After you have done your research on what to do for your blog to be ranked high on search engine, what next is how you can generate traffic to your blog.
The first thing you have to do is writing of articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands
of qualified visitors every day.
When you submit your articles to these directories, you are exposing your name to the
thousands of pairs of eyes visiting them for free! On most article directories, you are also
permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a
simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said
article directories.
Another excellent way to gain traffic is to join internet forums that are based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, you just need to go to any search engine and enter "<your niche>+forum, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a great number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum.
When you join active forums that focus on your field of discussion and post very useful
and valuable posts, your peers will start noticing you and paying attention to what you have to say. In most forums, you are also allowed to append a link to your site in the signature line, which is under every post you make on the forums. People will click and visit your blog if they find your posts helpful and informative. This way, your credibility is built even before they land on your blog, so traffic from the forums would be easier to
turn into profits if your blog is selling your own products or recommending others’ as an affilliate since they are already convinced you’re an “expert” in the field.
The strategy we’ll discuss is word of mouth. Let’s say you already have a daily visitor count of 100. What if you compiled a small report or gift and posted it on your blog, saying that if a certain visitor can refer three of his/her friends to visit your blog the gift will be his/hers for free? If your small report or gift is lucrative enough, it will generate a small buzz among your blog readers and they will surely refer their friends to this blog
that they frequent!
You can also utilize the “blog and ping” technique that everyone’s talking about.
Basically, when you update your blog, you can let blog portals such as technocratic.com know by pinging them. You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free pingnomatic.com
Besides the techniques described here, there are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space. A thing to keep in mind when
buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. If your profit do no offset the expense, you will end up losing money, so choose wisely
