Top 10 surefire ways to increase traffic to a new blog

Increase traffic to a new blog with unique content

We all know traffic is the lifeblood to any website/blog. Everyone needs traffic. Everyone needs loyal subscribers and with 10 blogs springing up every minute, it is pretty hard to cut the competition and stand in front of the crowd. However, if you are consistent and resolute in building your blog/website and taking it to the next level, you will see through it. First 2 years are really hard. You will not get enough traffic to earn even few dollars a day. My personal recommendation is to keep going no matter what. One day your hardships will end and you will start getting the fruit of your labors.

I am going to talk about blogs here because blogs are rich in content and have key elements that attract search engines and human visitors alike. Most of the techniques discussed here are to increase traffic on a blog. The key is to keep hunting for new strategies and online venues that can help bring traffic to your blog. There are literally thousand ways to increase traffic to a new blog. I am listing the top 10 ways that I used to increase traffic on this blog. I am getting around 800 unique visitors a day and this blog is just a month old. I have experimented with a lot of tactics and found a few that are incredible sources of traffic. I am going to share those with you in a moment.

First you need to consider the most important aspect of increasing traffic on a blog – Original and quality content! You might have heard this a million times, but it worth mentioning again. With quality content (minus autoblog shit), you will find loyal followers – followers who will share your blog to death.

10 Great Ways to Increase Traffic to a new Blog

Follow these points by the letter and I am 100% confident that your new blog will start getting some quality targeted traffic within a month:

10 – Install the “necessary” plugins for SEO

There are two ways to get traffic to a new blog – Long term SEO strategy and Short term get ‘em now strategy. To start with, you need to setup your blog for long term SEO rankings. I recommend using:

1. SEO-pressor to optimize blog posts
2. Links energizer for energizing backlinks
3. All-in-one-SEO
4. Head space 2
5. SEO friendly images plugin
6. Network Publisher

Important Note
“I can give you the paid plugins like links energizer and network publisher. To get these plugins, press Facebook Like button to share this blog with your friends and tweet any two posts. Email me using the contact form and I will send you these plugins.”

9 – Share blog posts on facebook and Twitter automatically using Networkedblogs

There is still no WordPress plugin that can automatically post every blog post you write on Facebook. Networkedblogs.com can do that for you. It is also a blog directory that provides your blog a decent exposure there. It also posts your blog posts on twitter using RSS feeds. This decent service will enable you to get constant Facebook and Twitter traffic.

8 – Submit your blog to blog directories

If you want instant exposure and quality backlinks, blog directories are the easiest way to get started. Blog directories list your blog on their sites and give you serious backlinks and traffic. If you have exciting content, visitors will share your blog automatically giving you more traffic. You should list your blog on all top 11 directories:

• Blogged.com – PR 6
• Bloggingfusion.com – PR6
• Blogcatalog.com – PR4
• Bloghints.com – PR4
• bloggapedia.com/ – PR6
• topblogarea.com/ – PR5
• blogexplosion.com/ PR5
• Spillbean.com – PR4
• bloguniverse.org/ – PR4
• blogtoplist.com/ – PR3
• bloggeries.com/ – PR3

A few of these blog directories needs payment to include your blog in their directories. Almost every one of them charges around $10 to $20 for a featured link. Since you are doing business online, I personally recommend that you spend around $100 on these directories because the backlinks that you will get and the traffic that will come knocking on your site will be worth way more than $100.

7 – Run Contests on Facebook

Contests are traffic magnets. If prizes offered looks tempting, people are going to share your site to death. Be imaginative with contests you run. The best venue is Facebook and putting contests on facebook brings loads of visitors to your site.

For a blog like this, a contest of tweeting 2 posts and a facebook like will be tempting in return for prizes like ipod, iphone etc. Take a look around your house. There might be things you don’t use but can be interesting objects for others. How about that sound system you bought last year? That can be a good prize for the winner.

Run contests every week or every month. Keep giving the prizes and you sure won’t need any other traffic pulling tactic anymore.

6 – Give some secret tips and tricks in your niche for a facebook Like

The idea is to do something different that will catch the attention immediately. Remember, your blog is just a voice in the cacophony of voices. It’s pretty hard to hear it when you are saying the same thing over and over. So to be different and to do something that will put your blog’s name in people’s head, you need to create a string of reports that will cause‘uproar’ in your community or niche.

Write revealing articles on the tips and tricks in your niche. If you are dealing in health niche, create a report negating all those balance diet report and create a one of your own or do something different that will attack the norm.

Create a page on your blog and put an excerpt of the articles that are going to challenge the norm. Ask people on facebook and twitter to give you a facebook like and a tweet in order to get these reports. A quality backlink is also a good idea.

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5 – Join related Facebook groups

Facebook groups are all the rage these days. People are joining the groups in thousands. Instead of creating your own group and spend time marketing it, join a few groups related to the niche you are dealing in. Share every blog post there and all the reports and secret articles that you have.

I can safely promise you that people are going to flock your site in hours. The secret ingredient is unique and exciting content no matter what topic you are dealing with. Create catchy headlines and share them in the groups.

Always join groups that have more members (duh), or you can join every facebook group in your niche and start putting blog posts there.

4 – Spin your blog posts and put them on all major article directories

This one is the best and got great results in terms of SEO and human traffic (alas! more search engines bots as well). Spin every blog post you write and put them on all major article directories. I recommend ezinearticles.com, articlebase.com and associatedcontent.com. These three will put you higher on SERPS in no time. These directories also bring more visitors than any one else.

Do not use any automated article submission service because they leave footprints and Google doesn’t like automated services that affect SERPs. It might be a bit more work, but you can always hire an assistant to do these tasks.

3 – Create videos of your blog posts and submit it to all major video sharing sites

This idea has been around for a while. And it is one of the most successful ideas; however, you won’t get many views just by uploading your video on all major video sharing sites. I suggest you sign up for networkwaves.com which helps you upload your videos on youtube, facebook, and others.

You can upload your video on youtube and share it on facebook. This is all you can do, right? Wrong! The best way to get more views is to stumble upon it and share it with other stumblers. You can also share the video on Myspace.com and blip.tv.

However, to truly make your video viral, you need to create it in a different way. Create a story around your product and make sure it doesn’t sound like a bona fide ad! Do something really crazy that will urge people to share it with their friends. That’s how a video gets viral!

2 – Create a network of blogs in your niche and share posts with each other

Creating a network of like-minded friends with online ambitions is one of the most important tasks if you want your blog to reach where mashable is now. Apart from quality content and breaking news, you need a network of friends with blog in similar niche. You can put their blog posts in “related posts” category and get yours to be listed there. Not only will you get back link juice, you will get tons of visitors. This way the network of blogs can share traffic with each other.

You’d need like 10 friends with blogs in a similar niche. For example, if you have a make money online blog, you can friend a person who has an online marketing blog. Share your post with your network and put their posts on your blog linking back to them.

1 – Share a very exclusive report on topic related to your niche on forums/facebook

This is the number #1 source of getting insane traffic almost instantly. Write an exclusive report on a topic that would redefine the notion. For example, if you niche relates to social media marketing, you can create a report on how to bring targeted traffic using tools on social network.

Share the report in related forums and offer it for $20 on your blog. Now when people know that you are sharing this report free on forums and putting it on torrents sites and others, they would rush to get a free copy. You can ask people to give you a facebook like or a backlink or a PR 2 to PR7 site in return for getting this $20 report free. This way, you will get instant traffic and this would generate buzz in no time.

Remember, all this information is exclusive; it is nothing if you don’t act now. Stop reading and start doing these step by step. It might take time, but it will benefit you immensely. You don’t have to do all the steps this weekend. Do it one by one. To increase traffic on your blog, sharing is the ultimate tactic.