In this article, I will share 7 ways that you can use to increase blog traffic. As we know, more traffic equals more sales and who doesn’t want that? If you are not getting good quality traffic to your blog, then you are blogging in vain!

Tip #1– This is probably the oldest trick in the book, but it still works to this day. It is simple and natural to leave comments on blogs and forums related to your niche. Now the general rule of thumb for this is to make sure you leave your blog link on a blog or forum that is “do-followed”. An easy way to check for tracking or do not track sections is to simply use Firefox as your browser. Please note that you should only use Firefox for verification purposes, because if you just browse regularly with it, you may get banned from Google for too many search queries 🙁

Purpose: When we leave our links on tracking sites, we simply tell search engines to follow that link and actually give us some link juice from that site. Also, if you’re just posting or commenting on these sites strictly for SEO reasons, then don’t bother with sites that don’t have PR as you won’t get as much link juice. I tend to go to sites that are PR2 or better! I have managed to get my link on some good Pr 6 or higher websites and it really helps me to increase my blog traffic and eliminate competition with keywords.

Tip #2 Your next step will be to register with SocialPoster.Com and fill in your site details. The best thing about social banners is that they submit your site to over 150 different social bookmarking sites. What this does is give you more backlinks and, of course, visitors.

Tip #3 Next, we need to go to Technorati.Com and sign up. Getting your blog on technorati is probably one of the first things you should have done when you created your blog, but if you didn’t, that’s fine! That’s why you’re reading this! Anyway, you have to fill in the details after signing up. Be sure to add some good tags for your blog as this will help in increasing your blog traffic in the future. Since you can easily verify the authority of technorati, you will see how important it is that your blog appears there. Do you know how much traffic you can get?

Tip #4 Head over to MyBlogLog and sign up. This is a good place to list your blog and make some friends too! I really like the atmosphere of this place!

Tip #5– This happens to be one of those favorites of mine. If you haven’t stumbled upon one of his posts on stumbleupon.com, go ahead and do so. Once again, registration is free and easy!

Tip #6 Another new and popular way to get good traffic is to add a Squidoo lens. Now the thing to keep in mind here is to make sure that we do our keyword research. When creating a lens, it needs to be as optimized as possible and that’s basically with any type of article you write. When you’re creating your lens, be sure to add a link to your site to get some link juice from this as well. I have found that Squidoo Lens increases blog traffic tremendously!

Tip #7– Mega Mega Advice!! Syndicate your articles or “blog posts” to the main article submission. What I mean by syndication is simply submitting your articles to article submissions and making it possible for them to be featured on your site. The number one place to submit your article will be EzineArticles! I have found that they give me great search engine results and are definitely responsible for the drastic increase in traffic and sales to my blog! Remember what I mentioned above about keyword research within article marketing too? Well, make sure you know what you’re doing before you even try to write an article and submit it. For an EzineArticle article to rank in the top 10 Google results, it really doesn’t take much if the keyword you’re targeting isn’t that competitive. Although I have experienced that some articles are in a good placement for millions and millions of competing pages! That’s how good EzineArticles is! So in a nutshell. Choose a long tail phrase or 3 keywords to write your article and blog post. Look for less than 60,000,000 competing pages (only go that high for EzineArticles!!). Next, type your keyword into Google from your Firefox browser and look at the top 10 pages. What you want to look for is if 5 out of 10 of the sites have less than a “5” pr. Nothing else matters when submitting EzineArticles. If someone has told you otherwise, then you don’t know what you are doing correctly and you are probably missing an opportunity. We continue to write our article, post it to the blog, submit it to EzineArticles with good keywords, relink to our site, and then voila! They usually approve articles within 7 days and once you are approved you can see your article ranked pretty well if it is optimized correctly.

In conclusion, I hope I have shared with you some great tips that I have been using forever to increase my blog traffic! With the things I shared with you, in no time you will see more than 100 visitors per day. All you have to do is rinse and repeat, especially the megatip I told you about! This burst of targeted traffic will definitely increase your sales and interest in furthering your blog!