How to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Drive traffic to your blog by making it the best of its type.

The best way to drive traffic to your blog is to write excellent articles on a topic that you care about, and to write them at a consistent intervals. In addition, there are a number of ways to help potential readers find you. The key is to remember that maintaining high quality in all dealings will win out in the long run, and help you build a solid readership that keeps coming back for more.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

• Blog
• Quality Writing
• Consistency

1. Write daily or at least consistently. Readers want new material to read and if you take frequent breaks, that is a fast way to lose a reader's interest. On the other hand, too much content can also drive away readers. You don't want reading your blog to become a chore. Shorter, less frequent articles that are better polished and more packed with information are better than long, rambling daily epics.

2. Visit other blogs that are similar to yours and make comments. Not only will you get to know those bloggers, but chances are their readers will decide to visit your blog as well. Your comments must be meaningful and useful. Obviously self-serving comments such as "Nice blog you got here. Visit my blog at ..." followed by your URL will be ignored. Worse, they could earn you a reputation as an annoying spammer among your target readership.

3. Join Entrecard. It's a tool for finding other people's blogs and advertising your own blog.

4. Publicize your blog. Post your new blog posts on MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. Set your blog posts set to auto-post to Facebook and Twitter with the Networked Blogs Application and Twitterfeed. Add your blog link to your email signature and your signature on any message boards that you frequent.

5. Hold a giveaway. Contact a company that sells a product or service germane to your blog and ask if they would be interested in reaching your readership. Post a call for giveaway sponsors on your blog and your social media presences. Contact book authors and companies trying to build recognition for their brand. Don't be afraid to contact big companies, too: some have sponsorship programs already set up for donating products for giveaways.

Tips & Warnings

• Do not join Twitter just to set up your blog post to auto-post - no one will follow you.

References

• Just Creative Designs: How To Get Sponsors For Giveaways & Competitions
• Entrecard
• Twitter Feed