How To Get Traffic To Your Blog

Without a doubt, blogs are getting very popular nowadays because of its ease of use. The process of creating a blog is like creating a free email account from Yahoo or Gmail. Most people who know how to create a free Yahoo Mail account know how to create a blog. Just go to http://blogger.com and check it out yourself. It’s a piece of cake!

But unless there are people visiting and reading your posts, your blog has no value. So the next step is how to get traffic to your blog?

Here are some effective ways to get traffic to your blog:

1. Write topics people want to read.

Also make sure that you choose a topic that you are interested in. This is very important as it’s very difficult to write or provide good information on something that you don’t have an interest in. If you don’t have the knowledge on a topic that you’re interested in then you need to study or do some research on it until you have developed the knowledge and passion on the subject.

Always remember that people get on the Net to look for good information, they don’t know you and they don’t care about you initially. So it’s your job to provide a good information and develop relationships with your readers.

2. Optimize your post for the search engines.

Before you write your post, think of the keyword you want to target. Just target ONE keyword (or at most two) for every post. And try to target the keyword that consists of at least 3 words. For example, instead of targeting the keyword “aromatherapy”, try to target keyword “hot tub aromatherapy”. The reason being the latter keyword has much less competition and is easier to rank high on the search engines. You can use Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find keywords that have 3 words or more. Just enter the seed word “aromatherapy” and Google will throw out the variations for you. Once you have chosen your keyword, make sure the keyword appears in the title of your post and sprinkle around in the body text.

3. Ping the blog services.

Everytime you have written a post, ping to the following 3 blog services. These services track and connect many blogs on the Internet, pinging them will make your blog easily found by people.

- http://pingoat.com
- http://feedshark.brainbliss.com
- http://pingomatic.com

NOTE: to ping these services, just go to the URL and then enter your blog name, blog URL and blog feed.

4. Exchange link with other bloggers.

Look for blogs that have similar theme with yours, and then email them requesting for a link exchange. You need to spend some time doing this but it is proven way to drive more traffic to your blog. Another way to get a link back to your blog is by posting informative comments in other people blogs and put your blog URL there.

5. Bookmarking Sites.

Bookmark your post in some high-traffic bookmarking sites such as Digg, Netscape, StumbleUpon, etc. can also help to drive some traffic to your blog.

TIPS: Go to OnlyWire and register an account. This bookmarking site allows you to bookmark your post to more than 20 bookmarking sites with a single click. Try it.

6. Edit your post and submit to article directories.

I always like to edit some of my posts and then submit them to the following article directories:

- http://ezinearticles.com
- http://goarticles.com
- http://articledashboard.com
- http://ideamarketers.com

This is a very powerful method to drive large amount of traffic to your blog. Many of my articles appear on the first page of Google. Of course make sure you include your blog URL in your atuthor bio or resource box. All article directory sites require you to create your author bio or resource box.

Ok, just follow and do all the above steps consistently. They are proven to be able to get traffic to your blog.

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