Getting Traffic to your Blog

As a new blogger, my number one challenge has to been drive traffic to my site. After all, what is the sense of all this typing if no one is going to read it. When you are starting off, you have no backlinks, no page rank, and no chance of showing up in a relevant Google search. So what have I have done so far to get some traffic.

1. Stumble Upon, Technorati, del.icoi.us, Reddit, Furl, Digg, Share This, and Propeller. As Brad Hamilton (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) would say, “Learn it. Know it. Live it.” You must register for all these sites and submit your blogs to them.

2. Comments and Blogrolls are your friends. Like a post on a popular blog, leave a comment on it. If your comment is relevant (“nice post” is not going to cut it), others might want to check out your blog. Blogrolls are simply a list of your favorite blogs that you put in your own blog. Just by doing this, some bloggers will notice that they are getting traffic from your site and return the favor. You can also ask other bloggers to add your site to their blogroll (something I haven’t had the nerve to do yet )

3. Become a Guest Blogger–Some sites are constantly looking for their readers to submit a guest post. I recently submitted a post to The Net Fool, a well established blog.

4. Join a Traffic Exchange Program–I just joined a site called ASD Cash Generator and have received some decent traffic from it. All you do is click on some ads and you get free traffic. I would not consider this high-quality traffic (these people are visiting your site to get credits for theirs). Still, I have generated referrals for my programs through this “un-targeted” traffic. Click on the banner below to check it out.