What do you do to increase your blog traffic?

India
July 26, 2009 12:20pm CST
It is important that you get traffic to your website. Then what is the use in blogging when there is no one to read your blogs? What are the strategies you use to drive traffic to your site?
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byfaithonly
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
26 Jul 09
I still say 'content is king' if you have interesting or informative information on your site or blog people will find it from search engines - that's where 99% of my traffic comes from, I really don't do a lot of promoting.
bziebarth
@bziebarth (228)
• United States
28 Jul 09
I completely agree with you. Even if you do a large amount of promoting, content is king to keeping your visitors. Once a visitor gets to your site, they will leave if they are not given a reason to stay. I have even read that a website has less than 30 seconds to impress a visitor or they will not stay. I think a post on I Will Teach You To Be Rich (http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com) summed it up well. In the post, the author spoke about discussions about the best plugins, best website look, use of pictures, etc. He stated that content should be the first consideration. Outstanding content may even be able to overcome some site flaws.
byfaithonly
@byfaithonly (10698)
• United States
29 Jul 09
Yep pictures can paint a thousand words but words are what will be typed into search engines and if you don't have them on your site those seekers won't find you except by accident.
iwrite
@iwrite (5034)
• Singapore
31 Jul 09
Hello vijayanths, I usually use forums and other sites to help me generate interest on my blog, however I must say I am very successful. However I decide to provide a space for people to showcase their blog or website. you can try it for yourself, http://profitsbuzz.com/forum/show-case/
BuffMom
@BuffMom (2206)
• United States
28 Jul 09
I have both a blog and website (see my profile page) and I get traffic to them by several ways. Traffic exchanges, forums, putting my site address in signature of forums. Those are just a couple of good techniques.
eshaan
@eshaan (6188)
• India
31 Jul 09
Business strategies are not to be disclosed....specially when there are competitors like you......i am very new to blogging but whatever i know we can discuss when we meet online...i have got good amount only in a week or two....i dont know much about it..maybe you know better than me...also let me read what others have written to your post
PeacefulWmn9
@PeacefulWmn9 (10420)
• United States
26 Jul 09
Hi Vijay...some of the things that have worked for me: Join and list your site on Blog Catalog Join and announce your posts on Twitter and Facebook or Myspace The best thing of all: read and comment on many blogs of others who write on similar things as you do. People often reciprocate.