Best ways to Get Article and Blog Traffic
The greatest website in the world is pointless unless it brings in visitors. If no one sees it the most wonderful content is really trivial and pointless. Because of this it is important to know the ways to get visitors to go to your website. The following is a list of wonderful ways that you can get these visitors
Visitors from Social Media
Social media is not only a great way to get people to your site but it is a fast way. Digg, Delicous Facebook, MySpace, Twitter are all great ways to get people to take people to your site. Of course first you need to have some followers for all of these social media networks. The more followers you have the more effective these networks can be at driving visitors to your site.
A real "pro" tip for using social media is to use social bookmarking sites that actually PAY YOU as well as driving traffic and providing a link (many are even dofollow, though not all). A few of the best sites are Infopirate, SheToldMe and SeekyT. All three of these sites also have bookmarklets available for easy use from a toolbar.
Article Marketing to Drive Visitors
Using Article Marketing to drive visitors is a very viable tactic. Article marketing is writing articles on sites like Ezinearticles, Goarticles, Squidoo with links back to your site. These links will serve in two ways. The first way they serve is as a direct link back to your site for anyone who reads the article. The second way they serve is because every link to your site coming from another website is a "backlink". These "backlinks" are similar to a "vote" of confidence for your site. The more of them you have the better your page will rank in search engine results and the more natural traffic you are likely to get from these search engines.
Video Marketing to Drive Visitors
Video marketing is very similar to article marketing except that it uses video (obviously). You create videos on site like Vimeo and Youtube and link them back to your site. Vimeo additionally allows you a link in comments to your site or another. This is likely to attract an entirely different group of followers so it is good to use Video marketing in conjunction with article marketing.
Using a Press Release
A press release does not have to be for a major event. You can issue a press release for Daily posts even. Though it would probably be best to keep press release to big "Marquee" posts on your site and general large site updates.
Visitors from Forums
Forums have recently become a bit of a forgotten means of driving visitors to your site. If you leave a link in your forum "footer" then every comment you makes leads behind a link. If your comments are good these links may bring people to your site. These links will also help to raise the results of your site through SEO.
Visitors from SEO
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. SEO is categorized into two broad forms. Onsite optimization and offsite optimization. Both types of SEO have the purpose of raising your site in the organic search engine rankings. Offsite SEO is all of the link building. Commenting on blogs and forums, and video and article marketing are all offsite SEO.
Getting Visitors from Directories
Directories are places where you can list your site by what it is about. Every directory that you list your site on will provide you with a link and potentially with targeted traffic of people that are searching that directory for what you have to offer.
Blog Comments to Drive Traffic
Blog Commenting is one of the key ways to drive traffic. Leaving useful comments on related blogs helps your SEO and it will bring heaps of visitors as long as you leave a lot of comments on multiple sites and your comments are all of decent quality.
Best Way to get Visitors to Your Website
As you can see there are many great ways to drive traffic to your site. The very best tactic is to use a little bit of all the tactics to achieve your goal. Employing them all will drive as many visitors to your site as you wish, dependent on how much effort you put into these different methods.
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All good information. I haven't heard of "SeekyT" so I will definitely take a look at that one. Thanks!
Great article. I think people are looking for one magic bullet to make their site more visible. But it is a lot of little steps that will bring the traffic. While there could be one thing that makes a site go viral, it is more likely that the small steps will bring lasting traffic.
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