First of all a big “thank you” for every one who participated. As I said before the number of entries surprised me (and the quality as well, I will definitely apply some of those tips myself).
Now, without further delay, the 30 Traffic Generation Tips:
1. Sridhar Katakam
Keep track of blogs and leave comments on them. A good way to keep the conversation going is to install a MyBlogLog widget and visit the blog of people visiting your site.
2. Ian Delaney
Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.
3. Yousif H
The secret to any traffic generating strategy starts with crafting a powerful and effective value proposition that shapes your brand’s image. Make sure to clearly echo your company’s value proposition on your website, stationary, postcards and even business cards to ensure consistent messaging.
4. Scott Townsend
Inform search engines and aggregators like Technorati (using the ping functionality) when your blog is updated, this should ensure maximum traffic coming from those sources. (check the List of Ping Services)
5. Kyle
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter “for dummies” version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results. Perhaps this is why it results in increased traffic; people looking for more help or clarification on the subject will land on your blog.
6. Grant Gerver
Try to be polemic. I write obsessively about all-things political from the left-wing perspective in the form of humorous, sarcastic one-liners.
7. Daniel
A simple tip that will probably boost your page views: install a translator plugin. I decided to use a paid plugin for this, but if I am not wrong there are some free ones as well. The translation is not very good, as you can imagine, but it helps to attract readers that are not fluent in English.
8. Rory
Submit articles to blog carnivals (http://blogcarnival.com) that are related to your niche. Your article almost always gets posted, and it must generate a handful of visitors, at least.
9. Ramen Junkie
Newsgroups. I always see a spike when I post a review to a newsgroup.
10. Eric Atkins
Create a new design for your website. Not only will it be more attractive to your regular readers, but you can submit it to some CSS gallery showcase sites that feature great designs. This will give you exposure on those sites while generating a lot of traffic and backlinks from those types of sites.
11. Megan Taylor
Participate in conversations on related blogs. Start conversations on your own blog. Don’t just post about a story and leave it at that, engage your audience, ask questions and call to action.
12. Guido
Comment on blogs, write useful content and make good friends on forums.
13. Brian Auer
You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.
14. Shankar Ganesh
Just browse around MyBlogLog.com and you will surely get visitors to your blog. Also try to join as many communities as possible that are related to your topic.
15. Andrew Timberlake
A great tip for generating traffic is off-line by including your url in all your off-line liturature from business cards, letterheads, pamphlets, adverts through in-store signage if applicable. I even have our website on my vehicle.
16. Cory OBrien
Read lots of other blogs. Leave trackbacks. Make sure your blog is optimized for search engines. Leverage social bookmarking sites like digg (both for new ideas and for traffic).
17. Jester
Leave comments on other blogs. If you’re already reading them, it takes
just a couple of seconds to leave a message agreeing or disagreeing
with the author, you get to leave a link to your site, and you will almost
ALWAYS get traffic from your comments.
18. Goerge Manty
Post 3-5 times a day. Use ping services like pingomatic or set up wordpress to ping some of the ping services. Engage your readers. Put up polls, ask them questions, give them quizes, free tools, etc. Make them want to come back and tell their friends about you.
19. Engtech
Community. It’s one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only “blog metric” that makes sense is the vibrant community of readers it has. Building a community around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always “SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs” but it can be simplified to “be part of a community. The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.
20. Chris
Squidoo Lenses are a good way to generate traffic. By using a lense,
you can generate your own custom “community” of webpages, including some
of the more popular pages in your “neighborhood.” Including your own
webpage in such a list is a good way of generating traffic.
21. Splork
I’ve had good success writing articles and submitting them to EzineArticles. Articles that have been written from well-researched keyword phrases and accepted by EzineArticles tend to rank very high in Google for that search term. Placing anchor text in the footer of those articles so the reader can visit my relevant website has always increased my site traffic.
22. Jen Gordon
I came upon some unexpected traffic when my blog popped up on some css design portals like www.cssmania.com and www.webcreme.com. If you can put some time into the concept behind and design for your blog, I’d recommend submitting your site to a design portal not only for
additional traffic but to build an additional community around your site.
23. Kat
I’ve recently gotten involved with several “MySpace-like” community sites that focus on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I’ve even created a group for my specific niche. It’s been very, very successful for me.
24. Inspirationbit
Well, obviously everyone knows that social bookmarking sites like Digg, del.icio.us, etc. bring lots of traffic. But I’m now submitting some of my articles to blogg-buzz.com (a digg like site for bloggers), and I always get not a bad traffic from there.
25. Mark Alves
Participate in Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers where you can demonstrate your expertise, get associated with relevant keywords and put your URL out there.
26. Tillerman
Be the first to write a post about the ‘Top Ten Blogs’ in your niche. The post will rank highly in any general search for blogs in your niche and other bloggers in your niche write about the post and link to it.
27. Nick
Participating in forums is a great way to get loyal readers. Either link baiting people in your signature or posting great advice and tips will give you high quality traffic, which will result in return visitors.
28. Brandon Wood
A simple trick I’ve used to increase traffic to my blog is participate in group writing projects. In fact, that’s what I’m doing right now.
29. Alan Thomas
Don’t forget your archives. I just posted a roundup of all interviews I did over the past seven months. One of them generated a new link and a big traffic spike from a group of users that look like they will be loyal readers now.
30. KWiz
Write something controversial. I don’t think it’s good to write something controversial just for the purpose of getting traffic necessarily (especially if it’s only for that purpose and you’re being disingenuous), but it works.
31. Dennis Coughlin
Find the best blogs on your niche and contact the authors. Introduce yourself and send a link of your blog. This might help them to discover your blog, read it and possibly link to it.
I have been searching for tips for more traffic on my blog. Almost all have the same advice but I think it is still great to hear them fro a person such as those listed above. It is amazing to see many responses in a post like this. This means that many are willing and very eager to improve their blog taffic. I am one in the lists.
For the 30 who shared their view above, thank you for your ideas. Ill start some of the techniques… I am already practising others. ^^
These are some great tips. But don’t forget content is the king.
Can someone give me Google specific advice for traffic generation, or does google use Adwords to direct traffic?
Oh.. too many great tips. .thanks
Code4Gold you have offered some very real and effective words of wisdom, which I feal are worth there weight in Gold. I don’t normally read very many comments but I’m glad I did today.
I googled today with keyword: “generate traffic to my blogs” and found this blog. Thanks for the content, Really it is very helpfull to new bloggers, I really like this blog and got complete idea how to blog and what should be in my blog and how it will come in search engines as well as how i get good traffic. Thanks again for such a good content.
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New to the blogging world this list is a great help.
Thanks for sharing it.
great source……I think all tips above very useful to build traffic…thanks
Hmm.. thank you for these great ideas
Learn the Google Dominator trick of social marketing and RSS Feeds. the combination is awesome if you know exactly what to do. Great tips.
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How about getting answers on `What everyone learned from having their sites submitted to Digg?
Simplify. Pay attention to complex issues in your field of work. It may be a big long publication that is hard to wade through or a concept that is hard to grasp. Reference it and make a shorter `for dummies version with your own lessons learned and relevant tips. When doing this, I have been surprised to find that the simplified post will appear before the more complex version in search results.
thanks for conducting such a nice program on this site. it was very educational.
so far stumble upon and reddit has been the winner for me. For last hour only they have sent me 300 unique visitors.
When comparing traffic from social media networks i prefer the reddit traffic the most. They tend to spend more in the site when comparing with su and digg visitors.
I tried blogrush and it was a completely useless. And while myblog show me the visitors, bloctalog send me visitors 🙂
Can someone pleaze , I repeat pleaze tell me what to do with this, because i don’t understand, explain me like a noob, pleaze if someoane can do that i will apreciate…thx 🙁
Great Post. It did help me a lot. Thank for the 30 tips. I will keep reading about this. Hope you more more tips how to generate huge traffics…
thanks for the tips. Good blog post.
A few good new tips for me here, which I shall put to good use and take my blog to the next level.
Some good points and all will generate traffic but no-one has mentioned the THE biggest traffic generator of all in the last two years…
What is it?
Video…
The great thing about it is that there are so many places to upload your videos and then link to them. Tubemogul is great and only needs one upload for distribution and tracking to all the most popular sites… I use it all the time… Oh, and it’s free.
I suggest that all small business owners introduce video marketing somewhere in their campaigns.
How about introducing yourself by video on your blog… you don
‘t see it very often do you?
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Thanks. Great Blog.
Its true if you want to get good traffic you must never stop blogging and make it good content.
Backlinks on other blogs are good too.
Thanks alot for these great traffic generation tips!
There is some very good information here. I actually incorporate many of these ideas into my own blog already, but have to stand by ‘community’ as being one of the biggest audience getters. Not enough can ever be said about the importance of links, forums, back-links, etc. Also, don’t be afraid to reach out to larger sites-just because they get more traffic does not mean they won’t support what you do.
Something I had been wanting since long time.
Man I could not resist bookmarking this page.
Thanks
wow, its worth of reading all of the tips , it is very tired but as you read 1 by 1 , you will soon have intension to read the rest. i did however found some good tips such as participating newsgroups & forums.Now im starting to google around the world to find some newsgroups.
GREAT article another one that i just had to compliment, another great informative article.
Great tips! We can all use more traffic.
Wonderful list of tips. I had to chuckle that I was not using my MyBlogLog widget correctly – I need to keep the conversation as you said and visit my visitors. Should be common sense, but I somehow missed that one. Very easy to implement LOL.
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Ebay’s forum gave me 500 hits with 1 single post, just blend your link with a topic, bump it once or twice until everyone in the community goes to the link, then you can start posting that in another section that’s related.
Thanks for sharing this useful list.
Excellent post. I will try this. Thanks for sharing 😉
nice traffics tips,
I must agree with buying traffics,
unless u know where the traffics came from, do not buy on such offer.
regards.
i certainly want to apply your post to drive more traffic to my website. thanks for your good post. love it!
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This is a really interesting list. Thanks for the notes! Keep them coming.
Thanks a lot. grate post!
I’m defenetly gonna try these things i am just starting a new blog.. thx
I am trying to use most of these tips, and I find they do work. Thanks a lot.
Excellent tips Daniel, thanks!
Thanks for sharing this useful list. Really good points listed here. Even the links/trackbacks will serve me well, but will take a long time to go through.
i wanted more traffic 2 my blog. hope ur article will help me thank you 4 this post
very usefull info, gonna use it right away, cheers
Cheaters in the system are always loosers at the end.
Never be a copycat. Always write valuable original content, and you’ll be the winner!
Thanks for sharing these tips!