Increasing blog traffic is incredibly easy. You just need a blueprint. A blueprint that lists what you should do to drive more traffic to your blog. In this article, I present to you 101 ways to increase blog traffic. Just follow the points given below to increase blog traffic:
1. Write great content. By writing out articles that are helpful/entertaining and engaging, you'll double your chances of getting visitors and retaining them.
2. Write link bait
3. Use Yahoo! Groups (groups.yahoo.com)
4. Use Yahoo! Answers (answers.yahoo.com)
5. Join MyBlogLog.com. Add as many friends and join as many communities as you can per day.
6. Use a ping service like Pingoat.com
7. Leave comments on blogs in your niche
8. Write press releases
9. Participate in forums in your niche and put your URL in your forum signature
10. Link to other bloggers in your niche
11. Include your blog URL in your email signature
12. Use StumbleUpon.com
13. Use Digg.com
14. Make list posts (For example: Top 7 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic)
15. Get a better design
16. Use pictures in your posts
17. Post videos, especially video tutorials
18. Be the first to break a story in your niche
19. Write controversial posts
20. SEO your blog
21. Interview the movers and shakers in your niche
22. Participate in group writing projects
23. Participate in memes
24. Create memes and tag your friends
25. Participate in blog carnivals
26. Submit articles to article directories
27. Guest post on popular blogs
28. Submit your blog to blog directories
29. Submit yourblog to regular website directories
30. Join BlogBurst.com
31. Exchange ads with blogs who have the same traffic as your blog
32. Add a tell-a-friend script program
33. Make sure that it's easy to navigate through your blog
34. Write great headlines
35. Use keywords in your post titles
36. Pitch bloggers in your niche about your post when your write a great link bait post or post breaking news.
37. Offer a free tool that helps your readers
38. Offer a free ebook jampacked with information
39. Build an email list
40. Run a contest
41. Participate on YouTube.com
42. Install a translation plugin or module on your blog
43. Poll you readers regularly about different topics related to your niche and publish the results
44. Add a fun quiz to your blog
45. Add a forum to your blog
46. Hold a group writing project
47. Add a wiki
48. Write articles on HubPages.com
49. Make Squidoo lenses on your keywords
50. Add your blog's link to related pages in Wikipedia.org
51. Add your blog's link to related pages in WikiAnswers.com
52. Add your blog's link to related pages in WikiHow.com
53. Add your blog's link to related pages in eHow.com
54. Join BlogCatalog.com
55. Participate on Facebook.com
56. Participate on MySpace.com
57. Make sure that your English is good
58. Post frequently
59. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday.com
60. Stage blogging award events
61. Think outside the box
62. Post ads on Craigslist.com
63. Review related products on Amazon.com
64. Review websites in your niche on Alexa.com
65. Whenever you buy a product and if you like it then give out a testimonial to the product creator
66. Make WordPress themes
67. Make WordPress plugins
68. Blog on your own domain
69. Optimize images on your blog for search engines
70. Proofread and edit your articles before you actually post them to your blog
71. Make a custom 404-Error page on your blog
72. Get a logo
73. Get a slogan/catch phrase
74. Use Google AdWords (adwords.google.com) to advertise your blog on Google
75. Have an easy to remember, short domain name
76. Only have a .com domain
77. Purchase the misspelled versions of your domain name and have it redirect to your main one
78. Use appropriate keywords in your image alt tags
79. Place appropriate keywords in your anchor text when linking
80. Outsource
81. Network
82. Add social bookmarking options to your blog
83. Switch to WordPress (WordPress.org)
84. Write funny posts
85. Burn your feed using FeedBurner (feedburner.com)
86. Participate in Google Groups (groups.google.com)
87. Make a good screensaver and make it easy for people to download it
88. Make a good wallpaper and make it easy for people to download it
89. Send surprise gifts to the top bloggers in your niche every once in a while. Don't forget to acknowledge that it was you who sent it.
90. Make a visitor sitemap for your blog
91. Make a search engine XML sitemap for your blog
92. Join and submit your blog to Google Webmaster Tools (google.com/webmasters/)
93. Make sure that your blog loads quickly
94. Switch to a dedicated server
95. Try to answer every email you get
96. Try to reply to every comment you get on your blog
97. Offer subscriptions to comments
98. Display your most popular posts prominently in a separate page and in a section in the sidebar
99. Claim your blog at Technorati (technorati.com)
100. Write a post explaining the concept of feed readers and RSS
101. Write a 101 ways to list
102. Under promise and over deliver
That's all for now folks. If you want even more ways to increase blog traffic then check out my author resource box below for more:
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