Top Traffic Generating Tips

Getting traffic can be a problem to new webmasters. Having a great blog and no one ever seeing it can be stressful, disappointing, and can make some bloggers want to call it quits and throw in the towel. The worst situation for a blogger can be writing the post of their life, and not having traffic or any kind of exposure for that post whatsoever. It eventually gets buried in the archives, and the blogger gets discouraged as he saw no response for what he felt was a great post.

Well there is no need to be discouraged, the following traffic generating tips work! They worked for me, they worked for the people before me, and they will surely work for you. Apply them and make them your daily routine. Don’t just do them for a week and stop, continue and make them part of what you do everyday. Slowly but surely you will see your traffic and readers grow tremendously.

My Top Traffic Generating Tips Are…

1.) MyBlogLog.com - Sign up to MyBlogLog.com and browse other users profiles, join their communities and leave a comment saying you did and encourage them to join your community as well. This believe it or not is very effective, and will bring a handful of readers to your site.

2.) Blog Commenting - Comment on other related, high traffic blogs. Try to go “post camping.” What a lot of people don’t know about commenting on other blogs is timing is key. Try to be the first to comment, but make it useful, interesting, eye-catching, and have it contribute to the post.

If you do this to just 5 blogs that usually get 30 comments and better under a daily basis, you will grab a generous amount of readers from their blogs that will be intrigued by your comment and end up in a visit to your site.

3.) Article Submission - Writing articles and submitting them to article sites, is always a plus. But people get lazy, they realize they will need to submit a lot of articles to go up in rank and decide not to submit any. Well that’s because the article written is not very good.

If you write a good article not only will you have an incoming link from the article submission site, but from everyone else who decides to use them too. If your articles aren’t any good, then no one will use them. Therefore one submission will equal one back-link. If you write better articles that are actually useful, then more people will use them and that means more incoming links for you. My articles get about 50 downloads per week, and some even more.

4.) Forums - Forums are another great way to get traffic. Sign up to a forum related to your expertise, and help others out with their problems and questions don’t forget to link-bait with your blogs URL in your signature. Doing this builds a strong base of loyal readers. Since you helped them out with a problem or question they had, they are more comfortable subscribing to your RSS feed and commenting on your blog regularly.

5.) Social Networking - Join sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, StumbleUpon and other social networking sites. Be an active member and send lots of friend requests along with a friendly message about who you are, what your blog is about, and a encouraging call to action to go visit your blog.

6.) BlogCarnival.com - Submit your articles to blogcarnival.com in your related niche. Articles almost always get posted and they generate a decent amount of traffic back to your blog.

7.) Guest Blogging - Guest blogging is the ultimate key to gaining great, responsive, loyal visitors. Find a very high traffic blog that’s relevant to your blog. Write an amazing post, check grammar, punctuation, and write your heart out! Make it very useful, this is your first impression, IMPRESS! Write up a great post that’s controversial and people can gain something from.

Then contact the webmaster for that high traffic blog that’s relevant to yours, let him know you want to do a guest post. Do not, I repeat do not send an email asking if you can and then wait for a response. In the very first email let them know you want to guest blog, and include the post you wrote exclusively for them. Do not give them a chance to say no. Include the guest post in the first email, chances are they will read it. If you wrote a good post like I said you should, then most likely the webmaster will be impressed and will not say no.

8.) Offline Advertising - Offline advertising is a great way to get traffic to your site. Bumper stickers on your car with your website on it, business cards wit your site on it works great as well, just hand them out to people you meet and already know. Wear a t-shirt with your site on it to a major event or public place, get your friends to wear them too. A large group of people with the same shirt on, gives a longer lasting impression then just one person.

Put all of these great traffic tips to work, make them a daily routine for you. They don’t take long to execute and they are free! Whether your a veteran or a novice at blogging these tips work are used by many professional bloggers.

What traffic tips, do you have in your daily routine?

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