15 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

There are a lot of things you can do to drive traffic to your blog. You need traffic in order to earn money from your blog. The question is, HOW you want to do that? I want to give you 25 ways to start driving traffic to your blog today. With a little time and patience, you will slowly start to increase your viewer ship.


1. Post comments on other blogs – You can post your comments or opinions into other bloggers in your niche that are popular and interesting. Participate your voice in the community can makes you popular especially when your comments are more interesting and valuable than others.


2. Register with blog forum – Find the forum that related to your niche and register. Submit your comments and try to be active. Remember,when you register with a forum, make sure to fill out the profile, similar to the blogging services. Make sure to put a direct link to your blog. Put your link in every post that you make in order to help you gain visibility. This is all the more reason to create thought provoking discussions.


3. Register with blog network – You should shows your blog for others to see. You can begin by submitting your blog to search engines, blog networks such as Writer’s write, B5 Media, BlogCatalog, MyBlogLog, TechCrunch, Technorati and much more. Register with them and network with other people to get your word out.


4. Tag your Blog Properly – Tags your blog properly and it’s a crucial steps to make sure your blog to be heard. The tag usually one or two word descriptions of your blog. Dig around specific service and search for popular tags to put into your blog. It’s because the people who are interested in these topics will easily find your site.


5. Social Bookmarking and submit articles - Stay active on the social bookmarking website and bookmark each post. Social bookmarks are bait for the search engines, and this is an opportunity that isn’t to be wasted. Some of the major networks include delicious, Furl, and of course, Digg. These sites will allow you to tag, bookmark, and submit articles that you think are interesting. What’s more interesting than your own work?


6. StumbleUpon – Like the rest of the social networking sites, you create a profile and network with others. But, with StumbleUpon, you can “stumble” thousands of sites that you’re interested in by clicking a button. It’s mean, when you stumble your own site, you can get into the stumble rotation and people that you network with can stumble across it as well.    

 "The surprise packet is StumbleUpon, which over the past year has been consistently in the top two Social Media sites in terms of generating global website traffic. Indeed, in the US in March StumbleUpon was number one ahead of Facebook in terms of website traffic generation."Aodhan Cullen, CEO, StatCounter.


7.   Offer original and quality content- This is the most effective means for increasing traffic to a website; offering people something that they cannot obtain elsewhere, or at least, not to the level of quality that you are offering it. Ways in which to ensure that your content is of higher quality than competitors or is unique.


8.  Trying to get more backlinks – You should  probably know that getting links is one of the most important, and at the same time, most times consuming thing. But, you can gets easy backlinks by getting a proof reader and avoid content generators. Your creativity is your sources of traffic. Read more on 15 ways to drive traffic with backlinks.

9. Improve your search engine ranking- You can improve your search engine ranking by focusing your content on keywords related to your topic. This is called search engine optimization and will help people finding your website when they're searching the Web. REMEMBER! Use the keywords you use is flowing naturally with the text. Besides, you should aware to not overdo the keywords as it will result in a very low search ranking for your website.
 
10. Submit your url to various directories - Back in the early days of the internet, there were no search engines like Google or Yahoo. People found what they needed by searching a directory that was broken into categories. Yahoo.com, Uncoverthenet.com, Goguides.com and much more.

11. Enable automatic trackback and ping functionality.- A ping is an application which can send messages to servers in the search engines, to warn that there is new content on a site. Usually, people will ping their website after update it so that the search engines easier to index your site quickly and positions.


12. Post regularly - If it’s a news oriented blog, 3-5 times per day. If it’s an authoritative blog, 3-5 times per week, but each post must be unique and high value.

13. Create Buzz - Creating a buzz about your blog posts and topic in the local and online media will give your marketing a viral component.


14.Cite the source with link - When you want to tell your readers about something and you have the link, cite the source with a link and don’t be afraid to mention popular bloggers by name. REMEMBER to use keywords in the blog post title, in the body of the post and use anchor text when you link to previous posts you’ve made.


15. Submit to GOOGLE WEBMASTER - Submit a XML sitemap of your Blog to Google Webmasters. You don’t need to do that, but if you know that some of your pages are not spidered yet, then this will get them indexed pretty soon.

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Does the AFFILIATE Programs really work?

Joining the affiliate programs really makes me excited and i believes, by joining any other affiliate programme would turn me into a successful blogger. But, i was shocked when i read one article from the internet yesterday, saying that 95% of all the people never get to make money online through affiliate marketing. WOW! That's a big number. How this happened? They said, one of the main reasons for this to happen is not because they don't have any special skills when they start or because they lack the money to invest when they start their online journey. The real reason that most folks fail to make good money on the internet is just because they get the whole thing wrong from the beginning.

There are many types of affiliates programs such as Search affiliates that utilize pay per click search engines to promote the advertisers' offers, Comparison shopping websites and directories, Weblogs and website syndication feeds, Cost per action networks (i.e., top-tier affiliates) that expose offers from the advertiser with which they are affiliated to their own network of affiliates and much more.

So, how does affiliate marketing work? I put two basic simple rules and give you some tips to increase the probabilities of success online that i quoted from "How Does Affiliate Marketing Work? 95% of People Fail Because They Get it Wrong From the Beginning" by Alfred Sant.

"The first rule is to get your hands in the right system to make money online. This system of set of methods should be sound well elaborated and very reliable. Most people do exactly the opposite; they find certain programs that promise overnight riches online or quick ways to make thousands on the internet. These are usually scams. There are not shortcuts to online riches. Yes, you can make a lot of money online as an affiliate but you have to put time and effort to achieve it."

"The second rule is: Do not allow yourself to get overwhelmed with information. This rule should never be confused with the first one. Remember the first one is picking the right system to fallow. The second refers to avoid being overload with information. You should focus in a single method until you make work for you.
This is the father of all the mistakes online and most people make it even without realizing they are making it. When you first start your journey of making money online, even if you get your hands in a good system, you will usually learn about a different way or methods of affiliate marketing and will want to give a try." So, instead of focusing on how does affiliate marketing work, focus on what to do to make it work and how to make sure you don't make the mistakes mention above.