If you have a blog, you want people to see it; otherwise you would be writing in a journal stashed under your mattress, NOT on the World Wide Web. This means you need more traffic coming into your blog. If you don’t have visitor traffic coming to your blog, not only will your message not get out, but you won’t be able to make any MONEY either!
No matter how much traffic you have coming into your site, you could have more. The following tricks are free tips that you can use to help drive more traffic to your blog, and in turn, boost your revenue.
1.) Write for an audience that is likely to share.
Those most likely to share are those with their own blogs or sites. Also highly likely to share are those who are active on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn. Of course, these folks also need to have some interest in your niche and topic, and they need to like your writing style and point of view.
What will they want to share? They will pass along content that they find to be particularly helpful, thought provoking or entertaining. Provide infographics, tell stories, make videos, provide facts and challenge conventional wisdom in your niche to inspire more sharing. The more valuable they find this content, the more likely they will be to pass it on.
2.) Answer questions.
Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers and Answers.com can sometimes seem silly, but they serve a purpose. There are people who go there for answers to legitimate queries that couldn’t be resolved with a web search. You can help them.
Don’t answer just any question. You should answer high quality questions that have thus far received few (or poor) responses. Pick questions that are high ranking or featured.
Answer questions in a way that makes them valuable for more than the original poster. Give an authentic answer with relevant links, ideally for your posts. Ideally, if you have time, create a new post that focuses on the subject, and link to that. Make sure that your answers are quality all the way to drive traffic; if you give a poor answer or just leave links, you will be accused of spamming.
3.) Utilize your email signature.
Letting others know you have a blog is a quick grass roots sort of way to drive traffic. It is hard to drop in the fact that you have a blog into every email message and conversation you have, however.
What you can do is utilize your email signature to let everyone you send a message to know about your blog. Not only should you provide a URL, but you should link to your related social media accounts as well. This may not give you the biggest boost in traffic, but it can help to convert people you already interact with into visitors.
There is quite a bit that you can do to increase your blog. Firstly, you can write a press release and promote your blog that way.
Secondly, you can submit your blog feeds to RSS feed sites for free.
Thirdly, you can promote your new blog on social bookmarking and networking sites including: Ezine Articles, Buzzle, Wetpaint, WordPress, Furl, Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon,
You can also create relevant and interesting articles on your blog topics that would drive traffic to your site.
Also I suggest that you join forums relevant to your blog topic.
Interesting!