How to get more Traffic for your Blog
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Traffic is what makes visitors come to your blog. Traffic is what makes people like John Chow rich. Isn’t that true? So today’s post deals with how you can get more traffic to your blog.
Ways to increase Traffic
- Use Entrecard - Entrecard was the first source of traffic for this blog. In the first month, Entrecard contributed the majority of traffic to my blog. Keep dropping your cards on other blogs and you’ll get plenty of traffic. Here are my stats for the first month of my blogging. You can see that most of the traffic came through Entrecard.
- Comment on other Blogs - Comment on other blogs in your niche to receive more traffic. My real traffic came one month after starting the blog from comments. Target blogs that have dofollow comments. You can search for a list of blogs that have dofollow comments using DoFollow Diver Here is how comments increased my blog traffic.
- Participate in forums and message boards - Forums like Blog Premiere and Bloggeries are good places to do some promoting about your blog. Participation in discussions at BlogCatalog is also a great way to get more traffic.
- Use the power of Social Bookmarking - Hitting the front page sites like Digg and StumbleUpon can generate massive amounts of traffic to your blog. However, the main disadvantage of these sites is that the traffic is generally not targeted and visitors will stay on your blog only for a few seconds. Carl has written an excellent (and humorous) post on how to game the Digg system. You can also read Tom’s post about StumbleUpon traffic. Bryan has written a post about social bookmarking.
- Create a fantastic linkbait - Do you remember that John Chow asked everyone to review his blog in exchange for a link in his blogroll? That was a very clever idea. Suddenly hundreds of blogs started writing about John Chow. The root of all evil, John Chow received a lot of traffic from this. Just like that, think of some ideas, start a contest. Go use your imagination.
Those are some of the ways for driving more traffic to your blog. What do you do to get more traffic?
Another great post.:D I read a post at standoutblogger and he talked about how to increase traffic(focused on comments)I do comment and join in forums and sometime use stumbleupon but i have not started to use Entrecard as I am not sure how to install the widget :`(. Maybe you can teach me:).Again, a great post.
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nice tips you got there! commenting and forum participation are my favourites. Thanks for mentioning my post!
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Thanks for the tips.
I’d add guest blogging and article marketing. Talking about leveraging what you know and already have…
Cheers…
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Social bookmarking sometimes is hard though. Thanks for the tips!
Entrecard drives traffic, but it’s non targeted so it’s basically pointless. My Entrecard Credit generator gets me a lot of hits but most of those hits are useless.
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Entrecard traffic is not useful as majority droppers visit our blog just to drop cards …
Commenting on other blogs is the BEST way to get good EXPOSURE.
SB sites traffic is not that useful but still i prefer to have some traffic from Digg and Stumbleupon … its a good source to get high traffic.
i have tested stumble upon already and yes, you are right. great tips!
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I haven’t yet used entrecard, have considered it but just don’t have the time right now. I link your idea of the linkbaiter strategy and will look into this. Thanks for the ideas.
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Great tips, Ganesh. Fresh content and great tips like this post would add a bit to the above. Many blogs publish weekly useful tips like this one, so many visitors will reach the route from there, too.
Never heard about the John Chow incident before!
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thats pretty cool super tips
i really wanna try that dofollow driver 
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great tips…keep them coming more.
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Comment on other Blogs is surefire way to increase traffic on your blog as well as socialize with other like minded people.
i have seen many blogs who have great content but their blog subscriber counts show same number for ages because they never interact with other people and behave like a AI who is programed to certain task.
dont be nerd show your human side meet other blogger in and out your niche share your thoughts and idea with them and soon you will find a positive energy in your self.
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Thanks for the mention. Honored to have made your list.
awesome article! i really do make use of social networking sites and entrecard to drive traffic!
Great tips.But just like Digg, Entrecard also has a high bounce rate.
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Great tips.But just like Digg, Entrecard traffic also has a high bounce rate. In my StumbleUpon traffic looks better.I, however, think the best traffic is the one which you get from Search Engines.It is organic and quite natural.Therefore, by writing high quality content and doing some SEO, you will always get to the top in the blogosphere
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Thanks !