Hi guys. Almost everyday we have a few question regarding traffic generation and what are the best methods. Although there is no best way to drive traffic to your blog or website, there are many many ways you can generate traffic. I had made a long list on my blog a while back about this topic, so I thought I’d posted here to give you guys some ideas on how to drive traffic to your site. I used and still use these methods to drive traffic to my blog.

There are so many ways to do this, you juts have to look around and be a little creative. I hope this list will help you drive some traffic to your site or at least gives you some ideas on how to do it. Please feel free to add any other method missing from this list, so we all can benefit from it. Thank you.

Submit your blog wherever you can!

1. Submit your blog to directories in your niche
2. Submit your blog to all the free directories and search engines
3. Submit your site to free website review sites like coolsiteoftheday
4. Submit each and every post to Social Bookmarking sites using onlywire
5. Submit your articles to article directories like Ezine, article base and associated content

Use web 2.0 sites and other resources to promote your blog

6. Write related articles on WikiPedia with your blog url in it
7. Make a hubpage for your blog, with a little bit information about your blog
8. Make a wiki page for your blog
9. Make a squidoo lens or more with a link to your site
10. Sign up at 43things.com and write things related to your blog and what you want to accomplish (you’d be surprise how many people read other people’s list)
11. Create a myspace page for your blog
12. Make a twitter page for your blog
13. Create a facebook page for your blog
14. Create a hi page for your blog
15. Join blogcatalog and do the same as with mybloglog
16. Use MyBlogLog to create a community around your blog join other peoples community, so they do the same for you
17. Create an account with Technorati and with every new post, ping it
18. Post related how-to videos on you tube with your blog address on the bottom of the screen or at the end or beginning of the video
19. Use yahoo answers to answer questions related to your niche, leaving your link in the resource box (believe it or not, 15% of my traffic comes from 10 minutes a week answering questions on yahoo answers)
20. Create an account on stumbleupon, and stumble each and every article you write
21. Join as many forums as possible, especially forums related to your niche and add your url in the profile and in your signature

Take advantage of free tools and Plug-ins

22. Place a “digg it” button right after your post, to make it easy for your readers to digg your post
23. Use a comment notifying plug-in to let your readers know about new comments believe it or not, most people read more of other peoples comment on your post, than your post itself
24. Use social bookmarking plug-ins to make it easy for your readers to submit your post to Social Bookmarking site
25. Install “tell-a-friend” plug-in to make it easy for your readers to let others know about your post
26. Make use of “all in one seo” plug-in to make your blog search engine friendly
27. Use a forum plug-in to create a forum for your blogs readers to talk and discuss related issues
28. Use a free keyword tool to find and use good ranking keywords in your niche
29. Use sites like vista print to make free business cards with your site url on it and pass it around ($5 shipping for 250 free BC!)
30. Make a free favicon to be easily found in your readers favorite file (people like to find what they want fast. I myself sometimes give up finding a particular article or site in my huge favorite file, simply because I don’t want to spend 5 minuets to go through the whole list. A favicon is like a big spot light focused on you, between hundreds of other people!
31. Use free press release services to gain visibility
32. Use pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators
33. Use free advertising sources like craigslist and backpage to post ads about your articles or blog in related categories

Other Bloggers Can Help Too!

34. Talk about or if you can interview a trusted blogger in your niche
35. Leave comments on blogs in related niches or any niche for that matter(don’t spam, leave genuine comment, as you would like others to do so for you)
36. Make a banner ad for your blog and exchange with other interested bloggers
37. Use blogroll to link to other bloggers in your niche in exchange for a link to your blog on their blog roll
38. Ask other bloggers to write a review of your blog in exchange for a link to their site from your site
39. Dedicate a post about a top bloggers in your niche it will catch their attention and they may link to you
40. Whenever appropriate, link to other bloggers articles in your post they will return the favor
41. Use your best articles to post on other peoples blog as a guest writer (it’ll gain you visibility and new audience)
42. Ask another blogger to post on your blog as guest (while he enjoys some new readers, it will brings his readers to your site as well)

Use your blog as a tool to attract and keep visitors

43. Provide freebies like free ebooks, free downloads and etc to your readers
44. Once in a while run a contest related to your niche and encourage visitors to participate for a prize, and do give a prize to the winner, no matter how small it will help to establish your persona as a trusted blogger, and once people see you as a trustworthy person, not only they will keep coming back to you, but they will bring other visitors as well
45. Use common questions related to your niche for the title of your article
46. Use keywords in the title of your post keywords in title is one of the easiest and most important techniques of search engine optimization
47. Use a small place on your blog to have your blogs complete url ready for those who wish to link to your blog
48. Keep your blog clean and easily navigable(how many times you have left a site, because you weren’t able to find what you came for?)
49. Use numbered list for your informative posts, like “ ways to…” people tend to like these kinds of post
50. Shocking and surprising articles will draw people to your site
51. Be on the look out for new developments and news related to your niche, the first person breaking a new story, gets the most traffic
52. Videos are increasingly becoming popular, use them on your blog to your advantage
53. Use tags for your post, as its becoming a very popular way of finding related content
54. Post frequently search engines and readers like fresh content
55. If you have any other blog or site, place a link to your site (you can even create a blog to talk about your journey with your blog/site)
56. Read and respond to your readers comment (if I feel that what I say is important to the writer, I am more likely to came back for more and encourage others to do the same)

57. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures
58. Use your blog name for your user name in forums and when leaving comment on other blogs
59. Ask your friends and family to Digg and stumble your posts a post with more diggs or stumble, means more visibility
60. Put your blogs name and url on a bumper sticker or something like that, and attach it to your car. Big corporations pay people to place their ads on their car! You think if it wasnt effective, they would pay people to do that! You don’t have to pay anyone, use your own car and also give some stickers to your friends and family and ask them to stick it on back bumper
61. Make flyers with your blog name and a short captivating headline style description and pass it in the mall or parking lots. If you use a good headline, at least 10% of the people will visit your blog out of curiosity, and who knows how many will become your die-hard fans or readers!
62. And last but not least, be patient and give it some time. No one goes from 0 visitors a day to hundreds and thousands of visitors over night!

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