35 Ways To Increase Blog Popularity and Traffic

1. Do your research. Know your topic. Know what traffic levels are possible.
2. Plan ahead. Outline in broad strokes what the posts will cover over time.
3. Understand the basics of social networking.
4. Attack from all sides. Get traffic from many sources.

5. Be unique
6. Be yourself. Have a voice. Have an opinion.
7. Have a pleasing site design.
8. Post on weekends because most don’t.
9. Post about breaking news before anyone else.
10. Have a noticeable, visible RSS feed icon.
11. Use video or audio occasionally or frequently.

12. Ask questions at end of posts to encourage commenting.
13. Ask your friends to spread the word about your blog or posts.
14. Email commenters, thank them for commenting, and then ask them to return or subscribe.
15. Guest blog on other blogs and invite guest bloggers to blog on yours.
16. Interview other bloggers. They’ll let others know about the interview.
17. Advertise.
18. Use socializer plugins to encourage sharing.
19. Remind people to subscribe at the end of every post.
20. Provide unique content for subscribers only
21. Run polls and ask everyone to take the poll and spread the word.

22. Comment on other blogs and network in social communities
23. Participate in blog carnivals
24. Link to your blog in forum post signatures, if allowed.
25. Link out freely to other bloggers within your posts.
26. Get listed in blog directories
27. Run article series, covering a topic over several posts.
28. Use Feedburner’s promotional widgets.
29. Use social proof by showing subscriber count or traffic numbers in sidebar.

30. Hold a blog contest with subscribing as a requirement. Give away a nice prize.
31. Create widgets that supply others with something cool to display on their blog.

32. Go where they are. You have to find relevant communities.
33. Form friendship pockets to strengthen ties.
34. Use sites like mybloglog and blogcatalog so your avatar is seen visiting other sites.
35. Partner up so you can cross-promote with others.

Note: A reader contacted me wanting know how to increase his blog popularity and traffic. I told him that I would write a post about it so that everyone could benefit from the answer to his question. The problem with writing this post, of course, is that it’s been written many times by others. Writing it myself feels like just a rehash of what others have said elsewhere. Nevertheless, some of you may not have seen the various other permutations across the web, so I think it’ll be okay for me to put my version out there. Hope it helps a few.

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2 Responses to “35 Ways To Increase Blog Popularity and Traffic”

1. Ann Thomas says:

   Great tips! Thank you for sharing!

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