How to Create More Blog Traffic ?

Anybody can create blog quickly and easily with all the blog creation tools available today. But once your blog is created, getting traffic to the blog is another issue entirely. Just because you built a blog doesn't mean anyone will visit it. You must create traffic by promoting the blog and the more traffic you drive to the blog the more money you'll make. Here are three methods I've personally used to drive traffic to my blog. They'll work for you too.

1. Add Fresh Content on a Regular Basis

Many new bloggers make the mistake of creating a blog, making the first post and then forgetting about it. Especially at the beginning, your blog needs constant attention in terms of making new posts. Why would anyone want to visit a blog if new posts are made infrequently? Its best post once per day or at least every other day for the first month.

Blogs are a favorite of search engines because there is new content added on a regular basis but if you make frequent posts neither the search engines nor blog visitors will return with any regularity. On the other hand, the more often you make informative posts and inject some of your own personality the more posts will be indexed by the search engines and the more likely visitors are to make repeat visits to your blog.

2. Find Related Blogs and Make Useful Comments

Another effective method for driving traffic to a blog is to find related blogs and make useful comments. Considering the number of blogs on the Internet these days, you shouldn't have much trouble finding blogs on topics related to yours. The higher the PR of the blog the better since you'll be getting a link in exchange for leaving a comment.

Take some time to read several posts on the blog to get a feel for it. Then make a constructive comment to one of the posts. Don't just comment with some rubbish, contribute to the conversation. If your comment adds value, people will be more likely to want to visit your blog. Leave your name and a link to your blog to allow readers and easy way to click over to your blog.

3. Really Simple Syndication

RSS is really simple syndication and most blogs come with it these days. I use aweber's auto responder service which comes with the capability to send an email notification to a list every time you make a new blog post. This is helpful because not every reader who reads your blog will remember to come back frequently. A friendly email reminder increases repeat visits to your blog which is more traffic.

It's very similar to creating a regular opt-in list but now instead of having to write an email sequence, all you have to do is post new entries to your blog and the RSS feed will automatically notify your list that they can read a new post on your blog. Repeat visitors are a great source of blog traffic.

There are many more ways to drive traffic to blogs and I'll cover those in future articles.