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    Blogging, if you know how to do it right, can be a great experience. Unfortunately the majority of people getting online to begin blogging fall into the common frustration of seeing low traffic numbers when they check their stats. Why is this the case? Ultimately it is because getting traffic to a blog is a science, like many other strategies implemented in marketing products and services. There are four ways that can help in achieving more traffic at a quicker rate. Two of the ways to produce an abundant traffic stream consists of writing and promoting your subject and/or niche in other sites, and another strategy to reeling in this traffic is a traditional business tactic in attaining a base of customers; or in regards to blogs, followers.


    1.) Write Captivating Articles

    Article marketing is one of the best ways to attain traffic as it is almost always free and can allow a marketer to express their interests in any desired niche. If you submit articles to directories you are not only getting a steady stream of readers, but you are also building backlinks to your blog site. An example is EzineArticles.com, as it is has its own readership of people looking for topics that you may just be blogging about. Therefore, if you write an article and submit it to a directory a person will not only read your article but also be enticed to visit your blog.

    2.) Reasons to Re-Visit

    Giving people a reason to go back is seen all throughout commercial businesses. For example, stores and restaurants will hold special sales, events, and offers to keep customers coming back for more of what they love; but this time with a lower price or “buy one get one free” offer. This exact formula can also be replicated in your blogging techniques. The idea to keep people coming back over and over can be lucrative and the best way to do this is to create special events and offers. For example, you can give away a new prize each week to new subscribers to your list. In addition, you can also run contests for people who leave comments on your blog posts. In short, making your blog “a place to be” will attract more people as your subscribers may even tell their friends.

    3.) Doing Keyword Research

    Rather than throwing up blogs and expecting traffic it would be wiser to research the keyword data to find terms that are getting a lot of searches. In addition, attaining keywords that have low competition would be a greater choice as it will make your blog easier to rank.

    4.) Link Baiting

    The idea behind creating link baits is stirring enough controversy through your post that you can produce strong emotional reactions by people in order for them to comment and link to your blog post. For example, if a hot new electronic product; like the iPad, just recently came out on the market and everyone is raving about it, you can explain why you don’t like it to your readers in a way that will give you strong emotional responses automatically.

    In short, these are four ways that can be solid; if used appropriately, in bringing in more traffic and attaining a base of avid readers.

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    Thanks. Nice post. A lot of people seem to miss the point and just keep adding content without proper research. You need to relate to your audience.

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    This is a great post, well written. Thanks.

    Generating traffic to one's Blog can be accomplished in a multitude of ways; writing good content and posting these works well if you use a link-wheel strategy; social bookmarking; visitor retention techniques; keyword optimisation etc etc. Ideally one should develop a holistic strategy on paper first, comprising all the different strategies and the integration of these into your business. Planning greatly assists in achieving success. Many resources are free, just a little work is needed to frive traffic.

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    Excellent post. You hit the nail right on the head. Good planning is key for getting traffic to your blog, as well as knowing where you're going with your blog. Is it solely for making money, educational, communicating with friends & etc. I wrote a post recently on my blog about the importance of planning your blog, along with some highly over-looked traffic strategies I think may help people as well. We're still generating free, targeted traffic from article submissions as well. Thanks for the post

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    These are really amazing tactics for getting the more traffic to the blog. Also I think having the good and quality content on the blog helps to get the more traffic.

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    Great tactics for bloggers and blogging job. Thanks for sharing it in this thread.

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    thanks for posting great info!

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    thanks alot for the info

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    There are four ways that can help in achieving more traffic at a quicker rate. Two of the ways to produce an abundant traffic stream consists of writing and promoting your subject and/or niche in other sites, and another strategy to reeling in this traffic is a traditional business tactic in attaining a base of customers; or in regards to blogs, followers............

    Article marketing is one of the best ways to attain traffic as it is almost always free and can allow a marketer to express their interests in any desired niche. If you submit articles to directories you are not only getting a steady stream of readers, but you are also building backlinks to your blog site.Giving people a reason to go back is seen all throughout commercial businesses. For example, stores and restaurants will hold special sales, events, and offers to keep customers coming back for more of what they love; but this time with a lower price or “buy one get one free” offer. This exact formula can also be replicated in your blogging techniques.In addition, attaining keywords that have low competition would be a greater choice as it will make your blog easier to rank.For example, if a hot new electronic product; like the iPad, just recently came out on the market and everyone is raving about it, you can explain why you don’t like it to your readers in a way that will give you strong emotional responses automatically.
    Last edited by jack01; 06-23-2010 at 10:17 AM.

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    Some good points raised in the various comments. One I would like to add is to stay focused and consistent.

    If you stay true to the theme or topic you write about that will be build credibility over time. That is too many blogs sites I go to are too broad in the topics they cover or too eratic in the topics they discuss.

    As such I tend to dismiss these type of blogs, I would rather to go to a blog with a specific and consistent focus. The fact that is focused and consistent tends to give them crediblity in my mind, at least.



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