When you first start your blog and your intention is to make money online, you’ll realize that something is blocking you to increase your earning. In order to increase your earning, you need to drive more traffic to your blog on regular basis. There is nothing more you can do to make money online if there is no traffic to your blog.
I was asked by many blogger fellow about how to drive significant traffic to their blog, I believe that this is a popular question for all the blogger and webmaster as well. When I first started my blog, I tried many methods to drive traffic to my blog, of course not all methods worked. There are many ways that you can do to drive traffic to your blog, here are 10 ways that I tried myself and found it quite effectiveness, so I would like to share with you guys.
10 Effectiveness Way To Drive Significant Traffic
1) Blog Commenting
No doubt, this is the best way to drive traffic to your blog. Search for similar niche blog, read the articles and leave comment. No spammy comment like “Great Post”, you will just get pissed off by the blog owner. Most of the blog owner loves person who leaves comment on their blog, they will visit the commentator’s blog to see who is reading their blog. If they like the content your blog, they will return and read again. With that said, you’ve driven some traffic to your blog.
2) Word Of Mouth
When we build our blog, we want people to read our blog, we need traffic to make money online. I have many friends around me but not all of them are making money online with their blog, some of them even don’t have a blog. When they know I’m making money from my blog, they will come to ask “hey buddy, what is your blog URL?”, so I’ll give them my blog URL. In this way, I’m successfully driving another badge of traffic to my blog. Keep in mind, don’t be shy to share your blog with your friends even your blog is new and doesn’t generate any income, they wouldn’t know it.
3) Forum Posting
Forum posting will be another way to drive traffic to your blog, perhaps you’ll not be getting much traffic from forum since there are thousands or millions of forumer trying to promote themselves, the competition is strong. Recently I’m quite active in WarriorForum and DigitalPoint, I’ve received some referral traffic from there too. In order to drive traffic from forum posting, you need to be active and helpful in the forum, try to answer as much questions as you can. The last thing is, don’t forget to place a link on your signature.
Here is a list of 130 dofollow forums, I hope you find it useful.
4) Get Featured On Newspapper
This might be a difficult way to drive traffic I believe, but try to get featured on your local newspaper when you get a chance. This blog was featured on New Straight Times (Malaysia’s oldest and largest newspaper publisher) and I’ve got some traffic from there too. You must try to stand out from crowd in your country to get featured, as I’m Top #1 for the keyword “Make Money Online” in Google Malaysia. You must not need to rank #1 for the keyword “make money online” in your country, you can be active and stand out from the crowd in your field too.
5) Do Link Post
Link post is a post that link out to many articles that you find useful and interesting from fellow bloggers. They like their articles to be featured in somewhere else, it goes same to you, aren’t you? When you link to the article, you’ll probably get a trackback from the article, they will like to visit the blog that features their article. In return, they will like to link your article on their link post as well. This is what we call relationship or network, give before you get. I’ve written a link post “66 Professional Blogger You Should Follow” in the past and had good experience with that.
6) Stick To Relevant Content
Content is the factor that keeps your reader to return and read your blog again and again. Writing relevant content as what your blog title says is very important. A reader read your blog because of your blog title says something that attracts them to visit your blog, if you write something which is not relevant to your blog title, says your blog blog title is “How To Make Money Online“, but you write something about health, car, or technology, it doesn’t make sense, so your reader may quit your blog and not to come back anymore. Sometimes you can write about your personal rambling, but not too often.
7) Running A Blog Contest
Blog contest is another popular way to drive significant traffic to your blog, everyone likes free stuff and want to win something from the blog contest. There are various blog contest on the blogopshere, some requires you to subscribe newsletter, write a blog post, retweet the post, social bookmarking the post, you name it, the more points you’ve collected, the higher chance to win the contest.
There is another type of blog contest that the participants need to leave the most comments to win the contest. With that said, they will need to keep visiting the blog to see any new post, so that they can leave a comment or two. This kind of blog contest might bring you tons of traffic, but you need to take some times to approve and reject genuine or spammy comments. The main point is that you need to give out attractive prizes to attract more participants, you can either give out prizes yourself or look for sponsorship.
8 ) Guest Posting In Relevant Blog
I’ve been doing guest posting for quite some times and I love the result. I’ve been submitting some guest posts to the Top Make Money Online blog, MoneyMakerInfo.Blogspot.com. As you know this blog is at the Top 3 for the keyword “make money online” and many other relevant keywords, so the blog is generating thousands unique visitors everyday, so writing a guest post to the high traffic blog might bring you some traffic too. There are many high traffic blog out there, search for blog which has similar topic with your blog, write and submit an interesting guest post to them. You can get some traffic, as well as strong one way backlink.
9) Add Your Blog Link In Email Signature
You might have sent out some interesting forward emails to your friends and family. From there, add your blog URL in your email signature, whenever you send out an email, you have a blog link in your email signature, you will be getting some traffic from there. You send an email to 100 friends and 10 of them visit your blog, how about if you send 10 emails a day? I believe that you might have more than 100 friends in your mailing list, so you might be able to more traffic from there.
10) Add Your Blog Link In Social Networking Profile
Facebook is the largest social networking on the web now, I believe that you know what is Facebook and you would have an account and having some friends also right? Add your blog URL in your Facebook profile, when someone read your profile and they might be interested to visit your blog too. You can also post the link of your latest article on your wall. The function is similar to Twitter, so be sure you have signed up both of them.
Conclusion
Here are the top 10 ways that I found it quite useful and effectiveness to drive significant traffic to our blog, now the step you need to follow is action. Many people knows the way to drive traffic, but they don’t want to action due to laziness, that’s the biggest block and you need to avoid this.
Have you done any method that listed above? Or what method did you use to drive traffic to your blog?
About Lee Ka Hoong
Yeah, surely we can drive significant traffic with this ten tips. I already use some of it with great result, and will use others tips soon for sure.
.-= Dana @ Online Knowledge´s last blog ..Facebook For Blogging =-.
@Dana,
Cool! Hope you find this useful and drive you some traffic by following these tips too. :)
Great Post!
Oh you want more than that don’t you? LOL!
Everything you mention Lee, is spot-on.
My recent contest gave me lots of extra traffic (thanks to my blogging buddies, like you, who sponsored a prize and promoted the contest).
Plus guest posting has really helped as well.
A few others which have helped me immensely:
1. I know you mention Twitter. I would go one step further and add the TweetMeMe plugin button like you have here on this blog. It makes it so easy for visitors to retweet.
2. Send a few lines of the blog post to your email list, teasing them to come and look at the full post. While they visit they may look around elsewhere.
3. Submit your blog post to relevant blog carnivals. It doesn’t bring a lot of traffic but it can help with backlinks and backlinks are always worth adding/having.
4. Write a blog post that helps people overcome their problems – exactly like this one does and tell your blogging buddies about it.
Great post!
Andrew
.-= Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com´s last blog ..What is the best blogging platform? =-.
@Andrew,
Hey my best friend, thanks for dropping by and leaving a valuable comment!
You had a great contest, you deserved it! Unfortunately, I didn’t win a prize. ;)
You have listed some great ideas here, appreciate it Andrew! I totally agree with you with the #3 and #4 from your list, writing a blog post that helps people overcome their problems is a very effectiveness way, but you need to know what your audience want and then you feed them with what they want.
Well said Andrew!
Andrew is really great man that he take so much time by commenting on blog and I agree with his point on traffic.
Lee I want to ask you one question that if you are top for the keyword “make money online” then will you get continuous traffic for that keyword. Like Alan Liew, his blog is top ten for keyword “make money online”, but is he get daily same traffic for that keyword? I ask the question because when I get my blog top ten for keyword “legitimate work at home jobs”, I see big traffic change for some day, but now I do not get traffic from that keyword. So what the value of top ten?
.-= work at home´s last blog ..Twitter work at home program-Ad.ly [Digg] =-.
@Chandan,
When I was in the top ten for the keyword “make money online”, I did receive more traffic for some day, but competition was strong and my blog dropped to 2nd page. Between, I don’t see your blog within 5th pages for the keyword “legitimate work at home jobs”? Is your Google search result showing that you’re in top 10 for the keyword? Perhaps you clear your cookies and try search again.
Let me know Chandan.
Yes now my blog is not top ten for that keyword, when I was optimizing my blog for that keyword that time my blog was top ten. But even I hardly get some traffic, after all I though that there is lots of search volume of that keyword. So I leave to optimize my blog for that keyword. Now I am optimize my blog for keyword “work at home opportunities”. Let see what happen.
@Chandan,
Remember to keep us updated your result. :)
You are right! The problem for me as a new blogger now is the low traffic. I have tried some of the method you suggested. However, i still fail to drive much traffic. However, i would like to do it more frequently and to be more patience. Thanks for your sharing! You always provide a lot of valuable information to people!:)
.-= Kok Siong Chen´s last blog ..Smoking Cessation Intervention to Quit Smoking Effectively =-.
@Kok Siong,
Yes, you need to be more patience. Keep writing unique and useful content, traffic and money will follow. It’s time consuming, but you’ll be successful in future. :)
Commenting works, but it doesn’t drive me most traffic. It helps me get more loyal readers and comments while social media is awesome to drive traffic if we learn how to leverage it the right way. And in case our blogs offer quality content, visitors from social media are likely to subscribe and become loyal readers. Moreover, they may help us to spread our contents again on social media and so far. I call this “wave”.
.-= Phaoloo´s last blog ..3 Essential Tricks To Do With StumbleUpon Toolbar You Might Not Know =-.
@Phaoloo,
I agree with you. List post sometimes can be very popular and generate the most traffic from social bookmarking site such as Digg, stumbleUpon and the like. In any case, writing great and unique content is the best way to drive traffic and keep loyal readers to the blog. Of course, that’s the most critical part.
Well said Phaoloo!
Lee, Why you remove top commentator plug in from your blog?
.-= work at home´s last blog ..Twitter work at home program-Ad.ly [Digg] =-.
@Chandan,
Just now I made some changes and the plugin disappeared for no reason. It’s back to normal now. :)
that 10 really basic principle all blogger need to do to get significant amount of traffic (of course getting acknowledge by newspaper/media is not for all, but if get the chance grab it). :)
.-= izzat aziz´s last blog ..How to Really Promote Your Blog On A Forum =-.
@izzat aziz,
For the featured by Newspaper part, I’ve asked the same question in a post from JohnChow as he was featured by his local newspaper too. After a few months, I was featured by my local newspaper too, so I believe that this is impossible and everyone can do that. :)
nice post..
.-= Rajesh Kanuri´s last blog ..Google Redefined Product Search: It’s Easy to Shop Now =-.
@Rajesh Kanuri,
Thanks buddy.
Right now I am only doing some blog commenting so I am not getting some spike on traffic.
.-= Diabetis´s last blog ..A Diabetics Intuition =-.
@Diabetis,
Great! So you might need to try other ways to generate more traffic to your blog now.
Don’t forget Stumble Upon and Digg. :)
.-= Jayce´s last blog ..Canon EOS 400D Firmware Hack =-.
@Jayce,
Yea forgot to mention about this, Digg and Stumble Upon does generate some traffic to my blog too.
Thanks for reminding me about this Jayce. :)
No problem. ;)
.-= Jayce´s last blog ..How to hack Facebook account profile =-.
Thanks for the method. I have always use the first method to blog commenting at the related and my interested blog.
.-= KevinChong´s last blog ..Web Development India =-.
@Kevin,
Great! Repeating it and you’ll get well known in the blogopshere, at least people knows you’re exist. Also, you can try other methods to drive more traffic to your site.
Yeah, I will try it another method out coming soon. Now I am focus is the blog commenting to build backlinks to my website http://beesz.com
.-= KevinChong´s last blog ..online bachelor degree =-.
good . you provide many way to drive traffic , i know your success came from the first way. you are great commentator lee and thanks anyway for this great tips
@Jeandsen,
I used to comment in more than 10 blogs a day to catch up with every blog buddies. I believe that relationship could help in online business. I hope you enjoy reading and find it useful. :)