How to Drive Traffic to a New Blog
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Have you recently started a new blog and are wondering how to drive quality traffic to it? I know a few new bloggers that write at least a post a day but don’t seem to generate that much traffic.
In this will post I will discuss a few ideas and techniques to help drive traffic to a new blog.
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Leave comments on other blogs
I’m sure there would be many blogs you have come across that you may or may not have liked. Rather than simply leaving the site you could leave a comment at the end of their post content that you enjoyed reading or that you found useful. By leaving a comment you not only leave a link to your blog but, you also engage with another blogger and its potential readers. Now think about it… if that blog receives 1000 visits per day and you leave an informative comment then you have a pretty good chance that the reader of your comment will come to your blog.
Keep leaving those comments, and make yours stand out from the rest. Don’t just leave a comment such as “hi, I really enjoyed reading your post” for the sake of leaving your URL link. The whole point is to get potential readers come to you blog and stay there. Although this might not bring you thousands of readers at once - you never know when that one reader will be someone influential. -
Participate in writing guest posts for other blogs
If a blog reaps over 1000 visits a day then wouldn’t you want to write for that blog? In this case both the blogger and the guest benefit. The blogger gets a free post and the guest gets a free link.
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Communicate What Your Blog is about
This should be clear so that a visitor landing on your blog can instantly see what the blog is about and what’s in it for them? It’s the same principal as when your looking through a pile of magazines deciding on which one to read, you are unlikely to read a magazine that you don’t know the topic off or that doesn’t look interesting. The point is, If visitors can see what the blog is about immediately then they are likely to stick around on a blog for longer. There are many ways for getting people to a blog - but the key thing is to have something that communicates strongly to them when they get there.
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What Makes You Different?
There are 50,000,000 blogs in the world today and growing by over 200,000 new blogs a day. What makes your blog different? You need to communicate clearly how your blog is different and unique. You can do this in the design, branding and content. New blogs need to work harder at achieving this but it can easily be done.
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Promote your RSS Feed
One way you can do this is to display your RSS feeds on each category. This is so easy to do and a great advantage of adding RSS feeds to each category is that it will display a single category feed when viewing a specific category. This makes it easier for readers to subscribe to their favourite category and it also makes it easier to submit your RSS feeds to directories and bookmarking sites. Read More
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Increase your Blog Traffic using TRACKBACKS
By using trackbacks you are allowing other bloggers to linkback to your site via a post in there a blog. TrackBacks are fantastic automatic features that come with major blogging platforms likes Wordpress, Nucleus, TypePad, BoastMachine, and Movable Type. Some blogging systems like Blogger require plugins to have Trackback feature. Read more
Ultimately it is the content that you write that will make your blog popular and increase the chances of you getting loyal and returning visitors, this is key in growing your readership. Write unique content that your people want to read and try to write them in a way that will engage your readers. Remember if they like what they read then they are more likely to bookmark your posts and come back.
Further Reading
There is much more to be said on the topic of building readership on a new blog
You can find them on my 10 blog traffic tips page. Here are the top 10 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
