Building a blog is easy, but one of the major challenges every blogger faces is the part of getting traffic to a blog. There are various methods that can be used to get traffic to a blog some of which are explained below.
- Post regularly: This is a step most people often ignore. We all know our readers are not fool, you can’t just expect them to be coming to your website or blog everyday without them finding new fresh content to read. Try to update your blog regularly because this helps your readers and it also help your search engine rankings. Search engines love fresh content and if you begin to post regularly, the search engines will soon begin to count your blog as an authority blog thereby automatically increasing your ranks in the search engines.
- Blog commenting: Commenting on other blogs in your niche is also another good strategy to increase the number of visits to your blog. It is important to have an avatar when commenting, the avatar can either be your image or another image related to your blog. The importance of using an avatar is that it makes you look real and human and if you comment on many blogs so many users who read several of those blogs will be forced to visit your blog because they are now becoming familiar with your avatar due to them seeing it every where.
- Article sites: Article sites are also a good way to get traffic to your site, all you have to do is write a good post and then submit it to the top article sites with an anchor text of your choice linking back to your website. For example, if you want to rank for the term “young blogger”, your anchor text will look like this “young blogger”, you will notice that if you click on the second link it will take you to my website. That is exactly how an anchor text looks like. It is also important to make sure you put most of your efforts in dofollow sites because it helps you achieve higher search engine rankings.
- Directories: Try to submit your blog to various blog directories and website directories; you can also submit your rss feed to rss directories. Directories do help increase website rankings, I was able to take a website to the front page of Google for a two phrase keyword, I was also able to help the website get pagerank 3 using directory submission only. Do not underestimate the power of directory submission and also try to do it gradually i.e. do not submit to 1000 directories in one day, submit your website to some few directories and continue like that.
- Guest blogging: As I am doing now, guest blogging is another great way to get traffic to your website. Unlike any other traffic generation strategy, guest blogging helps you get not just ordinary traffic to your blog but valuable traffic because many of the readers on the blog you guest post on will come to have a look on your blog and if you have good and regularly updated articles they will stay around thereby becoming your loyal long-term reader.
- Social sites: Social bookmarking and networking sites such as twitter, facebook, digg, stumbleupon and many other social sites can help you drive tons of traffic to your website, just make sure you only submit valuable posts and you don’t just spam their sites. It is not a good idea to spam this sites as this will reduce your reputation with time
How are you doing with your traffic? With mine, I will say I am doing fine. Implement this strategies and experience and increase in your website traffic.
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Twitter: thepositivelife
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I completely agree, each and every blogger faces the challenge to bring in extra traffic to one’s blog. I believe guest blogging is one of the sure fire ways to get extra stream of traffic to your blog. Thanks for sharing these wonderful tips !!
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 19th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
Yeah! Thanks a lot for your nice comment.
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Twitter: danalingga
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You forget to mention SEO — SEO surely can bring you high legit traffic.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 19th, 2010 at 2:25 pm
Hi, I just don’t know how i forgot that one. Thanks for the observation and thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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Twitter: Tola_SEO
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Nice article, short and sweet.
My favorite is #5, guest blogging. I think it’s something that’s slowly catching on but very important. I still haven’t quite got the hang of it but I know it’s good cos I see so many people doing it.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 19th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
Yeah! Thanks a lot for the nice comment, Guest blogging is really great and it has worked “wonders” for me.
Thanks.
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Twitter: freemnlegacy
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I would like to have more traffic, but since I don’t really have a product to sell yet, it’s probably best that I don’t have a lot of traffic until I create a product to sell.
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Dennis Edell from Direct Sales Marketing
Twitter: DennisEdell
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April 20th, 2010 at 4:30 pm
You don’t want traffic to your blog as a whole?
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Twitter: ryanbiddulph
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Another great post Onibalusi. The frequency of posts is important. Think of your blog as a newspaper. People want the latest and greatest information from you on a consistent basis. If a paper wasn’t published for a number of days its readership would suffer. Until you’ve built a substantial readership your blog will experience a similar fate unless you post consistently.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Hi Ryan,
Exactly as you said, frequency of blog post is very important except you already have a strong readership and a great number of posts in your archive.
Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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Offer free stuff for everyone and they’ll come to your blog. Just kidding. I feel the most important is good content. Some blogs are updated regularly, but the posts aren’t that great. I’d rather a blog have less posts that add value than stupid filler posts. What do you consider frequent posting? Every day, every other day, 5 times a day?
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 19th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
Hi,
Thanks for the nice comment. Concerning the posting frequency, i post three times a week but due to experience with my other blog i discovered that more posting=more traffic and more RSS subscribers but I will rather provide quality than give junk to get traffic.
Thanks a lot for your nice comment.
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Twitter: ebryanr
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I think that it is great that you are blogging and getting out there to others.
I agree with what you have posted here. Especially the building a blog is the easy part. Getting people to come and then stay is where the work is.
Thanks.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:06 pm
Yeah! exactly,
Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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Twitter: davelucas
says:
And the BEST way to get more visits is to post an article entitled “How to get traffic to your blog” – it worked for me!
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 19th, 2010 at 8:43 pm
Ahaha! so you are sure it worked!
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Twitter: catalinadrian
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Anthony is absolutely right. Good quality content is what keeps people interested into your blog and makes them come back again. Of course, interacting with them and responding to their posts is another important factor because that way they see that their opinion is important to you.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:09 pm
Exactly! Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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john
Twitter: catalinadrian
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April 20th, 2010 at 9:15 pm
You are welcome. I hope to see more interesting posts from you!
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Twitter: cks1988
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I agree with you that post regularly is an important factor to drive a constant traffic to our blog. However, i only post one to two articles a week when i was busying with my study. Blog commenting is another way for me to drive the traffic to my blog too.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Hi KS Chen,
It has been long i see you on my blog
As you said, posting frequency is very important and commenting on blogs is also a good way to drive traffic to your blog.
Thanks a lot for your nice comment, I really appreciate it.
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Twitter: rileycentral
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These are the basics but I forget as a jaded blogger sometimes that these basics really do work. In fact, they are the only things that reall work long-term. Nice post.
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Yeah! exactly! The basics are often the most important.
Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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Twitter: BlazingMinds
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Many thanks to Onibalusi Bamidele for his first post here on Blazing Minds and one which seems to be very popular
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Twitter: piyushshekhar
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The post should also be as original as possible. Do not copy !
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Yeah! Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
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Twitter: another_blogger
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Post regularly will help people find you from search engines and social network plus commenting activities and guest blogging really will bring you more traffic. Directories is good, you can add Blogger community and forum to bring more traffic to your blog.
Great!
Thank for the awesome article little brother
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Onibalusi Bamidele
Twitter: dataentryforall
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April 20th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Yeah! exactly! Thanks a lot for the nice comment.
I really appreciate it.
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Twitter: DennisEdell
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Nice, it is indeed always good to bring in the basics from time to time.
As for “regular content”, there really isn’t a one size fits all solutions s so many think. It largely depends on your audience; and this takes time to figure out.
Some will leave if it too little and some will leave if its too often.
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Twitter: camillastenmark
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thank you for great ideas…
have anyone tried sites like linkcrew and other “traffic generators” are they scam or do they work?
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Twitter: babyboykharim
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My traffic is really great. My first month proved to be a success and I am lookin forward to better months ahead.
Most my traffic comes from others sites thati comment on. So commenting on other blogs is a must
for me
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Twitter: gotrainyourdog
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Consistency. It seems that the people who figure out that consistency is the key ingredient to what they want out of life are also successful in blogging.
Interesting. Be interesting. I guess I’ve always been pretty interesting… and I’m finding the more I bring that out in my blog, the more people subscribe and start following me.
The rules in this post… they must be done as well. But you can do all of that you want without the above two and I think lack of readers is still going to be an issue!
Just my 2 paws on the subject!
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Twitter: extremejohn
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Excellent post Delonibalusi and reminder of all the things I use to have time for and be good at, haha.
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You can share your RSS feed in your email correspondences – a great way to acquire new users.
You can use WiseStamp to create a customized email signature which can contain dynamic content (i.e. your latest post) for free. Good luck with the blog!
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Twitter: Luckydollar
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Hey Delonibalusi, that’s a great post.
If everyone would follow those ideas and be patient, the traffic will start flowing whether you want it or not.
Nice job.
Mike
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Twitter: thinkspin
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Great article.
As far as using SEO words, I think it works best for niche articles rather than personal blog posts. I’ve noticed that I have a higher bounce rate when I use SEO words to draw traffic to my blog.
I agree that the commenting is a biggie. But once you bring someone new to your site, you need to visit their site to reciprocate. So, follow up is also important.
Is it better to respond to a reader’s comment at my site or to send him/her a personal email?
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Twitter: carla_anne
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Excellent post. I have only just begun to sift through some of the blogging community. I have made useful and thoughtful comments and had just a handful replies, and pretty much zero return visits.
I do think it is important for a two way channel to work if it is kept up by both parties!
I’m also not sure how SEO works any longer but as the above poster said, probably better for niche material
Regards,
Socialpaws
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