Can you afford 5 more ways to bring traffic to your blog?

Marketing on the web is all about traffic, traffic and traffic. How to do you drive traffic to your blog?

Successful blogs are normally the ones whose authors are able to extend the reach of their blogs far and wide! These bloggers actively build links, leave their blog addresses along with every person they meet, use connections, joint venture and whatever other means they can to build up the popularity of their blog. In turn, what they get is more traffic, which means more leads, and more revenue.

There are several ways you can use to bring in more traffic to your blog, and while some marketers argue that it is sufficient to master in one, I believe that there must be a balance of techniques.

Here are the five.

1. Article Submission

Article submission is by far one the best ways to leave an inbound link to your website on an established website, and bring in very targeted traffic. To do so, simply write a 400 word article and submit it to major article directories.

What is important in article submission is the author bio – it is where you have the opportunity to talk about yourself and your services, and provide a link to your website!

2. Forum Comments

The second way to leave links is in forums. In this, there are two ways to leave a link. The first way is through signatures. Most forums allow the user to leave a signature in their comments. One could leave a link to their blog though the signature.

The second (and less explored) way is to find a problem to solve, solve it and post a blog post about the solution, and then simply contribute to the forum, saying “I have your solution here”, indicating your blog post as a link.

This way, users are enticed to click and be directed to your blog to see the solution to the problem.

3. Dropping Comments on Other Blogs

Another powerful method of bringing in traffic is to comment on related blogs, and leave your link in the comment. In doing this, it is much like the forum posting – you need to add value to the post. There are many Internet users who really spend time reading blogs and clicking through the comments to find more related information.

4. Give Something Away Free

Bloggers who are serious about marketing their blog would normally spend an equal amount of time blogging and marketing their blog. Giving something away for free is a very powerful method of bringing traffic to your blog! This thing could be an e-book, or a newsletter, or an audio clip… what is important is that it must be viral – it must be so good, that it entices people to pass it on to others.

At the end of the book, newsletter or audio clip, talk a little about your blog, and people curious to know more about the topic will pay a visit to your blog.

5. Offline Advertising

While there are so many ways to market a website or blog online, one must remember that depending on the country you are in, for every person that is on the Internet regularly, there are probably at least 4 or 5 who don’t go online as regularly.

The only way to reach out to these people effectively is through offline advertising methods. Traditional marketing still works – via your daily newspapers, namecards, brochures, and advertisements.

For more great articles on blog marketing, check out Kian Ann’s blog – Blog Marketing Singapore