Part 5 - 77 Ways to get more traffic to your blog for FREE
Traffic tip #41
Submit your free ebooks to ebook directories.
Search in Google for "ebook directory" and "ebook directories" and list your free ebook everywhere you can.
Traffic tip #42
Offer to be a columnist.
Locate a popular Blog in your niche which would appreciate having you as a regular columnist. Write tips, lively commentary, product reviews, or whatever topics suit your niche.
Traffic tip #43
Offer to moderate a section of a forum.
A forum which is growing fast may appreciate an offer from you to moderate a section of the forum, in return for free publicity for your Blog.
Traffic tip #44
Do something funny.
Put zany, funny stuff on your Blog and ask a friend to submit a link to it to BoingBoing.net to get the publicity ball rolling.
If possible, try to make sure the topic of the article is related to the topic of your niche. Remember that you want TARGETED traffic to your Blog.
Traffic tip #45
Be outrageous or controversial.
Here's a traffic tip from Russell Beattie of RussellBeattie.com:
"Take on Apple. Writing something bad about Steve Jobs or a new Apple product is the sure-fire way to get the zealots in a state of fury. Two days later and I've got 2000+ individual people visiting that post about the iPod photo, over 52 comments and lots of emails. This is to be expected of course, but of the two or three times that I've done it and gotten such a response, it still surprises me."
Traffic tip #46
Make it easy for people to make you famous - tag your blog.Sometimes at the bottom of an article in a blog you'll see a link that says something like this:
"Did You Like This Article? Bookmark it at Del.icio.us"
OR
"Digg this article"
OR
"Bookmark this at..."
Providing such links makes it very easy for readers to spread the work about your article.
Some blog owners provide a choice of social networking and social bookmarking links or graphics at the end of their articles.
To find more examples, try a search in Google for "Digg this article". Social bookmarking Blogs include:
http://del.icio.us
http://www.furl.net
Using a tagging service like Technorati attracts people to your blog.
By labelling your blog with a tag such as "pet food", any Technorati user who has subscribed to that tag will be notified each time you make a post on your blog about pet food.
Social bookmarking Blogs allow you to share your bookmarks publicly, tagging them to enable others to find them.
If people who visit these Blogs decide your pages are worth sharing, they'll bookmark and tag them so that other people can find them.
You can also share an RSS feed of your bookmarks. When you add a bookmark, they learn about it automatically.
If you take the time to create genuinely USEFUL collections of bookmarks, people will be more inclined to use them.
The Internet community is just starting to catch on to the enormous potential of using social bookmarking tagging to get high quality links to your
Get mentioned on 440 newspaper Blogs.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? You make a post on your Blog and 440 newspapers quickly link to your blog.
Here's how it works...
Technorati has teamed up with Associated Press (AP). First, you post a blog commenting on an AP news item. When readers visit an AP member Blog that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the "Top Five Most Blogged About" AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati.
Upload your photos. Tag your photos.
As technorati says, if you'd like your photos to appear on Technorati's tag pages, join Flickr or join Buzznet, two online photo sharing communities; and post your photos there. "Just tag them and set them to be public and they'll appear on Technorati Tag pages."
Sometimes if you're doing a search in Google, links to photos uploaded to Flickr will be displayed in the search results, because of the keywords in the captions. There's all sorts of potential here for subtle promotion of your Blog.
If you explore tagging, bookmarketing and social networks, you'll find that one links leads to another, to another, to another...
The challenge is to make the most of this opportunity without wasting an awful lot of time.
Use gimmicks.
If people see something odd on a Blog, they'll often tell other people about it. You can also alert newsletter publishers and blog owners and suggest they mention your gimmick in their newsletter.
Create deliberate "link bait".
Linkbaiting is the practice of crafting content that is designed to get other content producers to link to it. The purpose is increasing the number of inbound links to your content and thus improving its performance in search engine results.
Do a Google search for "link bait" for more examples.
Using a tagging service like Technorati attracts people to your blog.
By labelling your blog with a tag such as "pet food", any Technorati user who has subscribed to that tag will be notified each time you make a post on your blog about pet food.
Social bookmarking Blogs allow you to share your bookmarks publicly, tagging them to enable others to find them.
If people who visit these Blogs decide your pages are worth sharing, they'll bookmark and tag them so that other people can find them.
You can also share an RSS feed of your bookmarks. When you add a bookmark, they learn about it automatically.
If you take the time to create genuinely USEFUL collections of bookmarks, people will be more inclined to use them.
The Internet community is just starting to catch on to the enormous potential of using social bookmarking tagging to get high quality links to your
Traffic tip #47
Get mentioned on 440 newspaper Blogs.
Sounds like a dream, doesn't it? You make a post on your Blog and 440 newspapers quickly link to your blog.
Here's how it works...
Technorati has teamed up with Associated Press (AP). First, you post a blog commenting on an AP news item. When readers visit an AP member Blog that uses AP Hosted Custom News, they will see a module featuring the "Top Five Most Blogged About" AP articles right next to the article text, dynamically powered by Technorati.
Traffic tip #48
Upload your photos. Tag your photos.
As technorati says, if you'd like your photos to appear on Technorati's tag pages, join Flickr or join Buzznet, two online photo sharing communities; and post your photos there. "Just tag them and set them to be public and they'll appear on Technorati Tag pages."
Sometimes if you're doing a search in Google, links to photos uploaded to Flickr will be displayed in the search results, because of the keywords in the captions. There's all sorts of potential here for subtle promotion of your Blog.
If you explore tagging, bookmarketing and social networks, you'll find that one links leads to another, to another, to another...
The challenge is to make the most of this opportunity without wasting an awful lot of time.
Traffic tip #49
Use gimmicks.
If people see something odd on a Blog, they'll often tell other people about it. You can also alert newsletter publishers and blog owners and suggest they mention your gimmick in their newsletter.
Traffic tip #50
Create deliberate "link bait".
Linkbaiting is the practice of crafting content that is designed to get other content producers to link to it. The purpose is increasing the number of inbound links to your content and thus improving its performance in search engine results.
Do a Google search for "link bait" for more examples.
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