6 Tips to get Traffic to your Blog
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I’ve been asked a lot of my readers and followers that how i have gained a decent amount of traffic in just 6 months. It is not so difficult to do so.
And in this post i will give you 6 tips to get traffic to your blog.
1. Twitter as a Blog Marketing Tool:
In my opinion twitter is a really good platform to showcase your blog posts, mainly because of it’s popularity and also because many other fellow bloggers and potential readers are using it on a large scale to share links and information.
This doesn’t mean that you just keep on tweeting about your blog posts because that is considered as spamming.
Twitter is about sharing good stuff, so make sure you tweet about of other good articles and posts. This not only makes you a good tweep (Acronym for a person using Twitter), but also helps in gaining a good reputation among your followers and thus helps you get more retweets.
2. Entrecard
I think Entrecard is a boon for new and upcoming bloggers.
The core idea behind Entrecard is that, the more active you are, the more traffic you can get to your website. It is not dependent on how old your blog is but how actively you drop on other websites. I must say that it helps in boosting your traffic if you become a really active member.
3. Social Bookmarking sites:
I think social bookmarking websites other than twitter, like Digg, Stumbleupon, Delicious and Blogengage work on a similar principle. You don’t have to spam by voting only your website, but you have to vote articles that are good and worth a read by your friends.
It is also important to befriend new people and make a good relationship with them which helps in promotion of your blog content.
4. Power Commenting:
Yes, Commenting can get you decent amount of traffic.
By commenting, I don’t mean words like “great post”, “Thanks”, “Good Job”. One liners are never considered good comments. Comments should be such that you engage with the author and talk about the post or you add some additional information related to the post. If you write valuable comments, you will get quality traffic and it is most likely to increase your blog subscribers.
If you comment on Dofollow Blogs you will also get a linkback to your website.
5. Submitting Articles:
Submission of articles at popular article sites like Ezine and Squidoo, is an old way to get traffic but it still works. These websites are quite popular and easily get a higher rank at search engines. They can prove to be good traffic sources to your blog, if you submit good quality and resourceful articles to these sites.
6. Guest Posts:
Guest Posting is a really good technique to gain a decent readership and traffic for your blog. When you become a guest poster at a popular blog, you get a link back to your website and you also get exposure to new traffic. If you write something useful, then a lot of readers from the site will be directed towards your website.
If one follows these tips on a regular basis, one can easily reach the top in no time.
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September 30, 2009 - 6:02 am
One thing I don't like about eZine or any article submission site is that we have to submit a unique article
I always think that it's better to submit a unique article on my own blog rather than on other sites
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September 30, 2009 - 11:05 am
I think you need to submit resourceful articles, the ones that are complete in some sense. But you are right you can always use it on your blog. But for new blogs you have to do something to get traffic to your blog right?
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September 30, 2009 - 9:12 pm
Quite helpful. Landed first time on your blog. wanna exchange links.
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September 30, 2009 - 10:57 pm
The better way to bring traffic on your site/blog by registering it on Blogosphere such as Technorati, BlogCatalog, etc. because search engine easily find them and quite easy for everyone.
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September 30, 2009 - 11:08 pm
Yes a good tip, Technorati and Blogcatalog can help in search engine rankings and you can easily get organic traffic from it. I think though if you are new blog it will be take time to get traffic from these websites but yes these are good techniques to receive traffic.
October 1, 2009 - 2:11 pm
I've seen and thought about using Entrecard but I just don't, I guess I should try it and see the results I get.
I do see great traffic from blogengage, it's a great community. I want to guest post more, I'll be doing my best to be more active this october. Very powerful and useful tips gautam.
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October 1, 2009 - 8:40 pm
You should try it helped me a lot when i started blogging and it proved to be the best source of traffic then, now i have gained search engine ranks so i get traffic from google as well
October 2, 2009 - 1:20 am
Hi Gautam. Very informative post, especially for the new bloggers. I followed all of these techniques in the beginning of my journey and I say without a doubt that they all work, and that includes Entrecard. I carry it but I am no longer active. I've grown hatred on dropping like crazy and no one dropping on mine:)
BTW, don't forget to include a link to your post about BlogEngage, it is a very promising and strong community. Also, for traffic, exposure and making money at the same time, you can always check my latest post, lol. Its down there on CLuv
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October 2, 2009 - 2:22 am
I too don't drop that often now but i think it is a great way to start with entrecard, you get to meet a lot of new bloggers from the community. I have added a blogengae vote button at top if that is what you mean.
I am checking out your posts. Great insight you have in each post. I get a lot of new things from you.
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October 2, 2009 - 6:38 pm
I guess you are right. You have to start from somewhere
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October 2, 2009 - 8:30 pm
Wow, so many to keep up with. I just find it so time consuming to do all this that I end up with a sore neck and no new content of my own. What 3 would you recomment the most. I do digg and twitter and facebook effortlessly but blogcatalog has so many catagories. I am on them too but hours go by when I enter their site.
I feel I put my heart and soul into this and not many are listening.
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October 2, 2009 - 9:47 pm
In my opinion twitter and Digg are good, use twitter, social media sites, and commenting are the ones i would recommend. I thing posting regularly always helps. Social media helps you get the required attention to your posts.
October 2, 2009 - 10:25 pm
Thanks for the compliment. With regards to blogengage, no, that is not what I meant. I mean you are giving tips here to boost traffic right. I think you should include a link to your post about blogengage too, just like you did on Entrecard above.
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October 3, 2009 - 9:05 am
You said social networking is a boon .But how to use them like face book .We should constantly send friend request to everybody?.Or send scraps that visit our blog or something like that.Why they will visit our account.PLZ suggest.How to expand in social. =-X
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October 3, 2009 - 10:39 am
I think the mantra social marketing is t share good info and i think twitter can help you get a lot of friends on facebook if you have a good rapport among your followers. P.s you should always leave a message in each friend request(it increases the chance of being added as friend) .
Also you should a facebook fan page for your blog and add a box to your website
October 3, 2009 - 11:42 pm
Thanks for suggesting, i will do that right ahead. I think it will help in search engine optimization
October 17, 2009 - 6:37 am
Thanks for sharing! There are quite few blog posts about the same topic out there, but the way you write gives it a fresh tone and sounds inspiring! Also, I have not heard of Entrecard yet, so thank you for your tip!
BTW, how much traffic DO you get after six months?
Thanks again for sharing!
Maria
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October 17, 2009 - 10:39 pm
I have got good traffic in six months and after six months it is just rising. Try entercard, it is a good site for the early traffic
October 27, 2009 - 2:46 pm
There are two points come when drive traffic to blog. One is direct traffic by social networking site and other is by search engine building lots of backlink. So I think for getting better targeted traffic we should focus on search engine rather than other traffic source.
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October 27, 2009 - 6:42 pm
Yes search engine traffic is the one to look out for, but when the blog is new it is harder to get on search results and one needs to wait for some time for that, so at the start social marketing is the way to go
October 27, 2009 - 7:32 pm
Yes gautam. when I was new on blogging I did not get traffic from search engine,that time I was busy on SU for drive traffic. I use many tips for get traffic from SU. But SU traffic is not valuable for us.
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October 29, 2009 - 6:24 pm
Su traffic has a huge bounce rate but is a good way to find new readers for your blog
October 30, 2009 - 7:08 am
Interesting concept this Entercard thing. I might try it just to see how it works.
My personal opinion is that writing good quality guest posts and tweeter are the two main things you can start with. Especially if you save a great article and write it on someone else's blog instead of yours, people (and the author of the blog where you posted) will value that … or at least they should. I don't know, the Internet is a big place, might be some weird people out there
Nice post anyway!
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October 30, 2009 - 11:04 am
Well read your post, nice written…….you could have also added yahoo answers and video sharing sites such as youtube as these also help in generating nice and decent traffic.
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October 30, 2009 - 6:40 pm
Yes youtube videos and yahoo answers are good options, though not everyone can tap on it, but yes a good option for some video creators
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November 6, 2009 - 2:24 am
i am trying from almost a year but not got a good traffic.
November 7, 2009 - 7:32 pm
Yes but we can get those visitor as regular visitor if we nicely design our blog. Because for getting lots of traffic from SU, design is very much important.
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November 14, 2009 - 3:21 am
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November 14, 2009 - 11:24 am
Yes you are right, it has been a great traffic source for my blog too!
December 22, 2009 - 3:26 pm
Other social media websites like facebook also helps in getting some traffic.
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December 22, 2009 - 3:59 pm
Yes, facebook is a traffic driver, it takes time and patience to get a good fan following on facebook. Though if you post a really viral image and video, it spreads like wild fire
December 22, 2009 - 7:22 pm
Gautam,
I haven’t heard from you in a while.
I just saw this post through your Facebook post. These are some great tips, I think I will try some of these out. As for blog engage, I find I get most of my traffic from them. But the bounce rate was not so good. But I started commented on the member blogs my rate got better.
I also get a fair amount of traffic from twitter when I post blog updates.
Entrecard, I have heard, that the bounce rate is bad and it isn’t “real traffic”. Not even sure how the site works. Was / is your bounce rate effected?
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December 23, 2009 - 10:31 pm
I think blog engage has a very good response, if you are post relevant to blogging or something of use to bloggers.
Entrecard is starting step to get your site noticed. It helps increase rankings and helps you get more comments, even if you have a new blog.
Now twitter can serve the purpose of entrecard if you have a good reputation.
January 6, 2010 - 2:42 am
The only method should not be in your list is EntreCard.. It doesn’t provide you the traffic you want.. even if you spread hard your blog to others blogs by using lot of ec-credits.. outcome will be close to zero.
January 31, 2010 - 12:34 pm
I would like to disagree, Entrecard was a really good source of traffic. The first comment and traffic on my blog was all because of Entrecard. Though now Entrecard has been acquired by the new company which has not done a good job in reviving entrecard.
February 1, 2010 - 2:53 am
ahan ok.. I have same experience with it but its dying.
January 16, 2010 - 2:21 pm
Agree I use many of these methods to get more traffic to my blog.
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February 1, 2010 - 10:20 pm
I agree with all the methods except entrecard.I am a member of entrecard but because of unsatisfactory I remove the entrecard widget
March 7, 2010 - 10:35 pm
Yes, entrecard was a great service, but it has lost the popularity after it was taken over by a company
February 3, 2010 - 5:27 pm
Thanks for sharing the Entrecard bit. I hope it helps.
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February 9, 2010 - 9:39 am
The better way to bring traffic on your site/blog by registering it on Blogosphere such as Technorati, BlogCatalog, etc. because search engine easily find them and quite easy for everyone.
February 11, 2010 - 3:23 am
I just starting looking into guest post for my sites. Have you used guest poster on this site?
Are you interesting in doing guest post yourself?
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February 11, 2010 - 6:19 pm
I think you have some great ideas here. Maybe the best idea, though, is something you didn’t mention, and that’s too provide great content. If what you are writing is innovative, fresh, and is written in a quality way, it’s a huge step toward gaining a following.
February 19, 2010 - 7:13 am
Just stumbled across this post about sending traffic to my blog. One thing I was never doing was commenting on other blogs. I guess since you inspired me, I will start with this post.
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February 28, 2010 - 1:15 pm
In my view social n/w website is best one to drive more traffic than social bookmarking websites…
More people engaged in social n/w site than social bookmarking websites..
you can also drive traffic from weekends from social n/w sites