14 Blog Marketing Tips To Increase Your Traffic
It’s 1:04am and I just came back home from a tiring day at work 
While I was on my way home I started to realized there are many people on my list who really do blog online, so I thought I would like to share with you 14 blog marketing tips you can implement today on your blog to increase your traffic
Before you proceed I do have to warm you some of the tactics below have great risk involved 
Listed below are the 14 blog marketing tips to increase your traffic:
- Be a guest blogger by contributing an article to the blog
( I am actually open for articles to be posted here do email me.. hehe) - Submit your blog post to many social sites
- Run a giveaway on your blog to encourage your readers to talk about you on their blogs
- Do an link or review exchange with your readers
- Submit your articles from your blog to many article directories
- Pay a bomb to Adwords to get traffic to your blog and say you have tons of traffic to your readers! ( How evil
) - Consistency comment on a popular blog to get attention from the owner of the blog
- Interview a popular to get free publicity from his readership of readers
- Start a RSS Challenge with another blogger to increase awareness
- Offer some form of free gift ( pride ) to get your readers to refer friends to your blog
- Install plugins on your blog to show the top readers comments to encourage readers to comment
- Use trackbacks to other blogger’s website to their attention and also free backlink to your blog
- Do a video casting on your blog to interact with your readers
- Create a video podcast to allow your readers to get to know you better
There’s lots more in my brain but I keeping it to myself for the moment.. hehe However a question came to my mind while I was on my way home which was “What’s The Most Powerful Blog Marketing Tactic?”
Let’s see if you know the answer, just comment below what you think is The Most Powerful Blog Marketing Tactic! To comment just click here to comment below and fill up your name and email and comments
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Whoa. That was a great article. Please keep writing because I love your style.
Excellent Alvin. Now, give us some more Video podcasts! You should do them while driving in your fly Mo cedes.
So nice and so evil
I don’t feel like putting a plugin for top commentators. I want sincere comments
Very good tips. Thanks!
Lots of quick and useful tips to increase traffic. I personally use tips #2 ad #5 to build backlinks, but I think interaction with visitors is also extremely important to attract traffic to a blog.
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There are some very good ideas here thank you for posting. Keep up posting the good ideas.
Bo Tipton
The Ornery Marketer
those 14 tips have given 20 more ideas … excellent … give us more please
“Submit your articles from your blog to many article directories”
but is it good for SEO? It cause duplicate of your content.
@free wii,
Frank speaking…Google and other SEs doesn’t need you to understand them.
Its a game of either beat them or join them.Here your only choice is to join them and dance to their tune.
Just like what is obtainable in the macro economic environment in offline business.
Thanks
Afam
http://www.free-trafficsecrets.com
Superb! Alvin rocks! lol.
I just don’t understand why google would need to do that. really, is there any point? I have read elsewhere that it still passes PR juice around? Anybody have an answer?
A complete set of down to earth blog marketing strategies that is sure.
I find this very informative and recommends for all newbie bloggers
Good Luck
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I warned that changing your blog post slugs–also known as permalinks or post URLs–is to be avoided, once you’ve published your blog post.while you often hear that most blog publishing platforms are “search engine friendly” out of the box, there’s one configuration that is important when setting up a new blog: change the default way post slugs are created.
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debra
http://www.changeyourfuturetoday.net
Hey Dave,
No probs. budd. It would be smart to test on start up blog at least to encourage people to comment on your blog
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Your Blogs are always very interesting and educational.
I always enjoy reading them & I find that I can use the information on my blogs.
Keep it up, Cheers
This is a great article, thank you!!
Sorry I didn’t get you joke, Hrovje. That’s one of the difficulties with comment or email humor … it’s not the same as when you tell a joke face to face … you don’t get feedback that let’s you know how your meaning is being taken … and I took the bait because Alvin aims his articles at we less experienced folks, and I’ve seen so many people having trouble getting their blogs moving because they are focused on gimmicks like the follow/no-follow controversy rather than cranking out content people will enjoy. Sorry mate.
I wrote that in irony
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This was agood thread, many more interesting comments than many of the posts … and I find I usually learn at least as much from the comments as from the main article … more good minds at work.
It may be worthwhile chnaging your comment links to ‘follow’ but you certainly should think some things through before you just jump at that idea.
First, the only people who even know the difference between follow/no-follow are the technically sophisticated ones who are the least likely to buy anything you might be selling. If you want a hi-tech audence, of course, that’s likely not a problem.
But almost all blog posts have no page rank (the blog here is PR3 but this post is not even ranked (Google ranks pages, not sites). So a ‘follow’ from this comment will contribute exactly nothingto the future page rank of my site.
But since Alvin sells links from the front page (with page rank) it will dilute his profits, dilute his page rank and actually cut into his sales (why would I buy a link from a site that gives their links for free?
Not saying that making your links ‘follow’ is always wrong, but it is not always a smart thing. They were defaulted to ‘no-follow’ for some very good reasons … not to annoy commenters. You still get blog traffic from people following your link manualy, if you have something tosay
You will also encourage people to comment by adding do follow on your comment links
. Just a thought…
Some of you guys already got the answer
Anyway I posted a more detailed version of the answer at the article below
http://www.gathersuccess.com/blogging-tips/the-most-powerful-blog-marketing-tactic-is
Hi Alvin
The first thing that popped into my mind was “keep it real” but I can see that Dave already said that.
….engage them and ask questions (just like you do). That’s what gets the “buzz” going.
One thing that is needed is quality content. It doesn’t matter how much traffic you get if the content is “no good” nobody will bother to visit again, and they definitely won’t want to recommend the site to anybody else.
So my top tip would be…. keep it real with good content that attracts/ informs and excites the readers…..keep them coming back for more
Anita
Join and be active in popular forums would increase traffic.
Hi Alvin,
I have comment quite a bit in your blog, did i get your attention. haha. Just joking!
John Tan
Here’s a ‘technique’ or a ‘best practice I recommend above all the other 14 you mentioned, Alvin … be real and interact with your readers. (and you do this well, Alvin, that’s a major reason I am here)
I see many ‘big bloggers’ who have already attained alot of success who seem to ignore their ‘small fry’ readers. This is bad business and rude, but it is, after all, only human nature.
But I see lots of small (tiny even) bloggers just starting out who don’t answer comments, don’t answer emails and don’t seem to be real people.
One thing I noticed over the past fewyears in this game … the people I read and the people I am most likely to interact with are the ones who talk to me as if I were a friend, or at least a valued customer (reader). This is a powerful techique and it costs absolutely nothing to implement.
Sorry, I have no answer because I am trying to learn how to blog by reading others post.
I don’t know how to set up a blog yet.
Pat
Hi,
Here we have some of the blog marketing tips to increase our traffic.They are to be a guest blogger by contributing an article to the blog,to submit our blog post to many social sites,to submit your articles from your blog to many article directories
Hi Alvin,
It is a very nice post BTW. Thanks.
The best blog marketing strategy in my opinion is developing a strong and very tight relationship with top bloggers in the internet and get a back link from high page rank blog.
Hope this makes sense?
Thanks,
-Gaj
erm.. so far no one got it so far..
keep guessing 
I’ve alwauys thought about being a guest blogger on another blog but I never got around to it.
Lots of great tips here I can implement into my own blogging strategy
Good article , again.
I have a question first…how many trackbacks do you recommend for a blog post?
The most powerful tactic would be regular updates…I know my numbers are up when I make a post
Interviewing the owner of a popular blog is a great way to get more exposure and free traffic for your blog. It can really boost your RSS subscribers as well.
Hi Alvin,
Great article and great question. For my money, one of the most powerful blog marketing tactics is to conversion of blog posts into feature articles.
Wayne Brooks
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