How to gain traffic to your blog

February 11th, 2010

Asep Onde

The number one goal for a blogger is for people to actually read there blog. Without guests they have no way of gaining traffic to there new blog. Although there are many ways to gain traffic to your blog, there are a few ways that stand out from the rest.

Here are some tips to gain traffic to your blog:

1. SEO Optimize your blog – SEO Optimizing means setting your blog to use keyword friendly URL’s, depending on your blogging software you can set your blog to use search engine friendly URL’s. If that is not an option, you should look for a program modification that will perform this task. Remember to target keywords in your post names, so that you can gain traffic from google, when people search for those keywords.

2. Build Links – This also goes with tip #1 because when you build links it can also help you rank higher in the search engines for your targeted keyword. A few ways to build links are: (a) Signature Links – Links on different forums, are great because it gives you a link on every post that person makes (b) Exchange Links – Find alike blog’s and build traffic together, it’s a great way to become friends with the competition.

3. Social Bookmarking – Did you know that when you make a tweet on twitter, it is reverberated by tons of sites, which display your tweets as while? Even Google actually picks up your tweets. Tweeting your URL’s can provide a mass traffic surge, so remember to tweet your URL’s. Another “bookmarking” tool is to “digg” your posts; this will help you get targeted people from Digg. Ask your friends to digg your posts as while, that way you can get a higher digg ranking.

4. Article Directories – Submit articles, to different Article Directories, when people like your writing, they may take a visit to your blog because they want to learn more. This may gain you return visitors who want to read your great writings.

5. Many More Ways – All of the ways and tips I have given you are just a start to gaining traffic to your blog, the truth is there are a lot more ways of building traffic, but you need to discover the best way, because every type of site is different, so every way to build traffic is different to.

I hope this article helps gain traffic to your blog.