I have collected some blog traffic driving gems tonight. These should be a great help if you aren’t already getting 1 million visitors per month.
If you are, then take the night off!
21 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic
A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optimization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided.
Tips for Blog Traffic – How to Increase Traffic Levels
But in my opinion, the best way to increase blog traffic is simply by posting often with quality content. In fact, there are so many benefits of posting quality content that I’m going to dedicate this entire blog post to the subject… …
Increase blog traffic via Blog Explosion
I have found myself spending a lot of time over at blogexplosion.com. It is a great way to get traffic to your blog and there are several fun ways to do it. You can surf others blogs, each time earning traffic to your own blog. …
Increase Blog Traffic With Google Image Search
How many times in a week do you search for images in Google Image Search? For bloggers, those numbers may be very high. I know that I use Google Image Search quite a bit when I need to find a picture to use for a blog post. …
Others find commenting to be a good tool to increase blog traffic. Being a middle of the road person – I see both sides of this debate and have not abandoned commenting all together. Why Commenting is Worthwhile …
How To Increase Blog Traffic With Your RSS Feed
The RSS feed for your blog is a very valuable traffic generation tool. Really Simple Sydication (RSS) makes it really simple to syndicate your blog content all over the internet….for free. … [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use TrackBoost to Increase Blog Traffic!
Its brand new. We programmed it, so you know its good!
How To Increase Blog Traffic and Improve Search Engine Exposure
Having a blog is good. Having a blog that gets traffic is great. Not having to pay for that traffic…. PRICELESS! If you have a blog, or any page on the web for that matter, learning how to… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Web2Submitter to Increase Blog Traffic!
It submits to the top social sites faster than you can!
How to Increase Blog Traffic with Social Communities
Social communities, like BlogCatalog or Twitter, are great resources to help you increase traffic to your blog and get more eyeballs on your content. While social bookmarking sites allow you to mark… [[ This is a content summary only. …
Use Utility Poster to Increase Blog Traffic!
It allows you to compile posts like this one you’re reading. Very fast, very keyword dense, very lovely for your readers looking for your information.
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Great tips as always, Jack. Thanks! I love blog comments and RSS feeds. These are super-quick and easy to utilize and give great results.
Jack, Nice use of Utility poster. I KNOW this blog post only took you 3 minutes to compile (including finding the links)
I did the same thing at my blog the other day but with a broader link bait piece: “Internet Marketing Tips”. It was awesome to compile such a useful post in such a short amount of time…and I’m sure that the people I linked to will LOVE me for it.
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Oh, and by the way, CommentLuv plug-in? How killer is that?
I just noticed that there is a link to my latest blog post in the comment I just left. WOW! I love that! I’ll be sure to install the plug-in on my blog to encourage comment posting from my subscribers.
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Just out of curiosity Jack. Is there any more word on the affiliate program for Utility Poster yet? I picked it up the other day, I love it!
Cheers
Davin
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Davin,
We’re putting it together now. Should be news this week on the affiliate program.
Thanks for the information. I find your article to be very informative for even the first time blogger.
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Thanks for the great info! I am excited to try out the Web2Submitter, Utility Poster, and Trackboost. Thanks again
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Thanks again. I keep coming back to the post often with great content idea. I was reading something you wrote about Digg and how they are mostly into technical stuff and i thought this was really some good insight; get the pulse of the web2.0 that you are submitting to. I was reading a thread on Sphinn about how they are all out- raged
by spammers and the last post rightly pointed out that it was because they are (or were) listed on Social Marker.
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You do know a thing or two about MyBlogLog because most of the avatars above are in my friends list. LOL BlogLog that is.
Another social marketing strategy is to use social bookmarking sites to create backlinks to your site.
I have found 15 sites so far that Google will follow back to your site and return a backlink in Google results.
However, think about this: If Digg has 5 million users and the average number of posts, from the Digg top 100 to the user who no longer participates is 1 post per day, that is 5 million posts.
How can you (not you Jack) possibly expect that Google will see your 1 link in Digg in 5 million others as a backlink to your site. In fact if you submit your site to Digg and no one else Diggs it, I have come to feel that is a negative indicator in Digg’s eyes. the worst thing you can do is submit your Digg posts yourself and then get no Diggs.
One of my friends on Social Marketing Central wrote an article that went hot on the Internet. He got like 1500 visitors in a few days and 80 comments. The bad news is that he only got 18 Diggs. Now tell me this: Don’t you think that Google, that has access to the popularity of posts on Digg just like we do, would not see 1500 visitors and 18 Diggs a negative indicator of this blog and the blog post itself?
I can easily get 100 to 200 Diggs for any article I want in Digg in 2 days. I do that through my own strategies and participation.
So social bookmarking if done wrong can actually hurt you. Social marketing is about being social, so be social on social bookmarking sites, don’t just submit you own content and expect that this will bring you results.
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Great tips – love the aggregated content — call us lazy!
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Hello,
I’m brand new to Web2.0 and your organisation. Whilst rootling about I came across a remark by Jack to the effect that 90% of commenting is done incorrectly. Is there a blog in your archives that tells how to do it right?
Many Thanks
FEJ
FEJ,
I’m not sure where that would be or if I wrote one. But I’ll tell you, in short, right now.
Commenting properly means commenting in the spirit that commenting on blogs was intended: to add to the discussion by asking clarifying questions, like you just did, or by helping to add to the original post with your thoughts.
Improper commenting is simply something like this: “Great post.”
Commenting has 2 goals:
1. To engage readers and the other commentators in a discussion that is meaningful enough that a portion of them check out your link.
2. To gain favor with the blog owner who you hope will ALSO check out your site and possibly do a review or send you some type of link after you’ve become a “fixture” on their site – a trusted entity.
Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs-Journey had an article on blog posting tips…just thought it be nice to add to your list. I posted it to my site as well.
http://www.nichedigging.com/2008/07/30/blog-traffic-tips/
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Thanks for the great info! I am excited to try out the Web2Submitter, Utility Poster, and Trackboost. Thanks again
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