Here are some really awesome ways to help you attract or promote traffic to your blog or website. Hope you find them useful. Your feedback will be appreciated.
1. Write Well and Often
Furthermore, post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog's content to be noticed by search engines as Google or Bing.
2. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines
You must know that simply submitting your blog URL to search engines won't pop up your blog's name on top of the search list, but at least your blog will be eyed and will have the chance of being picked up by a search engine.
You can submit your URL to some search engines as below
3. Use and Update Your Blogroll
By adding links to sites you like in your blogroll, the owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be likely to add a reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the link to your blog in front of many readers on other blogs. The hope is that some of those readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
4. Affiliate Traffic.
Affiliate traffic is when you pay a third party a referral fee for getting targeted traffic to your site. Affiliates use their own online marketing techniques, methods and internet real estate to advertise your blog or product and send the traffic to your site. But you must not do this until you are more established as affiliates want to know expected conversions in return for their investment.
5. Paid Banner Advertising
Banners are perhaps the oldest form of advertising on the internet and perhaps the most effective. They act much like billboards in real life. You place a banner in an area of high traffic and when some someone shows interest in what you are offering then they click through and are taken immediately to your site or landing page.The publishers money demand increases with the increase in the traffic.
6. Email Newsletters
When you have gone through all the hard work of attracting people to your site then you want to be in a position to take that relationship to the next level. For some that may be buying your product or service or joining your membership program, but whatever it is you want to get people to subscribe to your email list.
People who have subscribed to your email list have shown an interest in what you do and what you talk about. They have expressed a desire to learn more about you and these are the most valuable type of blog readers.
When you publish a new blog you can send your subscribers an email to let them know you have new content for them to consume. If you make the email compelling enough then you will automatically have a flood of traffic to your blog.
7. Harness the Power of Comments
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation. This will increase reader loyality.
Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Make sure you leave your blog's URL in your comment, so you create a link back to your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a blog post. If they read a particularly interesting comment, they are highly likely to click on the link to visit the commentors website. It's important to make sure you leave meaningful comments that are likely to invite people to click on your link to read more.
8. Use Links and Trackbacks
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you've linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People do click on trackback links.
9. Tag Your Posts
It may take some extra time to add tags to your blog but its worth it as it brings loads of traffic to your blog or website. Tags can be easily noticed by search engines. They're also key to helping readers find your blog when they perform searches for the stuff they desire.
10. Never Give Up
Most people lose because they give up very soon. It takes a lot of effort to succeed in your goal. To have a BIG blog you must write big and to write BIG you must give a lot of effort and write quality stuff. You may attract traffic through different techniques but you won't be able to let them stay on your page until you have soon really cool and quality stuff. So keep trying.
