How do get traffic to your blog?

@zaizab (24)
Malaysia
December 25, 2008 7:23am CST
I have just started blogging 2 months ago. The 1st month I was the only one visiting my blog. The last two months the traffic increased double! I start to join local and international forum and from there other bloggers start coming to my website. Then I join traffic exchange and entrecard. These two are quite tedious and time consuming but I don't mind because it's a learning proses for me. I have a niche but there is no focus on it yet. So how do you get traffic to your blog or website?
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5 responses
@iwrite (5034)
• Singapore
25 Dec 08
Well it must be great to have your blog traffic doubled in such a short time. For me I am having a hard time getting people to my blog and comment on it. I wonder what is wrong with my blog.
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@zaizab (24)
• Malaysia
25 Dec 08
Hi there! Getting traffic is one issue, getting people to comment a post is another issue all together. But 1st thing 1st. To me getting the traffic is priority number one. You cannot determine if the visitors are quality or not but the more visitors you get the higher the chances of getting comments. Apart from that i try to write as general as possible so that it will cater to all readers. If you write on fishing, I won't be interested to comment because it does not interest me right, but if you write about blogging stuff, I will definitely comment. From the comments that we get we will know what really attract people to comment on our blog. That could be a niche you know. Cheers!
@insomni4k (424)
• Indonesia
25 Dec 08
optimize your blog from search engine. I got traffic 80% from search engine and 20% from referring sites. Learn about SEO.
@zaizab (24)
• Malaysia
25 Dec 08
Thanks for the tips. I did optimized my blog but the result is still the other way round from yours. I have to do more reading about SEO Optimization. Cheers!
@zaizab (24)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 08
I will sure do it if it brings traffic to my blog. Thanks!
@lifeplayer (1007)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 08
Traffic exchange traffic is non-value traffic. you shall focus on SEO and SMO to get natural traffic. rticle submission, forum posting, video submission can bring you good traffic if you able to write unique quality content. If you wish to know more, welcome to visit my blog which is blogging related information
@zaizab (24)
• Malaysia
27 Dec 08
You are right Calvin. There's so much things that I need to understand as I'm a newbie. I don't want to waste my time doing unnecessary work. Thanks!;-)
• Ireland
12 Jan 09
hello all, traffic generation is a tricky part of working online first is your blog marked on your profile? i'll pop over if it is otherwise msg me the link. now, there are countless ways to generate traffic but as stated already traffic exchanges are worthless in terms of targeted traffic, which is what you want. using social networks is the flavour of the moment for traffic and it does work. my new blog gets all its visitors from the social scene and in just a week i'm into double figures. not great but a good start... i am sure mylot is not the only network your on... do you use twitter? its very effective after social networks, bookmarking is next.. stumbleupon, digg etc. rss feed your blog, in todays market instant updates are becoming vitality important to your success as a blogger article submission is great too but with PLR content taking over , getting published has become a gauntlet of sorts these are just common sense free methods and your likely to be aware of them by now but are you using them? thats the big question. the only alternative is to buy traffic with PPC if your seo is on target and you create your brand with social networking the hits will come like i've said i am easy to get in contact with and eager to help chat soon and best of luck
• India
12 Jan 09
hey hai make ur blog more impressive way download some bank projects and coppy them in ur blog. keep topics in ur blog which r look usefull and make it such a way people should attracted to view your blog ok keep more topic c with in one week your traffic will increase. if not then u message me. from sarala vsp
@zaizab (24)
• Malaysia
16 Jan 09
Hmmm.. Why not I give a try. I got 2 more domain that still not being used. Thanks for the idea. I will let you know of the outcome. For your info, my traffic for my existing website/blog has increased 50%. Thanks for all the great response from all of you.