How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008“How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog”
Let’s go over the fuel to your blog; which is traffic. How to drive traffic to your blog! Now that your blog is up and running you need a constant flow of people dropping by and reading your articles. There are many ways to promote your blog that I’m going to reveal here. Each of these traffic strategies will help you continue attracting loyal readers and subscribers on a daily basis.
- Invite readers to subscribe by RSS using serves like feedburner.com.
- Post valuable and easy to read content.
- Be sure to post regularly at least 3-5 times per week if not more.
- Tag the keywords of your articles for the search engines to index.
- Submit your blog posts to article directories linking them back to your blog.
- Ask your readers to bookmark your blog with the popular social bookmarking services like mixx.com, stumbleupon.com, digg.com and others.
- Get targeted backlinks by linking to other blogs with similar themes.
- Interact with your visitors by having surveys, polls, etc.
- Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) secrets.
- Encourage your readers to leave comments on your blog.
- Ask your readers and other bloggers to link to your blog and share your content.
- Promote your RSS feed to web sites that allow submissions.
- Link to your blog from other social networking web sites.
- Be sure to claim your blog on technorati.com.
- Use components like trackbacks and pings to drive traffic to your blog.
- Put a link to your blog in a signature of your outbound email.
- Post in forums on your theme and link back to your blog.
- Use video marketing to drive traffic to your blog.
- Create newsworthy press releases and link back to your blog.
- Commenting on some of your favorite blogs often is another great way to drive traffic to your blog.
Every Pro-Blogger follows these traffic strategies. For more information about how to drive traffic to your blog click here on Atomic Blogging.