6 Easy Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

It doesn't matter who you are, where you are, or why you're running your blog - obviously you want more traffic, and you want it now!. But kick starting a wave of targeted traffic can be virtually impossible without a significant amount of effort. There are, however, a few tips and tricks that you may be able to put to your advantage. To begin with there a few steps and free online tools that can help you to get more traffic to your site. Here are a few.

1. Quality Content

A blogger should always be able to catch the attention of almost every individual surfing online. Try to adding unique  and quality content to your blog which attracts your visitors so they come back to your blog for more. Most search engines will index your blog faster if your blog contain different content which is very helpful to the readers. Some of the most successful blogs have very narrowly defined readers. If you decide to write for a niche readers, who often won't have many other specialist media outlets, make it easier to attract readers than trying to compete with millions of other general target sites. It will also help you to tap into another existing network of engaged readers.

You could actually do some additional and smaller steps to make a blog more attractive such as relevant categories. It is very important because if you don't select suitable categories for your posts then all your efforts might become wasted. If you can be successful in this endeavor, you will then be able to gain larger increments of traffic each and every day.

2. Social Media and Bookmarking Sites

There are a number of social bookmarking sites but their functions are more distinct. These social bookmarking sites, such as Delicious, Digg and Reddit can be good for promoting your blog directly, and in helping your search engine visibility through getting you backlinks. It doesn't really matter who you are and what status you have, what you need to do is to write a good post, give it a great title and submit it to the bookmarking sites. If it is picked up as the best one, it will appear on the site's homepage and it will send a stream of traffic to your blog.

Create some social media profiles that will connect you to a network of other users in your niche. When people check out your profile on a regular basis, this could generate interest which converts into traffic. Twitter and Facebook  have great potential for blog promotion, as you can get thousands of followers who form a market for your business. What you need to do is to create specific accounts for your blogs then seek out an audience that might be interested.

3. Post Fresh Content Often

The key to quality traffic is to keep your site fresh with new content. One big mistake some people make with blogging is blogging when they have nothing good to say. If you do this then you are going to have a hard time making fans who are interested on your blog. Your posts should also be relevant to your preferred category, informative as well as nicely-written. Blog often, but make sure you're blogging something interesting. Not only will this new information keep your regular visitors from getting bored,but will also keep search engine spiders crawling your blog often. Search engines like sites with recently updated information.

4. Follow Famous People

Successful people know that the key to success is to find out what they are good at doing and they focus on it. What they are so great at doing, they want to work with people who are good at doing what they can't do and add them to their team. It sometimes amazes me how many people say they want to make money from their blog, but they don't bother to subscribe and/or follow other successful people. make sure you  look for successful people in your niche in social media site and Google. It is not be hard to find the popular people. Just study their content and watch how they engage and interact with their followers.

5. Guest Blog Post.

As you know, blogging is very time consuming, many blog owners are looking for ways to create quality content easily and fast. Guest blogging can be a wonderful way to get thousands of visitors instantly. But the question is how can you get maximum benefit by your guest article? The only constraint is how to get your guest post approved especially by top blogs. They always have strict criteria when accepting to accept guest blogs, This means  guest post should be grammatically correct and should also be informative. when you do a guest posts you can put link to your blog, the anchor text should be properly used. Ensure you offer other blogger and website owners post high quality articles in exchange for a backlink. It's a win-win situation here for everyone but in the end you will benefit more.

6. Post Comments on Your Target Market.

As an author of a blog site, you should be able to have a very good societal image even if it is just a virtual reality you are working with here . Leaving quality comments on other blogs also help you increase traffic on your blog. Join any discussion board forum related to your industry with other blogger. Try to visit at least 15-20 blogs daily and leave your comments there. After every comment, include a link to your blog or website. Posting relevant and helpful comments can increase your credibility and increase your exposure. This method really works well.