How to get more traffic 2

So yesterday I told you about some common techniques you could apply to get more people visiting your blogs but those pull in not that great numbers check these out

1.      Blog directories- they are really helpful! All you have to do is to submit, submit, and submit. I have compiled a list of good directories on net while researching over them. Most of them are free-

2.      Social bookmarking: it's a new concept on web. It's the best gift web 2.0 has to offer and its really rowing. There are many sites which aggregate good posts/blogs submitted to them by usual surfers like us. People surf the blogosphere and submit what they like on sites like Technorati, digg, reddit, bloglines, del.icio.us.

             The more a blog or post gats marked on these sites the more is their authority on net. This drives their overall ranking on net and their Google page rank. And you can imagine the amount of traffic a weblog gets which climbs to the first search page of Google!

I will be covering this topic in detail in coming days.

3.    Pinging- whenever a blogger writes a new post, he/she needs to ping it that means he/she needs to inform blog directories that his/her blog has been updated, so that they can update their databases. You can find a good free pinging tool at pingomatic.com

4.      link building- this technique is based on the fact that no blogger can live without the help of other bloggers. It's a known fact and any person who seriously blogs, knows that. Linking to other bloggers can get your blog a share of very targeted traffic, helpful to the overall growth and monetization of your blog.

          The key here is that you should link your blog to only those blogs which share the same interests that you do. Random linking produces un-targeted traffic that should be avoidable.

I could continue to list many more easy techniques for you to implement, but let's face it, you probably know most of them already and haven't spent concentrated time implementing any of the techniques often enough to get significant results.

I don't want to overload you with ideas, I want you to go out and implement the above techniques and do them often enough to experience real rewards. This is about concentrated effort. Spending your time working a few techniques repeatedly will reward you with better results than doing every technique you can think of just once.

• Go out every day and leave comments on complimentary blogs

• Contribute to 1-3 top forums every day ' post full-sized articles if you can

• Every time you write a new blog article trackback other blogs

• Submit your best stuff to blog carnivals REGULARLY ' not just once

During the first six month's of my research life, I did nothing but write good content and focus on the above basic marketing techniques. I did at least one of these techniques every single day of my blog's early life.

You can substitute these techniques for any other ideas you have ' blog link exchanges, content exchanges, writing guest articles for other bloggers, MySpace.com marketing, BlogCatalog.com or MyBlogLog.com marketing, social media marketing or article marketing ' the important thing is to do something often enough to get results.

Top bloggers don't concentrate on any of the above techniques anymore, but they have the luxury of an established audience who help them spread the word each time they write an article. You don't - yet - but you can and will build up to enjoy the same benefits.

Check out for some evil, fast-result oriented techniques specially for beginners, tomorrow..