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Without any doubt, blogging is a very popular activity amongst internet marketers nowadays due to its ease of use and effectiveness in marketing or promoting a business online. However, the real value of a blog will depend on how much traffic it gets. Your blog is like a shopping mall, without visitors, there will be no business.

Therefore, it is important to know how to drive traffic to your blog if you wish to use it to promote and grow your business.

Here are 5 tips you can use to generate more traffic to your blogs:

Tip 1: Get Links:

Getting links is perhaps the most important traffic generation strategy for online marketing. A link from other blogs to your blog simply means that people are voting or giving points to your blog. The more links you get, the more traffic you’ll get. Besides traffic, blogs that have many links from other blogs will also rank well by the search engines.

Perhaps you’ve heard about reciprocal linking, where you link to a blog and it links back to you. This is an obsolete strategy as the search engine (especially Goolge) doesn’t give much value for it anymore. Google gives higher value to “one-way” link. The new strategy is called 3-way links. For example: A —> B —> C —> A. This strategy will give you more power as Google sees this as three “one-way” links.

But problem is… this strategy requires you to spend a lot of time and effort finding blogs or sites that want to participate. Fortunately, there is a system/tool that can automate this process. For more information, go to “3-Way Links“. It’s one of my best traffic generation tools.

Tip 2: Blog Comments:

Leaving or posting a good comments in other blogs/sites that are related to your niche can help to drive some targeted traffic to your blog. The trick here is to find blogs/sites that have great content/stories and post a short but useful comment and then include a link back to your blog. This way, people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However, you should not misuse this strategy to spam or leave useless comments on other blogs. If you do this, your comments will just get deleted by the owners.

Tip 3: Submit & Ping Blog Directories:

Submitting and pinging your blog to blog directories such as technorati, pingoat.com, feedshark.brainbliss.com, etc. will get you some backlinks and traffic. Read this article “Tag and Ping” for more info.

Tip 4: Writing Articles:

This is one of the best ways of driving targeted and long-term traffic to your blog. By writing and submitting articles to some top article directories, you can pull in a lot of targeted visitors/readers to your blog. Just remember to include the resource box. This is the area for you to put an author bio and link back to your blog.

Submit your articles to the following four article directories:
1. EzineArticles.com
2. GoArticles.com
3. ArticleDashBoard.com
4. IdeaMarketers.com

From my experience, the above are the best to drive some great traffic. There are many other article directories but a lot of them are useless when it comes to driving targeted traffic to your blog. If you only want to submit to one article directory, submit to the first one.

Tip 5: Participating In Forum:

Forums can be a great strategy to drive some targeted traffic to your blog. In order for this strategy to work, you need to look for forums that are related to your niche. If you have a blog about Acid Reflux, you can try searching for a forum that is related to acid reflux. For example: just type “acid reflux +forum” in Google and you’ll be able to see many forums that talk about acid reflux.

Most forums will usually allow you to include a signature file where you can write a few sentences and put your blog’s URL there. If you participate regularly and provide some useful info or comments, people will be interested to find out more about you. They will then check out your signature file and visit your blog.