Traffic and List Building Strategies and Solutions

The more links you have coming to your  blog, the higher your  traffic  level.  Links are the key to traffic.  Search  engines,  like  Google, place  an  extremely high  value  on links. Google’s PageRank system is largest  based on how many sites are linking to you -  the more links, the higher the PageRank.

Here are some top linking strategies for getting more links to your blog.

Work Social Networking Sites

A traffic building strategy for a blog may be to create compelling content and get it on the front  pages  of  social  networking  sites  like Digg.  If  an  article  is  enticing enough,  it will get enough votes to hit the front page. That not only sends you a lot of traffic but it will also get you a ton of links because many sites and blogs link to Digg stories.

Write Great Content

This one should be a no-brainer. Everything begins with content. If you don’t have content, you don’t have a blog. Not only must you have content, but also your content has to be good enough for others to want to link to. You will  be amazed by the power  of  one compelling article.  For article distribution, I use this service.

Visit Your Fellow Blogs

If you want other blogs to link to you, you need to get to know them. Therefore, pay them a visit and leave a few comments in their posts. Generally, that is enough to get the blog owners to give your  blog a visit. If you have great content on your blog, there’s a good chance they’ll link to one of your  posts.

Join the blog’s Community Cloud/BlogRoll if they have one.  Mine is set as “follow” versus “nofollow” commenting, where if visitor comments, their automatically added to my community AND backlinked to their site.  You can see it on my left sidebar and every name links to THEIR site.  It is  all about getting your name out in the blogsphere. If  people know you, they will visit and if you have great content, they will link.

Give And You Shall Receive

One of  the best ways to get backlinks is by giving them out. When you link to others  without expecting anything in return, others will link to you.  A  good habit to get into is doing a weekly or biweekly “Top Links” or “Things I  saw while browsing the Web” post and sending a pingback to all the blogs linked. The bloggers from these sites will appreciate it and they’ll be more inclined to link to you when you have an interesting post.

Link Baiting

Many people think link baiting is a negative thing but when done correctly, it’s a good thing and a great way to get tons of backlinks.  The key is to make the bait so attractive that the targeted blog cannot pass it up.  Go Here to find out more about this subject.

Send Out a News Release

If you haven’t done so, you should be building a news list of blogs that cover the same niche you cover.  When you have an interesting article, you  can send out a news release  to your  fellow bloggers telling them about it. If your article is good, most blogs will link you.

Rob

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