How to Drive Targeted Traffic to Your Blog in 72 Hours
Wed, Mar 25, 2009
If you are struggling to drive traffic to your blog, you are not alone. The #1 reason why most bloggers don’t make money is because they are not driving TARGETED traffic to their blogs. Although some blogs receive hundreds of visitors each day, they are not making a single cent! Most bloggers are not driving the right traffic to their blogs. Therefore, it is important to know where to find the desired traffic. Having said that, poor traffic is still better than no traffic!
Here are some places where you can drive targeted traffic to your blog within 72 hours. Why 3 days? Let’s be realistic. Some websites recommended here need a couple of days to approve of your listings. And you need a couple of days for the visitors to these sites to find you. You will need at least 3 days to drive good-quality traffic to your blog/site, but it is worth all your efforts. Let me explain below.
1. Write killer articles and submit them to article directories such as EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com, Articlesbase.com & ArticleCity.com. These 4 directories have PR of 5 & above and articles submitted here are often indexed by Google. You can literally forget about the rest of the directories, as it is a real waste of time. Let me quote an example of how effective EzineArticles.com is. One of my articles on weight loss generated 712 views within 12 hours of approval, with 29 URL clicks and a sale made! You need to have a good article with a catchy article title though. And that is only from the submission to 1 article directory!
2. Get links from other people’s blogs. Although this method is quite effective, it has been abused and most blog owners regard comments as spam. To get traffic from such blogs, you need to find relevant blogs. You can easily do so by using Google (under more, select blogs). Take a couple of minutes to READ the blog posts, and then leave a comment pertaining to that post. Comments such as “Thanks for your post! Please visit my related blog”, “That was cool! Please…”, “Come visit….” are unprofessional and spammy-looking. If you wish to get a link from that blog, make an effort to post a sincere comment and link back. It only takes less than 5 minutes. If you spend half an hour each day doing this, you will have 180 one-way, quality links in a month (theoretically, of course!).
3. Bookmark your sites at social bookmarking sites. There are many others, so this might take quite a while. However, bear in mind that some social bookmarking sites do not allow you to bookmark your own blogs/sites. So what you can do is to ask you friends to bookmark for you.
4. Social networking sites such as Facebook allow you to post your blog URL. They do allow you to create groups as well. It is easy to find the people you are targeting using such groups.
5. Submit to blog search engines. These sites are specifically-tailored to search for blogs around the world, and they have high PR rankings.
There are so many other ways to drive traffic to your blog. If you have more ways to drive traffic to your blog, please share them here.
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Tags: blog traffic, Facebook, Social bookmarking, Traffic Generation
Social traffic don’t create sales. They are wasted of time. Submitting to social networks is good for only SEO and nothing else.
Thanks for stopping by Damilik. I agree that most social traffic doesn’t result in conversions, however, not all blogs are about making money. Some blogs are written by those who simply have a love for the topic and want nothing more than their voice to be heard. In which case, social traffic can be a great way to build up your readership and a following for your blog.