16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

Do you have your blog set up, and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic statistics barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, you can start working immediately to get traffic moving on your blog.

1 Setting up email subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, co-workers

2 Setting the feed MyYahoo.com so that your site gets regularly spider is a search engine Yahoo.

3 Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Do not write things like "Nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4 Use Ping-0-Matic ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

5 Submit your blog to traditional search engines.

6 Submit your blog to blog directories.

. Tip: Create a form to track their submissions, which can take a few hours when you first start to schedule an hour a day for the submission of your lease or do it for you

7 Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8 Put a link to your blog on every page of their website.

9 If you are publishing a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10 Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence, such as automatic sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11 Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12 Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe na.RSS acronym means Rich Site Summary or May to consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. This is a document type that lists updates websites or blogs available for distribution. These RSS documents (also known as "feeds") can be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

13 Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks, to include links to other blogs, articles and web pages to your posts

14 Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to another blog. What is the admin? Basically what this does is send messages from one server to another server to allow you to know that they have published a reference to his work mjesto.Ljepota to link to your blog is on their site.

15 Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (see example in our signatures below).

16 Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help you increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at a time.

Tip: Use a hit counter to track your visitor statistics. How many unique visitors, page views, average length of visit