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3 Proven Ways For Getting Free Traffic To Your Blog

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Free Blog Traffic

It is no doubt that web traffic is the backbone of any blog, without traffic, it is impossible for a blog to survive. If a blog lacks traffic, the blogger will someday get tired and weary of the blog and eventually shut it down. The issue of getting traffic to a blog is not an overnight thing, but with dedication and hard work, you can build a blog with good traffic strategy.

There are various methods and ways by which you can get traffic to your blog, but I will be sharing with you 3 ways of getting free traffic to your blog. I have been getting traffic to my blogs by using these methods.

These methods are quite easy, but they will require time and hard work.

# 1. Write SEO Friendly Articles

Search engines traffic is the best source of traffic any blogger can have, because lots of internet users rely solely on search engines for getting the information they seek online. If your blog is loved by the search engines, you will surely enjoy the pleasure of targeted free traffic.

For you to get traffic from search engines (the best source of free traffic) you need to learn the art of creating search engine optimized articles. Search engine optimized articles are simply articles that are written around certain keywords and they are written solely to get good rankings in search engines.

When creating SEO contents, you should look for keywords with low competitions and Long tail keywords with little or no competition and write articles around these keywords; the main reason for doing this is because it will be easier for your blog to rank high on search engines for these keywords and you in turn get lots of traffic from search engines.

A good free tool for doing keyword research is the Google Adwords Keyword tool.

You Should Check out this post – Keyword Research for Beginners Using Google Keyword Tool.

# 2. Social Networking Sites

Social networking sites are the rave of the moment with millions of people jumping aboard these social networking sites. Social networking sites (especially Facebook) have been a good source of traffic for me over the recent years.

Social Networking sites such as Facebook has over 900 million active users, Twitter has over 500 million users, Google+ has about 200 million users and LinkedIn has over 130 million users. As you can see, these sites are popular and they have so many users from all around the world and this makes them a good source of traffic generation for bloggers.

To get traffic from these social networking sites, you need to connect with like-minded people and also category of people that you know will be interested in what you write about. For example, if you blog on “Writing” you should join various writing groups on Facebook and LinkedIn and also add fellow group members as friends on these social networking sites.

This will help you get your content in front of people that have an interest in what you are offering.

If you are using twitter for traffic generation, you should not forget to always use the hash tag for important keywords in your tweet, this will help your content be seen by people who are interested in what you share.

# 3. Use Social Sharing Communities

Social networking sites are not the only place to get free traffic to your blog, you can always get much more traffic from social bookmarking/sharing communities. Lots of bloggers including me, gets lots of traffic from social bookmarking sites like Digg, Stumble Upon and Reddit.

I have learnt not to look down on these social sharing sites since the day I got almost 1,000 visitors to one of my post from one of these sites.

If you have been neglecting social bookmarking sites before, I implore you to have a rethink about them, they may be that particular thing you need to skyrocket your blog traffic. Join the major social sharing sites like: Digg, Stumble upon, and Reddit and make sure that you bookmark your posts on these sites as soon as you hit the publish button and am I sure you will get a handful of new visitors.

These are the 3 ways I have been getting free traffic to my blog, try them out, and I hope they work well for you. Do you have any other free traffic tips? Kindly share it with us in the comment section.

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Joseph Adediji is a Web Enthusiast, a Blogger and An Internet Para-Addict. He Owns Josylad dot Com a Blog where he writes on How To Blog and Make Money Online, You can also find him chilling at his Tech and Gadgets Blog.

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  1. babanature says:
    A very nice post, i must say. social bookmarking site have truly helped me for the pass month. they are great in driving traffic to ones blog.
  2. Emmanuel Gonot says:
    Thanks for sharing these traffic generation tips. I fully agree about Twitter traffic, I've started my personal blog 3 weeks ago and I'm already getting a decent amount of traffic and pageviews, thanks primarily to my activities on Twitter. The key, if I may suggest, is in having a follower base that's really interested in your niche or topic(s). Often, we go for the numbers but when it comes to traffic and amplification, I'm convinced that 20 fully engaged followers (influencers) are more valuable than 4000+ followers who aren't really into your blog's topics.
  3. Ehab Attia says:
    I'm with you Dave Lucas, this great point too, focus about forum posting too, this will help you to get traffic.
  4. akhilendra says:
    It goes without saying, seo, smm and bookmarking sums up everything. It covers everything which is required to bring more and more traffic. But all of them are easy to achieve. You need to devise a strategy to optimize your site for search engines and social networking sites.
  5. Joseph says:
    Hi Alex, You are right about blog commenting, but i have discovered that blog commenting only send a very few traffic and it is just for a limited time; but the above methods can get you a handful or Tons of Traffic.
  6. Marius says:
    These strategies are really good and it's working well. But your visitors have a bigger impact than you. Everything belongs if they like or not. Then they will share. But for example trying to get traffic via guest posts and forums can send you lots of traffic and then it comes to these strategies.
  7. Alex says:
    I feel commenting on the blogs of fellow bloggers is also one good idea to generate free traffic. We can leave the links to our article or blogs beneath the comment and ask the bloggers to help us with the marketing factor. This is easy, free and does not consume much time.
  8. Aditya says:
    Using the social media sites and communities related to it will bring more traffic with no doubt.social media communities are helpful as they filter the search according to the niche and only recommended niches related will look for you.
  9. constance says:
    I must say I've been blogging for a better 5 years and I'm still clueless about getting traffic and I don't want to bombard my twitter followers with constant links back to my blog
    • Joseph says:
      Hi, Twitter can become a great source of traffic for you and you dont have to bombard your followers with links, you can decide to be dropping one or two links per day. I believe this will not make any loyal follower angry.
  10. Nishadha says:
    Social sharing sites are increasingly becoming a good traffic source for us. The trick is to engage and be part of the community. Which is why I feel it is important to limit yourself to few social sharing sites, at least when your starting out.
  11. Dhruv Bhagat says:
    Social Networking Sites are the real source through which one can get quality visitor. Also, Google loves those sites who's posts are regularly shared and get positive feedback! Well, thank you so much for sharing such informative post.. Thanks!
    • Joseph says:
      You are right Dhruv, social networks works well for traffic, especially if you have many friends or large followers and it is absolutely free :-D
  12. Joseph says:
    Hi Hesham, Thanks for publishing my guest post, its nice to be on famous bloggers!
  13. Dave Lucas says:
    Another tip: leave your blog's URL behind when you visit forums and include it in the signature of your email address (and anywhere else where URLS are welcome!) Blog On!