It is an unfortunate truth that unless you’re blogging just for fun, you will not succeed if you don’t have plenty of traffic. A monetized blog without traffic is destined to fail. This principle is also true for a static website or an affiliate sales page. Fortunately, there are many ways to attract people to your content — and it’s all up to you whether or not you’ll maintain your readership and increase traffic. If you need more visitors to your blog, you must make a consistent effort to publish quality content. Above all, quality articles are what will attract people to your blog or website and keep them there. The following is a list of five ways to help you get traffic — specifically, targeted traffic. The best part is that you don’t need to spend a single dollar, because all of these solutions are totally free.
1.) Produce Quality Content
You must produce quality articles. Posting quality content to your blog is a must, but sometimes even that’s not enough. Give your blog a traffic boost by writing specialized articles and submitting them to high-ranking article directories. At the end of all your articles, just add a URL to the home page of your blog. Search online for article directories to locate these sites. Sign up and start submitting. Just be sure you keep posting quality content to your blog, as well.
2.) Comment on Other Blogs
You must also submit comments on blogs in your niche, if possible. You’re probably not the only person in your niche to have a blog and commenting on other blogs is a fabulous opportunity. Why? Because you can use your comments to get new readers. When you see an intriguing article, just write your own comment and add a link to your blog. For this to work properly, it is essential to be sincere and relevant in your comments. Otherwise, your comment will simply look like spam.
3.) Participate in Forums
You should consider using the forums related to your blog’s niche. If you are targeting several different forums, each participant of that forum may become a future reader of your blog. That means, of course, they may click your ads or buy your products. Simply register with discussion forums on the subject of your blog and participate regularly. The trick is to doing this effectively is to include your signature (a line of text at the end of every forum message you post) with a link to your blog. Your signature should be a catchy little phrase that will draw attention.
4.) Submit to Blog Directories
You ought to submit your blog to blog directories, if you haven’t already done so. Some of these sites separate blogs into different categories. To find these blog directory sites, you can search online for blog directories.
5.) Post Multimedia Content
Create and post some videos. Why not take an old article and turn it into a video? If you don’t want to appear on camera, you can use PowerPoint or free video production software and do a voiceover. Then you can post your video on your blog — or even YouTube or another similar site. If you post the video on another site, be sure to add a link to your blog or web page so that you’ll get a jump in traffic. If the video gets extremely popular and “goes viral”, you’ll get more traffic than you ever dreamed possible.