10 Best Possible Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

How, some days can be boring like hell, like there is nothing to do, no one to talk. I am feeling like Will Smith from the Movie I am Legend, the difference is that I have the Internet instead of the Dog.  Anyway, I have been writing on the blogs and they are doing well in terms of traffic.

I have found few best ways to grab traffic to your blog, lets discuss.

Traffic from Facebook

You can get a lot of traffic from Facebook, here is what you can do, try to add people who are interested in your blog’s topic. to search such kind of people, you can search groups and fan pages and then start adding people from that group. If you use your Facebook for personal stuff then create another account specially for this purpose, it’s free after all.

Traffic from Twitter

People really get angry when I tell them that they can get a lot of traffic from Twitter, they shout at me “Screw you, I don’t even know how to use it and you telling me to get traffic from there?” Well, just please with it, follow people and blogs that are related to your Topic,  use the Plugin Feed2Tweet on your blog to update your twitter followers automatically. You will gain a lot of traffic if you have got a lot of followers.

Traffic from Email List

If you don’t have an Email list then you should start working on it. the more people on your email list, more traffic you can. Email list can be used again and again and as people check their Emails, there are high chances that they will visit your blog.

Traffic from Commenting on Other Blogs

Just make a list of Related popular blogs ( about 20 is enough) and try to be the first to comment on them. To organize these blogs, make a folder in the bookmarks in your browser and rename it so that you can remember it, like ‘Blogs to Comment’ etc then put all the bookmarks in that folder, now every time you want to comment on the blogs, just open a new window and open all the bookmarks in that ‘Blogs to Comment’  folder and start commenting. This strategy works only if you write good comments and not spam them saying ‘hey, nice post’, ‘well done’  etc.

Traffic from Forums

Same is the case with forums, make a different folder for forums and bookmark all the popular forums of your related topic. Now put your blog url in the signature and always take part in the discussions going on the forums, whenever you publish a new post, try to start  conversation on the forums by putting a links back to your post. This also helps in getting back links to your blog.

Traffic from Bookmarking Sites.

There are plenty of bookmarking sites on the web. just make a list of the popular ones, like Digg, Stumble Upon, Reddit, etc. or use a plugin called Sexy Bookmarks, which will put Social Bookmarking Buttons at the end of every posts, be the first one to Bookmark your blog posts and ask your friends too.

Traffic from Word of Mouth

Many people underestimate this strategy to bring in quality traffic to the blog. But I have benefited from it, there are a concert going on in my University and my friend was performing there, after the performance he just said that people can download his song from his website. The Concert had around 1000 people there and he got around 300 Hits that night only. In the upcoming days he might have got hits which was the result of that night.

Traffic from Search Engines

You don’t have full control over this but you can Optimize your search ranking by doing little things, use All in SEO plugin and do link exchanges with other bloggers, bookmarking your posts will also add value in ranking your posts in search engines. Keep in mind that maximum links back from quality pages and proper keywords can make your blog posts rank well and can bring a lot of traffic.

Traffic from eBooks

Well, you can write eBook, or small reports and distribute it here and there on internet. Submit them on eBook sites etc. Talk something valuable in the report and refer some links to best posts on the blog, you surely will gain a lot of visitors for future.

Traffic from Guest Posting

Guest posting is pretty famous these days, this is one of the best ways to get traffic as well as quality back links to your blog. Sometimes when you have something to say with is not related to your own blog, you can surely search for the blogs which are related to that topic and ask them to publish your posts on their blogs, they surely will disclose that this post has been written by you and will be links your blog back. Imagine if you do this on a regular basis, how popular is your blog going to be.

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I think I have covered all the main strategies, but the list is endless, be smart, be innovative and keep thinking of new ways to get traffic to your blog, This is a basic funda for all the blogs, The more your traffic will be, the more your profit will be.

If you have any cool strategy, please share it in the comments below. I really would love to hear from you guys.