Every blogger loves constant traffic to their blogs and its really a hectic task .A lot of work is to be done so that the blog gets the needed publicity. There are two ways to achieve this PAID and FREE.People who don't have problem spending $$, use the PAID route,but bloggers like me who would first try to get decent traffic using all the free sources will constantly look for ways to do it.
The sole purpose for the article is to help new bloggers to get some descent traffic to their blogs without spending a single penny!
- Submit your blog to all search engines,use Submit Express
- Choose a short but sweet name for your blog.so that it would be easier for people to remember
- Use appropriate keywords,use Google keyword tool
- Create a Facebook community page
- Use twitter effectively, Re-tweet often
- Your blog should have an E-mail subscription form,its a cool way to get permanent members
- Add your blogs signature in your email
- Use pinging services like Pingomatic
- Join Mybloglog ,Blogcatalog ,create communities and add friends ( A female pic will attract visitors lol)
- Submit your blog to Technorati
- Display you blogs code in you home page show that others can link to you
- Submit feed to yahoo.and also create set up Google websmaster tools
- Submit your blog to Blog directories
- Answer questions on the forums from your niche and also leave a link to your blog if there is a solution
- Answer questions on yahoo answers
- Write articles to help new bloggers
- Publish a newsletter,make your the newsletter is short and attractive
- Leave an attractive comment on other blogs in your niche with your blog link below the comment
- Add alt text to images,in this way you will get traffic from image searches
- Add social bookmarking and sharing buttons in every post
- Be a Guest blogger on other blogs that allow to submit articles,or submit articles to Ezeinarticles
- Contact other bloggers in your niche and exchange links
- Use simple fonts and a professional looking template,easier to navigate
- Update the contents frequently
- Organize giveaways,everyone loves free gifts
- Add Top commentators list ,this will encourage people to comment frequently
- Submit articles to Digg,Delicious,Stumble upon,yahoo buzz,Google buzz,twitter, friend-feed, Reddit,etc
- Always ask your visitors to share the posts
- Setting up a live chat box is always beneficial use Yaplet
- Submit your blog to Review sites like Ratemysite com and coolsiteoftheday
- Using trackback link help
- Be patient :)
