8 Great Tips On Getting More Readers For Your Blog
If you’re new to blogging, you will soon realize that a blog needs traffic to survive. Even more experienced bloggers have struggled with gaining a large enough readership to justify their work. This article will examine eight tried and true methods to get more readers to your pages.
Forums
New and old blogs alike can benefit from forums. However, you must utilize them ethically and legitimately. Find forums that relate to your niche. Sign up and begin to participate by adding real value to the conversations. Add a link to your blog in your signature so every time you post, you have the ability to get more traffic.
Guest Blogging
This is another great way to get more readers to your blog. When you make a guest post on a more well-known blog, you can link back to your own blog. Find a blog in your niche and contact the owner. Find out if they would be interested in hosting a guest post. You could also keep your eye on prominent blogs in your niche. Sometimes they will advertise for guest posters.
Advertising
There are plenty of paid advertising options out there such as Google Adsense. If you are on a shoestring budget, you can utilize various free methods of advertising. Try trading links with other blogs in your niche or participating in a banner exchange. You can even post a free classified ad online or in a local print paper.
Blog Reviews
Having your blog reviewed on another website is a surefire way to get more readers. The best way to accomplish this is to encourage your current readers to review your blog on their own site. You can also look for blogs that review other blogs in your niche. Performing a Google search using the words “review my blog” will probably garner numerous results.
Quality Content
The best way to ensure your readers stay on board and that they pass on your posts to friends is to write quality content. Optimizing your content for search engines will also help gain more traffic. Remember, having a blog filled with content is useless if the content doesn’t help or inform your readers in some way.
Twitter is one of the greatest things to happen to internet marketing in the past decade. Sign up and begin following people who have an interest in your niche. Once you have gained a large following yourself, you can alert all of your followers to new blog posts or even older ones you think might be of interest.
Social Bookmarking
Sign up for social bookmarking sites such as digg, delicious, and stumble upon. Bookmark each of your blog posts as you post them. This simple method will increase your traffic literally overnight. For ease of use, try an all-in-one bookmarking site like Social Marker that allows you to bookmark your posts to several sites at once.
Directories
Submit your blog and RSS feed to directories. If you can afford it, Yahoo and Dmoz will get the most traffic to your blog. If you’re working on a tight budget, there are a plethora of free blog directories out there and you’ll get great results from them.
Guest blogging and social bookmarking really did bring my traffic to a whole new level and I highly recommend them. It might take more effort but its worth it..
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Thanks for sharing the great tips on how to generate traffic to a blog! I will certainly apply some of them to my blog site.
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Re:Directories
The backlinks from blog directories should be combined with the backlinks from the articles submitted to article directories (on topics closely related to your blog’s most important keywords).
A properly developed backlink program will deliver far more targeted traffic to your blog due to its impact on the search engines than due to the actual directory links themselves.
I maintain a list of The Top 101 Blog Directories & RSS Submission Sites on my blog at:
Blog Directories
Since I update this list weekly there are now 422 entries listed with NO DEAD LINKS.
Try to submit to 3-5 directories PER DAY. This discipline will pay big dividends over the long run.
If you find sufficient value in this list, please link to it in your blogroll.
Thanks.
Best of success,
Robert A. Kearse
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Thanks a lot,
Ari Lestariono’s last blog post..Depression Treatment: Tricks & Tips
Very good tips
don’t forget to sign up for blogcatalog and mybloglog to get more readers.
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Making blog comments is alright, it will give you real traffic and indexed natural by serach engine
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Those are all great tips!
As of now, I’m just doing some commenting on blogs and participating on forums. I don’t have the money yet to advertise my blog.
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Another way to get more traffic and readers is to make comments on other blogs. It is working for me when I started my blog.
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Great tips.
Lately, I also have receive some traffic from Facebook.
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Hi Alvin, Thanks for sharing, I am already no 1 in google with my niche and keywords, still my income from my blog still low, please advice what ways to increase more traffic and conversions, or do you have any other guide to boost your revenue? Thanks in advance
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Did you mention Facebook? Is it possible to increase blog traffic with Facebook?
Keith
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Yes you can get traffic from facebook, just need to implement some strategies like making group, joing them, etc.
Great advices on how to attract traffic to a blog, Alvin. I can surely apply some tips that you give here. Thanks a lot for sharing.
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