Three Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

By: Paul Conway

Three Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Blog

Writing a blog is a great way to make money and it's a great way to build your list too. You can also sell your own products and/or sell affiliate products from your blog. However, for any of these things to actually work, you first need to get traffic to your blog. Three ways to drive traffic to your blog are to write articles, digg your blog, and post on forums.

The first way to drive traffic to your blog is to write articles. The best place to submit articles is ezinearticles.com. This site is also the strictest so make sure you follow all their rules. It will take just a few days to get your article approved but once you get 10 or more articles live on the site you'll become a "platinum" member and then your articles should get accepted in about a day or so. What you want to do is write articles that are related to your blog's information. Then put a link to your blog in the signature box below the article.

The next way to get more readers to your blog is to digg it. This means that you submit each blog you write to digg.com. This is a very easy process. It takes you about 30 seconds to sign-up. Then you complete the sign-up process by checking your email and clicking the link that digg sends you. Then all you need to do is click on "Submit New" at the top of the page. Then plug in the url to the individual blog post and then you're all set.

The third way to drive more traffic to your blog is by participating in forums that are related to your blog. Now, there are a couple of different ways to promote your blog on these forums. The first way is to put a link to your blog in your signature. That way the link to your blog appears every single time you make a post. The second way to use forums to your blog is to read the posts and find an interesting topic or question. Then go back and write a post about that topic, then return to the forum and post a reply that you covered this exact topic on your blog. Then refer them to the link in your sig. or post the direct link in the reply.

These are just three of the ways to drive traffic to your blog. However you must insure that your blog is set up correctly so that it will attract the search engines that ultimately bring the traffic to your blog. I have bought a couple of products from Mike Paetzold, who for those that do not know him is in my opinion one of the leading experts on blogging!

For example I purchased his "7 tips to make your Wordpress Blog Search Engine Friendly" As a direct result taking action the traffic sent to this blog increased dramatically thus increasing my chances of making a sale.