Monday, January 26, 2009

Driving Traffic To Your Blog Made Easy For Dummies

By Jenni Snook

If you are keen on driving traffic to your blog, it's vital that you read this article carefully so that you can learn the right techniques that other successful bloggers use to get large amounts of traffic to their blogs. It's likely that you already have a blog about something you are very interested in, have set up affiliate program and adsense on this blog and are patiently waiting for money to arrive through the mail.

Unfortunately, it's not quite that easy, not only do you have to set up your blog, get advertisers and affiliates, but you also must have traffic to your blog. In today's world, blogs and blogging reports are a dime a dozen, you need yours to stand out, be read, get lots of traffic so you can make money.

There is a wide variety of techniques one can use to successfully drive traffic to their blog. However, it doesn't come for free and if you really want to earn an income via blogging, you will really need to sit in front of your computer and work.

There are plenty of websites out there that will allow you to link your blogspot in order to drive business in traffic. If you pick a good business site, whether its merchandise for sale, information, or a directory, and they're getting traffic, linking to that site or that directory can help drive traffic to your blog.

Another great way to drive traffic to your blog is by joining various forums as these allow you to put a signature and link at the bottom of every post. You should find forums which are related to the topic of your blog and start writing posts or adding comments. The more posts and comments you put on forums, the more people will see your link and this way more people will go to your blog.

It would also be handy to add a visitor's handbook to your blog so that you can get feedback on your blog as well as encourage more participation from the visitors. A lot of people are interested in what is going on in your world, thoroughly enjoy your blog and look forward to returning. For this reason, it is vital that you make the website easy to bookmark because this means repeat visitors, which simply means more money for you.

One thing you must be aware of when you are making links to your blog, whether it's in directories, forums or other types of media, is that you must sound or look like you're simply advertising. Any comments or posts that you make must be relevant to the forum or site, otherwise, it's likely that it will be deleted and you might get banned. Your goal should be to make people feel comfortable with your name and your blog.

Remember that if you want to be driving traffic to your blog, you need to make sure that whatever you post on your blog makes sense and is interesting to read.

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