15 Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog

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Many people ask about how they can increase the traffic to their blog. Your blogs traffic is a direct indicator of its success, so everyone should be looking to increase the traffic to their blog. I have compiled a list of 15 ways I believe you can increase traffic on your blog.

Put a Link in the signature area of any forums you use. This will help to increase traffic because if people like what you are talking about in the forum, they may head over to your blog to check out the rest of your work. It also helps with building links to your site.
Leave comments on other blogs in your niche with a link back to your site. My tip here would be to not link to your homepage but to a post on your blog that is related to the post in which you are commenting on. This can increase traffic in two ways, the first is that people may read your comment, like your ideas and then check out your blog. The second way it could increase traffic is by the blog owner seeing your comments on his/her blog, then linking to your site in future posts.
Responding to questions on Yahoo Answers. There are thousands of questions asked on Yahoo Answers everyday, if you can answer them, with a link back to your site then the person who asked the question could visit your site for more information, but more importantly, when the question gets indexed in search engines, anyone else asking that question will find a link to your blog.
Write articles and submit them to article directories. This is an old but still effective method of bringing traffic to your blog. Write some interesting articles, make sure you inclide links back to your blog in the article. Submit the articles to article directories, you should see some traffic from these articles if they are good.
Use Pay-Per-Click programs such as Google AdWords. Simple enough really, buy the top spots on Google to receive higher traffic to your blog.
Optimize page titles for increased search engine traffic. Include keywords in your page titles so that they correspond with what people are searching for.
Purchase Ads on other blogs. Many blogs have 125×125 Banners in their sidebars which can be purchased, look to buy 1-2 from blogs in your niche, this should help to bring targeted traffic to your blog.
Give something away for free. Everyone loves a freebie, is a good way of getting traffic, as well as links to your site, as bloggers love linking to free stuff.
Hand out business cards when you go events related to your niche. Put your blogs URL on business cards and hand them to prospective visitors.
Contact other blog owners in your niche, make yourself and your blog known to them, then ask for links to your blogs content in their future posts, as well as asking if you can do a guest post (See Below)
Write a guest post on another blog in your niche. This allows you to make yourself known to another blogs audience, if they liked to blog you are guest posting on then they should like your blog. Make sure you link back to your blog at some point in the post.
Tell everyone you know about your blog. Tell your friends, Family and Pets about your blog, you never know when they might mentioned it to someone they know, and your word-of-mouth advertising can begin.
Put a link to your blog in your Email Signature. Now every email you send will be a small advert for your blog.
Conduct some research into a topic related to your niche and publish your results. Then contact the blog owners in your niche that you know and tell them all about your research, they might even find it useful and link back to your blog.
Link to other blogs in your niche. This is a good way of making your blog known to other blog owners in your niche, but also, most blogs show track backs, which means that when you link to another blogs posts, a link is created back to your blog from it.

I hope you find these tips useful. Feel free to add your tips below and give your feedback on the 15 tips mentioned above.

34 Responses so far | Have Your Say!

15 Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog | E-commerce Blog | May 7th, 2008 at 3:54 pm #

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Chetan | May 9th, 2008 at 6:51 am #

Good tips

I have been following most of them, and lately entered the yahoo answers field too to see how it goes!
David Shaw | May 9th, 2008 at 8:35 am #

Yahoo Answers brings a nice handfull of visitors to this site.
Martyn | May 10th, 2008 at 9:12 pm #

Hello David,

Great post.. Giving something away for free is one of the best!

Glad to be back!

Martyn
David Shaw | May 11th, 2008 at 1:07 am #

Martyn. It is one of the best ways, that is why coming up soon I will be giving away something for free!

Stay Tuned to find out what!
Keira | May 14th, 2008 at 6:49 am #

Indeed those are really helpful, I want to read more..
anyway about the yahoo answer, how can I put my links on it, without putting it on the resource box of my answer?
David Shaw | May 14th, 2008 at 8:34 am #

Simply add the link to the page you are talking about.

I have answered many questions about PHP Login Scripts so I just add:
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at the bottom of the answer.
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Muscle Post | May 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm #

I haven’t tried Yahoo Answers yet, hadn’t even thought of that route, but it’s a good idea A lot of my traffic comes from leaving comments on other blogs, and lately I’ve been getting a ton from StumbleUpon. Social networking sites are a tremendous way to get some quick traffic and increase the exposure of your blog.
David Shaw | May 14th, 2008 at 11:11 pm #

StumbleUpon has been good to me in recent days. Just hope people keep enjoying and stumbling my posts.

I would recommend Yahoo Answers as a way of increasing traffic. Dont expect masses, but you can draw in good targeted traffic that sticks!
jhenz | May 20th, 2008 at 7:50 am #

You are right, SU has been good to you… In fact, I stumble your site there…
David Shaw | May 20th, 2008 at 10:07 am #

Many Thanks for the Stumble.

Hopefully SU is good to me again in future posts.
Gerri | May 20th, 2008 at 8:23 pm #

I like your list of ways to increase traffic to a site. I have not tried out a number of them and will get onto that as soon as I can. The one that caught my attention was Yahoo answers.
David Shaw | May 20th, 2008 at 10:29 pm #

It seems that many people are new to the idea of using Yahoo Answer to bring traffic to their blog.

I will plan a post to describe some of the techniques that I use to gain traffic from Yahoo Answers.
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Mark | May 24th, 2008 at 2:56 am #

I like your blog. You’ve got some useful information on here. I may just subscribe to it. Thanks for this blog David!
David Shaw | May 24th, 2008 at 7:02 am #

Many Thanks Mark.

Maybe a link to some of my posts would be good.
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Mark | May 24th, 2008 at 5:56 pm #

I Linked to this post with my blog, Thanks!
David Shaw | May 26th, 2008 at 8:46 am #

Many Thanks Mark!
TOM | June 9th, 2008 at 3:18 pm #

I think thats me ):
Giuseppe | June 13th, 2008 at 11:56 am #

Bel post, bene argomentato. Io sono sempre dell’opinione che i contenuti sono di vitale importanza, in tutti i casi!
David Shaw | June 13th, 2008 at 1:33 pm #

Yeah, content is very important if you want to have a successful blog.
Suzanne | June 18th, 2008 at 4:39 am #

Hi David ~ Great traffic ideas list!

I too use Yahoo answers for one of my stores and I get great traffic from it.

I’m really enjoying your blog … gave you a SU too Suzanne
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goblogging | July 4th, 2008 at 6:03 pm #

really useful and informative article! this is prime knowledge should all bloggers known. Thanks for good article!
David Shaw | July 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm #

@goblogging
Glad you like it
Corey Freeman | August 1st, 2008 at 8:39 am #

Great tips! I use a lot of these myself. An interesting one: when commenting on other blogs, try linking to a popular article instead of the main index. It gives your new readers a place to start on your blog, and if it’s a really popular article, you could convert some into subscribers.
David Shaw | August 1st, 2008 at 8:40 am #

Nice Tip Corey
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Billy | August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 pm #

great advice
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kouji | October 1st, 2008 at 9:20 am #

yahoo answers used to work for me. but now i find that my questions keep on getting removed. bummer.