Traffic. Visitors. Surfers. Whatever you call them, we all need them. And it’s easier to attract traffic to a blog than it is to a website for lots of good reasons. So, if you don’t publish a blog, you should. And if you do, you still need traffic. Visitors don’t just turn up on your blog as if by magic. But, you don’t really want to pay and it’s easier to use techniques not everyone is using. With that in mind, here are 6 relatively untapped ways to attract visitors.
Submit your blog to content aggregators like alltop and 9rules. Alltop is owned by Guy Kawasaki, a well-known web entrepreneur and it’s very popular. It’s within the top 3000 websites worldwide according to Alexa. Content aggregators show the latest stories from hundreds of blogs and websites.
Submit your content to high profile blogs in your niche or topic area. For example, copyblogger is another very popular blog on copywriting, and they do have guest articles. Many of the top blogs and websites welcome good content from contributors to feed the publishing machine these sites have become.
Target the best blogs in your niche or industry and comment. Blog commenting is not new but can be a very effective way of getting traffic, especially for a popular site. Add the blog to your favourite RSS feed reader, and as soon as a new post appears, jump to the site, read it and add a comment (with a link back to your blog).
After commenting regularly on a popular blog, it’s likely the blog owner has noticed you. This is a good time to become a guest poster. Many blogs use guest posts. It relieves the blogger from the need for constant content. Send an email to the blog owner, complimenting their blog and suggesting topics for guest blogging.
Write or record a tutorial. Everyone loves tutorials and video based tutorials are even better. If you create a video tutorial you can add it to youtube or if it’s a written tutorial, try adding it to instructables. There are many other sites you can post to as well. Try googling ‘tutorial websites’.
Do you tweet? A twitter following is a terrific way of getting traffic to your blog. If you are a member of twitter and tweet regularly, you should have a steadily increasing number of followers. You can use twitterfeed to automatically publish a tweet as soon as you publish a new post, without any work on your part. Some of your followers will visit your blog.
There’s no excuse for not getting traffic to your blog.
