3 Ways To Increase The Traffic To Your Blog
3 Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
By Mike Paetzold
Copyright 2009 All rights reserved
Traffic is the life blood of your blog. No matter the topic of you blog every blog needs more traffic. Below are 3 easy to implement ways to get more traffic to your blog.
1. Guest Blogging
Guest blogging is a great way to do this. Contact other bloggers in your niche and ask if they would like to have you write a guest post for their blog. This allows you to go provide quality content to another audience and you can link back to your blog. The owner gets quality content.
It is even better when you guest for each other. This way you can share audiences and increase the reach of each of your blogs.
2. Pillar Posts
Pillar posts are posts that are usually a bit longer and very detailed with instructions or lists. Do a detailed how to on a topic and you are likely to get people linking to it because of how useful it is. These can include lists of resources that are helpful or good instructional posts.
3. Blog Commenting
Taking part in the conversation on other blogs is a great way to generate backlinks and draw visitors from the links on the comments. The key, as with all of these tips, is adding quality content in your comments. People will follow your signature link and check you out ONLY when you are adding to the conversation they are already involved on.
So there are 3 easy to implement ways to increase your traffic and back links to your blog. The key is to start applying them today.
Mike Paetzold is a long time blogger and WordPress expert who has created 15 Minute Blog Traffic to help you generate more traffic to your blog easily.
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9 comments
Doug Champigny on June 20, 2009 at 9:00 am
Great post, Mike – three easy ways to increase targeted traffic that can be done in almost no time – every blogger should be adding these steps to their traffic generation strategies and using them on a daily basis!
.-= Doug Champigny´s last blog ..The Path To Internet Marketing Success =-.
Luca on June 20, 2009 at 10:00 am
All great points Mike. I know that I get traffic from commenting and I do some pillar posts (should do more) but I have not utilized the guest post idea. I can see how that would benefit both blogs.
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Andre Arnett on June 20, 2009 at 10:14 am
Those are three great ways that you mentioned Mike. I would like to get my blog to the status of having a guest blogger. That would be really nice.
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Joel Osborne on June 20, 2009 at 11:28 am
All three ideas are a great, and all three have two ways that you mentioned that drive more traffic.
You first have the link back to your site which will help to increase your search engine rankings, then you will also have the visitors clicking that link coming to your blog… for long term and short term traffic!
.-= Joel Osborne´s last blog ..Complete Social Networking and MySpace PLR Pack =-.
David Aston on June 20, 2009 at 11:59 am
Mike, this is great information and so easy to do. Sometimes the obvious is overlooked. These are things that we can do every day to create more and more backlinks to increase our page rank. Thanks again.
David Aston, http://www.finessbuilding.com
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Lonnie Minton on June 20, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Thanks for these three ways to get traffic. I’ve heard of Pillar Posts before but have never quite understood the concept. Could you elaborate on the basics of a Pillar Post a bit more? Maybe make a Pillar Post on Pillar Posts?
.-= Lonnie Minton´s last blog ..Article Marketer Article Submission Service Review =-.
Ragnar on June 21, 2009 at 5:49 am
I have yet to do either of the first 2. Guess I’ll try them out.
Earl Netwal on June 22, 2009 at 8:16 pm
I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term Pillar Post before. And it never occurred to me to guest blog. I do do some commenting, but almost always with the same people. Guess I thought that since most people had no follow set ups it wasn’t worth the effort. But I guess I could still draw traffic. Thanks for the food for thought.
.-= Earl Netwal´s last blog ..Beyond Squidoo- Get Hub Pages Juice Too =-.
Pete Merrill (Thirdie.com) on December 22, 2009 at 9:49 am
Good points. Like Earl says “I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term Pillar Post before. And it never occurred to me to guest blog. I do do some commenting, but almost always with the same people.”