The 10 Best Ways To Increase Blog Traffic
Written by George Manty · March 7, 2008
I wrote a list of 101 ways to get traffic to your blog a while back. I decided to narrow that list down to the ten best ways I have found to get traffic to my blogs.
The 10 Best Ways To Increase Blog Traffic:
- SEO
Without a doubt SEO has been my favorite way to get traffic to my blogs. The Google algorithm loves blogs, which makes SEO a very good way to get traffic to your blog. - Commenting
Leaving comments on blogs in related niches is a great way to get new targeted traffic to your blog. It is also an excellent way to build relationships with other bloggers which leads me to number 3… - Networking
Networking is possibly the single most important skill for making big money online. It is also a great way to build traffic to your blog. - Word Of Mouth
Simply tell your friends and family about your blog and/or specific posts on your blog. You will be surprised by how much traffic that can generate. - Linkbait
Create posts that are designed to grab people’s attention. Controversial posts are often associated with linkbait, but there are plenty of other ways to create linkbait. 101 lists make for good linkbait and so do posts that are out of the ordinary in some way. - Link Out
Link liberally to other blogs in your posts. Many bloggers keep track of incoming links to their blog and will come check out your blog when you link to them. This can also help you get comments. - Stumbleupon
I am a big fan of using stumbleupon for getting traffic to your blog. If you haven’t signed up for it you should. Stumbleupon is this blogs third best traffic source, behind retuning visitors, and Google. - List Posts
I have found that posts with lists (like this one) generate more traffic to your blog. They tend to get bookmarked and voted on more on social sites. The more list posts you write the more traffic you will get. - Blog Memes
Create a blog meme and tag other bloggers. Participating in blog memes has definitely increased my blog traffic. One blog meme in particular really helped this blog out and I never even participated in it. - Quality Content
Quality content is the key to keep people coming back for more. If you write posts that people enjoy reading, they will come back regularly to read your posts. Having regular readers is a great way to increase blog traffic.
Those are the ten best ways I have found to get traffic to my blogs. What are your favorite ways to get traffic to your blog?
Hi,
Very good list. I will print it out for reference.
Thanks for putting it together.
Great post, I can honestly say that every traffic technique outlined above work great.
@Nancy – You are welcome.
@Joseph – yes they do.
commenting on blogs with “do follow” tag can help 2 of the strategies on the list =)
Pablo,
That is true…
Great post… I think people should look at youtube for other ways to advertise their blogs. Placing your URL in a video watermark is an easy and fast way to get some targetted traffic.
nice list.. never read the 101 ways but this one sums it up nicely
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This is a great list! I have included it in my recent blog posting, top 8 ways to make money blogging! Thanks!
Tip #11: Make a comment in an ultra high traffic blog post such as yours
http://jmorrow50.wordpress.com. Now for my question, I see a lot custom blogs that have buttons at the end of every post to allow people to digg, stumble upon, or other services. How do you find the HTML code to allow people to do this for indiividual blog posts?
cheers,
Jarret
Jarret,
There a lot of good plugins that do what you want. What I use is a service call addthis:
http://www.addthis.com/
It is very easy to use.
Great list, but what is a blog memes?
Kevin,
Chris Garrett has a really good post about blog memes:
http://www.chrisg.com/what-is-a-blog-meme/
Thanks for the great list! I wish I was hitting on everyone of those! Maybe then I would get more traffic.
What a great top 10 list. Its nice to get an opinion of traffic option rankings. Some of those are debatable, but SEO should most def be #1.
Two other ways to increase your traffic:
1) http://www.Morelikethis.cc – a free web2.0 traffic exchange widget. It finds pages that are similar and trades traffic back and forth between them.
2) http://www.carnivalofmakingmoneyonline.com – If you’re a make money online blogger, it is a niche social news site with free backlinks, seo optimized categories, and shares up to 75% of revenue with submitters (plus 10% if you reffer someone).
You could always pay for traffic and hope they besome repeat visitors.
Peter,
That is one method worth trying.
I know this works because I have tried at least 8 out of the 10 listed and they worked. Nice post.
Personally, I submit my site to Yahoo Directory and BOTW. This doesn’t not generate direct traffic…but it builds up my PR which in turn generates traffic.
This is a really great list. Props to you for compiling it!
Great list. I especially liked the part about lists. Very useful