25 Free Ways to Generate Traffic To Your Blog

One of the frequently asked questions in this forum today is how to drive traffic to blogs.

Here are 25 ways to drive traffic to your blog:

1. Article Marketing
2. Forum Marketing
3. Google, Yahoo, and AOL Group
4. Viral Marketing - Giveaways & Bonuses
5. Expired domains
6. Squidoo
7. Social Bookmaking sites
8. Social media sites
9. BUM Marketing
10. Viral Videos at Youtube.com
11. Press Releases
13. Post regularity
14. Submit your posts to social media sites
15. Submit to My Yahoo!
16. Submit to Google's Reader
17. Ping your post to ping sites such as ping-o-matic. Ping your site every time you add a new post.
18. Submit your blog to web directories such as DMOZ
19. Submit your blog RSS feeds to as many RSS Directories as possible
20. Submit your blog to Search Engines
21. Comment on other Blogs
22. Participate in Forums
23. Tag your website
24. Submit to social bookmaking sites
25. Submit your blog to blog directories



The above are some of the most effective ways to drive constant traffic to your blog.

Best Wishes,
John Benjamin

 

Hey John,
Great stuff there. Just a quick question, number 5 you say expired domains, what exactly do you mean by that?

 

You don't have to (Search engines will find your blog on their own sooner or later). And even if you do, you won't benefit in any way. (On account of you submitting your blog to search engines).

 

Aren't article marketing and BUM marketing the same things??

 

Thanks for sharing. I would also like you to check on http://www.myeasyonlinepay.com. I think they will be of help too. Cheers.

 

Nice but doing this much is really not that easy.

 

Hi watdrew,
Expired domains are domain names that has just expired recently and are available for purchasing.
Let me explain:

Lets say someone owns a domain named "something.com". He builds a site at "www.something.com". He puts in effort to promote this site on Google, he creates all the necessary back-links, all the traffic-creators we all use.
Basically, this domain, this website "www.something.com" has good of traffic, its PR is good, its ranked high on search engines, ect.

Now, for some reason, the owner of "something.com" doesn't renew this domain name. It expires.
After a process that takes about 75 days (Google it for the whole process if it interests you) the public (i.e. you or me) can buy this domain.

Now to the beauty of it:
Google (as most of other search engines) is slow!! So it still holds the OLD sites data, the OLD PR, the OLD ranking, so TRAFFIC KEEP ON COMING even though the sites, content has changed!
You get a site "www.something.com" with traffic already getting to!

There are some site out there that sells those expired domains, you can see their LAST KNOWN PR, Google rank, Alexa rank, their traffic, ect.

 

great ideas.. have followed most of them and doing good

 

Surely with Google caffeine now up and running they are pretty quick to realize the site has a different subject or content? Do you have to keep the subject matter of the site similar to what it was previously?

 

thank you, very useful

 

Google Caffeine has surely messed things up but still, the expired domain just gives you the time to set up your own traffic system, it gives you some "grace time", some advantage over a completely new site/domain.

 

You could also do all that manual work, or you could do it the blackhat way as lazy marketers do and bank from there

 

I'm agree with your statement the google is slow on updating old sites, this is advantage which I already experienced it on my blog network, after i grab the expired domain the pr still unchanged and this give me advantage

 

So if I understand correctly with expired domains....you would purchase the domain and then redirect the traffic from that site to your blog or website? Would it not also be recommendable to purchase a site in the same niche as your own site? How long would this traffic hold? Seems like eventually the traffic would die out.

 

As I said before, its a kind of "spare time" you get, when you buy an expired domain name, use it to set up your site/blog/whatever and take advantage of an already existing traffic, that someone else has created previously.
Of course it require you to work really hard to maintain that traffic coming, but it gives you the first days/weeks (depending on your luck) of existing traffic.
I my opinion its a shortcut that should be checked:
1) look for an expired domain who's name suits your product/niche.
2) Purchase it and set up your site/blog.
3) take advantage of the already existing traffic to build your list.
4) Free up space in your pockets to receive huge amount of cash....

 

Nice one. Most of them are useful for the newbies.

 

I am a IM newbie but domains, Internet, etc has been my business for the last 17 years...lol

 

Expired domain can help you gain a lot of traffic if you can how to choose good domain. It isn't mean all expired domain is useful.

 

Hello,
These are really good ideas, thank you. It is a lot of work though - are there white hat methods that can automate some of these tasks that don't cost the earth?
Thanks again for the list - I have printed it out
lisa

 

Great ideas here, #7 and #24 especially. To lisaoliver, you may want to consider outsourcing some of the tedious tasks either with freelancers on DP or maybe check out fiverr.