5 great ways to get free traffic to your Blog

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by 143Share, Aug 1, 2010.

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    You have been inspired by the successful bloggers who have made a nice living from blogging. You began to like the idea of blogging for cash and started to sign up for courses, blog RSS feeds and newsletters to learn about blogging. You followed the steps and finally got your first new blog launched on the Internet. You published a post daily. But after week, you found that only a few visitors have read your posts. You started to think about how to drive targeted traffic to your new blog.....

    In this post you'll find several ways that you can use immediately to get targeted traffic.


    Blog Commenting
    Commenting on large traffic or popular blogs is any easy way to get some targeted traffic to your blog. I'm sure you have no problem finding the popular blogs in your niche. Take time to read about their posts and probably you'll learn something more which can help in your content creation. When you like to express your opinion, you can post your comments in. Most blog allows your name to link to your blog. So, your comment could potentially attract traffic when the visitors are reading your comment.


    Participating in Forum Discussion

    There are also popular forums in your niche as well. You could find the popular forums of your niche through Google search engine. These forums can be your quick sources of targeted traffic. Forums allow member to add link in their signature. So, you can make sure of the signature to get traffic.

    The key to getting traffic from forums is participation. You should be active in discussions. Be helpful. When someone started a thread asking for help or advice, you may take the opportunity to post your reply with answers to their questions. You might also start your own threads to discuss about something interesting. This way you'll get good exposure in the forums and people who read your messages will see your signature link as well. Those who click your signature link will be directed immediately to your blog.


    Pay Per Click Traffic

    The advertising network like Google AdWords can generate quality targeted traffic for your blog. As far as I know, Google often offer $100 or $50 free advertising credit to 'first-time' advertisers. So if you haven't used AdWords before, think about signing up a new Google AdWords account to get the free advertising credit and start testing drive targeted traffic from AdWords. If you are happy with it , you might continue your campaign. Make sure you do some calculations to find out how much you can spend on AdWords every month.

    However, if you advertising budget is tight, you can look for those cheaper ppc advertising networks. Bidvertiser can be a good option when it comes to buying cheap ppc traffic. The quality isn't as good as AdWords but traffic is still targeted.


    Guest Posting

    Quite a lot of blogs are accepting guest posts for publication these days. My blog MoneyMakerInfo.blogspot.com is one of them. You can write a few posts exclusively for the publication on the blogs that accept guest post. You'll include a few lines with your link in the author bio of your post for promoting your blog.

    The good thing about guest posting is that your post will be display on the homepage which can potentially generate a good amount of traffic for the first 24 hours of publication. But guest post often needs to be quality and unique. So, make sure you take the time to do research to come up with some good quality posts so that your posts get accepted for publication.


    Article Marketing

    Article marketing works much the same with guest posting. You write articles and public on article directories. You are allowed to included your anchor text links in the author bio of your articles. The article doesn't have to be great quality to get accepted for publication. Informative articles with more than 400 words are ideal for publishing on article directories.

    If you can write articles on daily basis, then article marketing could become your source of traffic as well. When you submit your articles, only look for large traffic article directories such as Ezinearticles.com, Article Dashboard, Isnare and etc. These are the article directories that can potentially generate consistent traffic. Try to submit at least one article daily. Keep this practice for a month and you'll targeted traffic coming from article directories then.


    Press Release

    Press release sites are great places to announce your new blog. While PRweb.com seems to be good press site to announce your new blog but it's quite expensive to publish a press release on the site. There are alternatives. In fact there are free press sites that you can publish your press release on. Go to Google and search the 'term' free list of press release sites and you get to know what press sites are free. Also if you run a contest on your blog, you can publish a press release on the press sites as well.

    Press release in different than articles. If you haven't written press release before, you are advised to hire someone to create the press release for you because press release is in different format.

    Once you see targeted traffic flow in to your blog consistently, it will be good idea to monetize those traffic. There are several ways to make money from your blog. You can use AdSense, sell ad space on your blog, promote affiliate products and etc. Make sure you do testing to find out what works best for your blog to generate income online.
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    143Share, Aug 1, 2010 IP
  2. franktwin

    franktwin Member

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    #2
    Good Post, I can do quality traffic for cheap//// too!!
     
    franktwin, Aug 1, 2010 IP
  3. Le Dangles

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    #3
    excellent tips most of them are free to (besides PPC). These techniques are also good for marketing products to not just promoting your blog.
     
    Le Dangles, Aug 1, 2010 IP
  4. anup.mahajan

    anup.mahajan Peon

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    #4
    Good tips.

    You can also create videos related to your niche & submit them to video sites with a link to your site to get even more visitors.

    Regards,
    Anup
     
    anup.mahajan, Aug 1, 2010 IP
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    Nice tips, thanks. Social bookmarking and Social Media Marketing can also be great source of free visitor.
     
    adspub, Aug 1, 2010 IP
  6. MaxMoney

    MaxMoney Peon

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    The most effective method that works short term and also long term would be guest blogging. A guest blog post can bring you hundreds of visitors the day it's posted. Also a good solid backlink for your domain that works out better for you long term.
     
    MaxMoney, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    seodash Member

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    well provided that you do have a quality article that attracts many visitors to read it and click the link pointing to your site. Aside from that, it also depends on where blog you would be a guest blogger.
     
    seodash, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    thx for sharing
     
    conversionengineer, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    Great tips thankyou, i dont have a big budget for ppc - so ill try the other techniques
     
    ajr, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    Amitoops Well-Known Member

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    #10
    you try for cool threads,quality of post ,add blogs ,vedios and new offer in that.
     
    Amitoops, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    excellent, and always remember content will always be the king. if people loves what you posted or share then naturally you will gain your loyal audiences.
     
    january14n, Aug 2, 2010 IP
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    #12
    I often post comments on blogs, but most were not approved...
     
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    social booki marking is a must too onlywire is the only way to fly
     
    kyhell, Aug 3, 2010 IP
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    really great post! openwire submitter has worked well for me
     
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    Pay per click isn't free.
     
    JoesMillion, Aug 3, 2010 IP
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    #16
    Nice post! Social bookmarking and blogging are really good methods.
     
    Justin_Dupre, Aug 3, 2010 IP
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    ssukhdeep Well-Known Member

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    hi i am getting a good traffic which thing for the time but i am not able to get any revenue from my ads can anyone tell me how can i get the revenue from my website. My website is http://masala-guru.info/ and http://auto-guides.info please help me ASAP thanks
     
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    hey - here's anotyher great tip - why don't you just steal someone else's article from http://ahfree.net/blog/5-practical-tips-for-generating-targeted-traffic-to-your-new-blog/

    and paste it onto a few forums?

    You could at least have the decency to spin it first. Here, let me help you with that:-

    You've been galvanized by the successful blog authors who've made a nice income from blogging. You started to like the concept of blogging for money and started to enroll for courses, blog RSS feeds and newsletters to find out more about blogging. You followed the steps and ultimately got your first new blog launched on the web. You revealed a post daily. But after week, you discovered that some visitors have read your posts. You began to think how to drive highly targeted traffic to your new blog. SNIP
     
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    jezzz Notable Member

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    One more feature of Vbulletin which gives an option to add Dynamic Feed Link that helps to syndicate the latest link to New Content
     
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    great post! I appreciate the info.
     
    revcook, Aug 4, 2010 IP