Use these blog traffic tips to make your blog a vibrant community!

Have strong content. No matter how people find you, your content is what will keep them coming back for more.

1. Be unique. This is perhaps the most important thing you can do for your content.

2. Post frequently. Post at least once a day in the beginning. It is vital to show your visitors that your blog is a constant stream of interesting information. They should leave knowing they will be missing out if they do not come back.

3. Be consistent. Once your blog is established you don’t have to post as often, but you shouldn’t drop below 3 times per week. Consistency is key in frequency and in voice.

5. Post pictures, videos, and links. Not only will this make your content richer, but it will increase your SEO (search engine optimization) rating.

5. Post pictures, videos, and links. This will add to the richness of your content, and also increase its SEO (search engine optimization) rating.

1. Start following other blogs in your niche, if you aren’t already. If you have a comment, post it! Their followers will become yours in no time.

1. Post on other people’s blogs in your niche. Post about other blogs in your niche, then use trackbacks so they and their readers will see that you’ve posted and check out your blog2. Encourage comments. Ask questions. Ask for input. And respond. Comments give a blog legitimacy. Responses encourage comments.

2. Encourage comments. This is vital for your blogs legitimacy. You may have the best content in the world. A first time viewer may immediately recognize that you have the best content in the world, but if you don’t have comments, they will question their original assumption. So encourage comments so that people can rest assured in the knowledge that they are reading a quality blog. All you have to do is ask for your readers opinions, and be sure to respond to their answers.

4. Get involved in a link exchange. Make friends with other bloggers and set up a program of linking between your blogs.

4. Make contact with websites in your field, and exchange links.

5. Use social marketing tools like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter.

1. Answer questions on Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers.

2. Become a part of online communities and forums.

3. Write articles and submit them to EzineArticles, Helium, ConstantContent, or another online article source. Be sure to put a blurb explaining who you are and linking to your blog at the bottom.

4. Create a Squidoo lens. Share your knowledge via Squidoo to hook them in, and link back to your best blog posts (a couple blog posts) to keep them coming back for more.

5. Write a book, and publish it online. When you’ve been blogging for a while, you can’t help but to gather a great amount of content: content which can be transformed into a book with a bit of effort. With self publishing, you have no excuse not to legitimize yourself with an ebook.

Promote your blog offline. It’s amazing how many potential readers there are right in your own community. Although you don’t have to promote offline, this innovative tactic can have some surprising returns if you do your research first.

1. Make your friends give testimonials. Tell them to recommend your blog if the subject (or anything close to it) comes up. “You want to go skydiving? My friend has a great blog about extreme sports!”

2. Find your niche in their offline hangout. Go to a coffee shop and talk loudly about an issue referenced on your blog with a new acquaintance. Insist that he or she read your blog either to commiserate or be converted to your side. They’ll go and so will the people near your eavesdropping with their laptops. Then they’ll go and tell their friends.

3. Make experts and leaders your allies. Get doctors to recommend your recipe blog to patients on your special diet. Get professors to recommend your blog about your sociology thesis. People will listen.

4. Put up fliers. Or, even better, give fliers to the experts who are recommending you. Bonus if you can get them to hand some out to their peers!

5. Read aloud from your blog at an open mic night. If you don’t mind public speaking, this can be a great tool, especially for a blog with a creative bent.

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