10 Ways To Increase Blog Traffic
- Be Original- Share information that is unique, be an expert on a subject and make your posts stand out. Be consistent with your posts.
- Blogroll- Add other good blogs to your blogroll, encourage friends to add you and have interesting content that encourages your readers to provide links to your blog.
- Guest Blog- Be a guest blogger for friends and other blogs in the blogsphere. Make sure that your posts are challenging and hard-hitting. Allow other bloggers to be featured guest bloggers on your site.
- Take a Stand- Make sure that some of your posts clearly take a stand on a topic or issue. Readers will return to a site that has strong and relative opinions.
- Submit to Search Engines- Submit your site to search engines, submit it to as many as you can, understanding that Google is the “Grand Daddy.” There are a number of manual ways to submit your site, as well as paid services. A couple of sites to consider are http://www.submitexpress.com/ and http://www.adme.com/ There are many other sites and services.
- Use Media- Use images, links to images, YouTube videos and graphics.
- Allow Comments- Allow readers to comment and respond to all comments. Be prepared to articulately respond to adversarial comments.
- Add Link Tools- Consider using some or all of the following (Technorati, StubleUpon, DiggThis, Delicious…..).
- Evaluate- Ask an educated Digerati and fellow bloggers to evaluate your site and recommend necessary changes.
- Blog About Interesting Topics- Technology, I-Phone, Religion, Current Issues, Breaking News, Sports, Stupid Stuff, and How To Increase Blog Traffic.
