Traffic is very important for the success of any blog or
website. Whether you are selling a product, run a corporate blog or blogging to
you is just a hobby, many real visitors coming to your site makes you feel like
you are really talking to the world. Of course you can keep a small community
however if you want to be rich and famous, you’ve got to get your name out
there. Get everybody taking about you. That only happens if your content gets
read by many people who will share with friends and friends of friends.
There are many ways
to make people visit your website or blog. The first thing you have to do is
ensure that you have quality content. People don’t share crap. People don’t
subscribe to substandard blogs. If you have no mastery of the subject, people
will find a better alternative. That is what search engines are for. To get
your visitors spoilt for choice. Make sure that you have something that grabs
and keeps their attention.
The first place to find lots of free traffic is social media.
Say Facebook. You can even go viral in a week and have thousands of free visitors
coming to your site. If you are selling a product, friend recommendations work
best. A person is more likely to buy a product if a friend of theirs vouches
for it. Social media is the best place to encourage and drive friend
recommendations.
Another way to get highly targeted traffic comes from the
search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing. You need to optimize your site
for the search engines so that you can reap this free traffic. If your site
appears at the top of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) you could be
getting lots of relevant visitors every day. Most of Search Engine Optimization
is about building links. While most people will tell you to build as many links
as possible, I would advise you to take your time to build links on pages that
rank. Links should be a way of helping people navigate around the web and not a
way of manipulating a search engine. If you build a links towards your money
site by writing blog posts on web 2.0 sites like wordpress.com ensure they are
quality enough to rank. You will get more traffic towards the money site this
way.
You can also get traffic by guest blogging. If you know a
friend or someone with a blog that gets decent traffic, you can offer to write
them a quality post. They will of course
leave a link to their readers explaining who wrote the post. That way the
readers of the blog you guest post to will become interested and visit your
blog.
When everything fails, advertising will never go wrong. By
choosing good targeted advertising, you can drive people to your site or blog.
A good advertising program is Google Ad words. You are however free to choose
one that suits you or is best suited for your situation.
Commenting on related blogs is also another way of getting
traffic for your site. If somebody likes your comment they might like to visit
your site. The bottom line here is that you should never spam. If you do your
comments might be deleted or worse, nobody will take you seriously. Nobody
likes spammers you know.
Last, you can try forums. Join a fairly busy forum and be a
good productive member. People will always follow people they think have
something of use. Always present yourself as a useful person and you will go
far.
