70 top tips to generate blog traffic


70 tips to generate blog traffic

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Traffic is the key to success of any blog and blogger. It is the measure of success of a blog. One of the greatest advices that I usually give to other bloggers is- "Be involved in building traffic first. Everything else come along with traffic."

No matter what your objectives as a blogger are, you have to think in terms of traffic and visitors. In today's post I will tell you 75 traffic generation techniques that I learned while blogging.Here is the list-

  1. Do a solid keyword research before writing your posts.

  2. Use your primary keyword in title

  3. Use your secondary keywords in subtitles.

  4. Use all your keywords throughout your content.

  5. Build links for each of your posts with your keywords in anchor text.

  6. Build some more links.

  7. Write articles in other people's Ezines.

  8. Write and submit articles in top article directories.

  9. Build a very useful lens at Squidoo.com

  10. Build a useful hub at hubpages.com

  11. Submit your blog in top web directories like Dmoz and Yahoo directory.

  12. Write useful and unique content.

  13. Write some more.

  14. Write list type posts.

  15. Write about Obama.

  16. Tag your posts.

  17. Be first to mention an update or an interesting news.

  18. Even better. Be first and best to write about an update or an interesting news.

  19. Write controversial but well backed posts.

  20. Run contests on your blog.

  21. Request other bloggers to announce your contest.

  22. Be active on StumbleUpon

  23. Submit your own top posts to StumbleUpon

  24. Exchange stumbles with other fellow stumblers

  25. Submit your pages in Digg and Reddit

  26. Start Twittering at Twitter.com

  27. Twitter more.

  28. Answer questions in Yahoo answers with a link back to your related posts.

  29. Answer questions in Help.com with a link back to your related posts.

  30. Answer questions in Wiki.answers.com with a link back to your related posts.

  31. Repeat tip #28, 29 and 30 daily.

  32. Leave some useful and unique comments on other blogs of your niche.

  33. Make your comments attention grabbing stuff.

  34. Make use of trackbacks.

  35. Be a guest-poster in a bigger blog of your niche.

  36. Do some more guest posting.

  37. Network with other fellow bloggers.

  38. Announce your new blogs from your existing related blog.

  39. Exchange posts with like minded fellow bloggers.

  40. Be active in well trafficked forums in your niche.

  41. Leave your link in signature in forums.

  42. Be helpful and ask questions in forum.

  43. Write unique articles in forums.

  44. Give a viral ebook for free with free give away rights.

  45. Place a "tell a friend" script at the bottom of your posts.

  46. Give away free ebooks to some one who uses "tell a friend" script.

  47. Be active in google groups. Ask questions and answer questions.

  48. Be active in Yahoo groups

  49. Be active in MSN groups.

  50. Make some useful microblogs and funnel traffic to your main blog from micro blogs.

  51. Make friends at BlogCatalog.

  52. Join some groups at BlogCatalog and be active there.

  53. Make friends at Mybloglog.

  54. Tell other bloggers about a top post or great post you have written.

  55. Research and make free reports .

  56. Distribute those reports for free and mail it to fellow bloggers.

  57. Upload some interesting photographs in flickr with link back to your blog in description.

  58. Make some interesting videos and upload them on Youtube.

  59. Upload those videos to Google videos and Metacafe as well.

  60. Ask your readers to bookmark your posts (No ask no gain.)

  61. Make wordpress templates.

  62. Make use of press releases to announce your blog or contests or anything else worth aqnnouncing.

  63. Build lists using Aweber.

  64. Giveaway free ebooks to those who subscribes to your newsletter.

  65. Interview fellow top bloggers in your niche.

  66. Create viral softwares and tool.

  67. Take part in webinars.

  68. Write post about what you learned in a webinar.

  69. Make use of craiglist.

  70. Network through Myspace.

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19 comments:

Sheralle on December 22, 2008 8:28 AM said...

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don't know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.


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Dr. Sandy on December 22, 2008 10:09 AM said...

Hello Sheralle
I am glad you enjoyed reading my blog..

Nina on December 23, 2008 2:25 AM said...

Again thank you for another wonderful post on traffic. I've followed your advice on traffic and it's done wonders. I also came across a site called blog explosion that's really good too.

Dr. Sandy on December 23, 2008 2:37 AM said...

Hello Nina

I am glad these tips worked well for you.
I have never used Blog Explosion, I have heard about it though.Will check that out..

Rajeev Edmonds on January 3, 2009 10:37 AM said...

Hubpages and squido certainly getting more attention of people nowadays. Good compilation.

Nischal Shetty on January 3, 2009 4:48 PM said...

Great tips... Have to try a lot of them! Thank you so much ;)

Dr. Sandy on January 3, 2009 5:51 PM said...

@ Rajeev Edmond
Yeah you are right Squidoo and Hubpages has been getting attention now a days but you have to be active there add pages on regular basis..

Catherine Ford on January 6, 2009 8:51 AM said...

Thanks for these great tips! I am doing my dissertation on social networking and hadn't yet heard of some of these sites. I have bookmarked your site on Digg, but did not see a RSS feed for your site. Isn't that another good way to generate traffic? Thanks for sharing!

Dr. Sandy on January 6, 2009 9:37 AM said...

@ Catherine

You subscribe to the feeds via email.the subscription form is right on the top of the sidebar.I think you didn't see it because I haven't used the orange button to gra your attention.

Will make the change soon.

Laura on January 20, 2009 12:32 AM said...

Very nice list! May I suggest that you also use Facebook as a great social networking place? (or did you mention that one already?)

Ruhani Rabin on February 2, 2009 1:35 PM said...

If i may add that, your post is worthy but there are a few points to note down. Digg & Stumbleupon doesn't really allow you to post your own site links.. sooner or later they ban the site from sending the urls. Also can make use of RSS feeds since it goes everywhere.

Nicole on February 3, 2009 4:22 AM said...

Great post - thanks for the ideas!
I'd also like to add LinkedIn as a great place to find people in your industry or blog subject area and lead them to your posts from relevant discussion groups. You have to get involved though - which should be of interest anyway if you're writing about something you're passionate about. Otherwise you may be seen as a blatant spammer..
Cheers,
Nicole

UTP on February 21, 2009 5:24 PM said...

Excellent Post.....very useful...this one just has to be tracked back...

Keep up the good work...

ProjectCenter on February 27, 2009 5:17 AM said...

The HubPages was a good suggestion. Squidoo I am still trying to figure out.

ian on March 20, 2009 6:18 PM said...

Wow this is a huge list. One question, If you make HubPages, you still need to promote the HubPages right? Otherwise it's quite useless.

Louida on April 7, 2009 8:09 PM said...

Great list!! I already use some of those tips but I will use the others that I do not do to build more traffic. Love your blog!!

Taldir on April 10, 2009 9:39 AM said...

Thanks for the tips!

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Mike on April 12, 2009 10:51 AM said...

I like how you have made a list as it can be easily followed. Have you had a look at ping.fm?

It is a site that you link all your social media/networking sites to and can update all of them from your dashboard with just a click of a button.

Any ways just thought I would share that with you. Happy Easter and go safe.

Michael B on June 3, 2009 8:30 AM said...

Nice Post Dr Sandy I am currently using most of these methods and have a few little tricks of my own. Writing posts about what you learn in webinars is pretty cool as you are sharing knowldge from your own perspective. Thanks for this. Il be sure to add this as this method as one of my CB Quantum Control Bonuses

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