Efficient Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

There are literally hundreds of ways to drive traffic to your blog. Here are effective methods you can use to get started:

1. Regular, frequent posting will boost your blog's ranking in search engines and is essential to the survival of any blog. A number of bloggers who have adjusted their posting frequency and analyzed the resulting traffic numbers claim three posts a week is a minimum, and three times a day is where you begin to see some serious traffic.

2. Submit your blog RSS feed to My Yahoo!, Google's Reader and other RSS directories and search engines to gain exposure for your blog, build a following, readership and revenue.

3. Swapping links or trackbacks with other bloggers in your niche is perhaps the best method to drive traffic to your site. Bloggers are well known as free and generous linkers. Most blog owners will readily give abundant natural links to content that interests them and their readership or even freely create permanent links to their regularly read blogs from their own home blog pages.

4. Whenever you write new contents for your blog, blog ping it after. Pinging your blog is essential if you want to make the most of all the time and effort you put into creating new content and posts. By pinging blog search engines, your blog's content will be indexed in a much more timely manner, which could lead to additional search traffic, which could, in turn, lead to new inbound links if other bloggers who found you blog's content interesting and link-worthy.

5. Provide helpful comments on other blogs often. Visit some blogs everyday and leave useful comments on all of them. If your comments help other or if they find your comment useful they will surely come to your site.

6. Contribute valuable info forums and discussion boards related to your website's niche. You can create a forum signature that has your website address. Your info on the forum will generate website traffic from your signature link from forum users in your post.

7. Tagging your blog posts blog postings, making searching and sorting of blogs easier. It is is a way of getting people to find what you're writing, not just organizing for yourself.