How to increase traffic to blog (11 tips)

Everybody wants to increase traffic towards to their blog. It takes longer to take a very good traffic. Follow some tips and you get a good traffic.

1. Post quality content: If the content of the blog is good then it will attract visitors and visit your blog regularly and then you will get good back links.

2. Reply to the comments and mails: Once you are getting traffic to your blog. Visitors may comment on your blog/website. So reply their comments and mail quickly if needed.

3. Submit your blog to blog directories: Submit your blog to some good blog directories of high PR. It will increase link to your blog. So pay some attention to link building. Here you may find a very good list of blog directories.

4. Install Google Analytics to your blog: Install Google Analytics to your blog and get detailed analysis report of your traffic. There are many things in Google Analytics to help you for getting traffic. You may also find there that what keywords are sending visitors to your blog. To install Google Analytics script to your blog you just need a Google account. If you don't have you can create one.

5. Submit your blog to social bookmarking site: Also submit your blog to social bookmarking site such as digg, delicious and stumbleupon etc.

6. Join bloggerforum.com: Join bloggerforum.com to help others and yourself for the blogging related problems and questions. Mention your website/blog name in posts signature there. It will increase links to your website.

7. Join digitalpoint Forum: You may join digital point forum.

8. Join Bloggeries Forum: Join Bloggeries forum.

9. Put a RSS subscribe feed button to your blog: Add a gadget to subscribe your blog via RSS. You can start this service by feedblitz, feedburner etc.

10. Learn Some SEO tips: Learn SEO techniques (Search Engine Optimization Techniques) to get good traffic.

11. Give your blog an Appropriate Title: Appropiate title of a blog also makes some difference to get traffic.

Ways to make your blog more popular

Ways to make your blog more popular

Hello.

I just got this sent to me, I thought it was pretty good and had better share it with you. Some are easy, some tricky and some just made me laugh - it's all good food for thought if you want to stand a chance of getting traffic and therefore MONEY from your blog.

Ways to make a blog popular:

1. Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.
2. Start a contest. Make sure to end it too.
3. Give away free goodies. People love them.
4. Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to read your blog. Keep it positive.
5. Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
6. Interview other bloggers and post the interview.
7. Write about your personal life sometimes.
8. Ask questions to your visitors.
9. Share some secrets.
10. Celebrate your birthday with your visitors. Think of innovative ways for doing this.
11. Celebrate your blog’s birthday too.
12. Write something funny or disgusting. (Don’t make it a habit)
13. Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car. (Just make sure you drive often)
14. Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free.
15. Introduce a commission based affiliate program.
16. Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession.
17. Post interesting pictures of your pets.
18. Congratulate the top commentators occasionally.
19. Encourage sharing of opinions.
20. Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization. Ask your visitors to join you.
21. Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages.
22. Hold blog competitions.
23. Create polls.
24. Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog).
25. Write about your blog achievements.
26. Share your hopes and aspirations about your blog.
27. Start an award distribution system.
28. Make contact with your local visitors and hold a get-together or a bloggers’ meet.
29. Start a blog comic strip.
30. Dig up some old article that you wrote on your blog which became famous and start a discussion.
31. Try and get a photograph clicked with a real celebrity and post it on your blog. (Hold on Tiger..don’t rush to that Photoshop button!)
32. Post videos that will help your visitors learn something new. Also submit them to video sharing websites like YouTube.com.
33. Write about your hobbies and interests. (For example, if you like cooking, post a new recipe)
34. Post about one of the weirdest thing that you ever did.
35. Get featured in a print magazine.
36. Buy a paid review from any famous blogger(s).
37. Brand your blog with a catch phrase along with a logo.
38. Distribute T-shirts or merchandise with your blog name on it.
39. Join Yahoo! Answers and put a link on your website to your answers.
40. Keep a track of websites that pick up your articles or press releases. Offer them exclusive news or content.
41. Do surveys and publish the results to your visitors.
42. Build tools that your visitors might find use for.
43. Start a newsletter.
44. Podcasting is another good way to make your blog popular.
45. Publicize your blog to your friends and relatives and let them do some work for you.
46. Be active in Social Bookmarking websites.
47. Share Link Love and you will get it back.
48. People like to read about Web 2.0. Write about it.
49. Write about something that’s already famous.
50. Last but not the least, be yourself.