Saturday 29 December 2012

How to Increase Traffic to Your Blog

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.

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