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Driving Traffic To Your Blog

3. Drive targeted Traffic by leaving comments on high traffic blogs in your niche: In this case, don’t fall into the trap many people fall into by just leaving comments like "Wonderful write-up", "superb advice. Thank you". The reason is people will hardly visit your website or blog if they feel you do not have much to offer. Instead, make your comments contributory.

Leave well thought out replies that will force readers to wonder "who wrote this?" For instance, if you see a blog where the user pasted high quality information but missed some other things, you could include it in your post. You could also boost your search engine ranking if you just leave your comments on about 100 high traffic blogs with PR 5+". That will surely get people to notice what you have to say. Since you included your link either as the heading or at the end of the post, it will make it easier for people to visit your website via clicking through the link you provided.

4. Submit your blog to as many high profile blog directories as possible. This may take a while so be ready to put in at least one hour a day to do this. In the short term, it might look hectic, but pays off in the long term. If your blog is highly ranked on high traffic blog directories, you’ll get traffic from the directories and an increased search engine ranking for your websites because of the high quality one-way links coming from your blogs. You can use Blog Directories like www.mybloglog.com and www.blogcatalog.com.

5. Link Exchange: Add a relevant link directory to your blog and trade links with other Bloggers! Although it may take more time than simply submitting to a search engine one time, this method is perhaps the best way to drive traffic to your site. Use software such as Zeus to speed up the link trading process. In order to get your pages indexed, you simply need links. The more links pointing to your website, the faster you will get indexed, period. Go to LinkMetro.com and either sign up for a free account and manually exchange links with over 20,000 other websites listed in very tightly themed categories OR upgrade to an Advanced membership where you can get links
even quicker and easier.

6. Use the Yahoo! answer and LinkedIn Answers portal to generate traffic to your website. This is easy in that every conceivable question you could think of has been asked somewhere and answers have been provided to it. So, go to answers.yahoo.com and look for possible questions that could be answered by you, your website or your blog. The key to this simple strategy is providing informational posts. DON’T SPAM. Don’t just post comments like "The answer to your question can be found at www.yourblogaddress.com". This comes across as advertising. Instead offer one or two tips and then go ahead to include the link to your website at the end of the post or include in your profile.

Avoid making it look like an obvious ploy to get them to visit your blog or website. Let’s assume someone asks a question on Ways to Make Money Blogging, you could go ahead and answer the question and leave the link at the end of your post. This will result in targeted website traffic because of the fact that you are providing specific answers to problems.

7. Post your links in forums. Don’t post blatantly on the forums as in "visit www.yoursiteadd.com for more info". Instead offer useful advice and then, leave your link in your signature. And it work like magic. If you don’t have any question to answer, ask one in various categories and in various question forms. Spend about an hour doing this daily. You’ll get results. People have been known to drive about 100 visitors to their websites or blogs using this tactic alone.

8. Blog and Yahoo Ping Technique. Use the blog and ping technique to get your Blog pages crawled in a few hours! The “blog and ping” technique involves the Yahoo search engine spider, Here's how you can alert the Yahoo spider to come visit your blog.

Follow This Simple Steps
Create a My Yahoo account : If you already have a yahoo account you can just login and click on My Yahoo Link. You will see a page like this Click on Add Content.

After Clicking on Add Content A box will open then Click on Add RSS Feed like you can see above, after clicking it you sill see a Box like the one below where you can easily add your RSS Feed URL

Type Your RSS Feed and Click Add and wait for it to process.
You will see a notification letting you know that you have successfully added your Feed to Your Page. You will start seeing Your Feeds immediately on Your My Yahoo Page.

Now that you can bring the Yahoo search engine spider to your blog at will, it's time to take this technique a bit further and use your blog as a launching pad for the Yahoo spider to index your website or any pages that you want. All you need to do is to post new entries in your blogs containing links to the pages that you want indexed into your blog. That way, when the Yahoo spider reaches your blog and sees the new post, it will automatically follow the links in that post, and index any page that you want it to index!

9. Social Media Marketing / Social Networking Sites. Social media marketing is a form of Internet marketing used to generate publicity or exposure via an online community. Social media sites allow users to become part of an online network, in which they can blog, share photos and ideas, and chat with friends or colleagues. Many marketers recognize the advantage of these online communities, and now use them to target potential (and existing) customers.

Sites like Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are all forms of social media where you can build followers and friends and connect with both current and potential blog readers. You can advertise your newest blog posts or present readers with news of a contest, all for free. You can get feedback from your readers not publicly posted in the form of a comment, and have fun connecting with your readers outside of the blog so you may find new things to blog about.

Create a professional profile, Page or group on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, and Myspace, or add some viral Videos on Youtube. And take advantage of the potentials they have in driving Traffic to your site.

10. Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense, you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic. You need to be topical and write posts that provides useful information.

11. Use ping sites like ping-o-matic. Ping your site every time you add a new post. Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. You can use Ping services like www.pingomatic.com.

12. Submit your blog to traditional search engines such as AltaVista, and MSN and also Submit your blog to traditional directories such as DMOZ. Directories (particularly DMOZ) increase relevance with Google. DMOZ is very picky, but what do you have to lose by trying?

13. Submit to as many RSS Directories and Search Engines as possible. This is a simple but repetitive process that can be done with software such as RSS SUBMIT.

14. Use track backs. If there is a blog that you refer to or quote and it is highly relevant to your subject, leave a track back. It increases your link popularity and may even score a few interested readers from the linked site.

15. Go offline. Use newspaper ads, public bulletin boards, business cards, even stickers to let as many people as possible know your blog exists.

16. Email Signature. Add a link to your blog in your e-mail signature block. And each time you send an email your Blog address will be included in the Message Signature and that way your recipients can see your Blog link.

17. Use Groups (Usenet). Find a relevant group on Google groups, Yahoo groups, MSN groups or any of the thousands of other FREE group services and find like minded people and talk with them. Make sure you use your blog URL like it is your name.

18. Tag your website. Technorati is the first place that you should be tagging posts. I actually recommend having the tags right on your page, pointing to the Technorati searches that you're targeting. There are other good places to ping - del.icio.us and Flickr being the two most obvious (the only other one is Blogmarks, which is much smaller). Tagging content can also be valuable to help give you a "bump" towards getting traffic from big sites like Reddit, Digg & StumbleUpon.

19. Create link clusters within your blog. A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’get paid to write’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’get paid to write’ as the anchor text) to the ’get paid to write’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.

20. Create Value. Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page. This should be common sense, but many people tend to forget that their readers are real people and that you need to use the principles of online copywriting to make your headlines and copy interesting to your readers. If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will reward you by returning to your blog regularly.

21.Email Marketing : Email Marketing is Still One of the best way to advertise because people will always read their emails. If you have a list you can send them an email informing them about your Blog and how it can help them. You can use Auto responders like www.Getresponse.com , www.Aweber.com or Using a free service like Bloglet to manage your subscriptions is easy and it allows your subscribers to manage all their subscriptions from one interface. http://www.bloglet.com

22. Using Feedburner To Get Repeat Visitors. Feedburner is one of the best tools Available for Bloggers to use. You can build a large Blog readership using services offered by Feedburner. Adding the Feedburner Email Subscription form on your blog will allow your visitors to subscribe to your blog and receive updates automatically whenever you make a new post to your blog even without you notififying them about the Post. Your Readers can read the post direct from their emails.

23. Blog Community Secret. Join Blog Communities like www.mybloglog.com , and www.Blogcatalog.com and add the widget to your site and visit several blogs having the widget so that your profile appears on their blog as a recent visitor with a link to you, you never can tell how much traffic that can bring to you.

24. Getting Viral with Free Reports. Write an Interesting Report that can benefit your Target Niche and give it away for free or sell it for a giveaway price. Include your Bio and some information about your Blog within the report. Include it briefly in the introduction, and fully in the about the Author section. Also you can ask your readers to share the report with their friends and family and send it to their list or include it as a bonus to their products and services. That way you can have a lot of people even your competitors promoting your Blog through the Report.

These are some of the most popular ways to drive traffic to your blog, do not limit your self to tips and lists. Use your imagination and you will come up with thousands of ways to drive traffic to your blog!

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