Jan 01
2008Top 10 Proven Tips to Increase Traffic to your Blog
Filed Under (Blogging) by Manish on 01-01-2008
Tagged Under : 10 proven tips, blog, increase, top, traffic
Ever since I started blogging on my first blog Internet Business Blog back in March 2006, I never ever saw blogs as a marketing aid. Blogging for me was just a tool to get my pages indexed fast on Google and increase my rankings. Now, after almost two years in blogging I understood that, blog can prove to be very helpful in building a brand as well as in SEO. I gradually learned how to blog and continue to learn and apply whatever I read from people online.
Here I’m sharing with you my Top 10 Tips that helped me to increase traffic to my blog. This has helped me and would surely help you too, if you continuously do it.
1. Comment of other blogs : It has been proved that commenting on other’s blog could increase traffic to your blog. Leave good comments blend it with humor, people love humor. When you find some controversial post simply put your comments in a memorable form, like you’re a grown up, controversies are the most effective way to become famous with least amount of effort but be sure not to fire people against yourself.
2. Submit your articles to Social Networking sites : Social Networking sites are the best places where you could submit your articles and get an instant boost of traffic to your blog. If people like it they will surely link to it, hence increasing even more traffic. While top Social Networking sites are the best ones, you must also consider to submit your articles to Niche specific Social Networking sites. This would give you considerably good amount of recognition for your work.
3. Comment on online communities : Join and take part in the online forums and communities. Don’t forget to add a signature with your blog URL. Your comments on these communities and forums would reward you in becoming a respected part of the community as well as get you work.
4. Bookmarking Articles : Ask your visitors to bookmark your articles. Sites like StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Google Bookmarks and del.irio.us could provide you with loads of traffic.
5. Interact with blog commenter : Make friendly relations with your blog commenter. Make them feel at home and they will make you feel at home. It’s that simple. Always try to help your commenter with some useful resource, if that is not possible lead them to a place which would solve their problems, don’t worry about they leaving your site, if they like your help they will return.
6. Write with a Consistency : Write at least 3-5 resourceful articles a week. Doing this will let your visitors understand that you are a dedicated blogger, who cares to help. If you’re not consistent enough to write then why would your readers would be consistent to visit your blog.
7. Submit your blog on Blog Directories : Submit your blogs to Technorati, Techmeme, Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic, initially when your blog is fairly new.
8. Link to other’s Article : Linking in and out helps a lot. Firstly, it helps you in providing proof about your thoughts as well as helps you get people link to you for providing a resourceful article.
9. RSS Feeds : Always syndicate RSS through feedburner, why? Because they are the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic, as the people who are in list of your feed would definitely come back.
10. Be Patient : This last tip is the most important one, this tells you to be patient. Whatever you do, be it building a big house or making a million dollars, everything takes time, so does our online venture. Consider this, if you have stepped in to Internet Marketing, then you didn’t get involved by chance. It’s that even your destiny wants you to get in it. If you’re patient enough to cross the initial period of failure then your future would be full of colors of success.
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Manish,
You bring up some excellent strategies for blog growth. Most importantly, of course, is number 10 - a successful blog doesn’t happen overnight!
Thanks Neena!
That’s why 10th point is the most important one.
It doesn’t matter how many times I read it, it’s still difficult to find motivation to do these things and build traffic.
There’s an idea for a post: Top 10 Proven Ways to Motivate You to Increase Blog Traffic.
Nice posting, but i don’t agree with #2. Though it is a great source for getting those “boosts” in traffic, that’s all it ends up being. It’s a good way of bloating your analytics for a few days and then you’re back to your “normal” traffic. I used to submit my own stuff to StumbleUpon or Digg and it usually got my crazy hits - in the 1,000’s and more, but then it fell off like 2 days later.
@Tanner: Nice title. I might do one post if I find enough content and would surely give you credit.
@Mayhem: Well that’s obvious, if you hit the front page of social networking sites, they tend to blast away your web host, but they are just for a few hours.
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thats a very good tips to increase traffic on your website
Thank you Shyam!
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hi manish,
good info here.
I agree with no 2
joining social networking site
is a best way to get discovered
although I find u thru google alerts
entrecard.com is one of the best
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Thanks Lankapo!
Yeah I’ve heard about Entrecard, not yet implemented it.
well Manish m a first time visitor at your quiet informative blog… these are some interesting tips… you might also wont to add the use of trackback URL’s for blogs… these trackback url’s really help in the link building process…
Good tips! I need all the help I can get…
Thanks Preetu and Linilla.
hey these are really good tips…
its very important tip for me… i want more traffic in mine blog but i have search and finally i found u…
thnx for u r tips…this tips are graceful and helpful to every blog..
Everything put pretty well, I liked that idea about destiny, because I somehow believe it too
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Good stuff Manish. I agree with each of your tips, but in addition I have found that optimizing post titles to be the most effective for me. Paying close attention to which postings are getting the highest rankings and traffic, and re-evaluating the ones which aren’t. It’s ok to go back and change the title of a low ranking posting.
Absolutely correct Rick, and I would like to thank you for stopping by my blog and adding great value to the post. The point you mentioned really could do great help to your organic traffic.
Tip #11: Make a comment in an ultra high traffic blog post such as yours
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cheers,
Jarret
nice post.. really helpful?? just curious of your opinion, what kind of forum can a join in??
thx for you help..
Nice thought provoking post.
Another big way to increase your Search Engine ranking (and therefore increase traffic) is to get as many other sites linking to you. That is, produce good content that others will reference on their sites.
There’s many tools available that checks how many external links a website has. These are usually a good indication about how popular a site is and they are free. See here:
http://www.info-express.org/website-popularity-checker
http://www.seocentro.com/tools/search-engines/link-popularity.html
http://www.seochat.com/seo-tools/link-popularity
your post was very helpful.,though i don’t want to monetize my blog..
There are many tools which will inform you how many links are referencing your domain. These are very helpful and I feel they make SEO work much easier. All of the above is also very helpful for directing traffic to your page.
Thanks for your insight
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