DRIVING TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

So how do you drive traffic to your blog? Here are seven quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.

1. Tell People about it: Let your friends and family know about your blog. You can drive a lot of traffic to your blog by telling your family members, relatives, colleagues in the office or at work, neighbors, course mates and others about your blog. Tell them to read you articles and comment on them, tell them to give you feedback and tell their own friends about the blog too.

2. Ping your Blog: There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you've updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. I've made a list of 50+ blog services you can ping on my site. These list are also available if you search Google or any other search engine for it. That should be enough to give an initial boost to your traffic.

3. Add buttons to popular news readers: What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or Google or bloglines etc, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let's say 50 blogs listed on one page.

4. Update your content regularly: Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It's very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regularly. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What's too many? 10 or more.

5. Use Articles to market your blog: Write articles about your topic and send it article directories like
ezinearticles.com, goarticles.com, articlealley.com, articlebase.com, etc. After the article, write a little about
yourself and your blog as signature. This will draws readers of your article to your blog.

6. Post in forums: Post in forums, but don't spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling cds, post in forums that are about music and cds. Don't post in car forums if you're selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like Google or msn or yahoo.

7. Submit to blog search engines: There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just Google for ‘blog search engines’ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.

Follow these 7 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don't forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself.

source: INDIGITALworks.com