30 Traffic Generation Tips
First of all a big “thank you” for every one who
participated. As I said before the number
of entries surprised me (and the quality as
well, I will definitely apply some of
those tips myself).
Now, without further delay,
the 30 Traffic Generation Tips:
1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them.
A good way to keep the conversation going is to install
a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people
visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney
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.
3. Scott Townsend
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. (check the List of Ping Services)
4. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field
of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to
wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp.
Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version
with your own lessons learned and relevant tips.
When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the
simplified post will appear before the more complex version
in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased
traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the
subject will land on your blog.
5. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things
political
from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous,
sarcastic one-liners.
6. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views:
install a
translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this,
but if
I am not wrong there are some free ones as well.
The translation is not very good, as you can imagine,
but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent
in English.
7. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals
(http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to
your niche. Your article almost always gets posted,
and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
8. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when
I post a review to a newsgroup.
9. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only
will it be more attractive to your regular readers,
but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase
sites that feature great designs. This will give you
exposure on those sites while generating a lot of
traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
10. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs.
Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just
post about a story and leave it at that, engage
your audience, ask questions and call to action.
11. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make
good friends on forums.
12. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic.
I post comments on other blogs that are related
to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at
the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it
will certainly attract readers.
13. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely
get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many
communities as possible that are related to your topic.
14. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including
your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards,
letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage
if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
15. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your
blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social
bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).
16. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them,
it takes just a couple of seconds to leave a message
agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site,
and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.
17. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like
pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of
the ping services. Engage your readers.
Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes,
free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell
their friends about you.
18. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one
when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that
makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has.
Building a community around your blog will bring you
increased traffic, but how do you start?
The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO,
social networking sites, and commenting on blogs”
but it can be simplified to “be part of a community”.
The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already
existing community. But the only way to do that is to
be part of the community yourself.
19. Chris
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.
20. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting
them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written
from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by
EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that
search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those
articles so the reader can visit my relevant website
has always increased my site traffic.
21. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped
up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com
and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into
the concept behind and design for your blog,
I’d recommend submitting your site to a design
portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community
around your site.
22. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like”
community sites that focus on my target audience.
I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to
my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even
created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very,
very successful for me.
23. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social
bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots
of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles
to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers),
and I always get not a bad traffic from there.
24. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers
where you can demonstrate your expertise,
get associated with relevant keywords and put
your URL out there.
25. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten
Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in
any general search for blogs in your niche and
other bloggers in your niche write about the post
and link to it.
26. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal
readers. Either link baiting people in your signature
or posting great advice and tips will give you high
quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
27. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is
participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s
what I’m doing right now.
28. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup
of all interviews I did over the past seven months.
One of them generated a new link and a big traffic
spike from a group of users that look like they will
be loyal readers now.
29. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good
to write something controversial just for the purpose
of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for
that purpose and you’re being disingenuous),
but it works.
30. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors.
Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog.
This might help them to discover your blog, read it
and possibly link to it.
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