5 Surefire Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

Increasing traffic to our blog would be one of the greatest concerns of bloggers. Many people can’t wait to check their traffic stats every morning. And this traffic can go a very long way to determine what our site would be valued at, which emphasizes the need to grow it significantly. If you are having a very low amount of visits to your blog, you might be fretting over how to increase it to an enviable amount, but all the tips you are reading on those big blogs just seem too impossible for you as a newbie blogger.

If this is your story, then you are on the right page, because in this article I will be discussing five simple and yet very effective ways you can use to increase your blog traffic.

Blog Commenting

Blog commenting might sound outdated and overused, but the fact remains that it works. You just have to change the approach you take towards doing your blog commenting. Instead of randomly posting comments on any post you come across on the internet, why don’t you choose a few blogs and dedicate yourself to them.

Within these few blogs are 80% A-list blogs like Problogger.net and Copyblogger.com etc. Always be the first to read their newest blog post and strive to be the first to comment on them. This doesn’t interpret that you should not post your comment if you find out you are not the first person to do so, just post your comment and try to pass a message across to the readers.

You should do the same with the 20% average blogs that you are going to select too. Do this every day, and blog commenting will contribute to 10% of your blog traffic!

Guest Blogging

Guest blogging would be the second tactic we are going to be looking at. Start writing for other blogs: write content that the readers of the hosting blog would love and appreciate. If your guest posts happen to be the ones readers love to read and share, they will surely come over to see your blog, with the hope to read something of the same quality or better on your blog.

Not only will guest blogging drive traffic to your blog, but it will also help you improve your search engine rankings, and ranking well on search engines means getting more traffic to your blog.

Social Media Optimization

Start using social media to gain readers for your blog. Facebook is not just meant for status updates and chatting with friends alone, it can also be used for something more productive. Use facebook and twitter to share you latest blog posts, and also use Pinterest to gather traffic to your blog.

Social media has helped me gain significant number of readers to my open door loans blog, and this source of traffic seem to be very targeted as social media users can spend time on your blog more than search engine visitors!

Active Forum Participation

How active are you on forums? Do you know that joining some online forums and becoming an active member on those forums can also help you gain traffic to your blog?

There are many forums bloggers can join on the internet. Such forums are the likes of Warrior Forum, Digital Point Forum and so on.

You can gain traffic from these forums by linking to articles that solves the problems of other users in the forum. Adding the url of your site in your signature can also get traffic to your blog.

But don’t engage in spammy activities as that might get you banned from the forum.

Yahoo! Answers

Yahoo! Answers has been there for quite a while now and, if you don’t know yet, it can serve as a good source of traffic to your blog. The process might just be like that of the forums. You answer questions asked by other users, and if you have an article you’ve written on your blog that solves the problem of other users, linking to it in your answer will help that user out and also bring good traffic to your blog.

Conclusion

These tips are tactics that can help you increase traffic to your blog. Spamming them might create a bad impression of you to other users, and using them effectively will go in no little way to improve your blog traffic.