Crucial to garnering traffic flow to your blog is good content. At least in the long run, who wants to invest time reading and viewing your blog if the content is poor?
But what if you write good content–or make that unique and really great content–and nobody knows you’re out there? No traffic, right? By definition, most of us are not celebrities, at least at the beginning of our blogs.
Copywriters tell us people buy what they want rather than what they need. Search engines like Google are interested in providing people what is most relevant to what they want. So your blog has the potential to get more viewers if you provide what people want, what they are looking for
… whether or not you have any commercial intent for your blog.
Of the many ways to drive traffic to your blog, here is one:
Put comments on other people’s blogs and forums with links back to yours (most blog comment areas include a place to put your blog URL).
- Comments that people will read, like, and cause them to click on the link to your blog.
- Comments that are relevant to the blog post in question and to your blog.
- Comments that are posted to better-known or authoritative and established blogs and forums and, again, relevant to your blog.
- Comments that are helpful to others and not blatantly self-serving or spam.
- Comments that show genuine appreciation and praise where appropriate, but do more than just that.
- Comments that start relevant conversations, ask relevant questions, solve someone’s problem, alert someone in danger. Maybe more than one comment to the same post.
Remember, you get what you pay for. Pay the price in writing comments, and you will get the right kind of people clicking back to your blog for the right reasons.
Peter Rubel
P.S. For more ideas, see my three posts regarding cheap website promotion, starting with the first.
Tags: blog, blogging, Getting Traffic
