11 Tips To Boost Blog Traffic

The blogsphere is huge and with over 100 million blogs and growing, it is not an easy task to attract visitors to your blog. As you probably know, more traffic means more money and this means a great deal for a lot of bloggers. Many bloggers go to great lengths to attract more visitors to their blogs and while some succeed, most are still struggling to attract decent amount of visitors if any at all to their blogs.

In order to attract more visitors, you can employ some of the tips below to drive more traffic to your blog. You may choose to employ some of these tips or all of them but for best results, you have to test and track which tip or tips work best for your blog.

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5 Methods To Increase Traffic To Your Website

A common problem that many webmasters and internet marketers face is how to sustain and increase traffic to their websites overtime. Once your website’s traffic level has reach a saturation point whereby traffic remains constant or even decrease for a period of time, it is time to go back to the drawing board and devise new strategies and methods to increase traffic .

While there are no definite methods to guarantee increased levels of traffic unless you are paying for it, there are some things that you can do to make a difference in increasing traffic. I have listed below some highly effective methods to increase traffic to your websites. All the methods listed are free unless you are looking to outsource these activities.

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What Is Social Bookmarking?

Social bookmarking is a relative easy way for internet users to bookmark sites for reference in the future. It is also a means for internet users to share their favorite bookmarked website with fellow internet users. While social bookmarking has been around since 1996, social bookmarking began to gain popularity only in the last 4 to 5 years.

Why social bookmaking sites started to gain in popularity after so many years is still a question. Most likely internet users find social bookmarking sites a good way to store and look for useful information. Social bookmaking sites makes it easy and simple for users to bookmark content quickly for future use and the ability to share bookmarked content with others is consider a cool feature by internet users.

Another reason is due to the immense SEO benefits to websites for internet marketers and webmasters. Through social bookmarking, internet marketers and webmasters are able get their websites indexed on the search engines much quicker than before. The reason for fast indexing is probably due to the high rankings given to social bookmarking sites by Google.

If you do not understand what the fuss on social bookmarking is all about, you can check out this list of social bookmarking sites to see firsthand what social bookmarking is.

• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Propeller
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon

Many internet marketers and webmasters now see social bookmarking as a definite strategy in their marketing and traffic generation plans. While Google may not like the way internet marketers and webmasters are utilizing social bookmarking sites to boost their websites rankings in the search engines, so far no one has been penalize using social bookmarking sites to build links and improve their websites search engine rankings. That is why social bookmarking remains an integral part of any serious internet marketer and webmaster marketing and traffic generation plan.

Traffic Generation For Beginners

Traffic generation refers to the process of generating and driving traffic to your website. A website without any traffic is not going to make you any money and which is no wonder why all webmasters are always trying their hardest to drive traffic to their websites. It is not just any traffic but targeted traffic which is the key to making money or not.

As a newbie, it is important for you to understand that even though traffic is important, if you do not have any idea how to monetize them, you are leaving a lot of money on the table. Therefore, besides knowing how to drive traffic to your site, you also need to learn how to monetize your traffic which will be discussed in another post.

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Using Squidoo To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

If you have been online for a period of time, most likely you have already come across Squidoo. Otherwise for those who are new to the internet, you may want to check out Squidoo. Although Squidoo was set up only a couple of years back in late 2005, it has become one of the most trafficked websites on the internet.

Squidoo is essentially a user generated content site. Squidoo consist of a network of lenses. These lenses are basically pages that are created by users like you and me. These lenses can be anything under the sun although internet marketers are primary the most active users on Squidoo.

The ease of use and the simplicity in creating a lens is what makes Squidoo such a hit with internet marketers. You can easily set up your own lens within minutes of signing up for an account. Besides that, you can also generate revenue from these lenses as well. Squidoo is also a revenue sharing site whereby the revenue earned from your lenses is split between you, Squidoo and appointed charities.

Most internet marketers used Squidoo as a platform to promote products or even linking back to their sites.Do not underestimate the traffic that Squidoo can bring to your sites. Traffic from Squidoo are usually very targeted and in some cases resulted in sales especially if you are promoting a good product or services. It is no wonder some internet marketers are able to make a full time income just by marketing on Squidoo alone.

If you have not start using Squidoo to drive traffic to your sites, you are seriously missing out on good targeted traffic and some money as well. Make Squidoo part of your marketing strategies and you will be able to see some decent results soon.

Using Article Directories To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

Article directories can be a great source of traffic if you know how to utilize them properly. The best part of using article directories as your traffic source is that they are free. Basically, article directories are constantly I need of original and unique content for their visitors and you as a article publisher or author will provide the very content that article directories need in exchange for exposure and traffic. It is a win-win situation for both the article directories and you.

Most established article directories are well indexed and placed highly in the search engines. By submitting your articles to these article directories will ensure maximum exposure for your sites. Even if your sites are brand new, there is nothing to stop you from having your new site being indexed and placed highly in the search engines within days if not weeks. It works especially well if you are targeting longtail keywords.

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Using Videos To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

Remember my previous posts on video marketing and how video marketing is boosting sales and commissions of affiliates and merchants who are using videos to promote their products. If you missed that, you can read this post “Video Marketing Made Easy” and also check out the “free video marketing e-course” if you are keen to take your income to another level.

Now, this post is not on using videos to promote products, rather it is focus on using videos to drive traffic to your websites. Regardless of which niche you are in, using videos to drive traffic to your websites is the way to go and it should be a definite part of your marketing plans for your online business.

I am sure everyone has heard of YouTube. If not, you must have been living under a rock for the past few years. YouTube is the biggest and most visited video hosting sites on the internet. Every day, millions of people visit YouTube to watch or upload videos. No matter what types of videos are being put up, there are definitely audiences for your videos. With so much traffic, it is no wonder this is one of the best website to reach out to targeted audience.

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Using Forums To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

Forums are one of the best places to advertise and market your sites provided you know how to leverage on the traffic. There are tons of forums in all sorts of niches you can imagine and best of all the traffic that you drive to your websites are all targeted traffic. It is with this knowledge that many successful marketers successfully build their online businesses with. I have written below some starter tips on how you can use forums to drive traffic to your websites.

First of all, start off by selecting a username that is representative of the site or sites that you are promoting. For example if you are promoting a photography site, you can select a username like “Photo Master” or something catchy. In this way, people will recognize and remember from your username what your online business is.

After selecting a suitable username, the next step is to work on your profile. Most forums will let you display your contact information and some details of yourself. Try to complete or update all contact details and always remember to include your website’s URL. This is a good way to post an inbound link to your website.

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Using Yahoo Answers To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

There are many ways that you can drive traffic to your site. Depending on the nature on the traffic that you want, it can be done quite easily. If you are looking for targeted traffic, one of the best free methods that you can use to drive traffic is through Yahoo Answers.

Sign up for an Yahoo account and check out answers.yahoo.com. You can drive traffic to your site easily by answering questions. You’ll be surprised to find that most of the questions posted are left unanswered in a lot of categories.

By providing solutions to these questions, you stand to build up your credibility in your chosen niche resulting in more targeted visitors to your site and at the same time having relevant links pointing back to your site.It’s one good and quick way to build back links.

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Using Social Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Sites

Social sites such as FaceBook, Friendster & Myspace are good sources of traffic if you know how to tap and leverage on the huge communities found on these social sites. Social sites are great for networking with like minded people with similar interests. If you execute your traffic campaign well, you can be sure of consistent and targeted groups of visitors for your site.

However, you have to take note that while social sites are good for traffic, you have to play by their rules or you will get your accounts suspended or even deleted.

Here is how you can leverage on social networks to drive traffic to your site. For making things simpler, I will use Friendster as an example.

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