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12 Top Proven Tips How To Increase Blog Traffic

Blog traffic tips

Blogging for me was just a tool to get my pages indexed fast on Google and increase my rankings. Now after almost a year in blogging I understood that blog can prove to be very helpful in building a brand as well as in SEO. I gradually learned how to blog and continue to learn and apply whatever I read from people online.

Here are the top 12 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers those people who have nexttono audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling

1.Comment of other blogs: It has been proved that commenting on others blog could increase traffic to your blog. Leave good comments blend it with humor. When you find some controversial post simply put your comments in a memorable form like youre a grown up controversies are the most effective way to become famous with least amount of effort but be sure not to fire people against yourself.

2. Submit your articles to Social Media Sites : Social media sites are the best places where you could submit your articles and get an instant boost of traffic to your blog. If people like it they will surely link to it hence increasing even more traffic. While top Social media sites are the best ones you must also consider to submit your articles to niche specific social media sites. This would give you considerably good amount of recognition for your work.

3. Comment on online communities : Join and take part in the online forums and communities. Dont forget to add a signature with your blog URL. Your comments on these communities and forums would reward you in becoming a respected part of the community as well as get you work.

4. Bookmarking Articles : Ask your visitors to bookmark your articles. Sites like StumbleUpon del.icio.us Google Bookmarks and del.irio.us could provide you with loads of traffic.

5. Interact with blog commenter : Make friendly relations with your blog commenter. Make them feel at home and they will make you feel at home. Its that simple. Always try to help your commenter with some useful resource if that is not possible lead them to a place which would solve their problems dont worry about they leaving your site if they like your help they will return.

6. Write with a Consistency : Write at least 35 resourceful articles a week. Doing this will let your visitors understand that you are a dedicated blogger who cares to help. If youre not consistent enough to write then why would your readers would be consistent to visit your blog.

7. Submit your blog on Blog Directories : Submit your blogs to Technorati Techmeme Blogcatalog and other blog directories. Blog directories are also a place where you could submit your blogs and get traffic initially when your blog is fairly new.

8. Link to others Article : Linking in and out helps a lot. Firstly it helps you in providing proof about your thoughts as well as helps you get people link to you for providing a resourceful article.

9. RSS Feeds : Always syndicate RSS through feedburner why? Because they are the best. Syndicating feeds also results in increasing traffic as the people who are in list of your feed would definitely come back.

10.Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg both for new ideas and for traffic.

11.Post 35 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls ask them questions give them quizes free tools etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.

12.Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.

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