7 Simple traffic tips for beginning bloggers

[srinrao]

I started this blog about two weeks ago and have managed to get the traffic up quite a bit and get some regulars commenting on my post. In my blogging life I’ve read a few hundred posts on how to increase your traffic and all them had between 30-50 tips. I decided to take that list and simplify it. Some of these ideas came from Yaro Starak’s Blog for Profit Blueprint, which you can download at his web site. If there’s one piece of advice I have for beginning bloggers, it’s to take 2 or 3 of these ideas and do them consistently.

1. Post every day: Don’t try to force the topic. I realized that when I stopped trying to come up with topics, I came up with 100’s. Every time you come up with a blog post idea, jot it down. I have a list that I keep on my to-do list application called Anxiety. If you go to Lifehacker you can find it. It’s for the mac and I l love it.

2. Posting on Forums: How do you find the forums to cross-post on? Simple answer, Google Search. But, another thing that I’ve found is useful is Ning.com. They have tons of social networks, and you can cross post your blogs there. I’m part of Keith Ferrazi’s greenlight network.

3. Comment on popular blogs: I pick at least three in my category and I write comments on those three consistently. I also go to some new ones each day, but I’ve noticed when you comment on one person’s post several times, they seem to return the favor.

4. The blog carnivals are kind of like planting seeds. Plant the seeds and forget about them. They have a way of coming back.

5. Link other bloggers with no expectation of a link in return. But, feel free to mention that you linked them. Another thing you can do, that is more useful is mention them in your actual blog post and link them that way. Shout outs to Positively Present and Eight Hour Journey for commenting here consistently.

6. Be consistent: I’ve noticed there are a few thousand posts or even a few million on how to increase traffic to your blog. They list about 100 things you can do. While each of these is effective, remember the 80/20 rule. So, I say pick 5 things and do them consistently rather than 100 things and do them once. I tried the 100 things approach and I tried this approach. My other blog, Bizskoolblog never got nearly as much traffic as quickly as Skooloflife did by following these three simple tips.

7. Write good content: Well that’s a no brainer. If you write good content, popular bloggers will want to interact with you.

[CoolBee]

My best tip for anyone to get traffic is write about something people are interested in!

I write a niche blog (7200 visitors in about 15 months) with very few links to other sites or anything, I rarely plug it - have only posted a handful of links on forums where 100% relevant to the discussion topic - yet I am regularly on page 1 of the google queries relating to the area.

Typically I get about 10 visits a day but in the past 24 hours I've had nearly 200 - and that's because there's a festival happening in my city tomorrow, noone has posted on the net about it (I live in Africa), people were arriving on my blog from the write up I did about it last year, obviously looking for info for this year, so I put a post up about it.. bingo - page 1 of google within an hour!

This happened last year when there was a disaster in the our city - I didn't intend to blog about it (I don't like riding the coattails of disaster) but it was obvious people were looking for and not finding information on how to help / donate whatever, so I pulled together everything I knew and blogged it.

[dave marshall]

hi,

all good ideas to increase website traffic, thanks,

dave.

[Matt Willard]

I'd say only to post every day depending on your goals. Me, I've been fine posting weekly, and I use the time to create the best quality humor work I can. It seems to have paid off decently so far-I have a small but loyal fanbase. So post every day or every week-whatever works-as long as you are consistent, as mentioned.

[dave marshall]

all the tips in the first post work to create websaite traffic, but how you implement them is personl to you, as usual,

dave

[Ben1]

Thanks for the advice for increasing web traffic. I post about 3 or 4 times a week on my blog but I am thinking about increasing that to every day. Hopefully I can keep up the quality of my posts if I am posting daily. I might just have to adjust my work routine to accomplish that.

[Gazzali]

Originally Posted by CoolBee

My best tip for anyone to get traffic is write about something people are interested in!

I write a niche blog (7200 visitors in about 15 months) with very few links to other sites or anything, I rarely plug it - have only posted a handful of links on forums where 100% relevant to the discussion topic - yet I am regularly on page 1 of the google queries relating to the area.

Typically I get about 10 visits a day but in the past 24 hours I've had nearly 200 - and that's because there's a festival happening in my city tomorrow, noone has posted on the net about it (I live in Africa), people were arriving on my blog from the write up I did about it last year, obviously looking for info for this year, so I put a post up about it.. bingo - page 1 of google within an hour!

This happened last year when there was a disaster in the our city - I didn't intend to blog about it (I don't like riding the coattails of disaster) but it was obvious people were looking for and not finding information on how to help / donate whatever, so I pulled together everything I knew and blogged it.

I think I should agree with you. Is there any suggestion on the topics I should write about in my site at Proenrichment ?

[MySweetLuck]

Srinrao, I just want to thank you a lot for sharing the tips...Now I am really clear about getting traffic to my blog it is about being consistent with just few simple traffic ideas....Thanks a lot buddy...Would like to hear more from you...

Cheers,
Michael Dan

[BlackFalcon]

I think that the best tip is to have quality content

[gerber]

Great tips and I agree with being consistent. It's so easy to look at all the traffic tips and just try some here and there, but you won't see many results that way.

Darren Rowse at ProBlogger.net wrote a report called 31 Days to Build a Better Blog and it's full of information on how to promote your blog or make it a little bit better day by day. That report certainly gave me some new ideas or at least reminded me of implementing a few of them. I also learned a lot from Yaro Starak's Blog Profits Blueprint (which you can download for free) and Blog Mastermind (a membership site).

Forum posts, linking to other blogs and commenting on other blogs still work best for me. You need to write good content of course, or else the visitors to your site will not return.

What worked best for me in the last few months is a list I compiled of all the sites in a certain niche (EFT sites). My list of Top EFT Sites has been linked to, gets mentioned in newsletters, et cetera. Of course I mentioned the list to a couple of people who are on the list and some found out about it through my tweets on Twitter. But some picked this up without me asking for it. Ah, my first viral post .

In the end it all comes down to actually implementing the ideas you read about or think about and do something with it on a consistent basis.