Initial days after starting a new blog are always going to be difficult in terms of traffic and every other thing but being patient and keep working is the key to success as it is said. I recently wrote about things to consider before starting a blog and now if I am covering few ways to drive traffic to a brand new blog in the blogosphere. Don’t forget to have some important features to your new blog and stay focused.
- Write good and remarkable content.
- Be interesting in your writings and keep them entertaining.
- Update regularly and consistently.
- Be real and be yourself. Don’t try to copy.
- Avoid plagiarism.
- Write attractive headlines with good meta tags and description.
- Write about breaking news in your niche. This brings instant traffic.
- Connect with other bloggers in your niche.
- Comment on other blogs related to your niche.
- Post answers on Yahoo! Answers.
- Spend time for forum posting.
- Write guest articles on other blogs. It works though I don’t agree with it.
- Find and follow right people on Twitter.
- Take part in healthy twitter conversations.
- Ask your friends and other people to share your content.
- Build strong relationship with your social community.
- Set up your RSS feeds and ask your readers to subscribe.
- Create a community on your blog and celebrate others’.
- Write about the bloggers/blogs you admire. This will catch their attention.
- Engage your readers in a discussion in your articles.
- Spend more time in blog promotion.
- Use Facebook and Twitter effectively to promote your articles.
- Run a contest on your blog.
- Join blogging communities. I use blogengage.
- Join blogging directories. I use Technorati.
- Use social bookmarking sites to bookmark your articles which drives good traffic.
- Use Stumble Upon to get the best traffic for you.
- Bookmark your article on Digg, Delicious, Reddit, YC Hacker News, etc.
- Try making your own videos and use YouTube to get traffic.
- Have a giveaway price for best commentator.
- Include your blog url in email signatures.
- Submit your site to Google.
- Work hard on your SEO.
- Use SEO tools to analyze your site SEO.
- Try to get backlinks for your blog.
- Getting .edu and .gov backlinks is like having icing on the cake.
- Use keywords to the great effect.
- Use webmaster tools like Google Webmasters to get in-depth view about your blog.
- Choose a perfect theme for your new blog.
- Use Google Analytics to monitor your incoming traffic sources and other factors.
- Make a business card and put your link in it.
- Keep promoting as much as possible.
- Love your blog and write everything with passion.
- keep working smartly and have patience.
Well these were the steps which one should follow to get traffic after setting up a new blog but being a new blog, it won’t get thousands of visitors daily. It takes time to build trust and credibility. So, all I can suggest you is that have patience, keep writing and keep working smartly (Working hard isn’t true for blogging) and I promise, the traffic will eventually start to flow.
Your comments are very important to me so do let me know what you think about this article and what did you do when you first started your blog?
Short and sweet, useful list of tips! I think a small blurb on your own experiences next to each one would help give us a bit more insight, but this is good stuff! Thank you, sir!
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these are all good tips but i think being yourself is most important …. it brings your essence into the post… and taking part in conversations on twitter and other websites is important too
you’re right! I believe the same as being yourself is the most important and its also necessary in building good community
Really good set of ways to bring traffic to your blog, thanks for sharing!!..
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wow… that's a huge list. I loved this list.
Thanks Rahul.
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Nice post …implemented your points on my blog posts…..my recent one
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Wow..what a list. Now I need to take note of these and put them to actions. That means I still have more than 30 tasks to do
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Thanks for all of these tips Rahul — I definitely won’t run out ideas on how to generate traffic anytime soon ; )
Thank you sir and good to see you around
Yeah, you’re now loaded with few bunch of ideas for next few weeks 
What a great list for getting your traffic going… I’ve implemented many and I saw a few ideas.
Thanks so much!
Regards,
Jamie
Pleasure Jamie! Wonderful to see you on my blog. Wish to see you again as well and glad you liked the article
good list buddy… some of your tips in that list are just spot on..
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Thank you! Yeah, some of the tips are very basic which must be followed
Great list of suggestions, Rahul! Good to see the writing good content is at No 1! If you don't do that then there's no point doing the others!
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This is indeed a great list and helpful too. And the contest idea is really different and i good one. It can help out in brining out the traffic.
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You've provided a very extensive list of ways to get traffic. #9 is the one that I’ve really been using. I think that anyone looking to build backlinks and bring traffic to their site should definitely comment on different blogs in their niche daily.
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In the above tips you have mentioned submitting your site to search engine google, bing etc but iam not able to do so can u plz help me with this as my site is on getting crawled that often..
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Why are .gov and .edu links the icing on the cake?
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Thanx friend for giving help to me:) and i am new for blogging. My new blog is
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pls visit and guide me for better.
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Thank you for sharing my have new blog this post is help me to get good traffic…
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thanx a lot , it is very useful article for me, i m very new in this blogsphere.
thanx for this great article