44 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
There are literally hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your Blog. Here we have published the 44 most effective ways of getting visitors to any blog.
Enjoy!
1. Be active in Forums and use a Forum Signature including a link to your Blog.
Don’t try to spam forums just to get a link to your blog… you need to contribute great content and help others in the forum, then they will regard you as an expert and visit your Blog more likely.
2. Submit your blog to Blog Directories.
Search on google for the biggest Blog Directories and submit your blog there manually. Aim to get listed in at least 10 good directories.
3. Submit your RSS Feed to Feed Directories.
You can use automated or semi-automated software to do this or you can do it manually just like you did with the Blog Directories.
4. Claim your Blog at Technorati.
Get an account at Technorati and claim your blog there. Tehcnorati is a must use for every serious blogger.
5. Cross Link with other Blog Owners.
Your blog has a Blogroll… so you can exchange links with other bloggers in your niche on your blogroll.
6. Bookmark your Blog posts.
Go to SocialPoster and bookmark your best blog posts.
7. Distribute articles including the “About the Author” part with a link to your Blog.
You can use the ISnare article distribution service to get your article listed in hundreds of article directories. They also submit your article to many newsletter publishers. This strategy alone can create a huge viral constant flow of traffic to your blog.
8. Create an account at MyBlogLog and use their Widget on your blog.
MyBlogLog is a social community. You can get a constant flow of traffic through them by making friends with other bloggers and building your community.
9. Post useful Comments on other Blogs.
Don’t leave short comments like “hey I like your post”… rather write long comments and start a discussion… Blogs are made for people to interact.
10. Use Ping Services
Wordpress automatically pings when you make a new post but you can improve this automated Ping service by using the MBP-Ping-Optimzer and an improved list of ping services.
11. TrackBack other Blogs.
Link to other Blogs in your posts and send them a trackback. Before you do so make sure that their blog accepts trackbacks. Sometimes you can do a PingBack instead of a TrackBack.
12. Notify your opt-in list subscribers about your latest blog posts.
Of course you should have an opt-in list on your blog to catch the name and email address from your readers. Make sure you send them a message when you have new content on your blog. The best visitors are returning visitors!
13. Have a Signature with a link to your Blog in every email you send out with any email program.
That’s something many people don’t do… they miss out on a lot of traffic. Even if you answer just a support question or communicate with your friends, always have your Blog URL at the end of the emails (better would be your contact information plus all your main blogs and websites urls)
14. Create and distribute viral ebooks that include a link to your Blog.
You can write 20 pages short reports or ebooks and make them viral by letting other people give it away for free. Include your blog url throughout these viral reports and you’ll soon get tons of viral traffic.
15. Build a Squidoo Lense and put a link to your Blog on that.
Squidoo pages are great to get 1-way links to your blog. Google loves Squidoo Pages and often you are ranked within the Top 10 for long-tail keywords. That means you’ll get direct traffic to your Squidoo lense and a part of that traffic will follow the links to your Blog.
16. Build a Hub Page and put a link to your Blog on that.
Same here as the Squidoo Lenses.
17. Create and distribute a video, include a link to your Blog in this video.
People love to watch videos and they love to share videos. If you are good, then your video might go viral and you’ll get lots of visitors to your blog. You should have a short URL that people can remember and type into their browser bar.
18. Create an account at social pages like MySpace or Facebook - put a link to your Blog into your Profile.
I guess you know what social marketing is… send some of that traffic to your Blog to build up a loyal readership.
19. Signup for EntreCard and add their widget to your Blog.
Entrecard can be a huge source of traffic but you need to invest about 10 minutes each day to be active and drop some cards.
20. Register your Blog at BlogCatalog and put their widget on your Blog.
Your blog simply must be in the Blog Catalog. You can get a nice flow of traffic from them after a while.
21. Signup for BlogRush and put their widget on your Blog.
Blogrush is a no-brainer… I just wonder why there are not more services out there like this.
22. Submit a XML sitemap of your Blog to Google Webmasters
You don’t need to do that, but if you know that some of your pages are not spidered yet, then this will get them indexed pretty soon.
23. Provide good content on your Blog.
Duh!
24. Be the first one who publishes a newsworthy story.
O.K., it’s hard to be the very first one who publishes a big story… but there are smaller newsworthy stories, maybe even local stories depending on your niche.
25. Publish content on a regular basis.
Come on, one post per week is not much… better would be to post on a daily basis if you can do it.
26. Install the most important WordPress Plugins.
27. Invite known experts in your niche to be Guest Writers for your Blog.
Start with “small” experts and then move up to the bigger ones. Many bloggers would love to get some extra exposure on your blog… once you have some visitors.
28. Be a Guest Writer on other Blogs.
If you have good content, then this is the best way to introduce yourself to your niche. Let people know you exist by being a guest writer on other people’s blog.
29. Include links to useful ressources in your blog posts.
I’ve just recently started to do this… I was always greedy on giving away free links… but you’ll see that it’s well worth it. Especially if you link to smaller blogs, then the owner will notice that and many will do a favour back.
30. Don’t have your Blog full of advertising.
Come on, you won’t make any real money from your blog before you don’t have 100+ visitors each day… so you can as well make your blog ad-free until you have that many visitors.
31. Start a Running Post, for example an experiment that lasts a week or a month.
This can bound many readers to your blog. Finish each post with a Big Question or a little pre-view on what’s coming next… that will leave them eager to read more and they will come back once you make the next post.
32. Publish your contact information on your Blog and your Picture.
Go public, don’t hide! People love to know who you are and what you do. A picture helps people to remember you… it’s called Branding!
33. Create an interactive Blog
Make sure people can comment on your blog, make sure they can subscribe to your RSS Feed, make sure they can leave trackbacks etc.
34. Write about stuff that is currently a Hot Topic in your niche.
You can use Google Alerts or other news sources to find the Hot Topics in your niche. Then enter the discussion with some controversity.
35. Research keywords and use long-tail keywords in the title and the first sentence of your posts.
Don’t try to rank in google for the term “internet marketing”… rather try to rank for “internet marketing explained for newbies” or some other long-tail keywords. Use Wordtracker to find keywords that have less than 100.000 competitors. Then use the keyword in your title and in the first sentence of your post.
36. Customize your Blog with a unique Header and Footer Image. Don’t use the Standard Layouts.
Here is a simple example… look at the header image of this blog… Will you remember it? Of course you will, at least better than most other headers… it’s unique and you don’t see a header like this anywhere… that’s again Brading!
37. Categorize your Blog correctly, make it easy for your readers to find the content they are looking for.
A good categorized blog looks professional and helps peole to find what they are looking for.
38. Use Credit Based Safelists
I know… some people will laugh about using safelists… but I’ve my tracking in place and I know the numbers… 20 Essential Blog Directories0 work, don’t let anybody tell you different!
39. Answer all questions that your readers send by email or leave as a comment.
Have a question? Post a comment and I’ll be happy to answer it… Don’t you like that?
40. Have your Blog URL on your Business Cards (off-line traffic)
Not really possible for everybody… but make sure you have business cards with your blog url on them when you go to internet marketing events or places where business people hang out.
41. Answer questions at Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is a great place to establish yourself as an expert in your niche. That will have a branding effect.
42. Be Controversial
Be different, be unique, stand out of the crowd!
43. Install a Bookmarking Widget below each post so that your readers can easily bookmark your post.
See mine? If you like this list, go ahead and bookmark it!
44. Create a Link Bait
What’s a link bait you ask? Well, it’s what I’m doing or trying to do right here. I’ve invested about 3 hours into writing this post, I’ve done research, I’ve done the work… People appreciate that and naturally link to posts like this one. That’s called a Link Bait. Your content must be so good that people just want to tell others about it.
I hope you enjoy this list!
Guido Nussbaum
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May 13th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
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May 13th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Good suggestions. I’ll definitely have to consider all of these for my blog. Thanks for a quality post.
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May 18th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
This was a good find for me. Thanks for the tips, just checked some out as I read.
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July 18th, 2008 at 12:27 am
You listed blogrush and entrecard, have you used Adoptic? I’ve found it the most useful.
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July 20th, 2008 at 2:14 am
@Brian
I’ve never heared of Adoptic before but it looks interesting. I’ll test it once I find the time.
Guido
September 6th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Hi Guido, it was a very interesting entry. I liked it allot, some of the terms are not familiar for new bloggers, and they seems little bit technical. anyway this was a very good post, and I’ve learnt allot from this post. keep posting such stuff, lastly thanks allot!!!
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November 20th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Blog catalog and MyBloglog seems similar. Do I have to use both since both also put a widget on my blog?
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November 28th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
There are some very good tips here. I think I have learned a couple of new ideas from this post. Thanks.
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December 6th, 2008 at 5:56 am
hey thanks for all these cool tips
December 15th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
The best way to get traffic is to provide links, trackbacks, and signature links on other websites, then people will continue to back to your site on their own. People using search engines and go your site is mostly luck.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:09 pm
About to launch a new video/ blog site. I did a search on this and you came right up. You are doing something right. Great advice as well… I feel less dumb about this stuff now.
January 24th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Next time you pretend to make a useful list, how about including the prices of all these services you’re pimping. This list is worthless because after I click on the links and start the process, I find out about fees from $40 to $150. Why aren’t these in your article? Maybe because the truth would turn people off? God forbid you should make a list that people can actually use to decide what services they want…
February 22nd, 2009 at 10:19 am
Great list you have, did few of them actually, will try another…
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February 23rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@TerseBirth - All of these services are free, so not quite sure what you are saying. The only services that might charge are directory submissions, but there are plenty of free ones out there!
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March 3rd, 2009 at 8:11 pm
The most powerful way is to write good articles and let the search engines do the rest. It takes time but works.
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Guido,
Wonderful information. One of the first things I am going to do is take the advertisements off my blog! You are exactly right!
Thank you for the time and effort put into this post.
Regards,
James Norman
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Great traffic tips, printing them out
Thanks!
March 3rd, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Wow, Tersebirth needs to look into the resources before he starts opening his mouth..LOL!!
Guido, thank you for the time you spend to give us all some good insight into driving traffic, I apprciate it, as do 99.9% of us on these comments!!!…:)
March 4th, 2009 at 12:14 am
There’s no questions that these tips are valuable but these tips have been mentioned about a million times before.
The problem is only a handful of people are actually doing it on regular basis and those people who are successful in getting constant traffic to their sites which then turns into leads and hopefully sales.
The real secret to building list and productive downline and getting referrals is doing all the work period.
Regards.
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March 4th, 2009 at 2:07 am
Well, BlogRush is gone now. Nevertheless, people are using Twitter now to get traffic. Thank you for the list!
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March 4th, 2009 at 2:27 am
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March 4th, 2009 at 6:53 am
The First Thing has to be… put in a good spam catcher. There is nothing worse than seeing a load of spam comments - it just shows that the author doesn’t really care.
Second, syndicate your blog with a group of like minded professionals - that is people who will vote for your posts in places like Digg and Social Median, or save your posts to their bookmarks at Delicious, for example.
Get Google Friend Connect - the majority of members that you see on my blog’s Friend Connect are people with whom I’ve syndicated. Contact me if you want to to know more.
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March 4th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Hey Guido
I’ve really enjoyed your post here, it’s a helpful reminder to use multiple methods of driving traffic and not just a few .. As I’m sure you and your readers realise it’s so easy to get drawn into only a few methods of driving traffic and literally forget about a whole bunch of others! This has served as a really useful set of ‘bullets’ and a welcomed reminder for me …
So, cheers Guido
see you round!
Ian
March 4th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
Great post with some really good ideas that I will try on my blog.
Thanks for putting the time in to post this
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March 5th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Great tips, thanks! Trying to announce the launch of my new site, so these will come in very handy. Thanks again!
March 9th, 2009 at 12:56 am
Hi Guido,
some great tips there - only one problem I saw, and that’s that Blogrush is now shut down, unfortunately.
Rob
March 29th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
April 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
thanks !! very helpful post!
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June 17th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Thank you this was very helpful!!.
July 4th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Thanks for this post! Some of these tips are ones that I never think off. Great and quality post!
July 24th, 2009 at 2:09 am
Another thing that seems to be all the rage today on social networks are lists. People love something they can briefly glance over and feel that they have learned or taken something away.
August 13th, 2009 at 6:31 am
Thank you so much for putting this together. There is a lot of information that I will be using in the future. Driving traffic to one’s website is one of the biggest problems, no doubt with these ideas web traffic won’t be a problem for long.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 12:43 pm
This is really helpful. Thanks for taking the time to write. I’m keen to drive more traffic to my own blog, Creative Boom - just two months old - which aims to help people in the creative industries. The more people I can reach the better. Can I add that things like competition giveaways and encouraging participation in your blog can also bring more visitors. It’s something I’ve found very effective and has meant I’ve now got lots of loyal followers.
October 7th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
Great info. I’ve employed some of the methods, such as Twitter, ezinarticles and HubPages to drive traffic to my blog. I have to say, I notice small spurts of traffic after tweeting about my blog, bu I find HubPages the most promising of all of the methods. Firstly, you can post articles there within which you can insert backlinks, but, secondly, you can also earn Adsense (or other affiliate program) cash too from any clicks made on your articles. The best thing hough, is that, if you create a link from an external site to a HubPages article, and someone clicks on that link, you get a percentage of any page impressions and revenue from that referal. And, should that referal sign up for Hubpages, you will then continue to receive a percentage of page impressions and revenue for all of ~their~ posts as a thank you for introducing them. It’s a great program.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:27 am
Thanks for the pointers! I just started my new blog and will take your advice!
-Paco
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November 12th, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Great information thank you, and I believe you spent 3 or more hours putting this content together. I know this was posted awhile ago but I’m justing seeing it!!
November 19th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I don’t know why mybloglog can increase the traffic of my blog.I have an account in myblog log,but I don’t know what to do with it.
November 20th, 2009 at 6:55 am
I found your blog on google and read about 9 more of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the jaw-dropping work Look forward to reading more from you in the future. Yours respectfully
November 30th, 2009 at 8:20 am
these tips r helpful but see my blog it is generating traffic rapidly…
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December 9th, 2009 at 5:22 am
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December 12th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
These are some excellent tips. Some are ones I knew and some I didn’t.
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January 18th, 2010 at 1:35 am
Brilliant. I had loaded my blog up with ads, but what’s the point unless there’s visitors. Content, content, content first….
January 25th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
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