Driving traffic to your blog is really the same as driving traffic to a website though blogs are slightly different from websites and have better chances of getting indexed on the search engines. Watch the videos I have made on Blogging Power (part 1) and (Part 2)
It’s not a difficult task, but it is time consuming and you need to do it with persistence and consistency.
You need to have keywords that capture the attention of the search engines. You need to link your blog to the sites that are going to drive the most traffic to your site. You have to constantly look for new ways to drive traffic to your blog.
We are first going to discuss very briefly a few characteristics of blogs, and how to get a blog. As a beginner, you may not be aware of how to do this and what’s the best route. If you are a total stranger to blogging, then you need to read my earlier post on Five Things You Need To Know About Blogging .
Most blogs are hosted on one of the free blog sites, or you can buy a domain and setup Word Press which has proved to be the best blogging platform.
However if you are serious about making money through blogging, I suggest setting up your own domain where you can control every aspect of your blog. If you decide to setup a free blog, your best bet is to go with Blogger.com. This site is owned by Google and tends to get indexed quickly.
You want to start writing on your blog regularly. You don’t have to be posting to your blog everyday, but you should be posting at least once or twice a week. This will keep it fresh, and Google will recognize that your site has fresh and relevant content.
You can promote your blog through article marketing. I would write articles that are relevant to the contents of your blog, and then link your articles to your blog. This will help you start generating traffic to your site.
You can also promote your blog by posting regularly to forums. When posting to forums, you do not want to sound like you are just promoting yourself. You should always provide some value to the members of the forum by answering questions or giving out information they may be looking for. You can easily do this by looking around in the forum for a while and researching any questions that may have been posted by others.
To find the specific forum related to your subject, you can just do a search on Google. Just type in “your niche” + forum and you will get a whole list of forums related to your niche.
You would need to post to specific forums regularly to get more people to check out your blog. In the forums, you can update your signature to promote your blog with each post. Make sure you don’t promote yourself too much in your forums or you will be flagged as a spammer! Do it in moderation to keep people interested otherwise they get fed up with you!
You don’t want to come across as someone who just wants to sell themselves or their information. You want to promote yourself as someone who can help others and is a valuable resource for information.
These are just some of the ways to get blog traffic. You could write a whole book about blog traffic, as there are hundreds of ways to get traffic to your blog.
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