We may ask
ourselves why we need to have a high amount of traffic to our blogs. Is it to
promote a certain product that we have or as an extra project that will provide
us with extra cash or income. For an individual venturing on the web, increasing
traffic to his or her blog is necessary to consider and deal with.
Having a
blog online and yet not having enough traffic becomes a fruitless investment. There
are many ways that one can increase traffic to a blog as pointed out below:
Contribute
in other Blogs
You can
strike deal with other blogger where u decide to write content on their blog
with an exchange of them writing content for your blog. This exposes your blog
to variety of related niches and results to increase in traffic to your blog.
Getting
Bookmarked
There are
various bookmarking websites online. When your blog is listed on these sites,
users of these sites get suggestions that provide a link back to your blog. A good
example to consider is StumbleUpon.
Commenting
and leaving link back on other Blogs
Other great
and cheaper option to increase traffic to your blog is leaving your blogs link
after commenting on other sites. The comment can be anything from appreciating
the content or helping out someone with a problem by giving a solution.
Getting
Indexed on Various Online Directories
By
submitting your blog in different online directories, it helps people to find
your content, as they will be interested in searching a specific niche area
that you have done. This in turn results to an increase in traffic to your
blog.
Hold
Contest
This sounds ridiculous
but it is not. People love free stuff and we cannot deny this fact. By holding
contest to the public and offering freebies, you will be surprised with the
increase in traffic, as many will be flowing to your blog to get the goodies.
These are
just but a few of the ways of increasing traffic, there are other ways that can
increase traffic to your blog. Time and enough research will land you to some other
techniques.