5 Powerful Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

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Having traffic to a blog is one of the major challenges most bloggers face. The quality of traffic a blogger gets will determine so many things about him. Below is a list of 5 rock solid methods of getting traffic to your blog.

1. Networking

Networking both inside and outside your niche is agreat way to get traffic to your blog. There are different ways to network both inside and outside your niche, it can either be through blog commenting, guest posting, social networking sites and forum posting. When networking to build traffic to your blog, it is very important to take into consideration the other party, everybody has to benefit.

Let there be a reason why other people you network with must visit your blog. Your form of networking might be through forum posting, but it is very difficult to achieve success through forums if you are not active on the forum.

2. Article Marketing

Article marketing is very effective depending on how it is been used. I have seen articles with less than 100 views and those with tens of thousands of views after a year of writing them on ezinearticles.

It is very important to do effective keyword research before writing your articles, it is also very important to try to get a few backlinks to your articles because this will make it easy for you to rank on search engines. Most of the popular article sites and directories are trusted by search engines which make it very easy for them to rank on the search engines; you only need to get a few quality backlinks to your articles if you are targeting competitive keywords.

It is also important to have an anchor text backlinks to your blog because this will help you rank higher on the search engines.

3. Guest Posting

Guest posting is another method of getting traffic to your blog, guest posting is far better than article marketing because article sites don’t have an established reader base while a blog has. Guest posting on other blogs will help you get loyal readers and direct traffic to your blog, guest posting will also help you build your brand because your name will be appearing everywhere.

It is very important to only write quality articles for blogs on which you are going to guest post, because this makes sure the blog owner and you will be benefiting. The blog owner will be benefiting because you helped him to write a quality article and also helped to free some of his time while providing value for his readers at the same time. You will be benefiting because you will get more popularity and traffic.

4. Blog Commenting

If you want to know the power of blog commenting, just dedicate a week to make a minimum of over 1000 comments on other relevant blogs in your niche, both small and great. The result you will get at the end of one week will be so great.

Blog commenting is an effective way of putting yourself out there for people to see, it helps you build your brand while getting additional traffic. In order to get the best result from blog commenting, you have to write well thought out comments that are in line with the content of the blog on which you are commenting.

You shouldn’t just expect to get results with comments such as “great post!” or the likes. Another advantage of blog commenting is that the owners of the blogs you comment on are most likely going to come back to do the same which means increase in comments.

5. Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking and networking sites are a good way of getting traffic to your blog. Making effective use of social bookmarking and networking sites such as Digg, stumbleupon, reddit and twitter can help you get results. Twitter and stumbleupon are one of the highest sources of traffic to my blog.

The secret to social success is thinking about others and not just yourself. If you want your stories to be voted for on social bookmarking and networking sites, just begin to vote for other quality article while adding others as friend, this will help you achieve great results.

Social bookmarking sites are not where you will just go only when you want to submit your article but should be frequented, the majority of your social bookmarking efforts should be to the benefits of others, and they will return the favor later. Social bookmarking and networking is very effective if only you could use it effectively.

The above are five great methods of getting traffic to your blog; you don’t need to be looking for more ways without considering the ones you have. Use all the methods listed above effectively and begin to increase the traffic to your blog.