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 Blogging has become very powerful in the world of internet surfing and marketing. Blogs are growing at an enormous rate and they can easily promote any idea you may have.
With the right marketing and know-how, you can have people from all over reading your blog and commenting away with their own opinions.
Blogging is a great way to get your site indexed or ranked quickly for certain keywords. I often get indexed an hour or two after I write a post now, because of the consistency that I write and the methods I use. Google “Blogging Mistakes that could hurt you” (a title to one of my posts, im currently #1 - kind of a bad example, I know), and I am on the front page.
What are good ways to gain Traffic?
- Article Submission: Who would have thought? I have not done too much of this myself for Thinkblogger, though for my other sites it has worked wonders. There is a reason why people keep mentioning this, even in passing: because it works. Keep your articles and informative, but do not try to sell anything. (that is the interest killer)
- Social Bookmarking: These are great ways to get some nice traffic if done properly. They let you leave imprints with them and you can get your blog indexed pretty quickly. Check out BlogCatalog, Entrecard, MyBlogLog, Twitter, or Spott, if you have a chance.
- Blog Commenting: You need to get your name out there, why not build up your traffic and visibility by commenting on other blogs. Leave nice comments on people’s blogs. Basically though, build your back links and anchor texts because it will help you rank higher in Google.
- Ping after Posting: Just in case if your Content Management System does not have this option, go to www.pingomatic.com.
- Submit to Search Engines: Find a nice list of Search Engines and submit your blog to them.
- Submit to Blog Directories: I have had a few posts about this (with a huge list, as well). Submit your blog to these directories! Often, they have an option that lets you get a free featured listing just by giving them a back link. (at least that way, you do not need to have their icon on your page to stay listed).
- Post Often: Consistency will help you bring back some of those more stubborn viewers ;). I have realized that the days I post 2x, I often have an extra burst of repeat visitors the next day (wondering if I will post again sometime that day for the 2nd post).
- Other Networks: Stumbleupon, Digg, Technorati. These are very important. Stumbleupon traffic is gold in my opinion, I did an experiment and less than 25% of the traffic left on the first page. This is a great ratio.
- Most Importantly: Be Unique. Become your own Brand. Have some videos or voice-vasts (which I might do in the future if people do not wish to read long posts but would rather sit on their sofa, comfortably, listening to my hypnotic voice, hehe). There is no point in copying someone’s footsteps and try to get success by what they did; it wont work as well once people have done it once.
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7 Responses to “Rock Solid Ways to get Traffic to your Blog!”
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| Ramona(12 March 2008 at 3:47 pm) | 1 | You offer some excellent tips in here. The only thing I don’t do is submitting my articles to article sites. We do have a distinction here though: sites likd Digg for instance (you make a small presentation and then link to the actual article) are OK for me. I don’t like the article sites that require to write the entire article and have a link in the bottom. I did use these 4 years ago for my webmaster forums and the traffic was too small to make it worth wasting a good article.
If you can pass the presentation and the links to as many places, then this is awesome.
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| Karlonia(12 March 2008 at 4:47 pm) | 2 | This is a nice, relatively succinct list of traffic building tips for bloggers. I have managed to implement all of these, but need to concentrate more on the first two (article submission and social bookmarking). SEO has been working particularly well for me, especially if I do a little keyword research beforehand and obtain a few inbound links for optimized pages.
Meanwhile, I noticed that “Submit to Search Engines” does not have the bold tag on it like the others do. This is a debatable point anyway - most of the time it is not really necessary to submit your site to the search engines, especially not if you drop a few comment links on some well-crawled blog sites. I have noticed that this tends to draw the spiders to your site like the proverbial flies to honey, and has the added bonus of giving your site some “link juice” to start off with too 
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| ThinkBlogger(12 March 2008 at 10:19 pm) | 3 | @ Ramona: Thanks for the kind words. With Article Marketing, it has become a bit saturated. You can’t just write up an article and post it everywhere anymore.
There are multiple ways of achieving this. My favorite way, which unfortunetely takes a while, is to write about 20 minutes worth of an article (if I go overboard, thats ok). I then spent 60-80 minutes creating as many articles that relate to it (just rewording it completely is fine too, I noticed).
I THEN submit those in bulk to all the PR4+ directories, including some of the newest directories too! The whole idea is also to just create back links.
With Article marketing, it could be quite profitable. I don’t do it too often but I make anywhere between $100-200/mo just from the residual articles that I created in the past. (which isn’t bad, as that was a while ago).
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| ThinkBlogger(12 March 2008 at 10:21 pm) | 4 | @ Karlonia: I did not notice the unbolded heading. I fixed it. Though personally, I never manually submitted thinkblogger to any search engines. Crawlers found me for the most part. Yay for pings. <3.
My posts get crawled within 30 minutes, max. I tested this with Thinkblogger’s apology post yesterday. I did it again with this one at like 3am before I went to bed.
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| Used Cell Phones(15 March 2008 at 8:33 am) | 5 | I think that “posting often” is very overlooked by many bloggers. I’ve had traffic drop right off when I wasn’t posting every day to newer blogs of mine…
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| ThinkBlogger(15 March 2008 at 9:42 am) | 6 | @ Used Cells: I completely agree. After about 3-4 days of not posting my daily traffic went from 900-1400 uniques to about 400. lol. It’s like I lost 2 months.
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| Ovidiu - GuitarFlame.com(17 March 2008 at 10:34 am) | 7 | Very true but still theoretical.When you get to the dirty part of actually doing these things, they may not be enough.
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