Blog Traffic Generation – Top 17 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

1. Use only interesting, original content.

2. Write timely posts – ones on topics people will be searching for right now.

3. Write timeless posts – ones with information that people will always be looking for.

4. Provide links to resources that your readers that will find useful or very interesting.

5. Write long blog posts.

6. Get readers to digg your posts.

7. Allow comments to your blog posts (make sure you moderate them).

8. Post comments on other blogs with a link back to your site.

9. Encourage readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

10. Search engine optimize your blog.

11. Make sure you are always writing high quality content.

12. Include your blog in forum signatures.

13. Submit your blog to all the blog directories, including Technorati.

14. Participate in blog carnivals; this is very similar to submitting articles (use a multi-carnival submission form http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit.php).

15. Use Wordpress (use the “SEO title tag” plug-in to better optimize your blog for search engines).

16. Provide email subscriptions, this allows readers to be notified by email of new posts (use the plug-in “subscribe2”).

17. Ping the blog directories (pingomatic.com).
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Many have started to use "nofollow" links to defeat spammers who normally would write "I agree with you", "Excellent info", etc.

 

Sorry for the ignorance, but what is a "nofollow" link, and how does it distinguish between the banal and often irritating comments you mention, and legitimate and desirable feedback?

 

Irrelevant. Blog comments still provide a viable method of obtaining backlinks for traffic value.

 

Who cares about nofollow, when i look for a link I think of 1 thing. TRAFFIC. I don't care about PR. I make my own PR but offering QUALITY to my visitors. Buying PR... Now ay I want visitors and comments are still a very good method.

 

Agreed.. Traffic is king.. It seems everybody believes this too. This is why the Directory of Blog Directories are happening.

 

Content is the king..rest all factors are dependant on content!

 

Hey why didn't you add www.blogengage.com can you add it to your list?

Topic is here, http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=533864

 

Good distilled advice.

 

Nofollow is out of the point here since the TS is talking about traffic generation. However, one more thing that can be added is to comment heavily on blogs with the Show Top Commentators plugin.

Commenting on blogs can get you traffic but if your name is up there, it will get you more. For example at sites like John Chow dot com.

However, don't spam to the top. The blog owners might just ban you off the race to the top.

 

smart marketing too needs to be done in order to get TRAFFIC........content alone won't bring traffic....

 

Hey maverick, if you dont have content what you will market about? And marketting is needed to get people's attention faster.. it just reduces time nothing else, if you have great content you will surely get noticed.. if you do marketting you will get noticed early, otherwise late - but you will surely be famous once you have good content.

 

Is there a list of blog directories somewhere for reference?

 

the best way to get traffic with no sweat is having comments to other blogs.. it really works!

 

Thanx nice tweaks

hmm thats why my blog is full of SPAMMERS..

 

5. Write long blog posts.

Ive always read the opposite, to keep posts shorter and to the point

 

Thanks for the tips mantavn. There is a lot of debate on allowing comments, posting everyday, posting long, etc. I appreciate your insight.

 

thank for all

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Write long posts??
I don't agree with that... generally people don't want to read essays when they visit a site.
They are looking for something, and we should be able to provide that as quickly as possible.

 

I would say get a domain name. I would not use cheap hosting or even something like blogspot. I think it takes away from the site. IN my opinion only of coarse.