Any Ideas on How to Get Good Traffic for my New Hiking Blog?

I'm trying to get good traffic for a blog I started at http://www.ultimatehikingguide.blogspot.com The goal is to get 1,000 visitors per month that actually stay on for a few minutes and read the article. Does anyone have any ideas on how I might accomplish this?

 

building seo website or blog will drive you a lot of free traffic for long time

 

Do you actually hike?

Take a video camera along, and make some videos
Mass distribute
Embed on your blog

Also, make some videos on proper preparation, snack packs, hydration, pacing, etc, do the same as above.

Use 30 second shots for the mass distribution, direct them to click the link in the description box for the rest of the video...

Cliffhangers are great too.. 'hiker attacked by bear' 30 second clip of bear approaching in the woods... cut... > Click the link... etc...

 

Article marketing, blogging, PPC

 

If your content are useful to people then just post your links/signature in related forums and yahoo answer the visitors will come to your site due to words of mouth.

 

If you have pretty good content in your blog that is resourceful and informative for people on Internet,than just place your blog in proper category where people can find the information easily.
Try to popularize your blog on forums and yahoo answers as stated in one of the reply.
you will than definitely get a good web traffic to your blog.

 

you can do some link building by exchanging links with other travel related blogs (hint - check out my sig )

 

I visited your site, It is not completed yet, links are not working, contact us is also fulfilled with your e-mail address and many more things, so first of all you need on-page seo than worry about off page seo, because as you need visiter should stay on your site few minutes, it is really necessary to have a good working site to make visitor to stay on page, if visitor do not found links working and attractive they quit immediately. so think about that.

 

Quality content...people absolutely LOVE quality content.
Also, look into SEO and try and get onto the first page of google.

 

I run a service that uses yahoo answers. It brings targeted traffic

 

I like the look, but if you want to make some pretty good money, you'll need affiliate marketing. Perhaps, you'd want to market travel shoes at Zappos or hiking backpacks at Eddie Bauer or something. If you've personally used the product, and it has an affiliate program, there's no harm in reviewing a good shoe or hiking bag or two.

It seems you've hiked in various places around the world. Did you get any deals? Did the tour have a good guide, etc? Would you recommend it to others?

Your site is about hiking for exercise, but it technically can straddle two niches: travel and health. There are plenty of health and travel forums you can join as well. What about health/travel blogs that you could guest post with?

Speaking of guest post, you may want to write a on a high traffic conent syndication site. Kim Roach at Buzzblogger has a really good video on how to do this and how to find these sites related to your niche.

Kim is a traffic nut. That's what she does all day, looking for free ways to get traffic.

Here's the video: http://www.buzzblogger.com/trafficmachines/cs/

 

you can build traffic to your site through blog commenting, social bookmarking, forum posting, and social blogging. With these strategies you will surely gain more quality backlinks. credit cards for students

 

maximize posts with unique contents and apply all paths of by seo

 

There are just two things you need to do...build quality content and get good links to your blog and over a period the traffic will grow.

 

Everyone seems to ask this question and there really is only one answer. Get loads of great content on your blog that is relevant, unique and well-written. What you really want is word of mouth advertising, so the better your content then the more likely it is that people will pass on your posts. Think how many times you've passed on something from a blog that was really good that you'd not seen elsewhere?

Steve

 

am sure the topic itself would attract lots of adventure lovers?

 

Hmm join your niche forum and particpate in discussion. Don't forget to use twitter and facebook as well.

 

Yes maximize posts would do but for the most important part do a thorough keyword analysis that can lead you to have 1000+ visitors per day by digging in your niche keywords. Choose the best pick and SEO them and bang you got your dream achieved

 

I would personally seo the hell out of that site and get you some targeted hiking traffic that is free coming into your website.

There is no better website traffic than Natural SEO Free Targeted Traffic!

Good Luck

 

1. Make a Youtube Video
2. Post on Yahoo Answers and Yedda (like Yahoo Answers)
3. Write Articles- make your article intriguing enough to make people click on the link to your blog
4. Optimize your site for specific keywords
5. Join a forum about hiking and participate
6. Write an e-book about hiking and give it away for free. Tell others they can give it away for free as long as they keep the links intact. Post links to your blog in this e-book.
7. Submit your site to social networking sites
8. Make friends with other people who have blogs about hiking and try to get them to link to your blog
9. Make a squeeze page and get people to sign up to your list. When you get them on your list direct them to your site
10. Post a classified ad on usfree ads

These are just some of the many things you can do.