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Traffic is very important to the success of each webmaster and blogger. No matter how great your articles is, it still must be read in fact it is traffic which makes this possible. This post will undoubtedly be listing 101 ways by which you can traffic to your blog.

By driving traffic doesn't mean just getting ultimately more visitors. Before you start together with your drive traffic campaign, be sure you set your goals. For example, when you are building traffic for the consumer website, you need to take care of demographics. Getting those visitors, who does not have purchasing power is waste of time and resource. Similarly, on blogs, if you are not getting targeted prospects from search engines or from referral sites, your conversion rate and CTR will be too low.

So let's start with my big set of traffic driving formula for the blog.

1. Write quality Posts:

Here is the first tip which anyone would give to you. A Quality blog includes quality content. Write well researched and detailed information.

2. Comment on other blogs:

Needless to say, commenting helps in lots of ways. Free Backlinks and also for personal branding. Follow one thumb rule: Comment only when you have some value to include, else if you like the post and want to show your appreciation, rather than just saying "nice post", like or share that post.

3. Guest post on other blogs.:

With article submission directory value decreasing, it's always a good idea to start guest posting. With an inspired guest post campaign, it is possible to build HQ backlinks and in addition increase your credibility. For an excellent Moz rank, it's important to get high backlink and to your internal pages and today homepage alone.

4. Optimize your blog for se's.:

Alright, I know SEO scares you but believe me it isn't a rocket science. It's like the right practice that everyone should follow. Find out about onpage SEO and also about how exactly to give proper SEO structure to your site. My suggestion, spend 2 hours each day for learning SEO and by the finish of month, you can take care of most of basic SEO issues.

5. Participate in forums related to your niche and include a link to your blog in your signature.

6. Utilize trackbacks- A trackback on copyblogger sent me over 20 unique visitors.

7. Write List posts.:

Now, when I say write list posts, it generally does not mean go on and work like "Top 10 10? "Top 101?, ensure that your list is up to the mark and actually contains "Top" "Best of" rather than random websites or apps in your list.

8. Write top 10 posts.:

9. Write 101 list posts like this.

10. Write about how exactly to drive traffic to blog:

Everyone needs traffic and share your strategy which works for you. People like other bloggers who share the trick instead of keeping it to them.

11. Build moz business listing :

E-mail marketing has existed from long and it will be there for long. People can't stand to miss Emails, and by creating a targeted mailing list, you are actually making a fortune on your own.

12. Write for tutorial sites - Like tutorialized.com, several sites can send you a large number of visitors per article.

13. Work on getting included in the media - this alone can assist you gain lots of traffic.

14. Write Link-bait posts.

15. Submit your blog to Technorati, I was checking my stats recently and I saw they're sending me a decent amount of traffic (don't underestimate their traffic).

16. Join blogging communities (like MMO Social Network and BlogEngage)

17. Join secret bloggers club where they do retweet and promote each others post - this alone can send you a good number of traffic.

18. Blog Pinging:

Always ping your site after writing your site posts using a site like pingomatic (Ping O Matic) - this allows some sites to cover and and can lead to an inflow of blog traffic.

19. Submit your site to blog carnivals - An excellent place to begin is BlogCarnival.com.

20. Take up a Contest -

Who doesn't like free stuff? Take up a giveaway or blog contest and get more real targeted subscribers. You may be amazed with the response that you usually get for contest. You can always focus on 1-2 free domain giveaway.

21. Create cool videos linked to your niche and mass distribute it to video sites by using a service like tubemogul.com.

22. Use your blog URL as signature in your email. (Use Wisestamp addon)

23. Submit your blog to feed directories - they can distribute your blog posts to so many sites thereby resulting in increase traffic to blog.

24. Write a news release about your site and submit it to free news release websites.

25. Advertise your blog using Google Adwords.

26. Advertise your site using Facebook Ads.

27. Advertise your blog on your local television station.

28. Advertise your blog on your own local radio station.

29. Advertise your blog on your local newspaper.

30. Advertise your blog on online yellow pages.

31. Create a professional Twitter account, get some followers and start tweeting your blog posts (make sure you use #hashtags).

32. Add social sharing buttons to your blog (at the end of most posts, preferably) - you will get more traffic when people share your posts.

33. Submit your site to blog directories - they also send the right traffic (especially if you're a new blogger).

34. Submit your blog to website directories - every little traffic adds.

35. Submit articles to article directory sites.

36. Take up a controversial topic - Be careful with this though, so that you will won't regret your action.

37. Be sure to are listed in DMOZ - this is usually a Google-respected directory and getting listed can enhance your rankings in Google and other search engines overnight, thereby leading to more traffic.

38. Sue Google or any big company - the media covers this and boom you are already getting lots of traffic.

39. Always submit your posts to StumbleUpon (ensure you submit a great many other site's posts to so they don't ban you for spamming).

40. Always use tags in your posts.

41. Answer questions on yahoo answers and use your site as the source.

42. Write a post featuring the most notable influencers in your niche e.g. top internet marketing blogs, they could retweet the post and you may get some traffic.

43. Contact many bloggers and ask them the same questions, compile almost all their answers into a post - They will probably retweet it.

44. Interview the top bloggers in your niche - they'll retweet it and they might even find yourself linking to it on their blog.

45. Function as first to cover top news - big blogs like TechCrunch covers it later and link to you as the source.

46. Get listed in Google news.

47. Write a post containing pictures only - An excellent example is, the top 10 most ugly buildings on earth. (Social bookmarking traffic)

48. Make video posts. Video Blogging is fantastic way to go viral.

49. Write posts in relation to celebrities e.g. What Michael Jackson's death taught me about blogging.

50. Write great, super-duper, killer headlines - headlines matters a lot nowadays.

51. Do something which has never been done (sounds difficult? It will not go unrewarded).

52. Submit your site posts to niche social news sites like Sphinn and Bizsugar.

53. Look for a top or medium blogger in your niche and disagree or agree strongly with one of their posts - they will desire to prove themselves in another post and they will end up linking for you, and this means more traffic.

54. Advertise your blog on Craigslist.

55. Try and review products linked to your niche on Amazon, you can link to your blog in your review.

56. Review big websites linked to your niche on Alexa and make an effort to link back to your website in the review.

57. Submit your posts to Digg - try to look at which type of post goes popular there, submitting its type will allow you to get similar results.

58. Contact a few of your blogging friends (maybe 10) and ask them to help you share and vote your blog post on social bookmarking sites.

59. Interview many Top people in your niche at a time.

60. Do a face-off comparing some top bloggers in your niche.

61. Check out a celebrity which has a large amount of fans and write a post on why the fellow is not supposed to have any fans.

62. Ensure that your readers subscribe to your feed, this will produce more repeat visitors (that is worth a lot more than one-time visits).

63. Try to be a social media power user.

64. Make influencers and power users your friend.

65. Make it better to translate the content on your blog - this helps you get more international visitors.

66. Proofread your site posts regularly - lots of people won't connect to unprofessional articles.

67. Start a very creative product/company/website - a lot of big blogs (like TechCrunch) would like to write about you.

68. Make the news no matter what - people will seek out your name in Google and then land on your website.

69. Sponsor charities and give them a link to your site, they will be happy to link to you thereby leading to increased traffic.

70. Build a very helpful tool e.g. a great SEO tool - this will lead to more link to your website and more traffic too.

71. Join a blog webring.

72. Put in a forum to your blog.

73. Make an effort to have guest posters on your blog - A few of my high traffic posts are from guest authors.

74. Advertise your site on billboards and flyers offline - offline marketing may also help.

75. Create a custom T-shirt with your name onto it, distribute some to other people freely and also make sure you wear yours regularly.

76. Write great posts that focus on [Pls Don't Read] - people are so curious and will desire to read, thereby sharing your great post.

77. Try to do free blogging seminars in where you live, collaborate with top people over there and let them help you gather people together - utilize the free seminar as an possibility to advertise your blog.

78. Sponsor blog contests in your niche - that is a cool solution to get backlinks and blog traffic.

79. Be a friend of most top bloggers in your niche - they can mention you once in a while thereby leading to more traffic to you.

80. Write an "Ultimate Guide" to something - this often goes viral thereby resulting in more retweets, shares and traffic.

81. Create a survey about a popular subject and publish the result out for the general public to see - this can result in backlinks and traffic.

82. Write a post listing the very best power users on a specific social bookmarking site - this will result in more backlinks and traffic.

83. Develop a post that ranks people/things/place - e.g. "The very best 10 cities on the globe" (try to make this go in line with your niche).

84. Regularly create infographics.

85. To push out a free ebook and connect to your website in it, it could go viral and lead to more traffic for you personally - I am not talking of eBook to build your list, I am talking of something absolutely free.

86. Create free CSS templates and submit them to CSS directories while linking back to your blog.

87. Have a custom design for your blog under an excellent framework and tell the developers to showcase your site in their gallery.

88. Launch a traffic contest - tell several visitors to do their finest to send traffic to your blog in a month. Be sure you give the top referrer a price (the price should be attractive if you want the very best).

89. Create several great podcasts and submit it to iTunes (with a web link back to your blog, needless to say).

90. Try to ensure it is to the delicious frontpage.

91. Have a Facebook fan page for your blog - I didn't understand how much traffic I was losing by not having one until recently.

92. Always do a weekly link love post w here you link to 10 or more bloggers, if you do this consistently you will begin to get more people connect to you also thereby leading to more traffic.

93. Always do Keyword Research before you write your posts - lots of people are missing lots of search engine traffic due to this.

94. Develop a mobile version of one's blog - catering for various kinds of audience means more traffic for you, some people only browse from their cell phones.

95. Create an iPhone app for your website - iPhone is very popular and you may leverage its power to your benefit.

96. Develop a keyword-rich Squidoo lens for the blog.

97. Develop a keyword-rich HubPages hub for the blog.

98. Take part in website groups like Google groups etc.

99. Advertise your website using the StumbleUpon ads - the more people like your ad, the more free traffic you will get.

100. Put your site address on your business card - many people overlook small things such as this, yet it works.

101. Write great April fool jokes on the first of every April e.g. Google has been bought by Microsoft (people love to hear things like this).

Joshua Pierce