15 Easy Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

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You have created a blog for yourself and started writing and posting pictures, but you don’t get much traffic. This can be very disheartening. Don’t get discouraged – remember that if people don’t find your blog, how can they value your contribution.

The first step is then to help other people find your blog.

Promoting your blog is rather easy, if you do it systematically. Here are fifteen easy steps to help you get more traffic to your blog.

1. Get a RSS feed from feedburner so that you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. RSS means Rich Site Summary. It lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication as headlines and summaries.
2. Join Bloglog service and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, and associates.
3. Join MyYahoo.com Choose “Add Content” and add your blog RSS feed.
4. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your subject area. Rather than writing comments like "cool" or "great post." leave intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
5. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish content on your blog. But don’t do this every five minutes.
6. Submit your blog to blog directories. A comprehensive list of blog directories is here
7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.
8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website or ask other bloggers to exchange links.
9. Get your personal page at http://wiGoogle and add your blog details there.
10. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures, and flyers. Tell everyone you know about your blog.
11. Write articles on the same topics as your blog and send them to different free article sites like Ezine Articles Include a link to your blog in the author info box.
12. Use sites like Faves.com or Delicious to favourite your blog entries, find interesting favourites from others and make friends.
13. Join StumbleUpon and start stumbling your blog entries and those of others.
14. Post your blog entries to your Facebook contacts. If you contribute to writing communities like Triond.com make friends there and mention your blog.
15. Get an account at Blogcatalog Post your blog entry there and surf around, make friends, visit their blogs and leave supportive intelligent comments.