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February 25, 2007

Blog Traffic Generation – Top 17 Ways to Get Traffic to Your Blog

1. Use only interesting, original content.

2. Write timely posts – ones on topics people will be searching for right now.

3. Write timeless posts – ones with information that people will always be looking for.

4. Provide links to resources that your readers that will find useful or very interesting.

5. Write long blog posts.

6. Get readers to digg your posts.

7. Allow comments to your blog posts (make sure you moderate them).

8. Post comments on other blogs with a link back to your site.

9. Encourage readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.

10. Search engine optimize your blog.

11. Make sure you are always writing high quality content.

12. Include your blog in forum signatures.

13. Submit your blog to all the blog directories, including Technorati.

14. Participate in blog carnivals; this is very similar to submitting articles (use a multi-carnival submission form  http://blogcarnival.com/bc/submit.php).

15. Use Wordpress (use the “SEO title tag” plug-in to better optimize your blog for search engines).

16. Provide email subscriptions, this allows readers to be notified by email of new posts (use the plug-in “subscribe2”).

17. Ping the blog directories (pingomatic.com).


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