Ever since I started blogging on my first blog Internet Business Blog (it’s a history now) 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 Media Sites : Social media 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 media sites are the best ones, you must also consider to submit your articles to niche specific social media 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 Pandey is an internet marketing strategist and likes to write about tech, search engines and social media. To stay updated you can subscribe to the RSS Feed or follow him on twitter.
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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Amen.
this is really great. i increased my blog traffic to almost 200%, thanks. and do visit evergreenhelpline.blogspot.com
the information was really useful. do visit my blog and leave ur comments http://bloggersagog.blogspot.com/
You are right on the mark. When I started my blog about Real Estate Investing Advice & Information I had a pretty tough time getting traffic. The key was really to comment on other people’s blogs. Make sure you don’t spam, though. If you leave a more meaningful comment, you’re less likely to get kicked off or banned. Also, a word to the wise is that permanent links are best. If you submit your stuff to a news site, that’s good, but they will quickly delete your posts (or at least make them hidden from Google) within a short amount of time if you don’t get a lot of support from the reading community.
Great Manish : This blog will help all over the world – to get traffic to new bloggers. Thanks great content.
nice posting…
but could you explain to me how RSS work?
n about technocrati more? I have joined them, but i don’t understand how it works… thanx
just PM me when you answer my question..
Hi. . .i am agree, but can you teach me, how to use feedburner
ANd this comes first when u google on increasing traffic..Good achievment. Thats proof that ur tips work
Feed Burner is a grt place to create your feeds and analyze you traffic and subscription details
Thanks the author!
i hope it can really help me, my blog is 20 days old, but i still never get a lot of traffic
nice traffic tip but i say add little more http://lenajasminee.blogspot.com
nice tips, seems to be helpfull
Very good points about blog traffic. However, I’m a bit weary about #2. Social media sites, traffic exchange sites, etc. are very good for blog traffic, but I’ve personally found that the competition on some of these sites can be very thick and more often than not, some of the sites themselves can be nothing more than a big “good old boy’s network!” While I’ll probably try a few of these sites, I still prefer to build my blog traffic the old-fashioned way: through link exchange, comment posting, directory submission, etc.
Anyway, your article does a good job of giving some essential pointers to the beginning blogger who is in desperate need of traffic! Kudos to a good job!
Josh
http://cheerfulworldnews.blogspot.com
I wish i can improve my traffic to have as much visitors as you have now ..
Great article, thanks! This topic comes up often in my line of work.
it was good article and we are getting good results.
http://www.find-guru.com
thanks for the help on this, i’m currently looking to increase my blog traffic, any comments for me personally on my blog ?
Great info thanks for sharing. I’m new to blogging so this is great!
My new blog is at All about GPT sites
I would like to thank you for the gr8 info. Being a newbie, i have a query. How much time does it take to get a thousand loyal readers to a blog. Also, is it advisable to disable the comment section until few hundred visitors start rounding up every day (0 comments does not look good).
i am a huge fan of insight from someone who has been blogging for 2 years. Your feedback is great although i sometimes have a hard time being funny about such awesome information. Social Media is in my mind somewhat over and but someone still on the verge of some amazing ideas. We are a creative people and i see great things coming.
thanks for the tips,implemented few already and rest to be implemented now
Good tips to increase blog traffic. Thanks.
Thank you very much, this is very helpful
HI Manish,
I just landed on ur blog, its pretty cool blog. Regarding SEO using blogs is great when it comes to get indexing sites which is really useful.
Title and Tags are the most important parts in blog – Get optimized these 2 and u will automatically ranked in search. One of the top priority which Google considers very important.
Thanx
Google Lover
i will try it
thanks
Thanks for the post, its a good place to start for me. I’ll let you know if my search gets to number 1!!
nice tips. iwill use your ideas to increase my blog’s traaffic.thanks bro
thanks for sharing
I read your article and I understood exactly what you meant! It worked great and now somanylosers.blogspot.com is #1 on the google!
I hope these tips would prove to be effective on my own blog…
Very importent and excellent post. thanks for nice sharing.
Thanks you for an informative article, this will help the WWW FlagLima to achieve net-domination, and you will not be forgotten!
Keep up the good work
Great advice on the bright side of traffic building. Unfortunately many websites specialize on encouraging dirty schemes to draw attention to blog posts. I wrote a post about maintaining integrity while pursuing money-making strategies http://xrl.us/ber9b3
Hi,
How much new website take time to up in Google. I really need help regarding this. I think we all do very good at seo but still no traffic within one month of launch. How to make boss understand about traffic problem..It all depends on google & users
Thank you. My question is this. When do you know that you’ve posted on enough blogs, added to enough directories or other links?
Wow, nice post. I’m definatley putting some of this into action for my blog.
Good tips…god knows how you get technomati to register your blog though.. it dont work for me!
Superb work..I like your work.As matter of fact traffic is really connected with page rank ,creating and adding new pages to increase a site’s total PageRank so that it can be channeled to specific pages, there are certain types of pages that shouldnotbe added. These are pages that are all identical or very nearly identical and are known as cookie-cutters. Google considers them to be spam and they can trigger an alarm that causes the pages, and possibly the entire site, to be penalized. Pages full of good content are a must.Pls give me a visit on my BLOG.And get connected to updated GOOGLE TRICKS.
hi please visit my blog and give some tips for me to improve my blog
sound nice and easy..but the fact wouldn’t so simple like that..i agree most of your suggestion..but the most important things is no 10 ..BE Patience…Rome didn’t create in just one night,isn’t it?
hi!
your site has concept which is very useful for new blogger.thanks for u r tips, i think it helps me
hi! nice post, thanks, will try to practice it
Thanks for this wonderful tips. I will try to apply this on my own blog. thanks
Great tips. I am trying one of them now.
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Great list…I’m going to have to put these tips in action.
I am a newbie to blogging, just started my blog http://www.the-evault.com. I am really scratching my head with my blog traffic, you have save me! Now trying to apply the tips on my blog.
Thank you!
Nice tips, very informative! Will consider these tips specially tip number 10. Have to be very patient to succeed.
I’ve had to drop my comments section because of increasing spam attacks. Even though I had moderation in place they were still coming thick and fast. I just got tired of deleting them.
Dude, great tips, thanks a bunch, will have to do all of these to increase my traffic!
My blogging experience has thought me not to trust social book marking sites, esp if your blog is a niche.
Commenting and community building is tried and tested method. Facebook can do wonders, if you use it strategically. :p
Thanx for the post updates and overwhelming comments!
Great information! There are some things here I wouldn’t have thought of otherwise. Hope to put some of this information to good use!
great blog..
one thing i am not sure is the forum signature.. that hasnt earned me any page rank or may be huge traffic to my site.. thats just waste of time.. when looking at creating quality articles…
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great tips, thanks
Right on! Social media sites like facebook is one of the best ways to get targeted traffic nowadays, and of course the search engines so it is still important to build links so that your site can get found online. And commenting is good too, that’s why I am commenting right now
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thanks for your sharing.. and now iam trying practice your tips.. Im sorry my english not good but you can visit my Blog
See! Already following the first piece of advice. I have only been seriously blogging for about two weeks now, but, I will definitely keep yout ips in mind to increase traffic.
The nightmare of every blogger is getting traffic to your site. After all the good content that has been written, it really pains to find that no one really comes to read. Its just like cooking a feast and no one comes to eat. This blog post is a must read for all that are aspiring to make their blog high traffic blog like this one. Good post. Well done.
Thank you for sharing but i think it is really hard to get trafic,It needs many work.
nice article, I will implement it ASAP.
This is an excellent post. You know, my big problem as a newbie is how to drive huge traffic to my blog. Thanks for sharing.
Cheers,
Thank you SO much! I’m waiting to hear back from Technorati for my blog, http://shrimagesandphotos.blogspot.com/
I hope your suggestions will work – in fact, I’m certain they will! Thanks again!
Nice posting. I’ll be using these tips to serve as my general guide in helping improve traffic to my one-month old blog site. Hopefully, this will work for me. Thanks for sharing.:)
Thanks your article is a real help!
Nice post….
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great tips.. will try it.. thanks!
Well, I have adopted all the methods you have described. And I have understood that all I have to do is to be patient. Your post is really helpful. Thanks Manish.
I would think that posting on high traffic blogs would give you a significant amount of traffic. Also posting can’t hurt your searh engine ranking.
Thanks a lot for your information. I wanted to try those with my blog.
There are many ways to promote your blog as you said. I only notice that Twitter is not here in your list. Did you not consider Twitter as some sort of a marketing tool to increase traffic to your blog?
That would be interesting to know. And thanks for the tips.