10 Time-tested, Battle-Hardened Blog Traffic Techniques
In my previous post http://bloginstallationservice.com/analyzing-blog-activities-january-2010/ Reza Winandar from Blogger Make Money commented asking me to share some of the ways I generate traffic to this blog, so I’ve put together 10 of the techniques I use and plan to use in the hope you too will benefit from them. Follow these 10 blog traffic strategies and your blog just might be the next Engadget, TechCrunch, JohnChow.com, StevePavlina.com or BoingBoing.net. – The key here is consistency, which am still working on 
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1. Blog Regularly – many of the top blogs post 10-20 times per day. This is not the requirement – see 2.
2. Create Authority Articles – instead of blogging frequently, post less often but focus on creating Authority Posts — lengthier articles that are really well put together which will attract attention from other bloggers & users of social bookmarking sites like Digg, reddit, etc.
3. Comment on Other Blogs – do not keyword spam in these, but rather use your own name and add value to the conversation. – I do this as often as I can – I still get traffic from blogs that I commented on well over a year ago.
4. Link Out Frequently to Industry Leaders – show some linklove to other bloggers in your niche. In turn, they might eventually link back if you have a quality post on a topic they have not covered yet. – To set an example see the opening summary. Be bold and don’t be afraid to link out, just be sure not to link to what is know as “bad neighbourhood sites”.
5. Participate in Blog Carnivals – these are a way for bloggers within a niche to get together and periodically highlight posts from one another’s blogs. You can find an index of these at BlogCarnival.com. – I purchased the blog carnival software when it first came out and use it as often as I can for some of my blogs
6. Do Guest Posts – not just for A-List bloggers, but B-List and beyond. Be sure to work up some good material first, so as to make a good first impression. – This is my to do list, so if you have a blog and willing to let me guest blog for you give me a shout
7. Article Marketing – chances are, you’re reading this via a site that syndicated this article using an article marketing script of some sort. Join a site like ArticleMarketer.com and ArticleDirectoryProject.com to syndicate your articles to thousands of participating sites. If distributed via the web, these sites are required to link back to you via a byline/author box.
8. Social Digging/Mixxing – join sites like Digg, Mixx, Bumpzee, etc. and encourage your users and/or friends to submit your stories. – Still working on this and number 9 and I humbly request you all to submit any of my post you like to these sites please
9. Social Bookmarking – join del.icio.us, Furl, Wink, Backflip, etc and submit your popular articles to these sites to seed them into the community.
10. Use Great Headlines – okay, which sounds better “Some Ways to Get Readers”, or “10 Time-tested, Battle-Hardened Blog Traffic Techniques”. Many readers are particularly fond of “Top X” lists, or “How To …” posts.
I hope this has given you an insight of how I go about generating traffic to my sites as whole. There are numerous other techniques that you can use to gain more exposure and more visitors to read your content, hopefully I will do a second part to this article to highlight them in the near future – stay tuned!
Be sure to sign up for RSS feeds and leave your comments bellow to let me know what you think – and better still add your own techniques and let us all benefit too.
I comment on other blogs like yours. Because of the time that it takes I try to comment on dofollow blogs. I read every post and try to add value to the authors subject (that is what takes time). My system is to find dofollow blogs that are at least indexed by Google. When I comment I will submit it to the bookmarking sites and also twitter. This helps the website get some traffic and backlinks. That will open up the page rank to eventually flow to that page.
You can find list to dofollow blogs by searching that term on Google. Take a look at the blog and make sure it is active, someone at the wheel so to speak. You should also check to make sure that it is still a dofollow.
I would love for you to guest blog for me. My blog is all about the Small Business Administration,news from the White House and How to get small business financing. Anyone that would like to guest blog for me the email is info@sbaloans-123.com
Thanks Rob
@Rob Wagner @SBA Funding – I like your aproach to this technique and the time invested pays itself through the traffic you get. The benefeit is mutual to both the blog owner as well as the commenter – great tip thanks.
Yes I would love to guest blog for you and will be intouch shortly
I think most of the blogs that make 10-20 posts a day have a team of writers or don’t post original content. But yeah I definitely agree that blogging frequently is important. I have a tendency to go for weeks without posting so that’s something I’m currently working on. Submitting to link directories and participating in blog communities are also good techniques.
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Awesome. It is amazing how some people come up with cool blogs. Very good post. I have been searching for this post since many days. Now I have implemented the same for my site.
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thanks for the advise, though i use them not always and not at the same time, i just think of what i should do first and do it then. what i did is i copied your advise and wrote it down i a post-it and attached it to my monitor so i’d always be reminded. Re writing articles, how many blogs should a person post to have his new blog started getting noticed?
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I think you left out one very important point, time. It takes a lot of time to build up traffic which means you need to persist and stick with things as your traffic slowly starts to build up. Many people make the mistake of expecting immediate results and then giving up too soon when they don’t happen.
The most important key in blogging is to be dedicated on what you’re doing. Moreover, you need to find other techniques which you can make use in building enough traffic into your blog. Remember, your blog won’t be successful without having audience who will support your blog.