I find that getting quality traffic boils down to something as simple as positioning. Many times the best way to get quality traffic is to jump right into the heart of your target market. Visit some of the major blogs in your niche and get active in the conversation, read the posts and voice your opinion as long as you comments make sense and you know what your talking about people will check you out. The best way to do it is to start our by identifiying a few A or B list players and get hardwired into their content via rss, you can do it by setting up an iGoogle account and as soon as they make a post worthy of you speaking out...THEN DO IT! If you craft your responses carefully you will be welcomed with open arms and Wah-laa your a part of the conversation. I've been doing this for years and it has always worked well for me, plus it only takes about 5 mins to do. The best part of it all is as long as people continue to voice there opinions about sports and open there blog up for debate, you will never run out of places to speak your thoughts and drie traffic that is active (they're already visiting and commenting on someone elses blog. Just try to be among the first 3 post to get maximum exposure.
posting quality unique content and getting backlinks will help get organic traffic, try posting on sites related to the one your promoting
You can use these option for increase traffic on your site:- * article submission * forum posting (through signature) * web directory submission * blog directory submission * participating in community sites like Yahoo Answers * press release submission * online group posting * promotional ads * link exchange * Social bookmarking in digg and deals. * Feed submission
What I'm saying here will primarily apply to football ( soccer) blogs, but they can be used for other sports too. 1.) Write good content ( very, very important). A bit of humour thrown in does your site no harm at all. Sections about WAGS and babes will get you some repeat visitors (purists might cringe at the idea of putting them in a sports blog). A good design and logo are important too. 2.) Comment posting. There are loads of sports blogs just starting up. Comment on them, and most of them, if not all, will come to your site to have a look. If your site is good, you've got a subscriber for free. 3.) Use feed systems like NewsNow and Yardbarker. Will get you some great traffic if your headlines are good. 4.) Buy some advertising ( Links, Banners etc)
I have a website like yours, you can see it on my signature. Every month I have 10k+ visitors. I suggets you to write about the news that you learn from newspapers and use the name of the newspaper as a tag on your post (for example Marca, As..) Those keywords are very frequently-searched on Google, Yahoo etc... Also you can write a post about online games that have sports content, it will make you get lots of visitors from search engines. And I am really agree w/ gr8liverpoolfan, especially comment-posting and link-changes will help you to get more page views and more page views mean much more income
participate in social networks and sports communities, pay for ppc, exchange links with other similar sites
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AdWords is a good option, it helped me a lot and other site developers I work with. However it is very important to make sure that you web content is consistent. My suggestion, try http://www.ClassEngine.com to verify that your content falls into categories you expect. If this is not the case it is very likely that your AdWords ads are not properly shown by google. You may pay too much for key words or they are shown only occasionally since they are poorly related to the textual content of your site. Work with this tool and your site content until you get consistent categories and you'll be more successful with Ads placed in Google, Yahoo and anywhere else. You'll see
When it comes to sports, since so many people have their own opinions and views on the game as well as on players, it is important to build up a reputation and that can be done only by posting quality content, updating it regularly and contributing to the forums relating to the topic of your site.This will draw traffic over a period of time. All the best.
Absolutely agree with you. However, what you mentioned is a sociological factor. But in addition to this there is something more. We all depend on how Google determines that the content is of "high quality". It scores content by some mathematical algorithms and they are not ideal, they are not human. Even if website is interesting and of high quality it may take forever to convince Google algorithms that it is really so, by numerous attempts to create backlinks, exposing it in forums, articles, etc. If you from the very beginning tweak your textual web content towards consistency it may take much less efforts to promote it. People's impression of your website and Goggle's impression do not coincide, simply because Google is a math model based on (I am simplifying a little bit here) word statistics and content association through words. Therefore you need to use some math tool based on similar concept to make sure that you web content is consistent.