49 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic
Other day, for my own selfish reason to increase traffic on my blog, I discovered few effective ways to increase blog traffic
1 Join MyBlogLog, add friends, and join communities.
2 Sign up for Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes.
3 Submit your blog to all of the directories on Robin Good’s list of RSS directories.
4 Leave comments on other related blogs
5 Tell your friends about your blog and specific posts.
6 Put your blog URL in your forum signatures.
7 Write press releases for your blog.
8 Submit your posts to multiple social bookmarking sites using OnlyWire.
9 Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts.
10 Answer questions on Yahoo answers with the answers on your blog.
11 Use pictures. Most of the top trafficed blogs use pictures in their posts.
12 Use video on your blog.
13 Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it.
14 Be the first to break a news story.
15 Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts.
16 Write controversial posts or topics
17 Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed.
18 Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts.
19 Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc)
20 Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts.
21 Write for beginners.
22 Participate in blog carnivals.
23 Post at different times of the day.
24 Submit your best posts to article directories.
25 Have guest bloggers
26 Submit your blog to regular web directories (like DMOZ, etc.).
27 Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog on it.
28 Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs.
29 Trade blog roll links with related blogs.
30 Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your page in their browser.
31 Make it easy for people to link to your blog.
32 Use easy to read fonts.
33 Use a professional looking blog design.
34 Make your blog easy to navigate.
35 Highlight your most popular posts.
36 Write posts that ask provocative questions.
37 Use good keywords in your post titles.
38 Reply to every question you get through email.
39 Reply to every question you get on your blog.
40 Run a contest.
41 Search for Wikis related to your niche to submit your blog to. For example, for this blog the search phrase would be “make money online wiki” or “internet marketing wiki”.
42 Initiate regular polls
43 Add a wiki to your blog .
44 Join Hubpages and post links to your blog from articles you write.
45 Provide Wikipedia articles with links to your blog where it makes sense.
46 Join Blog Catalog
47 Create a MySpace Page.
48 Write a post about the top x bloggers
49 Post frequently.