What does every blogger want? More traffic.You do your best to set up a blog with great content, but no one is visiting your blog – so why even bother? You need at least a decent amount of traffic if you want your blog to become a success in the long run – and I am not even talking about money here. Wouldn´t it be great if you could get that traffic for FREE?
These are the TOP 6 free ways to get traffic to your blog:
1. Search engines
Yes! Submitting the URL of your blog brings alot of traffic to your blog. Millions upon millions of people use the major search engines like Google,Yahoo,Bing everyday.So,if your blog has many good posts and is well indexed by Google,etc. you will get a fair amount of traffic via search engines.
2. Submitting your blog to blog directories
You may already know this, but submitting your blog to blog directories is also a very good way to attract free traffic. The link below will take you to a good list of blog directories(there are so many directories, but the ones on this list will bring you valuable traffic).Most of these blog directories ask you to register before allowing you to submit your blog. My suggestion: Create a new email account solely for this purpose so your personal emails will not be not flooded with emails sent by blog administrators,etc.
A list of essential blog directories can be found here.
3. Participate in forums, discussion groups, and the like
Just go to Google and enter your [major keyword + fourm] or [keyword+groups] and search. If your blog happens to be about blogging, then search „blogging forum”/„blogging group”. You will find a variety of forums or groups related to your site. Register in the forums and post articles,etc with a link back to your blog (as a signature). Answer questions, help solve problems – and always provide a link to your blog. But, do not SPAM.
4. Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking is another way to build good traffic to your website/blog. If you do not know what Social Bookmarking is, here a short definition: „Social Bookmarking is a practise of saving Bookmarks,tagging the posts with keywords in a website”. Bookmarking means saving a specific website URL(address) in your browser in case you wish to visit it again at a later time.There are many social bookmarking sites offering their services, the most popular probably being Del.icio.us, Digg, Diigo (formerly furl), Technorati, StumbleUpon. One good thing about these Social bookmarking sites is that you will get instant traffic. Just register with them, save your bookmarks,tags,.. and you are done. Traffic will start coming your way pretty soon.
5. Submit articles to article directories
Submitting articles to article directories is another effective way to build more traffic. By submitting to these directories your articles get massive exposure and gain you more traffic. Among the popular article directories are goarticles.com, ezinearticles.com, articlecity.com, etc. There are literally hundreds of article directories you can submit your articles to, just use the search engine of your choice to find a few that suit you. (Submitting one article per week should suffice.)
6. Leaving comments on other blogs
Leaving comments with a link back to your blog is another good thing to do. Make sure to post comments on related blogs for this will bring you targeted traffic - and it will help to increase the PageRank of your website/blog as well. Always leave helpful and relevant comments, do not SPAM.
NOTE: Forum and blog posting got a bad reputation as a link building tactic when it came under huge abuse by unethical webmasters spamming forums with useless garbage just for a link. They even went so far (and still do) as sending out spiders to automatically submit posts.
Good luck!
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