writing your future articles, like if you say a brief discussion in some topics then you can expand it and crosslink it with the master article (did you get it?). So, the more master article the more topics you can produce, and one of the techniques I use in producing topic is to look at your visitors’ questions and research on that. This will lead you to a great contact with them and as a flattering task that they will not just forget at small unit of time.

4. The Time

I bet you know the thing that I will say in here. But let me explain a little more. It will take time before you reach what you seek for and don’t be on the rush to get there at once. Enjoy the time you have with your blog and have passion on it. If you are in a hurry in earning (in case you blog for that only) then it will always take time. I have done that before and my blog suffered (but again I learned form that experience and it is past for how many years from now). So, in waiting just do your passion and it will just come to surprise you, I tell you.

5. Linking your Blog to others

If you heard something about trackback then you will have the advantage but if you don’t know, then I will describe it to you: Trackback is like a way of commenting on others blog, in such way that you post it on your blog and states some of contents that you use as a reference. The beneficial thing that it can do to you is that when that blogger that you track back saw that you link some of your post to his blog, then he might read what you have got there and will later (if you are lucky) return the favor towards you. So, be generous in this way and you can make your stats in traffic increase in no such time and please take my tips here:

1. Choose the blog that you will trackback wisely.

2. Remember that you must have quality directory that you will offer to your visitors, don’t trackback blogs that are of poor quality because this may take a bad impression towards you.

3. State descriptions or reasons in choosing that blog

4.Be polite in stating your reference so that you will not be black listed in his links.

6. Commenting in others blog

Comments in your blog will be worthy if you yourself is also commenting on others blog. Please review their post honestly and in a polite way to promote a relationship. And take note these:

1.Be interesting, be a visitor that will give something unique idea in your part or share some of you experience to attract the attention, it also serve as an introduction in your part.

2. Don’t take your comments as a way of just promoting your blog. Don’t give a damn on them.

3. Don’t do something that you will regret, don’t say a harsh criticism. Eventually the correct minded owner of that blog will have to disapprove it. Instead of stating bad criticism, just state some of suggestions and it will just give you the word “thanks” than something like “%$#@!”. Right?

4.Don’t tell more on your blog there, than the contents of his post. Well this thing is what I hate. Just going there and say something just like “very nice post” then will state “for more comprehensive information please visit my blog here” which are enclose by a link.

5. So, comments are made for the blog owner not yours.

7. Promote commentary In your post

Contents of your blog will not be savory without comments; it is also the way the readers look to see your blog’s popularity. This element make it very special in a way that visitors will think that they are missing something in not reading your blog if they see it as if there are many people who are already passing here and learning something BIG! Here are some ways in promoting comments in your blog:

1.Asking questions to them

2. Making your post interesting

3. Finishing it with out end. (Like asking them to give more o what you have post)

4. Make your post emotion grabber (as if you will say something related to your experience to promote them share theirs)

8. Article submission

I heard this many times that submitting your article with other BIG site that offer free resources will drive traffic. Eventually it will have a sense in a way that, if you have submit some of your articles on them and is viewed by their visitor, then the chance that they will post your link (your link is put there as a source) on their blog increases which will eventually drive that traffic. But, submitting. Your article must be planned well with these tips:

1.Make the articles in high quality.

2. Make it general; avoid talking about your blog. Your aim there is to make your article available to all people out there and to scatter your link.

3. Post your articles not in just one but in few other more BIG sites.

4. A proper way of giving your link is after the conclusion. It is a good etiquette to put it in last.

9. Participate in Online Communities

At first, I have atleast 127 accounts in different social sites (which seem very obsessive in my side, in few past months) I realize that I can’t handle it all. So what I did is that I list 20 sites that are important and I participated there.

My point here is that you must participate in online communities like BlogCatalog, MyBloglog, Reddit and many more to promote your blog. But be very selective and add little sites one by one. And I also suggest looking for their background before signing up.

10. Offer free EBooks

One of the gossips in crazy traffic is to produce EBooks and give it for free include also the rights of distribution or selling it. It will be viral and will eventually flood you traffic.

11. Tagging your Content

Technorati, is the first thing I know where tagging is takes place, I read it several times in blogpost and websites and I personally do it in my case which is really good. Just take the tutorial on it and you will gain what you are looking. Other sites includes, Blogmarks, Flickr, del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, and many more.

12. Blog’s Rss

Rss stands for (Really Simple Syndication) and it is really good tactic in preserving and notifying your visitors to come. It is the very first way of the viewers to get in touch in your blog so take a great attention on it.

13. Link Exchange

Well it is great for you and your blog to exchange links, especially with the great benefits that it will give to you that are 5 I’s which are :

1. Increase your page ranking

2. Increase your traffic

3. Increase your indexed search engines

4. Increase your money earnings

5. Increase your opportunity

Some of other benefit is hat it will give you good relationship with the websites and will also give you the popularity (just in case).

You can e-mail your fellow blogger to do it or you can sign up with site exchange links like linksvana, infowizards and linkexchange.

14. Submit your Url to directories

There are many directories but one of the things that you must consider is to submit your blog one by one to publicize it especially in search engines. You can submit it Blogtopsites and I will ensure to you that it is worth an effort.

15. E-mail signature

The old technique that believe to survives until now and still effective. Just put your link in your e-mail and who knows how many visitors it will drive.

16. Offline Promotion

There are many ways in promoting your blog offline, like posting banner (a real one) or publish some of your ads to reading materials saying that “hey! Visit Our Blog Please”. There are many such things to do with offline promotion, you can pay for it or use some free tactics.

17. Sponsorship

Try to be a sponsor in different events in a blog’s project and they will be happy in putting your link as a sponsor. And who knows how much visitor it can generate. And if you are lucky enough you can promote relationship that will benefit the both sides.

18. Submit some of your great articles to BlogCarnival

Blog Carnival is a site that is according to Yaro Starak of Entrepreneur’s Journey , Small Business Branding and Blog Traffic King that it summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers. This concept can be confusing so I suggest you take a look at the Carnival of the Cats for an example. You can also find a list of all the carnivals and submit your articles at the Carnival Submit Form.

19. Participate in conversation

Once your visitors ask, answer them. Once they have given you compliments, thank them and once they have given you criticism say sorry to them. You must not lost visitor just because of your bad etiquette. So, a simple thank you can give you loyal visitors and good friends. So keep your attitude good and the traffic will come smooth.

20. Be Yourself

There are still many things that you can do to increase your traffic and you can still discover them. Just do the blogging and enjoy yourself and I know you can be successful if you will have constant effort. Just remember tha here in our online community, strategies are also made by humans and you are human then, you can make them too. So, God Bless and I hope for your success.

Author: Can you still add some more with this? I am glad to hear something from you.