Come on guys lets share what we got tell me your best ways to drive traffic to your blog and i will tel you mine here is it: 1. Stumbleupon 2. Social media sites such as sphinn, blogging zoom, mybloglog 3. Links from other blogs 4. Entrecard 5. Forums Now tell me your best ways of driving traffic to your blog.
Contests and writing quality content. If you write decent stuff, people will link to it ===> traffic.
This completely depends on the service type. IE: Free Blog vs. Paid services. However in either case I cannot believe you left out Blog Pinging. YOur market plan should be built into your business model. It is extremely important to set goals and dollar amounts you do not want to exceed. This type of foundation and structure will never leave you in the red. (So long as you work hard)
I don't got a but a Proxy, also I'm the advertiser of www.gaminglords.net Proxy methods: Google/yahoo groups Directories Forums Proxy.org Stumble Digg Signatures Word of Mounth Forum: Word of Mouth Tell people that they can advertise their sites in our spamming section Social Bookmarking Forums Articles Toplists and the list goes on...
I recently tried HubPages, because I would see a hubpage in the top 10 of Google for a bunch of keywords. Very easy to use and AdSense integrated as well.
Wow, I can't believe (and I'm not being mean!) that most of you didn't list Google or (insert smaller search engine here) as sources of traffic! Social traffic is fun, but it's not nearly, not even CLOSE to the kind of organic traffic you should be going after. I know it takes time, but unless you've started optimizing to your blogs fullest potential, you're really missing out on great traffic, and great traffic usually = more money. For instance, (for those of you that don't know), if you blog about chocolate cake and have some affiliate links built in, would you rather have 20 visitors that came from a random stumble, or would you rather have one visitor that typed in "buy chocolate cake online"? I know which one I would want....(hint - second choice)
depending on my blog theme....i market it extensively to the niche market and gets that particular traffic....
Yahoo Answers is a good one. I've set it up to notfiy me when anyone asks a question related to a number of keywords and then I post an answer trying to help sometimes with a link to one of my related blogs.
Cool, I didn't know you could do that! I'll have to check that out. For me, StumbleUpon works, organic is growing, PPC, and Yahoo Answers.
Try posting your articles on this site. They will drive traffic your direction undoubtedly. http://bx.businessweek.com/
I got lucky... I have a domain name that is used for a another famous book and through 'creative thinking' and writing good content I was first in google above the amazon listed book. Didn't need any other strategy and to this day I get 200-300 uniques a day.
I agree with many things said in this thread but if I had to choose one, you make the most practical and long term sense. You are very fortunate. If we all should be so lucky. How is your conversion rate?