As bloggers we know that there are massive amounts of ways to drive traffic to your blog. In my opinion, the most important is relevant content that’s both personal and creative. Personal allows your potential clients to get to know the real you while creative offers solutions to their everyday challenges or concerns.
However, there does come a time when we’re looking to expand our blog reach and need to dive into additional options. While the six I’ve outlined below may be something you’ve tried already, my hope is to plant a few new seeds that could grow into long term traffic solutions for your blog.
1. Comment on Blogs
The goal is not to drop by, plug your business and move on. The goal is to build relationships and forge connections with other bloggers by offering insightful and educational comments. Just think about the possibilities. If you offer advice that a potential client finds useful, it’s likely they will visit your site to learn more about you and your business.
2. Use Social Bookmarking
Submit your articles (rss feeds) to various social bookmarking sites. Here are just a few:
You also need to add a social bookmarking plugin to your blog. There are several popular options for WordPress including:
My bookmark plugin of choice is Add to Any.
3. Submit your site to Directories
4. Submit your blog to Search Engines
5. Use Feedburner –
Once you’ve completed the steps above, ping your blog to Technorati and allow your visitors to subscribe to your feed through Feedburner. To “ping” is a way of sending an alert to a website(s) and notifying them that you have updated the content on your site/blog. This process can be quite tedious if you’re submitting from one site to the next. Quickly send updates to multiple sites with Ping-O-Matic.
6. Write better articles and more often! Content, content, content
Writing superior content can be one of the easiest ways to drive traffic to your blog and build a loyal following. Compiling a list of great content not only substantiates you as an authority in your field, but also in your local market.
However, it’s not just about quality. It’s also about quantity. You will quickly lose subscribers if you’re not posting on a consistent basis and adding fresh content several times per week.
Put you (your heart and soul) into each post and the traffic will come. Being anonymous can be convenient at times, but to generate loyal blog followers they will need to connect with your voice by hearing what’s important to you. Find your voice and you’ll find loyal and raving fans willing to share the love of your blog with others.
Good Morning Rebekah,
I just wanted to take the time this Sunday morning and tell you that is article you wrote about driving traffic to your site is one of the best articles I’ve read in the past year. I just started real estate investing about a year and a half ago and I just lauched my blog site http://www.topchicagorealestatenews.com a month ago and I wish this was written 4 weeks ago lol. But going forward I appreciate this information. I will utilize this to the best of my ability. Thank you so much and Happy Mothers Day to you.
Regards,
Shannon D. Hughes
SH Properties
708-466-4033 mobile
sdhughes31@sbcglobal.net
http://www.topchicagorealestatnews.com
Thank you so much Shannon! You’ve done a great job with your site. I know how much time, effort, blood, sweat and tears goes into a project like that. Since you’re in Chicago, I though I’d mention that I will be there next week speaking at a mortgage industry event. It’s all technology talk centered around the RE industry so right up your alley. Here’s a link in case you’re interested: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=156082604442809
Happy Mothers Day to you and enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Thank you for this awesome article! Inspiring! Have a great weekend! Best, Fernando
You’re welcome Fernando! Enjoy your Sunday!!
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