How to Get Traffic for Your Blog
Written by Alex Atti on Wednesday, September 24, 2008
After choosing a suitable niche and setting up a blog, it is now time to let the world see your work. Unfortunately, many people think that all they are supposed to do in order to get traffic is to write posts. Even though you need to provide interesting content for your readers to come back, this is not all it takes. I will now give you a few guidelines that should be followed when starting to build traffic for your blog.
1. Write well and constantly.
You will never manage to build high constant traffic for your site if your posts are poorly written or if you only post two articles a month. Let's try a little experiment to prove my point! Imagine you are surfing the internet and run into a link to a blog that seems interesting. You follow that link and it takes you to a blog in which seems to be the home of spelling and grammar mistakes. Most of the posts are very short and have no point, and in the longer ones the ideas have no beginning and no ending. It's a complete mess! Are you ever going to come back here? Probably not. But let's assume you are willing to give that blogger another chance: you come back the next day to check for updates. Hmm... no updates. You come back after a week, but the sight is the same: no new posts. What are you going to do now?
Now imagine that blog is yours. You definitely don't want your readers to visit your blog and find a complete mess, do you? Make sure that each of the articles you write have a good descriptive title and a main point. I also strongly advise you to check for grammar mistakes twice before you hit the publish button. A good idea would be to use a browser that has a spell checker included. I use Firefox, for instance.
2. Socialize.
The best way to be spotted when you start blogging is to socialize. If you are not yet part of an online community (like a forum, for instance), make sure you become one soon. Start posting answers in forum threads that relate to the subject of your blog. How is this going to bring you visitors? Well, most forums allow you to have a signature that will appear under each of your forum posts. You will use this feature to advertise for you blog. Write a few words about your site and kindly ask people to check it out. But while you are using this method, make sure your posts don't resemble spam (you could even get banned if your answers are not related to the topic).
Another way to get your blog a some more traffic is to post interesting comments on blogs that somehow relate to your niche. When filling in the "Post a comment" form, most blogs will allow you to enter your site address. If the other visitors of that blog find your comment interesting or are just curious to find out who you are, they will give you a click. Again, make sure you don't spam, otherwise your comment will be deleted and you'll achieve nothing.
Some other great places that can bring you visitors are the so called "social crowds": Digg.com, Stumbleupon.com, Reddit.com and others. These are places where you can submit your blog articles and people get to see them. If your posts are interesting and well written, there are chances you'll get some votes. Unfortunately, it's very hard to get enough votes so that you can reach the front page. If you manage to get to the front page on any of these popular web sites, a huge amount of traffic is likely to come. Your way to success would be officially open!
Well, folks, this is all for now. Stay tuned for the next part of the article and please feel free to share with us any method of driving traffic, that worked for you!
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