To increase blog traffic, has become the “need of the hour” for each and every person who is looking forward to make a full time income on Internet. You can find many opportunities to earn dollars online and most of these opportunities, in fact all, require nonstop traffic to your blog or website.
It takes long time to learn from different sources, how to get traffic for your blog. But today, I will share with you 10 different ways to increase traffic on your blogs. I can guarantee if you will follow these simple ways, they will bring enormous amount of traffic and perhaps will increase your earnings.
1. Write Unique Content: Unique content is the key to success in today’s blogging world. No one can stop your blog from getting on the top of the search engines and driving traffic like anything, if you spend an hour writing one thoughtful, and original post that is relevant to your target readers. Post regularly, if possible try to write 3-5 posts every week. But remember there are already other bloggers who write on same subjects that you do. So, use catchy titles and write original posts that will add to your blog content and your blog can never be ignored by the search engine spiders.
2. Thoughtful Comment: Don’t forget to spend some time and effort in finding other blogs that are related to your blog subjects. Leave some thoughtful comments to their posts and try to add some humor in your comment because people love humorous content. If appropriate, link back to your posts and with this you can gain some popularity on different blogs.
3. Use of Social Networking Sites: To get some exposure you can submit your post or content to Digg and Propeller and add their buttons on your blog post. If your post is beneficial for the readers such as guide articles, it will surely fit into the top 10 lists. Once you submit your content on these websites and if people like it they will digg or vote for your content. If you can manage to receive 100 votes within a day, your content will get to the homepage and on Netscape if you get 50-70 votes within a few hours, your content might hit the homepage. This is the easiest way to drive traffic on your blog for free. You could also use niche specific social media sites, which could bring in more visitors without much pain.
4. Do You Stumble: Another great way to get huge traffic to your website is “StumbleUpon”. There is plug-in that you can install in your Mozilla Firefox. There are unlimited numbers of people who use stumble plug-in to browse through their favorite websites. There are many blogs who get over 100,000 visits in a week to a single blog post with the help of StumbleUpon. All you need to do is pay a specific amount of fees to the StumbleUpon website and they will add your website in their software. Whenever people will select any topic related to your blog subject, your site will appear on their screen when they stumble.
5. Conduct Contests: Contests are something that many bloggers have been using to get free web traffic for years. You can come up with a prize or many prizes that would attract blog readers. Everything depends on the prize you offer, if it is useful for people you will definitely be able to get a lot of traffic. You can ask your readers to post a comment to win the prize or review your contest post in a creative manner on their blogs. To advertise your contest, try and post threads on different forums to spread the news.
6. Offer Free Stuffs: Visitors love to get free stuff. This is one of the best opportunities to make a good impression on your visitors. You can give away free stuff like software, a domain name, free review on your blog for 1 or 2 days, some gifts like T-shirts with a logo of your blog, play station or bags etc. Make sure that you mention all the guidelines of giving away the free stuff properly on your blog, so that there is no confusion.
7. Invite Guest Blogging: Inviting well known bloggers can contribute to your blog’s growth. You can ask a well known personality in your subject to contribute something on your blog like a comment or review. You will not only flatter the blogger by acknowledging their value but you will also guarantee yourself a link or joining hands with a brand can earn you readers.
8. Theme Updates: Keep changing the look of your blog every month. This will invite visitors to check your blog’s new look every month. They will look forward for new design of your blog and if it’s good and attractive, your blog can become famous.
9. Controversy: Writing something controversial can bring a lot of traffic. Although it can create negative impact among few readers because everyone has different opinions but still it works.
10. Don’t Quit: Never stop promoting your blog even when you are not in your blogosphere. You can add your blog’s link to your e-mail signature and business cards. Keep talking about your blog in offline conversations as well.
Whatever you do, do it in a way that you are making a million dollars, each and everything takes time, so does your online venture. Consider this as your destiny and be patient enough to walk through the initial phase or the initial failure because after this phase your blog future would be full of colors.
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Great post! I have to agree with using Digg and StumbleUpon. I’ve seen a 300% increase in site traffic for my blog on days I submit new posts to Digg and Stumble. Even a few days later, my site traffic is still doubled. But it is something you have to do regularly if you want to maintain that level of traffic. (Don’t submit something for a week or two and your site stats will show the difference in traffic.)
Yes, I’ve personally seen this. Stumble traffic is constant if you keep on submitting quality articles, but once you stop it decreases substantially.
Traffic from social networking sites is most often like the Internet version of junk food. Sure, it’s sweet & tasty, but it won’t satisfy for long. As soon as the sugary artificial buzz wears off, you’re right back where you started.
From what I’ve seen, this kind of traffic rarely converts into regular readers or loyal subscribers. So, the sudden influx of visitors is a nice statistical ego booster, but almost always very short-lived.
Another great tip for bringing in more traffic is to get guest posts published on other blogs. Darren Rowse generously published an article of mine called Geoblogging - How to Geotag Your Blog on Problogger.net which generated a nice influx of new visitors - and a few new subscribers.
you don’t have to pay stumble to receive traffic from them. simply submitting your site through the “thumbs up” button is enough to get the site into the rotation of the category you choose when submitting.
Doug M said it. You don’t have to pay SU to get you traffic.
And for the thoughtful comment you were talking about. I have no idea why you mentioned theme change every month. Your blog should be consistent, I like things to stay the same. If I’m a regular visitor, I’d like to know where the buttons and links are which I use most.
Instead of a monthly theme, think of a theme change every 6 to 12 months.
I am just searching for new ideas to promote my blog and found some good basic and new info in this post, thanks so much, cheers
Writing unique content is hardly a ‘new’ way to increase blog traffic. Good list tho.
How about listing your posts in your Facebook profile? Will your friends read your posts?
Or you could just get more blog traffic by creating a killer blog post like this!
Thanks for such a great post and these are very useful tips to use. But I’m not sure about changing the blog theme monthly. I agree one needs to change the theme periodically but personally I think monthly is excessive. This is because if you like your theme you probably will keep it for some time, especially if it’s a paid one or custom theme.
Peter Lee
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