Top 14 Ways To Get Targeted Traffic To Your New Blog
September 23, 2007 – 6:07 amEvery blogger who has his/her new blog out tries to get traffic so let me explain some tips that would help you drive traffic to your new blog. Also use these tips to promote your blog.
Blog Community MyBlogLog is the best example where you can know the recent readers of your blog. After you find who visited your blogs recently visit their profiles and their blogs. Take a tour of their blog and you would be listed in recent visitors of their blog so they would again revisit your blog. Keep that a regular habit. Also when you visit many blogs and appear in the recent visitors in most blog your profile and hence your blog gets traffic.
Commenting This is the ultimate way to get traffic by commenting in other blogs of your niche. But pacing comments like “thank you ! great post” won’t work. Your comment should be so powerful to get visitors of that blog where you comment to your own blog. So in the comment interact with blogpost’s author and other commentators and post a link to any of your top post related to that at end of your valuable comment. Do those carefully and never try to spam.
Social Bookmarking Submit your blogposts to social bookmarking websites like StumbleUpon , Delicious and others. Also add bookmarking buttons or links to the bottom or footer of your posts which your blog readers would click to submit to or save in their fav. bookmarking sites. Ask your blog readers to add your posts to bookmarking sites and share them with their friends.
StumbleUpon is the only bookmarking and social networking sites which people have joined to make friends and share different websites among friends and friends of friends. Here friends mainly share same interests and suppose your blog is related to interest of all the people you get traffic. So submit your posts to StumbleUpon as this is a real sites/blogs sharing community. Make more friends in stumbleupon with same interest as your blog. I got loadfs of traffic from stumble upon like say 350 unique visitors with 12 hours of being online. Also you may check this blog’s first week stats which got maximum visitors from it.
Be Part Of The Blogging Community Yes find what other bloggers are saying about stuffs related to your blog’s niche and participate in those discussion by writing valuable comments in their posts and writing a sequel to or your views on their posts in your blog to be a part of community discussion. this will not only bring them to comment on your post but all his readers and bloggers on that niche who are part of the community would visit your post. I’m not able to do this effectively.
Forums Participate in discussions in top forums related your blog’s niche or forums related to blogging like Blogging Section Of DP Forums and there don’t forget to put your blog’s title and links to your signature. Never advertise your blog by making a post and writing about greatness of your blog you may be banned next day. best thing you can do is ask other bloggers to review your blog and if some one asks a question about which you already have a post just place a reply with a link to your post as help. You can show up your blog only if the way you do it is informative to others.
Blog Traffic Exchange Networks There are some traffic networks like Blog Explosion which give traffic in exchange of some traffic. Especially a new such service is BlogRush which shows your posts on other blogs the same times as your blogs page views. You can check the details in this BlogRush review - BlogRush Tips To get maximum traffic.
Another new and innovative traffic exchange network is BlogPicks which provides traffic in exchange to traffic you provide them and gives ranking to the blogs according to this. Suppose you provide 3-4 visitors to them you can receive 10+ visitors so you get benefited. personally i use this (you can check our sidebar) and currently this blog is Ranked 1 there.
Feed Subscribers The more subscribers your blog’s feed has the more traffic you get as when they are informed of new posts they some back to your comments but remember your feeds should be full and interesting post to make them come back to your site for commenting. But getting feed subscribers for a new blog is not easy. Submit your feed to feed directories.
Mention Your Blog URL Every Where Mention your blog’s url in your profiles at social networking sites like Orkut, Bebo , MySpace and others but this may not give good traffic. Mention the same in your email signature, say regarding these to all your friends, make small banners and place them in college/office if allowed. Mention in profile pictures or avatars in forums communities and social networking sites. Also don’t forget to put the url into chat rooms and IMs. In instant messengers you can set a custom away message and write your blogurl. Also out the url in your name/handle if possible in communities. Also announce your blog as new release in other blogs and other places by contacting bloggers.
Advertise Yes pay some bucks and advertise your blogs at other blogs other sites and especially purchase PPC ads from Adwords, MSN Ad Center, where you have to pay per visit you get from them. Adwords sends much targeted visitors. There are plenty of free vouchers or coupons for adwords and others and when such coupons are applied you get some amount or balance in your adwords account for free with out paying anything - so you advertise without paying a penny.
Directory & Article Submission Submit your blogs to top directories like BlogCatalog for free and they not only provide few traffic but helps you rank higher in search engines as they provide backlinks. Also write a article with a link to your blog at the footer and submit it to top article sites. Write good articles and if they get traffic your blog gets too. You can write a part of article for submissioin to these articles sites but a sequel to that post or second part of that post in your blog and place a link tho this in the footer of the article. You get visits from people who read that article.
Contests You can check we have run a contest to give $20 to feed reader and this contest is being blogged out by many other bloggers who also provide traffic and link backs.
Guest Posting You can do guest posts even in some top blogs and as we know guest posts provide a link back to our blog. So doing many guest posts in top blogs would bring traffic.
Swap You can swap reviews, blogroll links, ad spaces with many other blogs of same niche and same traffic. You write a review regarding them and at the weekend they would review you in exchange and you get traffic as you give them.
Search Engines getting traffic from search engines is bit difficult for new blogs even tough many of your pages are indexed in search engines like Google. But do all the SEO for your blog (both on site and off site) and wait for search engines to index your blog out. Search engines do not like search engine submissions using any site/ software so you may avoid it.
At last but not the least your blog’s content is the king and if your content is too good then it would be popular soon. Besides content post frequency is a top factor. We would cover them in a separate post. Higher technorati ranking makes your blog popular among your readers but do not provide traffic.