5 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog
Here’s 5 good, free ways to get more traffic to your blog.
You could get loads of free traffic to your site with very little work.
It shouldn’t take more than half an hour to get it all set up.
Well, let’s start.
1. Stumble Upon (link)
Stumble Upon is a great website for people to share things they like on the internet. You get a Firefox add on, which lets you rate and review sites you like, or dislike. It’s for people who have no life get bored easily and want to have a look at other websites which people have found.
Stumble your site, then go and tell all your friends to. The more people that like it, the more people will be sent. I got 80 views on a page within an hour of stumbling it.
2. WordPress Plugins (link)
There’s a lot of plugins for WordPress which can optimise your blog. I suggest getting a SEO(Search Engine Optimisation) plugin, so it’s more likely you are on the front page of a search engine, when someone searches for your site. Here’s a great plugin to help you:
Wordpress.com Stats (link)
You can see where your visitors are coming from, and what posts they are reading. Then you can write more posts which are similar to your most popular posts. It also tells you what people searched for to get to your website.
3. Submit Everything To Digg (link)
Yes, do it. Every single post you write, submit it to Digg.com. If people like it, they will digg it. You’ll at least get a few visitors to your blog, but anything is better than none.
Digg is basically a website where people submit websites they like, if other people like it they ‘digg’ it. The more diggs something has, more more likely it is people will go to it. You can also comment on every website listed, so people can discuss them.
If you make it to the front page, you’ll get a ton of visits.
4. Give Away Free Stuff
Don’t you like free stuff? Yes, and so does everyone else. If you give away random stuff, people are more likely to bookmark your website or tell their friends. If someone bookmarks your blog, I bet they will be coming back in the future. Here’s a few ideas of what you could make or give away.
- Make a Wordpress theme
- Smilies for MSN or Forums
- eBooks on how to do things
- If you have a band, why not give away a track
5. Join Zeriouz (link)
Serious, zeriouz is good. You can get thousands of backlinks to your site with no effort. All you have to do is add it your web site and it’s done. Every website must have the links to other websites to have it on their website.
Well, thanks for reading, that’s it for today. I’m going to post more of these in the future, so check back soon!
Tags: backlinks, digg, free, plugin, SEO, stumble, traffic, zeriouz
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 am
Some good notable points you made there and I was one of those who found this website through digg.
On the same note, here’s what I have found to work very well too.
If you have tutorials post them to tutorialized.com and pixel2life.com, you’ll get a couple o’ hundred hits for some days.
Post comments on blogs that are related to the content/topic of your website/blog and be helpful, the chances of someone clicking on your link for being helpful rather than just saying “nice post” is much higher.
Submit your site to Yahoo! Directory and DMOZ.
- Don’t bother submitting to any others, they usually provide little traffic if anything. Both, Yahoo! and DMOZ can provide you with hundreds of links.
There are probably a dozen more that I could mention.. best I don’t fill this place up
April 23rd, 2008 at 2:29 am
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April 30th, 2008 at 5:27 am
You may want to rethink what you had to say about submitting your own blog posts to Digg.
There is alot of evidence that submitting your own blog over and over to Digg will just destroy your search engine rankings or the rankings of the domain you are submitting.
Everything you do on Digg shows up in your public profile.
I just published an article on Digg, the privacy breach at Digg and how it effects your search engine rankings.
http://www.keywebdata.com/?p=79
I have very detailed documentation but Digg has yet to address it.
In looking at your content I would like to know what you think either here on your blog, in my comments or feel free to email me. = Chris Lang
May 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Great article, thanks for sharing.
May 30th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Interesting - I always use Stumbleupon, it’s great - something else might be worth trying. Whatever niche your blog sits in - contact PR Agencies who deal with that sort of thing and try and get stuff to give away in competitions etc. - works for me!