Generating traffic from sources other than search engines
1) Submit your unique articles to social bookmark sites
This is huge. As a unknown blogger, I submitted an article to Reddit. The article made it as high as 47, which is the 2nd page, and my blog got over 1000 unique visitors in the day that followed. Digg and Del-ici-ous, are other examples of popular social bookmarking sites that will help generate traffic for your blog. I don’t think it is a good idea to submit every article. However, it will certainly help if you submit the articles that you are proud of, think are good, or if the post is breaking some form of news.
2) Submit your blog to blog directories
Search Google for blog directories, and sign up to some of the directories. This may get some visitors to your site.
3) Post Popular blogs
Post on popular blogs, particularly on blogs with a high ranking on sites like Technorati. It is helpful if your comment is near the top. On uber popular blogs like pro blogger there are often 100′s of comments left. So as I am sure you can imagine most readers don’t bother to read through them all. So getting in early and leaving a comment near the top of a blog will probably get you a few visitors.
Leveraging social bookmarking sites, and becoming a regular on popular blogs should help gain your blog some traffic, and also in the long term gain you as a blogger a higher profile… now for something cheeky…
A cheeky (or silly) idea that will work, but you probably shouldn’t do:
Pretend you are selling your site and list it on web sites that have listings for web site sales. It will defiantly get your site some hits, however it will probably have an adverse affect on your readership as they may find out and think you are abandoning them. You may also run into a small problem if someone wants to buy – so set the selling price as something ridiculously high…I mean don’t be silly, don’t do this at all!!
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Hello. Look at http://socialposter.com/blog/social-bookmarks-submitter/ – this will be interesting to you, it is a program that lets you submit Links to social bookmarking websites automatically! Over 20 popular social bookmarking sites.
If you want traffic you have to be inventive.
I remember there is a site called admoolah where visitors post their adsense earnings. I posted my site – http://www.fxacademy.net as earning 10K per month (A BLUE LIE!!).
My site was listed as a top earner and curious people were clicking through to my site just to find out what kind of site earns so much.
I got a huge traffic burst from this.
The pretending to sell trick works fantastically too.
INVENTIVENESS COUNTS
Interesting idea Vink. I do want to let readers know that I am on thr straight though.
I think there is nothing that helps as much as social bookmarking. There are a lot of websites that are ready to take up your links and you can always make use of that.
But the important point is to maintain quality, because eventually content is the king and if your product or whatever does not have it in them then they will chucked out.
Giving articles is to social bookmarking sites is an effective way of generating traffic and the best part is that it is cost effective and also it is dependent on quality that increases the value of the traffic that you get.
Having a good blog is great too but it is not that easy.
I think blogging is something that I can do and if it helps me create more traffic that is great news..
I think it can be more effective if you add this same with submitting to bookmarking sites it can be a killer combination!
Very interesting, i didnt know about that… very useful information and tips, generating traffic is so important for websites. thanks a lot.
There are a lot of sites that can generate traffic now. In fact, there are so many that it can be annoying to see all the icons for them when you are scrolling through content on a site. Even Facebook has a social media link you can post on your site now.
Well these are really handy tips. The other things that you could do is:
1) Facebook ads
2)Squidoo Lens
3)Slide Share Slides
4)Yahoo Answers
blogarama is one of the largest free blog directories online. give your blog the attention it deserves and let people find and rate it in the blog
I want to add another 2 useful traffic sources: submitting articles in article directories like ezinearticle or posting on forums on your niche. I personally use this 2 sources and these give me a good targeted traffic