3 Steps to Getting More Blog Traffic

Anybody can create blog quickly and easily with all the blog creation tools available today. But once your blog is created, getting traffic to the blog is another issue entirely. Just because you built a blog doesn’t mean anyone will visit it. You must create traffic by promoting the blog and the more traffic you drive to the blog the more money you’ll make. Here are three methods I’ve personally used to drive traffic to my blog. They’ll work for you too.

1. Add Fresh Content on a Regular Basis

Once you’ve created your blog, it’s not time to forget about it. A new blog needs regular blog posts until it becomes established in the search engines. Try to update your blog with a new post daily for the first month. You have to give blog readers and search engines a reason to come back to your blog frequently and new posts are the best way.

You should post on a regular basis so your visitor and the search engines know to expect new content added to your blog on a regular basis. As long as your posts are informative or entertaining, you’ll attract more visitors over time. And you want the search engines to come regularly to index your blog posts which in turn will attract even more visitors.

2. Find Related Blogs and Make Useful Comments

Another way to increase blog traffic is to make comments on other blogs. The best way is to find high PR links from blogs on the same topic. You can use your favorite search engine or Google’s BlogSearch tool. You shouldn’t have much problem finding several blogs on similar topics.

When you find a new blog take a few minutes to read a few posts. Since it’s a topic similar to your blog, you shouldn’t have any trouble making a useful comment to one of the posts. Leave your name and a link to your blog with the comment. You’ll notice that some readers will like your comment and want to click your link and visit your blog.

3. Really Simple Syndication

RSS is really simple syndication and most blogs come with it these days. I use aweber’s autoresponder service which comes with the capability to send an email notification to a list every time you make a new blog post. This is helpful because not every reader who reads your blog will remember to come back frequently. A friendly email reminder increases repeat visits to your blog which is more traffic.

To build a list, all you have to do is put a simple opt-in form on your blog and ask visitors to subscribe by giving you their name and email address. That’s all there is to it and now when you make a new post to your blog, the list will receive an email reminder. It all happens automatically. You don’t have to do anything other than put the opt-in form on your site.

There are many more ways to drive traffic to blogs and I’ll cover those in future articles.

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