How To Get Quality Traffic To Your Blog

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How To Get Quality Traffic To Your Blog

I think it is fair to say that the most important aspect about blogging is the content you write agreed?, well thats all well and done, but what if you have spent 6 hours carefully crafting a unique and wonderful post only for it to languish in the archives of your blog because you have little or no traffic coming to see it, depressing isn’t it?

Getting quality targeted traffic to your blog is not difficult, it just takes time, effort and patience. Follow my advice and you will start to see results quickly.

1. Optimise you blog for serch engines

If you have wordpress as your platform you will already be one step ahead of the competition, as wordpress is the most advanced and ready out of the box platform as far as SEO is concerned, but either way you can make changes to any platform to make search engines love you. First you should get a sitemap installed, this helps search engines like google index your site and helps them understand what your site is about.

Also you should change the permalink set up so that your post urls are set up like this http://www.yoursite.com/category/date/posttitle by default it looks like this http://www.yoursite.com/p=43 this is not good for search engines at all, you can find instructions on how to do this on the web, there are tons of tutorials.

You should also make sure to tag your posts with good keywords that match what the potential reader might be looking for in order to get to your post.

2. Twitter

twitter is one of the most powerful marketing tools on the web, you can get bunches of traffic from there if you do it right. You should invest some time in a custom made background, this sets you apart from the rest and makes you stand out. To get targeted followers you can go to other well established sites profiles in your niche and follow their followers, this is good to start you off but you shouldn’t do this forever, once you get to a few thousand followers people will start following you on their own accord, when this happens make sure you follow them back!

Don’t just use twitter to re tweet your posts you will fail to get traffic this way, engage with your followers and talk with them, ask questions, crack jokes and chat away, set aside an hour a day just for twitter, trust me it is worth the time and investment.

3. Stumbleupon

Stumbleupon is another great tool to market your blog but again you need to do it right, start off for the first few months submitting other peoples content NOT YOUR OWN, build up a nice subscriber base by finding other stumblers interested in your chosen topics, follow them and they will most likely follow you back, only after a few months should you start submitting your own articles and posts.

4. Digg

Digg can be very difficult to get on the front page, if your blog is about technology, Apple, Barack Obama, Bill Gates, or politics then you have a good chance of getting on the front page, which will result in a shed load of traffic, if you don’t have a blog of this sort then you will find it more difficult….but by no means impossible. Like stumbleupon you should begin by submitting stories from other sites not your own, start adding friends with likeminded interests, comment on their diggs and digg their stories and they will then return the favour. After a few months then you can start submitting your stories, or better still ask your friends to submit them for you, you will get more exposure that way. Digg does require more effort and time than twitter and stumbleupon but can still be worth it.

5. Content content content!

By far the most important way to get traffic to your blog is content, and that should be your number one priority, concentrate on creating unique and diverse posts on your chosen subject and keep plugging at it, don’t give up! If you write informative and useful content google will love you for it and will send you more traffic as time goes on. Remember it takes a long time to get thousands of visitors a day, it won’t happen over night! but stick to your guns and you will reap the rewards.

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