How to Generate Blog Traffic

There are millions of blogs on the Internet today and thousands more that are created each day. Blog is short for web log, a kind of online diary that serves to inform its audience. In order for your blog to gain popularity and ultimately earn you money, you must generate traffic to the blog.

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Blogs in your niche
• Forums in your niche
• Social networking website profiles

1. Write regular posts, three to five days a week, if not every day. Make sure that you have an option to subscribe to RSS feeds for your blog so that any readers who come and enjoy the blog can subscribe to the blog. This will help you in terms of recurring readers and traffic.

2. Start a comment campaign. Comment on popular blogs in your niche. Leave comments on popular blogs, and look for what is known as a do-follow blog. Do-follow blogs follow the link you leave in the comment, meaning that the search engine spiders will pick it up and therefore strengthen your ranking. Be sure to leave meaningful comments on the blogs you are reading; if you don't, your comment may not be published. Consider leaving keywords for your blog in the name field of the comment. Some bloggers, however, do not like this because it looks like spam.

3. Conduct some keyword research in your niche. If you want to be found, you need to know what people are searching for. Whatever your niche is, you need to think about things that are commonly searched. Then make sure that your predictions match the searches by using a keyword tool that will let you input a phrase and then show you how many searches a day it gets. Then start making your content use these highly searched keywords.

4. Start chatting on multiple social networking sites and forums, or add your blog's URL to your existing profiles. The more places your URL is, the more likely it will be found. Leave your blog URL in your forum signatures. Look into social bookmarking sites too. These websites will allow you to chat with other people and request that they visit and provide you with feedback, given you'll do the same for them. This is a great way to build traffic and a support group of fellow bloggers.

5. Look for other blogs in your niche, and contact the owners of the blog to see if they would be interested in doing a link exchange. Any time you comment on a blog that you like and would promote, send the blogger a separate note via email asking if he or she would like to do a link exchange. This means that if he or she puts a link to your blog on his or her website, you will put a link to his or hers on yours. You have a better chance of getting traffic from this method if the blogs are about the same or related topics.

6. Submit your blog to multiple blog directories. If you want people to find your blog, you're going to need to get it listed. Search engines are not the only places you need to worry about. There are many of websites that list blogs by subject. Get your blog added to the list in the appropriate subject.

Tips & Warnings

• Reply to the comments left for you by other readers.
• Look for new blogs to add to your blog roll often.
• Remember to continue to write naturally and not to repeat the keyword phrases too much.

Resources

• Learn to Blog!
• Blogorama
• Social Blogger Community and Blog Directory
• Keyword Research Tool

[essie2006]

on 7/26/2009 Thanks for the info

[taskeinc]

on 10/9/2008 Gonna check out the "social bookmarking" sites .. that's one niche I've not tried before.

[PaulMcDaniel]

on 8/5/2008 Thanks for this helpful information!!