A website has no meaning if it does not have traffic. So its really important to have enough traffic to your blog. There are numerous ways available, the whole process can be extremely tedious without a systematic or automated way of doing this. Here are 11 easy and free ways to bring traffic.


Submit Articles in Free Article Directories :

Article submission sites are great traffic generators for well-written articles, usually on an average of between 1-200 visitors a day. There are lot of good article directories. You may also call it article marketing. Click here to learn more about how to use article marketing.

Stumble Your Blog post

StumbleUpon.com is a social bookmarking site which provides a browser tool bar from which you can bookmark your site’s pages. It helps to generate massive amounts of traffic to your site, especially if you provide content which people find useful. As a result, more people will review and bookmark your site, creating much exposure, possible backlinks and a subsequent readership.

Once you have set up the tool bar, use the “I Like It!” button to bookmark and review the site page with your post.

Submit to OnlyWire and other social bookmarking sites

Now a days social bookmarking sites have become a source of massive traffic. In order to submit your post to each of them requires considerable effort and time. Wouldn’t it be really great if it we could find a tool to automate this process? Yes, there is a tool like that.Its Onlywire.

With Onlywire, this can be achieved to a certain extent. At the moment, Onlywire allows instant submission of your post to up to 22 social bookmarking sites. You will still need to have your own account at each of these sites, and key in your account name and password into OnlyWire. But after that, all you need to do is to bookmark your post using OnlyWire, and it will help to submit your post to all the 22 sites and a global audience.

Put an add this button to your blog so that other can bookmark your site quickly.

Use Forum Marketing

Use popular forums for free advertising. You just need to discuss or help other people and just put your website link in signature. The link should be an attractive sentence.

Run Competitions

You can run contests or promos that will encourage your visitors to log on to your website repeatedly. Promos and contests will catch the interest of your visitors. Make them go after your good prize; it will make them excited to win. You should make your visitors aware of your rules, like the most times that a visitor uses your website, the more chances of winning. This catchy promotion will absolutely increase the web traffic of your website.

Ping

Let search engines know when you update your blog. Use Ping-o-matic to ping.
Write a WTF on Technorati

WTFs ( Whats The Fire) are short articles on Technorati that are used by blogers to spread the word on practically everything. They are frequently exposed on Technorati’s main page and can be voted on by people. If your post or article is of great content, write a short WTF and post it on Technorati. This can provide residual traffic as well, since popular WTFs can remain on the Technorati homepage for a long while.
Publish feeds via Feedburner :

Publish your feeds via FeedBurner. Keep option in blog so that people subscribe via rss or email. If you are starting a new blog will will look that after publishing feeds via FeedBurner you blog will be quickly indexed by Google.
Use Squidoo

Create Squidoo lense to highlight your blogpost.You can also add your blog RSS feed in the lens. Remember squidoo is google’s juice. But now a days google is filtering squidoo lenses. So this process may not be much effective in future.

Join blog communities

Join blog communities like MyBlogLog, Bumpzee and BlogCatalog . Join other peoples community and tell others to join your. Notify them when you post something new. You can also post in these community forums about your new posts.

Use BlogRush

Using BlogRush is also an easy way to get traffic. You just need to add a widget to your your blog. It will show other blog posts related to your blog. Just like this it will show your post links to other blogs. You find this widget just scrolling down a little and look at the sidebar of my blog.Got it ?Ok.Now lets know about the syndication credits which means the credit you earn by the impression of the widget, i mean by show other member’s post links.

But remember that if you don’t have good contents in your blog your visitors will never come back and they will not subscribe you. So its very important to write good contents in your blog.

Use Twitter

Twitter has been very popular in 1 yr. Do you use it? You can get good traffic. Because when you add some as friend ( at twitter known as "Follow") then when he writes something on twitter then its also published at your page. So just same thing happens for you. If you have 1000 followers ( if 1000 people add you) then when you post something its goes to your page and other 1000 pages. So it can be a good exposer for your website or product. I am also using it.Catch me on twitter.. You follow me. i will follow you.
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