1. Commenting On Popular Blogs Can Bring You Initial Traffic
2. Stumbleupon Can Be A Traffic Booster
I started looking for targeted people on StumbleUpon fairly soon after launching the blog. Or you can "stumble Upon" your own website to get the ball rolling. Stumble can be one of the top sources of your blog's traffic
3. Use Twitter To Get A Following, For Socializing And Eventually Spreading Your Links
Join Twitter, start looking for people with similar interests, follow them, leading to some will following you back. This will start getting you unique visitors that do not stop as long as you keep networking and connecting with people. Twitter along with Google can become the biggest source of your traffic.
4. Write A Guest Post For The Most Popular Blog In Your Field
Publishing a gust post at ProBlogger can send you many unique visitors even on the first day of publishing. Writing guest posts not only sends you traffic, it gives you authority, spreads your name to a targeted audience and also gives you a great value link for your search engine optimization.
5. Keywords In Your Domain Name Can Provide A Boost To Your SEO Ranking
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Looking at the traffic Google sends me, the 3 most popular keywords used to find my blog are very closely related to my blog domain name itself.
If I went with myownname.com I would have had a much harder time getting ranked for these three keyword phrases.
6. Use big brands to attract attention to yourself
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In some of my most popular posts I have used other brand names to attract attention to myself. It is a great strategy as these brands have many fans so it is much easier to attract them to click over to you, much easier to get them to comment and also much easier to get them to share the story with their friends.
7. Write Effective Headlines
In RSS, on Twitter, in Google search results, we are bombarded with choices to click on wherever we are online. The only way to attract attention among tons of other blogs is to write remarkable article headlines. In my experience “how to” and “top list” headlines work the best, are very clickable and shareable.
8. Hitting Digg or Delicious gets you oodles of links
Spikes in traffic come from days when your posts or articles go “viral”. These events also bring you lots of links and that improves your SEO and increases your traffic in the long run.
9. Be A Drama Queen
By being constructively and tastefully confrontational you can get tons of traffic. Even if you do not have a popular blog, calling out certain companies or individuals who are tracking their buzz will certainly get you a little traffic boost.
RSS:
Create separarte RSS feeds for your individaul posts and feed them to a feed aggregator. For more on this, visit this article: RSS Twist – Get Unique Feeds For Your Blog Posts
All these factors should contribute to your blog getting a momentum in social media and search engines, and this along with you writing great content regularly, would be able to achieve you similar or even better blog traffic results in your first year in blogging.