Hello everyone , I own a health blog since last 6 months . My Blog has everything one health blog needs but the only thing it lacks is traffic . It currently has a PR 3 (was PR 4 before the last update) . It gets 30-40 Uniques a day from SE's and Social Bookmarking websites . I want to increase my traffic to atleast 100 Uniques a day . Would like to know where do others get the traffic from . Share your experience .
No doubt, SEO is the best way to drive targeted Traffic. Social Networking has a decent instant traffic but you should focus on your SEO
I agree that SEO is the best way to get traffic but in case of health blog its not that easy . I've been in top 10 for some big keywords like "free online games" but i am not able to rank for terms like health care etc. Bought some links when i started the website but have stopped that now . Also , I'd recommend you to buy a directory submission service when starting a new website . It improves your SE Rankings as it gets you PR 0 Links and you should start with building PR 0 Links instead or directly going for High PR Links . Worked for me .
I'm in a simiar niche, and social bookmarking kinda isn't all that hot for health imo. More tech, politics etc orientated. If you are going to try and use social bookmarking, try and write something along the lines of health that the digg et al crowd may like..."people who died of fruit poisoning" or some crap like that. Wacky health trvia so to speak... Try www.healthranker.com of you haven't already, like digg but all for health sites. I submitted, got a trickle of traffic, hardly exciting but can't hurt. If you are only getting 30/40 UV with se and bookmarking, I might suggest working on your seo, as that seems a tad low for search engine traffic.