8 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

This is a guest post by Melissa Tamura from Zen College Life.

When you have a blog, one of the main issues is getting traffic to it. Let’s face it, there’s no sense in creating a blog that only you are going to read. You need traffic, which in turn will turn into subscribers, which in turn will make your blog more successful. Here are eight tips for you to use that can help you get more traffic to your blog.

1. Using Effective Title Tags

This is an important part of driving traffic to your blog, as it also relates to search engine results. You want to create a title for your blog posting that your readers can relate to. While this is an important aspect, you will also want to create titles that are search engine friendly. There are websites online that can help you search for phrases related to your blog post that can help you make your posting more search engine friendly. Titles with numbers as well as “How To” articles are very search engine friendly. Here are a few of the websites that let you search phrasing and keyword ordering that can help you get more traffic to your blog:

• Keyword Discovery
• WordTracker
• Overture

2. Use Blogs And Forums Related To Your Blog

This is one of the best ways to drive more traffic to your blog. By commenting on other industry related blogs, you will increase your exposure as there is a good chance that people visiting that blog will likely be interested in your blog as well. Leave comments and always include a link to your blog, even if it is just in the signature you are using. This strategy can really help your traffic explode because if someone from a related forum or blog visits your blog and likes what they see, they will send people visiting their blog or forum to your blog, thus increasing your traffic exponentially.

3. Using Video and Images

People will visit a blog more often, and even send people they know to it, if the content is interesting and diverse. You can show diversity by including video and images in your blog postings. This can help the blog search engine rankings as videos and images come up on search results. This will increase your chances of being seen, as you will not only now be getting results from your text, but now you can see results from properly titling videos and images as well. Formatting your text using bullet points and blockquotes can also be helpful.

4. Publish New Posts As Soon As Possible

Not only do people appreciate fresh content, but so do search engines. By repeatedly publishing new postings, the search engines will index your content more frequently. This creates better search engine rankings which in turn will bring more traffic.

5. Use Your Email Signature To Promote Your Blog

You should always create a signature for every email you send. By simply adding a link to your blog at the end of your email signature, you can have people visiting your blog that may not have even known that you had one.

6. Article Marketing

Become an expert in your field by posting to article sites. One of the most visited article sites is Ezine Articles. Be sure to post a link to your blog at the end of every article. The better your article is and the more informative and useful people find it, the more likely they are going to visit your blog and even subscribe. Writing articles that are specific to your industry can help establish you as an expert in your field and increase your blog traffic.

7. Submit To Directories

There are many blog directories across the Internet that you can use to help increase traffic. Two of the top directories that can help increase traffic to your blog are Technorati and Alltop.com.

8. Syndicate Your Blog To Social Media Sites

Syndicating your blog to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social media sites is another great way to increase exposure to your blog and get more visitors. Almost every social media website has their own process for linking to your blog. Simply search around the website for linking instructions and you will be on your way to getting more traffic to your blog.

This post was written by Melissa Tamura, who ranked the Best Psychology Colleges for Zen College Life, a blog about online education.

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