5 simple ways to get more traffic instantly

Here are 5 simple ways to increase your blog traffic. Use these steps regularly and you will definately see an improvement on your traffic stats. Compared to SEO techniques, the results are almost instant.

Leave comments
Read lots of related blogs and forums and make sure you leave a link back to your own site with interesting comments. Informative comments will ensure that readers will click on your link to find out more about you. One liners are not recommended.

Use RSS feeds
RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication. RSS makes it easy for your visitors to get updated articles on your site. There are currenly a few formats used namely RSS 0.9, 0.91, 1.0 and 2.0. When refered to RSS 2.0, the abbreviation stands for Really Simple Syndication. One simple way to ensure that you offer all the formats to your readers is by using FeedBurner.

XML-RPC pings
Ensure that the world is notified when you post a new article. If you use a blogging software like Wordpress or Movable Type, it’s easy to automatically notify numerous sites about your update. Here is a great list of XML-RPC services to ping. If you are unable to do it automatically, you may use either Pingoat or Pingomatic.

Tag your posts
Tagging is becoming a popular way for people to search for relevant content. Tags are descriptors that individuals assign to objects, in the practice of collaborative categorization known as folksonomy. If you are using Wordpress, plugins like AutoMeta and SimpleTags makes it easy to add tags to your post. It will be then picked up by sites like Technorati to provide more traffic to your site.

Use social bookmarks
Social bookmarking is another way of exposing your site to thousands of readers. Sociable plugin makes it a snap for your visitors to bookmark your post on popular social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Furl, Spurl, Simpy, Digg and many more.

Try all 5 of them and let me know the results :)

Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
  • Digg
  • del.icio.us
  • StumbleUpon
  • Spurl
  • Furl
  • Reddit
  • Netvouz
  • BlinkList
  • co.mments
  • Fark
  • Ma.gnolia
  • Netscape
  • NewsVine
  • Shadows
  • Simpy
  • Slashdot
  • Smarking
  • TailRank
  • Technorati
  • YahooMyWeb
  • blinkbits
  • blogmarks

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9 Comments so far

  1. Liew on July 18th, 2006

    Really?

  2. Adam on July 18th, 2006

    I think posting up a nude pic of yourself will attract much more traffic. Not recommended though.

  3. toxicle on July 18th, 2006

    You would still need to use one of the ways above to get traffic to your site first though :)

  4. Swifty on July 18th, 2006

    1) Start a blog war with a famous blogger. (Be an ass and annoy the more emotional ones. Said blogger and their fans/friends/clique buddies will get back at you)

    2) Utilize the Digg effect. See what’s on front page, write something that’s SORT of relevent to it, and post it as a comment.

    3) Blog about a famous beautiful gal.

    4) … use auto-traffic.

  5. toxicle on July 18th, 2006

    Yup … those will also help but don’t go for number 4. Auto-traffic is useless traffic and if you run Adsense on your site, you will be warned not to use them.

  6. Swifty on July 18th, 2006

    Yeah, unless you don’t use adsense and all you want is some empty-feeling satisfaction of seeing some big numbers on your stats tracker.

  7. tm89 on July 19th, 2006

    Eh..u got apply those or not? Traffic naik?

  8. toxicle on July 19th, 2006

    Of course … why did you think I wrote this article?

  9. Publicidad en Internet on June 3rd, 2007

    Hello,

    I would add : Use Blog Directories.

    You can also get more traffic instantly from directories, specially if they have ping services.
    :)

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