5 ways to increase Internet traffic to your blog or web site

Posted on September 3, 2007 at 12:44 am

I’ve been blogging for about 5 months now and thankfully I’ve seen my search engine traffic from Google increase from about 100 visitors a day to over 1500. Over the last few months, I’ve written about 350 posts on technology, computer tips, software, etc, but other than content, one of the main reasons my blog traffic has been increasing is because I’ve focused a lot of time on marketing and advertising my blog on the Internet.

By this, I don’t mean the obvious stuff such as submitting to blog directories or buying links into reputable web directories. One of the most important aspects to gaining prominence in Google search results is your ability to generate blog trust. Basically, Google will send you more hits as long as it feels your blog can be trusted more than other web sites that might have the same content. Google determines trust by looking at many factors, one of which is how many quality backlinks your site has.

However, getting good backlinks is not easy! It’s actually quite hard if you’re just starting off and not showing up anywhere in the SERPs. However, you can quickly boost your traffic if you follow a couple of suggestions that I’ve tried out. Remember, these suggestions are only going to work as long as your content is good. If you’re writing about something that no ones cares about, none of the following techniques will help! You need to make sure you write HIGH-QUALITY and UNIQUE articles.

I’ve found that 5 really good well-written articles do much better than 20 quickly-written not-so-interesting articles. The 5 really good articles will be picked up by the search engines and will eventually get you links when people read them. Write some more and you’ll get more links and more trust.

So with that idea in mind concerning content, here’s what I’ve tried and that has been working well for me.

Technorati Tags – I didn’t realize that Technorati tags could help so much! I had written well over 200 posts by the time I figured out that I could get some good links to my blog if I simply used tags. Technorati tags won’t get you much in terms of traffic, but that’s not what you’re looking to do here. I was able to go from an authority of 12 after 3 months to 40 only one month later!
Submit to Article Directories – You’ve probably read this one before, but it’s really important. There are tons of sites out there, the biggest ones are EZine Articles, Buzzle, WebProNews, and GoArticles. Remember that when submitting to an article directory, you want to make sure you submit new content. Do NOT post an article on your blog and then submit it to 20 article directories. It’s going to be duplicate content and will be penalized. It’s best to write one article and submit it to only one or two of the top directories and that’s it. You’ll get a good amount of traffic from EZine and Buzzle! And the links will help your Trust rank also.
Submit posts to tip or knowledge-based sites – I tried this only recently with HUGE results! For example, I submitted a couple of articles to LifeHacker, a site all about life tips, etc, and two were accepted and posted to their site. I received 11,000 hits in one day for one article and 5,000 from the other one. Just by getting those two articles on their web site, I was able to get well over 50 backlinks. Of course, I had to write something good, such as how to detect if someone is spying on you and how to create a locked folder in XP, but it really paid off! If you’re not a tech blog, find the top blogs in your niche and see if they accept tips or ideas from others.
Join and win blog contests – This is not so easily done because your blog usually has to have been around for a while already and have pretty good content. But if it has and you’re getting decent traffic, try to submit to blog contests in your niche. For example, DailyCupOfTech has a weekly Tech Blog of the Week that highlights and links back to the best blog of that week. It’s a great way to get some traffic and get good links back to you.
Use keyword tools when writing posts – Writing a good title for your blog post is essential! However, it is impossible to simply guess what a good title for your post, so use Google Keyword tool, KeywordDiscovery, Overture Keyword tool, etc to find the best target phrases for your content. For example, when I wrote this post, I looked up the keyword increase blog traffic and got a list of possible alternative keywords and search volumes.

Using these five methods above, I’ve seen my traffic increase by 1500% within the last five months. Keep writing good content, but also focus on getting your blog noticed by others and the search engines! Good luck!

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43 Responses to “5 ways to increase Internet traffic to your blog or web site”

Siddharth said on : September 3rd, 2007 at 7:31 am

yummy brother
very nice
can u tell me hw did u submitted your article to lifehacker

BajaeNergy said on : September 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 pm

Woaw … interesting info, so congratulations, cause you write for technology market is a really competitive market.

Is different for me, I have a very nice visitors. But they looking aother kind of niche .. , the energy affairs. Is complicated to, I use to mix, some post only news and another post with my opinion.

Anyway, I think you could develop your 5 ways, maybe could talk about ¨images¨, is important to the google search, whatever .. nice post !!

April said on : September 5th, 2007 at 2:15 am

Submitting articles to other sites is good. I’ve never looked at LifeHaker but I have submitted to other sites although not with quite the success you have achieved.

I do a search for: keyword submit article, which works well.

Trevor said on : September 10th, 2007 at 1:22 am

I really liked the article and i think the strategies mentioned are fantastic, just one glitch, can someone explain how do i get a link to my blog on to some other site. For example is there a way i can put my link on this site. Thanks you.

The Monetizer said on : September 17th, 2007 at 1:21 am

Thanks for sharing these tips here. It is really a wait and see process trying to get your search engine rankings up. I had one day when I saw a serious spike in traffic due to a big story that my blog happened to come up #1 on certain terms for. More days like that would make this a lot more lucrative

Steve said on : September 18th, 2007 at 6:40 am

Thanks for the info about Technorati tags – I must look into that.

Susan Flemming said on : September 20th, 2007 at 11:17 am

Great info. Well presented. I’m going to try to incorporate your “keyword” advice into future blog entries and into my webpages. They are due for a revamp.

Madhur Kapoor said on : September 21st, 2007 at 9:48 am

Nice info buddy . Thanks for telling me about blog directories .

Steven Snell said on : September 24th, 2007 at 7:52 pm

Good points. I also get a lot of traffic from social media websites, so I would add them as a great traffic source.

Mrs. Kwitty said on : September 27th, 2007 at 8:38 am

Thanks so much for the great tips–I actually found the link to this on another person’s blog–so your strategy is working and your info is getting around! Thanks and keep up the good work.
Smiles!

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Traffic2mypage.com said on : June 30th, 2008 at 8:01 pm

i agree about keyword tools to write your post so you rank high on high traffic keywords

what search tools do you use?

i use http://www.seotools.com