Traffic To Your Blog
In a recent article of mine, I wrote what a blog announcement list with a blog broadcast can do to retain your current blog readers. This is vital for your blog or your businesses success if you use a blog as the main website for your business. It’s important to create a list so you can notify your readers when you have new information to share with them.
I’m sure many of you who implemented my Blogcast course have had at least some success. But what if you have a blog and it just doesn’t have many readers? Your announcement list is simply not going to grow quickly. Traffic to your blog is vital if you’re going to get any readers to your blog.
So what can you do to get more visitors to your blog so you can have your favorite blog readers join your blog announcement list? There are several ways actually. Here are a few:
Articles
Using articles is a great way for people to learn about your blog. You need to write an article which is at least 600 words and submit it to ezines or sites which will publish them. I like using Isnare.com if I’m not submitting to ezines.
Commenting On Other Blogs
As a blog writer, you probably visit other blogs similar to your own. Are you leaving comments in their blog entries? If you are, are you using your blogs domain name in the URL field? I recommend you do that whenever you post a comment. The writer may notice your link and add your blog to their list of links. Or, more likely, their readers will see your link and follow it to your blog.
Blog Carnivals
A blog carnival is an event where one blog will host a carnival. During the carnival, they will write a blog entry and will link to several other blogs articles/entries. A carnival will usually happen weekly or monthly, and the carnival will move around from blog to blog. If you just submit one of your latest blog entries (in the form of an article) to several carnivals, you’ll see an increase in the number of visitors and blog readers on your website.
Products
In any of your products, at some point you need to tell your customers were they can find more information about your business. It takes only a few seconds of time to mention your blog or website. “Come visit aaronbrandon.com to learn about more of my products, and stay up to date by simply adding yourself to my blog announcement list.†or something of that nature.
Do you have any more recommendations to get traffic to your blog? This blog entry is open for comments. Feel free to post them below.
Hey Aaron,
There are a ton of blog networking sites you can join which will feed traffic to your site. Some examples are MyBlogLog, BumpZee and BlogCatalog.
OnlyWire.com lets you bookmark a post on multiple social bookmarking sites simultaneously.
You can also submit your posts to article/news sites like Netscape, PLime, Reddit and Digg.
If none of these work, try following the tips in this post:
http://www.richminx.com/2007/05/how-to-make-4c-a-week-from-your-blog/
Comment by Derrick Markotter — May 14, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Aaron,
Pretty solid advice, the techniques you discuss are what I have been doing with good results so far.
-Jim
Comment by Jim — May 15, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Thanks for the info Aaron, newbies like me need this kind of stuff.
Comment by Sheppard — May 20, 2007 at 6:05 pm
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