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The best free blog traffic strategies to increase your traffic - guaranteed.
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1. Create lists.
2. Write a tutorial.
29. Encourage your readers to digg, tweet, like, buzz your posts.
37. Run relevant ads that are even better than your content.
51. Pioneer a great topic and then encourage others to blog about the same thing.
58. Encourage your followers to help you dominate top blog lists.
68. Challenge your fellow bloggers by writing something nearly borderline about them and close
comments.
69. Share link love and expect some back.
71. Be complimentary.
73. Write about stuff that most people want to read about, like Web 2.0.
75. Write a post about something merely good, but not great.
76. Constantly read other blogs, leave comments, look for ideas.
79. Skip introductions and get to the meat of the posts – your readers do.
89. Combine some of your best older posts into a new series.
90. Treat every day as a new beginning, because you’ll always have new readers.
91. Be patient.
92. Post on the weekdays because more people will read it.
93. Change up your posting style every once in a while, like do reviews, etc.
94. Showcase some of your best posts on Squidoo lens.
100. Aggregate ideas, tips, etc from numerous places/blogs into a blog post.
105. Write about everything under the sun so that you don’t bore your readers.
106. Alternative to link exchange: get a group of bloggers together and write reviews for each other’s
blogs.
108. Be very focused on one topic, in deep detail, so you become a recognized expert in it.
109. Be opinionated.
110. Answer very specific questions in deeper, more specific ways than currently exist.
116. Write posts that includes tons of trackbacks to other blogs so that other blogger will notice you.
120. Respond to criticism in a post (i.e. criticism of you, your company, of the way you squint your eyes,
etc).
124. Check out your competitors’ archives to see if some of their old posts can be turned into an updated
version on your blog.
125. Write a post that uses the words “futile” and “desperate”.
126. Write something to inspire and motivate your readers, especially if you don’t do it on a regular basis.
128. Review your analytics to see what keywords are brining in traffic and make more posts on those.
132. Invite a couple of bloggers with opposing opinions for a duel on your blog.
135. Don’t make your readers pull out a dictionary to understand your posts.
137. Make a post about questions that should be asked about your niche, but nobody thought of asking.
138. Create an exhaustive list of jargon for your niche – with definitions.
143. Don’t promote yourself or your products at the expense of the readers’ attention.
144. Write a post about a blog, which is popular, but provides poor content – explain why. You’ll open
pandora’s box, but create traffic.
148. Gather a bunch of creative commons images about your niche and make a gallery-post (with credits,
of course).
150. Write a “tag” post and have other bloggers who you tagged add to a list.
151. Make a post about what in your niche is being done wrong and how to correct it.
153. Make friends with power users on Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc.
155. Make friends with influential bloggers and social media leaders.
156. Create a post that leaves your readers hanging till a later post – it’d better be good!
158. Write part 2 for any of your posts that are extremely popular.
160. Put together a list of the most tweeted/dugg/shared posts in your niche.
161. Dress your blog (design-wise) like you would for your first date.
162. Collect inspirational quotes from other bloggers in your niche; compile them in a post.
163. Invite a well known blogger in your niche to contribute a short guest post.
165. Use a translation plug-in to translate your blog into other languages.
166. Ask other bloggers (preferably more influential ones) to review your blog and make a post about their
findings.
167. Tell your readers to change the world and give them examples of how they can do it.
168. Turn your blog posts into articles (use EzineArticles plugin).
174. Be a comedian – “They’ll be standing in line for that old honky-tonk monkey shine!”
180. Answer forum questions by linking to a post that has the answer.
183. Start reciprocal guest blogging: you guest post on their blog, they guest post on yours.
184. Ask your readers to email you links to their best resources and make a post about it.
185. Write an “attack post” by setting up an argument and them shooting it down.
186. Share the secrets that made your blog successful to enable your readers to do the same.
191. Assign a theme to each day of the week and write about it on that day on a weekly basis.
192. Review your blog’s stats (weekly, monthly, yearly) and write about the results.
193. Do a Twitter search on a particular subject, compile them in photoshop and do a review of the trend.
194. Compile YouTube videos on a specific topic into a VLog and post it to your blog.
195. Walk your readers through a day in your life, use photos, videos, but put a fun/funny spin on it.
196. Write a post about things you can learn from “…” (insert a popular personality in your niche market).
197. Write a summary of a long report, white paper, ebook – make it an easy bullet-like format.
198. Compile a list of niche-related news over the past week, month, etc; keep adding to it over time
making it into a series.
199. Create a sense of urgency in your title, make readers think they will miss out if they don’t read it.
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If after reading this, you can’t increase your blog traffic, you are in deep trouble, my friend.
Just in case you don’t know me well enough, I have to let you know that I didn’t come up with all these tips
all by myself – I wish I was smart enough.
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Ana Hoffman
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