Get More Traffic To Your Blog

Posted by Bjorg Irene Vihovde on September 11, 2008 under Blogging | 8 Comments to Read

The thing I wanted to talk about today is how to get more traffic to your blog.

Blogging traffic works like a give and take relationship. Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else ’s blog.

Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common.

When you find something that you find truly interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.

One of the best known blogs available is LiveJournal. A great feature of LiveJournal is that you can search for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.

Are you interested in scuba diving, then you can see what other bloggers are interested in scuba diving as well.

When you are commenting on someone’s post, you want to make sure that you don’t leave generi comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.

After you have commented on the person’s post, then you can say something like, ‘I really like scuba diving too. I had a similar experience to yours.’ and then use it to link back to your journal.

But be sure that you sound sincere when you are commenting, and don’t make them feel like you’re just fishing for traffic.

If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won’t visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.