10 Secrets Traffic


As we know, blogs are getting popular today, but there is no value in having
a blog if no one is visiting and reading it!. Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to drive traffic to your blog if you desire to increase your readership or monetize it. To do that, here are 10 quick secret to generating more traffic to your blogs, so you can get more revenues:

Secret 1: Submit - Blog Directories
Blog directories are similar to search engines just that they cater only to searches for blogs. It is advisable to submit your blog to the major directories, some of which include feedster, technorati and blogstreet.

Similarly, there are many blog services like pingomatic which you can use to ping your blog. Pinging your blog notifies the service that you’ve updated your blog. These services will then publish your new posts and you get traffic from interested readers and search engines.

Secret 2: Reciprocal Linking is Great
This is a task which requires a little work – by sending an email request for a link exchange with a few follow ups but the results are worth it. This way is proven, to gain targeted traffic, is to exchange links with other bloggers or site owners.

Another linking method is to simply write a testimonial for a product you have
purchased. If your testimonial is good, product owners will usually publish it on their sales page with your blog URL included.

If you want to skip the traditional way of exchanging links and go for the easier way, you can automate the process with various software and services found on the net. Just do a search at Google, Msn, Yahoo, and you will have a list of these.

Secret 3: Blog Commentaries
Find a blog related to your niche and post your comments, in good way and have value absolutly. At the end of your comments you can include a link back to your blog, this way people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However you should never misuse this to spam other blogs. Popular blog is better.

Secret 4: Writing Articles
By writing your own articles and submitting them to article directories, you can invite a lot of targeted visitors to your blog, this is long-term traffic.In order to generate traffic by writing articles, you need to include your resource box at the end of every article you have written. The resource box is where you promote and introduce your website or blog.

Secret 5: Writing Press Releases
Press release is a very effective way of generating instant traffic to your blog. Although press releases only pull in short-term traffic, they can work very well if you continuously write and submit press releases regularly while monetizing the traffic received.
PRWeb is one of the oldest and most trusted sources for news distribution on the web.

Secret 6: Start A Blog Mailing List
The phrase "the money is in the list” is true in all businesses. If you want to succeed online, you must start building your own list of targeted subscribers. You can send your subscribers to your blog anytime you have new posts. By the same token, you can also get your blog readers to subscribe to a‘blog update’ list which can be used to notify them when you have updated
your blog. REPEAT traffic through returning visitors is a key traffic strategy and you can control that with this method.

Secret 7: Giving Out Free Reports
Give out free viral reports to promote your blog. Providing useful information in your free reports can trigger your readers’ interest to know more about you and your websites.

Secret 8: Niche Forum - Niche Discussion Boards
Forum is good for generate traffic also, specialy in niche forum. Fine popular forum from Google that allow you take your signature there.

Secret 9: Pay For Traffic
If you have a good monetization strategy for your blog through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and a mailing list, you should consider using paidadvertising to drive traffic to your blog. Recommended options include pay-per-click advertising, ezine advertising
and huge banner exposures.

Secret 10: AutoResponder - Publishing Your Own Ezine
By publishing your own ezine, you are able to attract readership to your blog when you advertise it in your ezine.You can also provide your subscribers with useful information in several series with an autoresponder. An ezine is often called an online magazine.

In conclusion, realize that getting traffic to your blog should not be viewed as a one time effort. Commit and focus on a long-term strategy in order to succeed. It is all about gaining momentum.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you will attract more visitors to it everyday as you work on it. As time goes by, you will have an amazing amount of traffic to your blog which you never thought was possible!

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