Four Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

Blog owners want more traffic to their blog; however increasing relevant traffic to your blog is what we must strive for.

Increase Blog Traffic 1. I've recently gotten involved with several "MySpace-like" community sites that focused on my target audience. I share my thoughts in their forums, post intros to my real blog on their system blog and I've even created a group for my specific niche. It's been very, very successful for me.

Increase Blog Traffic 2. When you're writing a title tag for the people who will visit your site or have a subscription to your feed. Title tags that are short, snappy, on-topic and catchy are important. You should also consider search engines when you title your posts, since the search engines can help to drive traffic to your blog. A great way to do this is to write the post and the title first, then run a few searches at Overture, WordTracker & KeywordDiscovery to see if there is a Key word phrasing that can better help you to target "searched for" terms.

Increase Blog Traffic 3. Community. It's one word but it is the most important one when it comes to blogging. The only "blog metric" that makes sense is the exciting community of readers it has. Building a group of people around your blog will bring you increased traffic, but how do you start? The boilerplate response to building traffic is always "SEO, social networking sites, and commenting on blogs" but it can be simplified to "be part of a community". The easiest way to seed your blog is with an already existing community. But the only way to do that is to be part of the community yourself.

Increase Blog Traffic 4. As you will see on the Google webmaster tool site, Google looks at back links and ranks your site on these criteria. Good Backlinks can be achieved by finding other blogs offering comparable content and posting enlightening information and a link back to your site. This is time consuming but very important in Google's ranking scheme. Also there are a few sites that offer instructive help in this area. Imautomator is one site that helps you build backlinks.

There are of course many other ways to increase relevant traffic such as article marketing. The intent is to provide relevant articles the reader can click on the link in the bio section to visit your site. In order to accomplish this you provide a pitch such as click here to visit my site, or to learn more visit your "site name" in hyper link.

You must be active to generate traffic. I post comments on other blogs that are related to mine, and I post my site link in my signature at the forums. Spread the word about your blog and it will certainly attract readers.

Nothing creates long-term traffic more than value. Consider writing posts with resources or explaining how things work. Useful things get linked to and they get onto del.icio.us, which is far better long-term than a digg front page.