The Top 7 Posts Ever Made On Getting Traffic To Your Blog

If you are a blogger and you want to be successful, writing great material, unfortunately, will not get you to your goal. You need TRAFFIC. I.e. the most challenging aspect of internet marketing.

For many a reasons I like DIGG and Stumbleupon. So I will focus on these two sources in this post. Apart from that, I have given you a list of 7 top articles/posts ever written on this subject that I found worth reading.

How do they work?

There are several services on Digg and Stumbleupon that you can use. They allow you to get popularity by sending a few fellow bloggers or visitors over to your site.

Digg works in the following manner: First you upload an article, a story, and a commentary, whatever you like to your blog. When visitors like the content they will rank/rate/flag it on DIGG (to make this process easy, most bloggers use a DIGG Icon next to each post) in other words intimate DIGG that they liked the articles. The more DIGGs you get the higher are the chances that you will get to the homepage of DIGG.

As you see now, if you reach a higher number of popularity hits then Digg will put your submission on its homepage and if it continues to be successful there it will further be placed on the top ten list.

Digg also has a forum for you to add and meet friends who are interested in the same topics and you can discuss what Digg items you find. This way you will build a network that you can direct to your own site. You can also advertise your site on Digg.

The other service is Stumbleupon.

Stumbleupon helps bloggers in the same way as Digg. Based upon good and bad commentaries, while you are trying to “stumble” upon a website, the stumble search that comes up is generated from stumble friends and other members who have the same preferences and tastes as you do. Therefore, if Stumbleupon members enjoy your website, you will get good ratings and some reviews too.

The more ratings you have, the higher up on the Stumbleupon search engine you will be on. Between Digg and Stumbleupon, these are the two top ranked services that will help you launch your website.

Stumbleupon also provides a pay per view service. You can setup a campaign by paying $25 and can get about 500 visitors to your site. The cost per visit is about 0.05 cents.

I highly recommend it. Stumbleupon usually takes 24hrs to approve your campaign. Most recently they rejected my paid campaign to drive traffic to this blog.. Not sure why? May be the dislike the concept of “Make Money Online”

However, even though you use these services, sometimes they are not enough. It is one thing to have people to come to your web site, but it is another thing to keep them coming. There are many things that go into developing a loyal readership for your blog that are beyond the context of this post.

You want to generate buzz about your website by developing top notch blogging skills of your own.

The following are a list of blogging tips to generate traffic to your site.

The first piece of advice is to follow your blog and the commentaries that are left. If people are responding to your website, to your pictures, to your opinions, etc. you need to respond back. With these responses you will create more buzz plus you will be telling your readers that you care what they think.

It also creates a conversation flow. If you start to run out of ideas, hop onto your respondents’ websites and regenerate conversation on your blog.

Some bloggers dislike this process as comments ruin the keyword density of the page, hence they disable the comment function on their blog.

Then you can research other blog websites that are similar to yours. Start conversations on other websites with a similar premise and leave a link to your website. You know that the people leaving commentaries are interested in the same subject as you, so it should not be difficult to win them over.

Once again you will have to write something “out standing” on someone else’s blog to make the traffic follow you.

Try to offer something that your visitors need. If you have quality writing you will keep your readers engaged. If your blog is pure opinions regarding nothing, there is not much there to keep the attention of your readers.

If you write how to articles, news articles, movie reviews anything that is new and fresh that offers your reader more than you creating controversies over and over again..

Remember Blogging is all about substance.

If you are fascinated by rocket science, physics even mechanics, the general population does not understand that language per se. It does not mean that your potential audience is unintelligent; it just means that they are not adept to it because what is the point of reading something that one does not understand.

Therefore, make your passion readable to all viewers. Use ordinary terminology to explain complex ideas or issues. Write directions, a bibliography or have a special vocabulary section to help your readers.

While writing make your blog special(This blog tries to be different with unique videos and demonstrations). If you right plain, in between material that does not make a statement no one wants to read it. Think of it this way.

When you read a headline that makes you sick because of the content it is suggesting such as racism, sex or steroids in Olympics, doesn’t it make you want to read it that much more? Remember Anthrax and Tsunami in early 2000’s

It’s not because you are in favor of the article, it’s because you cannot believe that someone would say something so horrible.

It is provocative. If you do not make a statement, if you are not provocative, you will not get the attention.

Jazz up your website. By revamping your website you will please the senses of your regular readers as well as possibly attracting new ones (this site got a facelift about 10 days ago). You can submit your newly designed website to a CSS gallery which will have a back link to your website. You can also add a translator to your page. By adding this feature, you can attract non native English speakers. The translation may not be professional, especially if it is a free translator, but it will at least get your message across and get some international traffic.

The Digg and Stumbleupon services will provide you with the starting point. If you need further insights… read on…

These Top 7 posts will give you all the insights and catapult you into the spotlight.

Darren Rowse made a phenomenal post on his blog on “How to Get to DIGG’s Front Page” You can read all about it here.

Once there also do check the post “How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog The Advice Of A 12 year Old”

No time to read long posts? Read Seth Godin’s 56 tips to get traffic.

Oh I forgot to talk about Technorati: But You can read about that here

Found this post to be very informative too

David Shaw has some good tips on this. Like his “Yahoo Answer” suggestion.

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