The best way of driving traffic to blogs

Image by ocean.flynn via FlickrToday one of my reader emailed me asking the best way to drive traffic for blog.His exact email was like this-

"Blogs like any other website get traffic from either search engines or referring sites (Other blogs + Forums) or social bookmarking sites like Stumble upon. What do you think is the best way to drive traffic to blogs? On which means a blogger should particularly focus upon?"

After reading this mail i was a bit befuddled as all three methods has its own importance and to choose one of them as best is certainly going to be a tough ask. Earlier I thought to reply him saying all these method are important and you should focus on all the three.But then I thought to answer him through one of the post with comprehensive details of each of these three methods of driving traffic to blog.


Driving traffic through search engines-

Driving traffic through search engines is free if you optimize your blog yourself.All you need is basic concept of organic search engine optimization.Even if you don't know ABCD of optimization you can learn it on the net. I am a health care professional and learnt a fair bit of optimization on the net.My point is if I can learn it probably anybody on this earth can learn it.

Secondly, traffic from search engines is laser targeted if you have researched your keywords and used it smartly.Through google analytics I have found that people coming to my blog through search engines spend a fair bit of time on my blog.

The only con I see in search engines is it takes some time to rank high in SERPs.You have to optimize each and every page and build links which certainly is not a one day process.Most of the times it takes several months to rank high in search engines if you are not applying some black hat SEO.(which I think you would not be applying)


Driving traffic through referring sites-

Number of visitors coming from other blogs and forums constitutes the second best source of traffic after search engines for this blog. This traffic is also targeted and most of the times they do return and comment.But to get traffic from this means you have to endlessly comment on other blogs and forums which is certainly not suited for a part time blogger like me.But if you have got some time this can be the single best source of traffic for you.Ten comments a day will be suffice.

Driving traffic through social bookmarking and media sites-

Today this mode of traffic generation is being talked highly.But frankly speaking I am quite disappointed with the quantity and quality of traffic I am getting from these sites.Stumble upon gives some visitors to my blog.But most of the times they spent only a few seconds on my blog.The average time a visitor from stumble upon has spent is 11 secs. which is certainly not assuring.

In my opinion traffic from social sites are absolute garbage.They are like swarm of bees that come to you and never visit again without watching what you have to offer.The only use of such traffic ,as I see, is in beautifying your traffic stats.

Although I am not only one who will tell against social media but still there are some folks who get some quality traffic from this media but they are very few.

Some additional points-

The biggest challenge that you get while driving traffic is when you have just started your blog, as a new blog has neither a high search engine rankings nor it gets purchase from social media.In this case comments on other blogs are the only source of traffic.I know that will not be the huge amount of traffic but every traffic you get will keep you motivated.Just add some useful comments on every blog that comes your way when you are new.

Once you start getting some traffic from search engines you can relax a bit and keep your comment rate down.

All these three methods work in conjunction but to choose the best one from these is certainly difficult.The best practice would be to monitor your analytics and see what works best for you.For me and most others search engines work best if you optimize the pages cleverly.







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