Using a blog to generate and increase blog traffic was probably never in the mind of the very first blogger more than 10 years ago. Similarly using it to get your pages indexed quickly or working to get an increase in search engine ranking. In fact I would even say when you and I created our first blog, how to increase blog traffic was furthest in our mind or a top priority. Using it as a marketing tool probably was, complimenting what we would term today as a non-interactive page – our static website.
Today, as more than 120 million blogs have emerged, a blog is used more for generating backlinks, and to bring you free organic search engine traffic or traffic directed from other blogs.
So as your blog evolved over time and throughout your blogging history, you must have witnessed some phenomenal blog traffic happening on your blog. Perhaps a new traffic building technique you were testing out got some fantastic results or something which you’ve been religiously doing in getting your blog traffic. Share with us here any of your best methods which have helped you get an increase in blog traffic. Give your blog traffic tip by giving your comment below. Then come back here again to read other good tips that others have shared here. A Tip for A Tip. 
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April 21, 2009 at 10:57 am
My blog still new. I still don't have techniques to increase my blog traffic. Maybe blog commenting is just another easy way to get traffic?
April 21, 2009 at 11:06 am
@blinnky: Welcome to this community. Absolutely, blog commenting is one of the easiest ways to get traffic, besides building good relationship with other bloggers. Your traffic grows too when you get to know more friends and bloggers in your blogging community. Thanks for dropping by.
April 21, 2009 at 11:38 am
Besides of commenting, link exchange should be a great way too. Other than these, I've tried blog submission to directory, article submission, guest posting, social networking, and offline traffic building (mouth-to-mouth). I don't rely on direct traffic right now, but organic traffic from search engine.
Regards,
Lee
April 22, 2009 at 12:05 am
Twitter has been performing pretty well for me and the traffic is of a good quality too. However I want to start targeting SEO as I think it's one of the best sources for massive blog traffic, along with social media.
April 22, 2009 at 4:10 am
Twitter is a great source of traffic . And other social bookmarks like digg work well for me
April 22, 2009 at 8:01 am
Blog commenting is a good way to start generating traffic make sure your comments are worthwhile.
April 22, 2009 at 8:04 am
some really great tips. I've heard that having regularly updated content on your site can help with Google rankings as Google seems to favour sites with activity. I'm soon to be launching my own blog and hope I can benefit from this!
April 22, 2009 at 10:38 am
Ha ha ha!! Top tip to increase your blog traffic? Easy, just write great content that people want to read and share!
April 22, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Social media, commenting and bookmarking all work well but to you have to work on it in cansistent basis in order to keep the traffic up. I'm learning how to use SEO as that will be an ongoing stream of traffic. I'm also learning that you really need a plan to keep the traffic coming
April 22, 2009 at 9:21 pm
@ atmmultimedia: That's right James. For me too, blog commenting has been the best way to get traffic besides search engine traffic of course.
April 22, 2009 at 9:29 pm
@ Make Money Online: Thanks Lee for sharing. For me, search engine traffic amounts to about 45%, so there's definitely good traffic from search engines.
April 22, 2009 at 10:45 pm
info above are probably has a point.,. but sometimes it is all in the keyword., keyword is the main key to SEO.
April 23, 2009 at 2:53 am
@ Dot Com Dud: I've seen some good traffic in twitter although it's not so consistent. I tend to get more of twitter traffic whenever I publish new posts. Thanks for sharing Dud.
April 23, 2009 at 3:19 am
@ Best CSS Gallery: I loved Twitter but I don't use Digg for a long time as my account was suspended for no reason.Anyway I think there are lots of other good social sites that I've used too, although except for SU don't see much traffic from others.
April 23, 2009 at 3:22 am
@ Home-Work-Newbie: Yes you're right, It's very important to keep your website or blog updated frequently.That's important not just for the Googlebots but human traffic too. You won't want to come back to a site that seems to be a ghost town do you?
April 23, 2009 at 3:32 am
Blog traffic is a must if there is a need to sustain readership and visits in order to maintain the business online. Thanks for posting.
April 23, 2009 at 3:40 am
Yea, search engine traffics is the best, only organic traffics can bring you more adsense clicks, more sales, and more money! That's why everyone is eager to organic traffics.
Regards,
Lee
April 23, 2009 at 4:52 am
@Nicolas Prudhon: Yes the good old content is king. it never fails.
April 23, 2009 at 5:37 am
@ Luca Di Nicola: The important word you used is “consistent”. Nothing comes on a silver platter for you. You do have to work at it and like they say rinse and repeat if it works!
April 23, 2009 at 7:51 am
@ Seven Figure Marketing School: Welcome to this community. Yes keyword ranking is one of the key essentials of SEO and helps in getting search engine ranking which in turn brings in the traffic.
April 24, 2009 at 2:13 am
Nice tips.
I have not visited your blog from a while.. Nice to see you again…
April 24, 2009 at 5:07 am
Hmmm. Increasing you backlinks, social friends and blogging what hot and whats on top is what think will work out.
April 24, 2009 at 7:16 am
I just keep writing unique content, that people want to read, and people keep coming back =D
April 24, 2009 at 10:56 am
Hi Peter,
I feel that it's all in the content. I update my blog almost every day and try to provide something of value. When you provide knowledge that is useful people will find you.
Ryan
April 24, 2009 at 11:19 am
nihar try to not miss because peters blog is one of the best places to get information
April 24, 2009 at 11:20 am
ryan you are right if you keep updating you content than the search engines will find you and its great and all but thats only half the battle now you need to work on the link building process
April 24, 2009 at 11:22 am
thats great for you joey considering writing quality unique articles people will find you and they will continue to come back its what separates you from the other congrats on this feat
April 25, 2009 at 9:53 am
@ Chaunna Brooke: Welcome to this community. Without traffic our blogs mean nothing even if you have the best content on your blog.
April 25, 2009 at 10:42 am
Well Peter, I'd have to say blog commenting. So far it's been doing very well for me. There's also forum posting, Twitter, article marketing and many other methods to get direct traffic. Natural search traffic, however, is by far the best kind of traffic to get, which is improving for my blog. All the methods I mentioned will help in increasing search traffic, so all are necessary.
April 25, 2009 at 2:59 pm
I wonder what keyword phrase you are targeting Peter? LOL!
Seriously though there is no doubt that blogs have become an important part in an online business strategy. Every company can benefit from running one (or more) blog(s) but even though blogging has been around for a long time now there are still thousands of companies that are not taking advantage of what blogs have to offer. You can only wonder….
April 25, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I am still new to blogging, but from what I read (I also wrote about it) search engine traffic is the best. Other traffic from social sites will stop if you dont update them often.
April 25, 2009 at 11:19 pm
I have noticed a great amount of traffic increase by tweeting and posting forums
April 26, 2009 at 4:21 am
Hi Peter,
I somewhat have to agree there. I've invested a time into blog commenting, but it is not always the best return for traffic, but I've found it is a great way to come up with new ideas for content.
April 26, 2009 at 6:43 am
@Nihar: Hi Nihar, it's good to see you here. Yup it's been a long time and hope you're doing fine. Well let's visit each other more often shall we?
April 26, 2009 at 6:45 am
@Vic-BusinessAccent: I totally agree with you. These things are so important. It's like having your 3 meals a day LOL. You can't do without.
April 26, 2009 at 6:47 am
@Joey Logano Fan/@almir: Good content and marketing it is a real puller. There isn't anything that can replace good interesting content. No shortcut.
April 26, 2009 at 6:51 am
@Ryan:You said it. The keyword is “value”, People look for solutions to their problems or shortcomings. So this is so important to the visitors to your blog.
April 26, 2009 at 6:57 am
@ Work From Home Opportunities: Alan I have to agree with you on that as I'm seeing you all over the blogosphere making your presence felt. I'm glad to see you making a name for yourself in the community that I think I introduced to you (I think).
April 26, 2009 at 7:00 am
@ Mikael @ Retire Rich: LOL now with all this talk about Google changing its algorithm on keyword over optimizing, not sure what is keyword optimizing vs keyword over-optimizing?
April 26, 2009 at 8:36 am
@ PShankar: Welcome to this community. Yes indeed free organic search engine is unbeatable. It's also everlasting, unless you get into trouble that is.
April 26, 2009 at 10:05 am
of course you have I've seen you on many blogs and your doing it specifically to get backlinks to your blog I know it and you know it as well
April 26, 2009 at 10:08 am
thanks for providing a great response it's very helpful
April 26, 2009 at 10:11 am
@almir: Yes blog commenting does get you backlinks. But the word is that we should remember not to use the same anchor text keyword as there's going to be some change in Google algorithm. It's either already existing or coming soon.
April 26, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Yes you did, Peter, and I thank you for that. There's some other terrific blogs that I plan to become active in as well.
April 26, 2009 at 9:57 pm
I have found blog commenting, using forums, and social media to have really worked for me and noticed a great amount of traffic on my blog.
April 27, 2009 at 7:59 am
I think you're missing the main picture here. Blog commenting is not always about gaining traffic. Blogging is about learning.
April 28, 2009 at 2:17 am
Hi Peter,
I comments gave me some great traffic, but I guess more on the form of comments but SEO has increase my search engine traffic that are far more huge.
BTW, Peter, Did you got my email? Did you still need any help? Let me know.
Luis
April 28, 2009 at 2:29 am
Not only learning and traffic, there is building a community of blogger friends. And most of the times what you got is comments in your blog, for pure traffic high numbers maybe search engine traffic can bring you more, but may not mean more comments.
April 28, 2009 at 2:32 am
Yes twitter it is another great way to get traffic but search engines traffic does not need you to do any tweet to bring it. Once you build the backlinks the traffic continues to flow without your help.
April 28, 2009 at 2:34 am
Peter, maybe it was because they know you know a lot of SEO and seems digg does not like SEO. I do not know why, but I guess it could be the reason.
April 28, 2009 at 2:37 am
Yes you are right, if you choose a worng keyword you may be the first in the serps but still have not much traffic, research to pick up the right keywords it may be the key.
April 28, 2009 at 2:42 am
Social bookmarking can do wonders if done properly. It gives you a lot of high quality backlinks.
April 28, 2009 at 2:45 am
Search engine traffic can be the one that requires more hard work but when its done it is unstoppable.
April 28, 2009 at 11:58 am
I have to go with Atmmultimedia and Marketing Business Review! Sure everyone would like to attain more traffic but most of us come here for:
1) What we can learn,
2) The experience of meeting new people that can help us further ourselves and business,
3) The feeling of being a success because we are learning from those that are successful
4) A place where we accepted as is and everyone knows our name like Norm from Cheers
I could go on and on! My take on this whole traffic thing comes down to this…
Everyone knows when one of our community members are here just for the traffic because they tend to post more often than the Mediators, Owners and long time members of the blog.
Paul
April 28, 2009 at 12:17 pm
@ almir: You're very welcome!
April 28, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@ Marketing Business Review:Agree Luis. Nothing can beat free organic search engine traffic. But no pain no gain right?
April 28, 2009 at 12:21 pm
@ Arfan: I'm not so lucky as you. For me tweeting doesn't bring that much traffic. Other people retweeting my posts yes. Posting forums is a good way I've found in getting traffic but only if I have a very good post to share.
April 28, 2009 at 12:22 pm
@ Salwa: Yes I do too as well. Thanks for dropping by.
April 28, 2009 at 12:26 pm
@ Marketing Business Review: Yes I got your mail. Sorry I haven't got back to you. I just recovered my blog after facing problems after the WP2.7 upgrade. It was a bad idea but I did it because I had many redirect 301 problems that made me lose my PR and only WP 2.7 had this upgraded plugin.
April 28, 2009 at 12:32 pm
Pere here's a definition for you:
Keyword Over-Optimizing = I learned this the hard way. I do my research, get my keywords, build a website, write my ad copy and just to be sure I get listed for my main keyword I insert it into the copy way too much. Sometime to the point the copy starts not to make sense.
Keyword Optimization = Exactly the same process except that in my ad copy I take note of how many words in total are in the copy and I mention my main keywords once every 100 words. I mention the keyword right a the very beginning, sprinkle some in the body of the copy and make sure that I mention it twice in the last paragraph (once in the very beginning of the paragraph and once at the very end of the paragraph). If the copy is an article then I mention my main keyword twice in my Bio using links (one is correctly spelled the other is a common misspelling for the other link.
April 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm
some of these are really great tips. thanks :]
April 28, 2009 at 7:03 pm
@ Car Dealership Website: Welcome to this blog and community and thanks for the kind words.
April 28, 2009 at 7:08 pm
@ Medical Billing Trainer: Thanks for sharing your definition. I practiced all this too.
May 1, 2009 at 9:20 am
I have a weather blog and my traffic is dead. I have it on google an yahoo's search engines but I need more. Does anyone have any tips?
May 4, 2009 at 8:36 pm
I think posting on different forums and blogs can generate some amount of traffic.
May 5, 2009 at 11:05 pm
I purchased an internet marketing book that talks exactly of commenting to increase backlinks. However, it did mention that the sites that one is commenting on should be relevant to your own site or it can actually hurt. Does that sound right?
May 11, 2009 at 6:35 pm
What I am doing currently for one of my blogs in the diet niche is I go to Yahoo Answers and answer some questions there, putting a link back to my diet blog in the source. I have only just started but I think taking part in communities like that and providing good and informative answers can generate a nice amount of traffic. You just have to make sure you do not put your link in the answer every time as you don't want to be seen as spammy.
May 26, 2009 at 12:13 am
Not a problem, I am happy to share what little I have.
Paul
June 18, 2009 at 1:50 am
I think the most important way to get people to go to your blog and stay there is to write really good posts. That's really the only trick. Nice post.
July 11, 2009 at 12:32 pm
@ person above me, i never thought of that method,
I have spent way too much time online recently, and as i lost my job due to recession, i might aswell head over to yahoo answers and assist people on topics i know =) thanks. appreciate the ideas.
August 23, 2009 at 4:11 am
We are newer. So, we loved to turn around on every blog that talk about blog, traffic, seo etc and read what they said. We loved to read your blog traffic tips. Thanks Peter.
August 27, 2009 at 11:20 pm
For me, increasing blog traffic is the most difficult thing to do since I have no related software such Blog Commenting software. It's not an easy job to get a quality backlink manually.
September 2, 2009 at 11:16 pm
Blog usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.
September 21, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Peter, I enjoy your blog and I appreciate your resourceful posts.
September 29, 2009 at 1:27 pm
Great insight into blog traffic and postings..One also gets interesting perspectives from other posters which make very interesting reading.
October 2, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Patriotic Plates..Try adding some quality backlinks to your site this should have an almost immediate effect..link to travel blogs etc ..i have found that my site rises up my chosen keyword on the search engines when applied.Good Luck
December 3, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Bandwidth is 2 things. It can refer to speed (how fast someone can download something from your site) or it can refer to how much data can be downloaded from your site per month. That's the one you're interested in.
December 3, 2009 at 11:51 pm
The easiest way to bring a consistent amount of traffic to your website is through Search Engine Optimization. This is when you edit the code of your websites so that they can be indexed and found easily by users searching on sites like Google.com and Yahoo.com.
December 12, 2009 at 5:56 am
Blogging is a great way to advertise because the pages are frequently updated which results in more attention from the search engines.It's a good idea to use blog submission services to submit your blogs to online blog directories.
January 11, 2010 at 2:29 am
It is also good that you tap on the social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, digg, furl, squidoo, stumbleupon, reddit, just to name a few. These are the latest trend in web now.
January 11, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Not that many tips were shared in the comments and I think that was the original point of this post. I've seen Yahoo Answers, blog commenting, and SEO.
January 15, 2010 at 7:09 am
I have tried link exchange sites like link referral. That only brings in a few visitors unless you spend a lot of time viewing and reviewing others websites. I also submit to ezine articles. I have seen some traffic from doing that.
February 17, 2010 at 5:28 pm
@tours in india: That's true and it is important to make your blog worthy of their visit like unique content and offer them stuff that makes them revisit again and again. Thanks for your visit.
March 20, 2010 at 6:08 am
A Fresh and Informative article always brings the high quality visitors.
March 20, 2010 at 11:08 am
A Fresh and Informative article always brings the high quality visitors.
October 15, 2010 at 9:20 am
Article submission gives me the best result till now. The second one is forum posting. But these two ways will mean nothing without on page optimization.
October 16, 2010 at 5:04 am
@lukman nulhakiem: Yes on page SEO is the first thing we all do.