5 Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic
5 Ways To Increase Your Blog Traffic
by Mike Paetzold – Copyright 2010 all rights reserved
Why Increase Your Blog Traffic?
One of the big problems for new bloggers is to get people to visit their new blog. Unlike the movie “Field Of Dreams” if you build it they will not come unless you let them know it exists. So if you have started your blog and you feel that you are talking to yourself here are 5 ways to increase your traffic.
Blog Comments
Commenting on related blogs is probably one of the best ways to get targeted traffic. When you comment and take part in the conversation you are getting known in your niche. If you are actually participating and adding value the visitors there will be more likely to follow your link to see what else you have to say.
Articles
Writing articles and submitting them to the various article directories is another great way to get traffic to your blog. If you are providing good content and use a signature to get more information on that topic visit my blog. Others can use your content this way and when they do they will need to keep your signature so you can get additional traffic from any number of sources.
Forums
Taking part in various forums that are related to your topic and adding in a link to your blog in your signature (where allowed) can be another way to get traffic to your blog. The more quality information you add to the forum the more likely people will click through to read your blog.
Social Bookmarking
Taking the time to bookmark your posts to some of the bookmarking sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, et al. Now here it is important that you are regularly using these sites to bookmark quality content and not just your own. That way you will generate a following that will trust your recommendations and increase the chances of people clicking through to your post.
Letting your Twitter followers know when you have added new content is another great way to get extra visitors. Telling your Twitter followers about content other than yours within your niche will increase the chances that they will click through to read your posts.
In summary all of these ways will help you add visitors to your blog easily. Your blog and all of these ways are based on being part of a community and the more ways that you take part in the community the better resource you become. As you build your credibility within the community your traffic will increase.
Mike Paetzold is a long time blogger and you can find more ways to generate traffic to your blog regularly at 15 Minute Blog Traffic.
About the author
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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps |
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6 comments
Andre Arnett on February 7, 2010 at 12:38 pm
These are all very good tips and things I need to use more of. It is amazing how these things are very effective for your site and need to spend more time on them.
Andre Arnett´s last blog ..Make Money By Learning Affiliate Marketing
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Doug Champigny
Twitter: Mentoring4U
on February 7, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Great list, Mike – and the last point, using Twitter, has become more and more valuable. Be sure to make it clear in your tweet that it’s an article or blog post and not a salespage for even higher response…
Doug Champigny´s last blog ..7 Powerful Ways To Build Targeted Traffic And Build Opt-In Lists For Internet Marketing
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Kevin Tan the WP Blogger on February 7, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Hi Mike,
Thanks for following me on Twitter. I like your blog here.
You’ve listed some of the great points of getting traffic to our blog. Those are the methods that I’m currently using as a routine.
Personally, my favorite ones is blog comments. I like visiting blogs in my niche and leave my comments there if I find the post useful. By doing so not only helps to bring traffic, but also a good way to build a relationship with the blogger.
Nice to meet you anyway, Mike.
Kevin Tan
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Richard on February 7, 2010 at 1:09 pm
Hey Mike,
Sorry I haven’t commented recently, my domains are being held hostage by an unscrupulous hosting/registrar company which had me down for a few.
These are excellent suggestions. The only one I have not tried yet is the article writing. I am just getting comfy with blog entries so now it is time to move on to articles. Maybe you can do a post about the best places to submit articles? You probably already have and I will look but if not that is my personal request for a post from you. The Best Article Sites on the Internet.
Your doing a great job and the info you provide here has answered a lot of my personal questions and sometimes even sparked a idea for my own content. Keep up the good work.
Richard
Richard´s last blog ..How Important Is Your Hosting Choice?
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Earl Netwal
Twitter: EarlNetwal
on February 7, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Mike, what plug in do you use on your blog posts to encourage others to bookmark your posts?
Earl Netwal´s last blog ..What’s 18 Months Worth?
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mauco on February 8, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Nice post. It just takes a lot of time which most are not ready to invest. Using Twitter and other social bookmark sites has helped me immensely.
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