Tips for Growing Traffic | Bloggers Lair | Yakezie Forums

1.  Guest blogging on google page rank 2 or higher blogs

2.  Socialize your blog.  Post every article to tip'd, reddit, old dogg, stumble upon, facebok, squidoo, etc etc

3.  Host a giveaway and socialize the giveway to all the giveaway sites; require participates to socialize your blog

4.  Various SEO Methods.. Make your topics based on keywords; answer questions found in forums

5.  Content, Content, Content

6.  Backlinking strategy… see smart passive income for details

7.  Networking with big time bloggers.

8.  Comment on other people's blogs and reply to every comment on your blog

9.  Network, network, network

10.  Post high impact articles in various finances forums to socialize your content.  type "forum: personal finance" or some derivative of that term in google to find forums

I've done the everything on the list so far and it has benefited greatly for me. 

You can have the best blog in the world but if you do not socialize it or advertise no one will know about it.

Ive definitely found giveaways to be huge for traffic growth

Financial Success for Young Adults said:

Also found some good threads here

 

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..c-shot-up/

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..t-a-month/

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..e-traffic/

Oh great. I guess that's a good take off from Sandy's rant: utilizing the past threads :)

Financial Success for Young Adults said:

Also found some good threads here

 

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..c-shot-up/

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..t-a-month/

http://yakezie.com/forums/blog…..e-traffic/

Holy shiiiiiiiiiz I love you FSYA.. the threads you linked too are great.  Maybe I should add .. "Use forum search function to identify problems" to that list I made. 

Post edited 8:22 pm – December 7, 2011 by JT_McGee

On the topic of commenting:

1)  Quality always beats quantity.  Leave the kind of comment you would want someone to leave you.

2)  If you leave a comment, hit the subscribe to comments button.  I leave a comment to open a dialogue.  What's the point of leaving a comment if you have no vested interest in it?  (I don't think any blogger is going to hate you for putting more content on their site.) Don't want a billion emails?  Make a comment-only email address.

3) If you're outsourcing your commenting, then just skip humans all together.  Get a VPS, install a comment spamming script and go to town.  No one cares about representing you more than you do.  Thus, save the $x per hour/per comment and just automate the living hell out of it.  If quantity is your focus, then there's no reason not to maximize your investment, right?

Writing my own comments has worked pretty well for me.  I comment on no more than 10-15 articles a week (probably less) but get at least 50 referral visits per day from comments.  Pretty simple, really.  That's 18,000 people a year coming to my site just because I took the time to share an opinion on another site. It adds up.

I actually never thought about craigslist! Nice idea. My main traffic booster was to improve my SEO. It took some time, but it makes a big different when 200 people find you each day from Google vs. 5.

For some reason, it seems like the number of pages indexed doesn't even compare to sites that have been around half as long as mine (even though I write at the same frequency if not more). I am trying to switch themes, but I am waiting on a new logo. *sigh* I think I might wait until after the next pr update so as not to ruin anything as well.

Do you have a sitemap? Are you finding any errors on G Webmaster tools?

2.  Socialize your blog.  Post every article to tip'd, reddit, old dogg, stumble upon, facebok, squidoo, etc etc

Be careful here.  This can also be seen as spam. Sites like Reddit and SU are quick to ban.

Better to build up a social community and share useful articles that you find. Then you can submit a few of your best articles without it looking like spam.

And please, don't submit your roundups. (pet peeve of mine).