Sunday, July 4, 2010

3 PRACTICAL STEPS TO GENERATING TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

Your were inspired by many online guru’s who claim to make a living blogging in the world wide web, that you decide to launch a blog on the internet. You have everything: good content, a popular topic and well placed ads, you published post daily. But after weeks, you found out that nothing is happening. I mean no visitors has come to read your post not to talk of clicking on your ads. You can even abandoned your blog or start sourcing for a way to drive traffic to your blog.

This post focuses primarily on helping people to find your blog, stay on your blog and keep coming back to your blog, the steps includes:

BLOG COMMENTING:
One of the popular way to drive powerful traffic to your blog is by blog commenting. Look for the popular blog in your niche, first understand how their post are structured.
Now write your comment and make sure that your contribution is legitimate and thoughtful. Most blog allow your name to link to your blog, so you can leave the URL of your blog in the comment –like this all that blogs readers will find you too, you can even subscribe to their newsletter so that you’ll be alerted whenever they make a new post so you can be the first to post a comment for other commentators and readers to read your comment.

FORUM DISCUSSION
Use search engine like Google or Yahoo and search for forums that relate to your niche. These forums can be your quick source of targeted traffic. Most forums allowed participants to have a “Signature” attached to their comments.
When you find an active forum, familiarize your self with the proceedings and how they make post, then build a relationship, establish your self as an expert and always post regularly including your signature in your post.

Lastly participate in forum discussion board, provide solution to other forum members problems also put forward your own problem for them to solve. This way you’ll get good exposure in the forum; visitors and forum members will see your signature and those who click your signature link will be directed to your blog to read more.

ARTICLE MARKETING
Article marketing which works the same way with guest posting has grown into one of the web’s most popular viral marketing strategies for site of all types. Write an enticing article and post on article directories. You are allowed to include a note about yourself, your blog and its URL in the “Resource Box” that is how others will find their way from your article to your blog.
Article submission also enhance your backlink and if found and use by web masters looking for content for their sites, there’s this possibility that it will be seen by other suffer and if they like it they ‘ll click on your link and thy will be taking to your blog – This is so because the article still contain a “resource box” so your link will accompany the article wherever it is used on the web.
Look for top article directories such as ezinearticle.com, articlecity.com, article dashboard.com etc. Try to submit at least one article daily for a consistent traffic.

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