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You probably have heard of multiple sources of income but are you aware of the concept of multiple source of traffic to bring traffic to your website?
As the name implies, it is getting traffic from multiple sources.
The question is, how many sources of traffic are you using to bring traffic to your website?
Guest Blogging
Personally, guest blogging and commenting is excellent to build your brand. Because you are not supposed to do the selling there, it is a platform to showcase how much you know about the topic and that somehow your readers can follow you to tap on your knowledge.
And to develop your brand, the best way is to follow the blog owner guideline.
Do remember that first person you want to impress during guest blogging is not your readers. Guess who?
Well, you probably guess it.
It is the admin or the blog owner…
He or she is the one who will acknowledge whether you are the one or not after all you are riding on their platform and certainly they don’t want you to screw them over.
Never look at these guidelines as restriction and get frustrated over them. Instead, look at them as directions to help you streamline your post so that you can provide value to your readers.
After all, a person will only give you loyalty when you provide something in value to their life…
SEO
As much fun as optimizing content, building a search engine friendly website and getting familiar with the search engines guidelines, SEO do takes time to bring traffic to your website. But once you are there and as long s you continue your SEO effort, you will always be there.
If you are new with SEO, one of the things you can do is to submit your URL to AddMe. It is free and is able to submit your website to 20 search engines and directories like Google, Bigfinder, InfoTiger and more.
After you submit your URL, the directories will email you to ask you to confirm your email and you are to do that. After that, the directories will ask you whether you want to utilise them to submit your URL to more directories. It is entirely up to you whether to do it because some will require minimal service fee, some are free and of course, you will receive more emails asking you to subscribe to their other services and so on.
Paid Advertising
If you have marketing budget, paid advertising can provide faster way to bring traffic to you website. You just to beware that if you don’t pay attention to your campaign, it ll burn a hole in your pocket.
If you are an affiliate marketing beginner and want to start with paid advertising, a safer method is to try banner advertising with BuySellAds. They usually charge an affordable monthly flat fee.
Video Marketing
You probably know the power of video marketing and that many have launched their stardom with video marketing but some might think video marketing will require higher investment which can be a misconception. As the affiliate marketer trying to bring traffic to your website, you can ask the merchant for a short video presentation to be published on the video sharing sites.
Even if they don’t have it, you can still make a simple video yourself defining the product benefit through platforms like animoto and the web movie maker.
By the way, video marketing is not just limited to Youtube and is alright you don’t know where to submit your video to aside Youtube because you can go to Fiverr to hire someone to submit the video for you to other video sharing websites.
Social Marketing
If you are thinking to bring traffic to your website, you certainly have to pay attention to social marketing and social bookmarking because search engines are paying more attention to traffic from social platforms nowadays. If you haven’t already, please start sharing on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google +, Pinterest and etc.
A quick tip for affiliate marketing beginner, search engines still consider MySpace as one of the popular social platforms. So, you know what to do. 
Now that you have seen these multiple sources to bring traffic to your website, the question again is,
How many traffic sources are you actively pursuing?
Twitter: pathaderavi
I Guess Doing Proper SEO study and Social Networking are the Best options. Guest Blogging is also another Great way for it. But most of the Bloggers say that Paid advertising is not that efficient, is that true?
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Hi Ravi,
To me, paid advertising is still very much effective. But it depends where you point your traffic too. Take affiliate marketing for example, what I do is to point them to my squeeze page before to the sales page.
That way, I can get the visitors and market to them for other related products as well.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Hi Ravi ! i agree with your comment that Proper SEO strategy help to drive Get more traffics to website. social media and guest posting are major sources of natural back link building and getting organic traffics.
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Writing Good Content is the only way out I believe.
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I would vote for good content as well. However, the content also need promotion. Social marketing, primarily via LinkedIn and Google+, and SEO are the traffic sources I am actively pursuing.
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Hi Soren,
Great pointers there and I just follow you at Google+.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Right Soren. I just told that Good Content is the first thing then rest follows.
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Yup, I agree with u and Soren. Social networking makes high traffic. Due to people around likes those. Easily to get informations.
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Hi Rohan,
That’s true and it is a very important way as well. But sometime you just don’t have so much to write and you might want to ride on other methods.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: azmisurvivor
I do agree. Even content is the first thing to pay attention to before doing some other efforts. Some may say that “content is not the king”, however being successful in Blogging is not merely about whether a blogger makes a lot of money or not.
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Thanks alot for the post.I learned two more technique to get my site work better.
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Hi Zahid,
Glad that the post can help. All the best in your future.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Hi,
all the tools you have mentioned here are very powerful. Thanks for sharing this post. Helpful for newbies.
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Hi Diana,
Thanks for the credit. The tools are just introductory. You will discover more powerful ways and tools when you go deeper into the methods.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Creating a community of like minded people around you and your website is one of the best and effective methods to gain traffic. I am successful because of that.
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Hi Anchit,
Glad to hear that you found your way to get traffic. Ever thought of sharing your methods? I think many people will benefit from your gesture.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Well my blog’s niche is Tech and not blogging or SEO. So i have no platform for sharing it other than if some one asks me personally via mail or facebook chat
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Right… Thanks for sharing though.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
amazing post…i like all the tips to increase traffic on a website…thanks for sharing…
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Hi Rahul,
Glad that you like the post.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
I vote for content too. Building links with commenting, creating videos and using social websites will not help you if your website is not good enough. What I am saying is that if your website does not offer quality information such as articles, the visitors will not come back. This will increase bounce rate which is not good for SERP. So in other words – everything is based on your website and its content. Doing off page actives like the ones above will not help you if you missed the begging.
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Hi Erik,
To me personally, I think the off page work is to get a foot in the ground. Yes. Getting traffic is important but it is also important to have a presence. Be it small or big.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Hi Erik,
Yes, at the end of the day, content matters. However, most of the newbie bloggers, when they don’t see that spurt in the traffic drop the idea of blogging altogether.
A little bit of help from one’s social network does go a long way in boosting morale and motivation, although it’s no excuse for producing sloppy content. Once the mind is motivated, the author would automatically produce top-notch content.
Regards.
Jay
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You got it right, Michael!
Visitor loyalty absolutely is a reward to you for entertaining and teaching them.
What you say is also true about impressing yourself first. I’m in no rush. When I’ve finished my rough drafts articles, they get shelved for a while. If I’m impressed after reading them later on, then they get edited, optimized and published.
Consider you are having a conversation with somebody. You want your reader to look forward to your company, right?
I am your fan now, because you gave me a few ideas today. And, hey, I even pick up stuff from commentators.
Thanks!
Fred
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Hi Fred,
Glad that the post inspire you. The pick up stuff from commentators, that’s the fun part of commenting. You don’t just get traffic but also insights from other people.
You can expand those tips as your articles or develop something out of it.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: internetdreamz1
paid advertising is best option to bring traffic to any kind of site you get 100% interested audience on the other hand guest blogging show results for very limited time
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Hi Syed,
Some of the ways to make guest blogging work is to blog on high page rank blog and proper keyword targeting. It is to leverage on the blog and get your material out there.
Although it might not show as your site as the immediate search result, it is still good to have it there.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: tricky_techno
I think we should concentrate on the Quality of content and traffic will be there it self on our blog and yes SEO is also equally important.
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SEO is the most important and it will be.If we have make all correct in our SEO there will be a lot of traffic.
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Hi Mohit,
SEO is important but it might take time for mature for beginner in the business. Hence, getting traffic from other sources will be nice as well.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: tricky_techno
Getting traffic from other webistes is just like the Bonus and we all love that
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It’s hard to rely on SEO. I did this with my first website and then lost half of my daily traffic. In addition most visitors you get that way are looking for free answers to their questions. Whether you answered it or you didn’t they will bounce off your website. Networking is much better. You might not get a high traffic as fast but the quality of your traffic will be better.
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Hi Elena,
I can understand your frustration. Is tough sticking to all the search engine updates. If you have the budget, maybe you want to outsource the work to company like ebrandz or fiverr with less budget.
As for the free answers, we have no control over it. Even not all the list subscribers will buy from me. But we still need to build on the content and SEO.
Good points on the networking though.
That’s the part I am currently working on too.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
good post…I think that seo will always be a great way to get traffic as long as you are good at what you do. The thing that is racing up fast behind is video marketing
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Shane,
You are right. Many already gain their success with video marketing.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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thanks for the clarity. i think gust blogging is good idea.
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Hi Jees,
You are welcome
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: blogdum
I get my mainly traffic through SEO and will be starting with guest posting soon. Nice post
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Hi Shasha,
Have fun with your guest posting journey.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: techupdatesorg
For me SEO And Guest Blogging are the best performing way to get traffic. Paid advertising is also a good one but a new blogger can’t afford it .
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Hi Narender,
Good point. That’s why it is important to manage the finance properly. You want to go bankrupt before you build the business.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
SEO are the traffic sources I am actively pursuing.I think writing Good Content is the only way out.
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Taswir,
Nice reply. remember to get backlink to support your SEO campaign too.
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Guest Posts is one of the best methods to get instant quality traffic to our website, along with that comments is also the best way to do so!
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Hi Krishna,
Good point. But don’t limit yourself with 2 of them. You will benefit more with more traffic sources. Not just to get more traffic but to get more exposure.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
SEO and Social marketing needs some effort and times to bring the traffic. If someone need fast result, paid advertising or paid review is recommended. I’m still learning SEO. Oh my..
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Joe,
If SEO is too much to handle, maybe you want to consider to outsource it.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Yup2. I’m trying to use diff method other than seo. But first thing that I need to do is to make my site familiar in cyber world.
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Hi Joe,
Wish you all the best in your journey…
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
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Unique content and SEO are the major factors to bring loads of traffic. thanks for this nice post.
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Hi Bilal,
You are welcome. Try out more traffic sources. It is more fun
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
I have been extensively submitting guest posts and doing blog commenting and I have had very good results. Its has also brought stability to my rankings also.
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Hi Amarinder,
Good to see that you found your way. Cheers…
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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I think seo is by far have largest share in bringing the traffic , but other factors adds as a extra topping to cake
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Rohan,
I agree with you. Just that SEO can be challenging and need more effort. So I like to get traffic from elsewhere too
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
I usually submit to top directory like dmoz to get better Ranking in google.A little advertising for a new site and good seo is enough to bring traffic
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Hi Janet,
Good pointer.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
For me the best way to get tagged traffic is Paid Advertising..but you need some experience and budget to achieve and see the result you would.
The Guest Blogging and SEO are very useful method for many blogger but you need the time + hard work to see happy results ^_^
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Hi Sami,
Very well said. We just need to balance out the pay advertising and SEO.
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Doing effective Search Engine Optimization and Social Media Marketing can get more traffic to the blog. Join hands with blogging networks.
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Hi Jason,
Nice point on the blogging networks. Any good network to recommend?
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Thank you so much for this post michael. I’ve been trying to get my blog going for couple of day now but to no avail. Can’t wait to get going on all these tips..Thanks again.
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Hi Ruchika,
Although you are working on all the tips. You still need to be patient to before the traffic showing up. Wish you all the best.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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Three keys to success are consistency, persistence, and having some fun with blogging and SEO. If you’re not enjoying it to some extent, then you’ll drop it like the proverbial hot potato–and then there goes your consistency down the tubes (or should I say ‘tuber’).
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Joel,
You are correct. We must enjoy what we do. If we don’t, no point building traffic or even a business.
Michael recently posted..How To Do Affiliate Marketing
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Good tips on website traffic. Guest posting is one of the best ways and its white hat as well. Social sharing is now becoming more important. I am not a fan of paid advertising. Thanks for these ideas.
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Hi Shalu,
Is alright paid advertising is not your cup of tea. As long as what work for you, that’s great. We just need to ride on whatever work.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
Twitter: primejuicers
Hi Michael,
Good tips and thanks for the reminders. I’m pretty new at this and I need constant reminding about certain things. Right now I use SEO, social networks and focus on content. I’m sure I’ll use paid adverts, video and guest blogging very soon.
One question about the addme website. Do people get spammed after using it? I used a site like that years ago and got so much spam I had to change my e-mail. Thanks again and nice article!
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Hi Rich,
For the addme, that’s what I mean when I say “you will receive more emails asking you to subscribe to their other services and so on.” in the post.
Sometime these requests or product or whatever offer do get annoying and to an extent that we can’t handle it anymore.
You can mark them as spam and the email provider should be able to deal with them. I find that gmail work better than yahoo. For other emails, I have no experience.
Still, sometime, the addme alike do send good inspiration and update on the business and technology.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Hi Michael,
Thanks for the useful tips! I agree that SEO is worth the initial effort in the long run!
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Matt,
You are welcome. Have fun with your campaign
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
you covered Good points , but how about commenting on blogs
Blog commenting also drives good amount of traffic to your blog if you are good enough in commenting
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Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Sai,
I agree with you. Blog commenting is good. Just that the post I am focusing on the methods I personally use.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
You mentioned banner advertising. I have tried this approach on a few of my sites and pretty much did not work for me. Plus, I hear that this type of advertising is slowly “fading away,” according to some recent articles that I have read.
SEO is a time consuming process, very time consuming! Social marketing, well, I am not too keen on putting my personal info on a site, plus getting a bunch of “friend” requests from people that I do not know, is another reason!
So, each has it’s pros and cons – still looking for the best and least time consuming process.
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Charles,
To me, banner advertising will still be there and it works for me. Just that there are quite some factors such as design, placement, owner website traffic, target visitors and others that affect the success to your campaign.
SEO is time consuming and I have to agree to that. But you can always outsource it.
For social marketing, getting social discussion is the success to the campaign. So, the first step is to put up your info and accepting friend request.
When you are building traffic, there is no best and least time consuming process. You just need to get your feet wet.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
Twitter: bloggerjourney
All the tips here are great and are working good for me. In additional, Q&A sites also work great.
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Hi Mark,
Good to know that tips are working for you. This is the first time I know about Q&A site. Can to share?
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
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PROPER SEO… This is the key. The other methods work a little. But SEO and people using searching using the keywords that you have optimized for goes a Loooong way!
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Hi Joe,
I agree. But SEO take time and involve quite a lot effort. That’s way I use other method as well.
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I have search many tips about bring traffic to website and this post is one of the best post about making big traffic. Traffic is essential for us as blogger, no visitors it means no money. Thanks Michael for share this tips
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Hi Werry,
Thanks for the compliment. Wish you all the best in your blogging journey.
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
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I agree social marketing is the future!
Search engines are focusing more and more on your social ties just post a link on one of your social sites and you will see the bots jump into action.
My first priority is always building up my social communities on my news sites and sharing and interacting with them, as well as commenting on blogs and forums – seems to work well for me
“no need to fix it if it ain’t brokeâ€
Mark
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Hi Mark,
Good point and I am also working on my social presence and community. I just need some time.
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SEO and Social Networking sites are great ways to attract relevant traffic, however they do take time to show results. However if you’re looking for quick traffic then Paid advertising is best way.
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Hi Pankaj,
Well said. That’ what I am doing and they seem to give good return. Cheers…
Michael recently posted..Affiliate Marketing With Blog – Do You Know How?
Twitter: mrskylaar
The problem with social media is trying to get people to interact with a business profile on any of the pages created. Its easy to share your content on them but you need to get clever when getting people to share it for you.
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Jarryd,
That’s dead on. I am trying to figure it out too.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
Good points, but not all of them are suitable for every kind of business, for serious business people usually rely on very quality content, strong paid advertising, tight SEO, press releases etc.
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Nina,
You are correct. Just that the above are some of the methods I personally use.
Michael recently posted..SEO 101 for 2013
Looks like you missed out on an important one: posting blog comments
As guest blogging’s effectiveness diminishes (or not, depends on what Google has in store for us), the importance of blog commenting as a way to build backlinks and bringing traffic to your website will only rise!
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Hi Kevin,
Is true blog commenting is important. Just that I am focusing on that method yet. For the guest blogging diminishes, we have no control to that. But I personally think that it’ll still be effective for some time to go.
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Twitter: nerdsoncall
we do a lot of guess blogging with direct links. You are right it does take time, so don’t give up. It will build in time
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Hi Andrea,
You are right. We need to give it time.
Michael recently posted..SEO Affiliate Marketing
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Hi Michael,
I am planning to increase my guest blogging and my article writing duties this year but you’re right, guest blogging is so critical to getting traffic and building your brand. It takes time but it’s worth it; it’s the gift that keeps on giving
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Hi D.,
Good to know that you are increasing your writing work. I believe getting good traffic needs time. Even paid traffic need much testing to get better ROI.
Keep up the good work.
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I see you listed social bookmarking last. Which is the most useful social bookmarking site?
Twitter: AMBM9
Hi Tally,
There is no particular order in the listing. They are just the methods I use. I don’t know which is the most useful social bookmarking site but to my personal experience, probably is linkedin
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
Twitter: prateek__tweets
The major traffic on a blog comes out bcoz of the SEO of the blog and secondly the unique content .. Guest posting are the other factors which can help you to rank up in google..
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Hi Prateek,
You are correct…
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
Great tips! Other than guest blogging there are many other tactics which will give you link backs are blog commenting, forum postings, and directory submissions.
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Hi Kevin,
There are other methods too. It is really a personal preference, management and experience.
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Great article Michael!! Looking forward to implement these tips and get more traffic on my website!!
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Hi Rohan,
Thanks for the credit. Hope the tips help and remember to drill further into the traffic sources you can handle.
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Hey great tips for increasing web traffic. I have started using Guest posts and also I have used Adwords for paid advertisements and these are really increasing traffic of my website.
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Hi Vikram,
Glad you like the post. I am also glad that you manage to get adwords to work. I had bad experience with it and yet to go back to adwords.
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
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Social media sites like facebook, twitter and google plus is the way to get bettter ranking and traffic to our blog.
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Hi Suraj,
I agree. Want to hang out at google plus?
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
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Great article Michael. Would choosing an effective domain name be classed a marketing approach? Even ‘clustering’ your site with satellite domains linking to it? After all, an effective generic domain name can boost search promotions and build market credibility and presence. Plus, I think it improves the usability of the site as well as ultimately becoming an investment in your site’s marketing strategy…
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Hi Jonathan,
To me, the domain is not so important. To me it is like the house number. What makes a house comfortable and get visitors coming back is the content of the house, in this case the deco, the environment and things like that.
But again, that’s just my personal opinion.
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
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Social media website play important role in building traffic and in my case it does 50 percent of my job.
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Hi Bhupendra,
Great to see that. I hope my social media can bring me half of the traffic you are getting.
Michael recently posted..Numbers, Numbers, Numbers. I hate numbers…
Twitter: googlai
Hi Ravi ! I agree with your point Study SEO. Yes SEO strategy is only one sustainable solution to traffics. We need to deepth study on SEO and write quality content help to boost traffics as well as page ranking. Guest blogging , keyword research, social bookmarking and article submission drives tons of traffic and increase search engine visibility.
Social networking can really help in generating traffic and also guest post and blog commenting are one unique ways of getting more traffic. thanks
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Hi Babanature,
You are welcome. Let’s get more traffic to our sites.
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Nice article Michael. I have to agree those are some very useful tools to bring traffic. Though paid advertising in my opinion does not bring the highest quality of traffic, and gives a higher bounce rate.
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Hi David,
I go agree sometime paid advert do give higher bounce rate. Then again, the 1st impression play a role in the bounce rate. For me, I’ll go back to site to check out the layout, impression and offer (whether is a free offer or pay product).
By the way, do check out the site load time as well.
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Proper SEO can also bring a great and organic traffic to your site. Use some wordpress plugin like all in one SEO pack it is great. Thanks for your post.
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Hi Nikols,
You are welcome. All in one SEO pack is a good start. Just that you need be gentle with the title and keywords. The principle for optimizing without the plugin applies.
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thanks for sharing. these are great methods to bring in traffic.
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Hi Arnelsr,
Glad you find it useful.
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Good beginners list but I think one major thing strategy that many people could use is building relationships with other voices in your industry.
Find other bloggers who talk about similar things as you. Comment on their posts. Talk to them on social media. Share their articles. Meet them at events. Talk to them at forums. A lot of people underestimate the power of old fashioned networking in getting people to read your posts. Relationships take time to build, but the payoff they give are priceless.
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Hi Sunny,
You are right. I will need to start meeting more people and expand my network.
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I found this out last year when my website bit the bullet. I was scrambling a bit trying to get work. I did adwords for a while, but that got too expensive. I also made a lot of youtube videos. That helped a bit, but I’m in the process of making a new site.
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Hi Tom,
One of the key in getting traffic is keep pushing. Getting traffic will need time and dedication.
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hi Micheal..
Your post is great and are all true. Social Media marketing, Guest Posting and SEO can be a great technique to get genuine traffic to your site. Thanks for sharing your article to use this will help as a reference specially to a blogger like me.
Excellent
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Hi Gel,
Glad that I can help. Cheers…
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I feel like quality content should not even need to be mentioned…it should just be assumed!
One question I had, which perhaps you could address: how does one land a guest blog spot on another niche blog? Many of the blogs related to my niche are private and competitive with one another, and I am a bit at a loss as to how one would best go about pitching a guest blog exchange.
Thanks in advance for your input!
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Hi Evo,
Assuming you already contacted the blog owners, if you are emailing the blog owners, you have to take note that sometime your request will end up in their spam boxes.
Also, not all owners will grant you immediate guest posting. Be it trust issue, the quality of your work or the owner just don’t grant any guest posting.
Another thing you might to try is to build personal relationship with the blog owner. Get to know them and be their friend. With that say, there is still no guarantee that they will grant you a blog post even you are friend with them.
Is about personal contact.
If this too fail, my personal suggestion is to look into other traffic sources. In fact, while you are trying to convince the blog owner, you should be looking for other traffic sources.
Hope that help.
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Hi, i think writing good content is key to good traffic. i personally use free traffic as opposed to paid traffic as i lost alot of money because i didnt know what i was doing. personally i use articles and press releases which can be paid but very cheap and can even get on page 1 of google.
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Hi Ian,
Great pointers there.
Have you track your visitors with the press release that show up on page 1? The number of view as oppose to those who visit your site after the press release.
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I think learning proper SEO and social networking are the best options. Guest blogging is a great way for it. But most of bloggers say that advertising is not efficient, is it true?
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Hi Estiak,
What do you mean by advertising is not efficient? Do you mean paid advertising?
If it is. To start, it depend what kind of advertising you are paying to, who you are paying to and the site you are referring your visitors to.
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Hi Soniya,
I can’t agree more with what you said. So while studying SEO, work on the guest blogging and learn more about social networking. The key is to get others to discuss about your content
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Michael i agree with you that what the important is to make others aware of your content.
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Hi Michael,
Will try it in future.
I am currently using almost all of the things you have stated here. I am not able to use paid advertising for now as I don’t want a hole in my pocket.
Have you done any paid advertising? I would like to know your thoughts on this. Do reply.
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Hi Anurag!. I respect your efforts. You are paying a lot of eforts. I think you don,t need to use any kind of paid method. Well, i,m using socialmonkee for my blogging, that is great service, charges only one time but provides you backlinks for ever.
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Hi Anurag,
Paid advertising can burn your pocket if you are not ready for it and if you ill manage it. My suggestion to you is to do more research about paid advertising and find out which suit you best.
I am currently doing banner ad. Besides using buysellads. I also advertise on various blogs and websites. I contact the owner personally.
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Thanks. You are article is great. Blog commenting on high page rank dofollow blogs is best one as the guest blogging is. Because, you can have a dofollow link and that will be more benificial for you.
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Hi Junaid,
Thanks for the compliment…
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Don’t forget about infographics and their distribution. Infographics grow in popularity cause everyone loves pictures so this way you can build natural links I believe.
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Hi Maria,
I do believe what you say is correct.
In fact, I am actually working for my infographics. It is tough getting a good and affordable designer and to incorporate the content. There are still much discussion involve between the designer and me. I guess we are both trying to figure each other pattern and requirement.
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Hi Maria.!
I don’t know about infographics and their backlinks would you please clear me?
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Hi Junaid, here’s a brief guide to infographics for you: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/getting-the-maximum-number-of-links-from-your-infographic
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If your an affiliate marketer and you don’t already have a large mailing list? Then Paid Advertising is pretty much the only way to go.
If you are a more traditional blog? Then I would still suggest using Buy/Sell/Ads to help bring in some initial traffic.
Writing great content and trying to promote it on social networks – although it does work? It is the hard way to get traffic now days. The real trick is to try and get your content noticed by someone who is already successful and try and drive their readers to your site!
This is a great article with some awesome tips – I would recommend following all of them (as they apply to your own projects
)
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Hi Jason,
Thanks for the comments.
The challenge with social media is always to get people to share the content. Not just that people are becoming selective, the huge selection of businesses also diluted the visitors visit.
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Thanks Michael for the great article. I have not used buysellads.com before but I will check them out. Also I have not been very active on MySpace. After google’s panda changes I have stopped using the directory listings as i think they could hurt traffic.
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Hi Peacefulrunnner,
I do agree with the directory listing service. If anyone were to engage them now, they should do it more gently instead of buy into the services that claim to submit to thousands of directories.
Google now stress more on link quality instead of quantity.
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In my experience social media did not work for me. I got tired of getting insignificant postings from “friends” about what they ate the day before, who they went out with, etc! WHO CARES! I deleted my accounts.
As for guest blogging – well, to be honest some of these bloggers/moderators have taken the position of, “God!” You cannot post certain things, or you have to abide by so many rules, that you simply don’t even bother to go to their sites/blogs anymore. I would certainty be content that somebody took the time to visit my blog and accept it regardless of the type of comment they posted.
SEO, on the other hand as some have mentioned – is very time consuming. I barely know the white and black SEO, now I hear that there is a blue SEO! WHAT! How many colors of SEO will there be?
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Hi Chavol,
I have to be frank that building traffic is not something that many enjoy especially during the initial stage. Hell, it can sometime be down right ugly and you have pointed out some of the dark side of building traffic.
But if you want to make money online, that’s the process you have to go through.
One thing I can be sure of is that once you get through this tough time, you will have a good grasp to what work for you and it will be a smoother ride next time.
Cheers…
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Video marketing has worked well for me. It is super easy to do and I enjoy making the videos.
I would like to get into paid advertising, it sounds promising and I want to explore it more.
Great Post!
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Thanks Ryan.
I am going into video marketing this year.
While paid advertising can be promising, you will want to keep a close eye on the budget and campaign.
All the best on your traffic effort.
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Amazing short and concise post Michael! I love how you tackle all the key traffic methods in one short post! I am looking to try out paid advertising very soon, I’ll definitely give BuySellAds a look. Thanks!
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Hi Ardiv,
Thanks for the compliment and hope BuySellAds can give what you need.
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Hi Micheal,
Thanks for the helpful sharing .Social media is very helpful for marketing your business and in this way we can easily increasing traffic your site.
Thanks you.
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Hi Matthew,
Glad that the post can help. I am working on my social media marketing too.
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Great post here, and very useful sources. I know that with the ever changing internet and Google, one must stay on their toes, and promote their site every and any way they can. Whether it is by social media, linking, articles, whatever it is, do it.
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Hi Justin,
Well said…
We all are working towards the same goal.
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I am doing affiliate marketing little, but i know how to get money, prepare blog with all offers with merchants, and promote to network sites example facebook, twitter, stumbleupon, pinterest like that, you will get huge traffic from these network sites, then get your commission.
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Hi Alice,
Great to know that you are making money with affiliate marketing and you know where to promote your business. I believe you will achieve more in the future.
Cheers…
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this is very important by my view ! as google only diverts 38% traffic on my blog ! elseis coming from social network ! just by a few tips on this post !
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Hi Harshi,
Good to know that you are enjoying traffic from social network. Do keep socialing…
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Thanx alot for this post ! will alwasys help newbies like me to get traffic to my blog !
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You are welcone Harshi…
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Solid info, Michael. SEO is my main tactic, but it’s frustrating that the (secret) game keeps changing.
When I try to comment here, I get a message saying I’m using automated comment software. NOT! Frustrating to say the least.
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Hi Alison,
I can relate how that feel. It is a tiring task chasing the game change.
Maybe you will want to consider to outsource the work so that you can focus on something else.
Cheers…
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I run an affiliate website for workout DVD’s and other Amazon affiliate website. At the moment I mainly use SEO as the strategy to bring visitors.
Guest blogging is really too requiring while I recnetly starte with Youtube and social media with quite good results.
Does anybody know any sites for guest blogging: where people look for and can apply for guest blogging?
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Hi Jillian,
Why look so far? ComLuv Network does offer guest blogging opportunity.
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Guest blogging is such a great marketing tool because so few people utilize it! The reason for this is because it’s hard to write a good article and many webmasters consider it too much work for just one back link.
I remember one instance where I was helping my father promote his dental health blog and actively sought out dentists to write posts as guest bloggers and it was like, well, pulling teeth to get them to do so. I think out of three dozen dental professionals, I only had three of them actually write posts for his blog, you know it was PR3 at the time.
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Hi Ken,
I can relate to that frustration. Many people just want to keep their blog personal and refuse other postings.
But at least you still have 3 to offer their posts.
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hello michael,
for me SEO has been the biggest source of traffic. i get almost 70% of my traffic comes from search engines. and i believe this is the best you can get from free. SEO rocks
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Hi Prabhat,
Great to know that SEO is working for you.
I bet many will want to have what you are having now…
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As you said SEO and Guest blogging are the main part to get traffic from search engines and i believe on that
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i completely agree video marketing and social bookmarking are the most efficient platform for driving traffic for website.thanks for sharing
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Hi Rohan,
You are welcome and I hope these traffic tips work for you.
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Hi Michal !
Your traffics bring ideas are really effective and i’m also satisfy with your ideas. I have similar ideas to bring more traffics. I would like to listed below:
1. Write quality content
2. Do more social media interaction.
3. Engage in guest blogging.
4. Participate in community forum.
5. Create SEO friendly content.
6. Use long tailed keywords
7. Link buiding process
8. Make relevent videos.
9. Leave comment and also become a top commentator in several blogs and sites.
10. Do keyword research.
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I agree with the first commentator, doing proper SEO and Social Networking are the best, and cheap options
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According to me social marketing is the most important tool you should focus on because today a huge amount of business is set on social marketing only.
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Guest posting is the best way for getting loyal visitors to our blog. We should write quality content. And social marketing is also a nice option.
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For sure these are some important things that can help us to increase blog traffic. Moreover we need to offer informative, updated and quality content to our readers so that they love to visit in our blog again and again.
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hey Michael,
Nice post and Thanks for sharing these useful tips with us. Yes, Guest posting and Social media sites really help us to drives traffic to our blog and also help in promoting our blog.
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