7 Ways to increase your blog traffic

1. Social bookmarking : Social Bookmarking Sites like digg, delicious, reddit, propeller etc. helps bring traffic to your blog. But sometimesit may not happen if you don't use these sites properly. For example on digg you should make a good profile of yours and add some friends there who will definitely digg your stories if you will do it for them.

2. Submit to search engines : submit your blog url to popular search engines like google, yahoo!, msn(now called ‘live’), ask.com.
Google : http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

If you want your blog to be indexed quickly to the google then add your blog to google webmasters tool.

3. Post at forums : There are many forums present online. Start posting at these forums on some appropriate topic which is related to your blog and never forget to add your blog’s link along with your message. Remember, you shouldn't spam at forums otherwise you will not be paid any attention there. Give some genuine tips if somebody need them.

4. Submit articles to article directories : Submitting articles to the article directories is a very nice way of increasing traffic for your blog. If you need some more information on how submitting articles helps in bringing traffic Read this.
List of article directories where you can submit articles.

5. Leave comments on other blogs: whenever you visit a blog, make it your habit to leave comments on their articles and add your blog’s address to that comment. Try to comment on those blogs and sites which have got high search engine rankings. And keep this thing in mind that don’t spam. Your comment should make some sense so that readers will get good impression for your blog and hence the will definitely visit your blog.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories: there are many blog directories where you can submit your blog and will surely help you to increase your blog traffic.
Dmoz.org
Technorati.com
Topblogging.com
Blogtoplist.com
Fuelmyblog.com
Mybloggingarea.com


7. Youtube Videos: Upload videos to youtube.com with your blog's address diplayed as an introduction or at the end of the video. If your video start getting a lots of views than it will also bring a lots of traffic to your blog.

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