Additional ways to drive traffic to my blog post?

Hi, you can try add on Instagram account to drive traffic to your blog also. Instagram is having a lot of traffic as many people are using it in their daily life after Facebook. Another place you can try is submit your blog to online press release such onlineprnews website.

Welcome to the forum!

Quick question: are you posting links in places where people are interested in the topic? If not, you won't get a large response.

Posting links all over the place isn't a very effective strategy. Your links need to be targeted to people who have an interest in your subject. For example, if your website promoting a book about dog training (for example), you'll want to post links in places where people are interested in dogs - like Facebook groups dedicated to dogs. Just make sure you follow the rules of the community your posting in.

As far as Twitter goes, it can be hit or miss. Generally, I've found it to be a good place to boost my own brand, but a bad place to drive traffic to my site. There was a study done not too long ago that found that even people with tens of thousands of followers had extremely low click-through rates.

The best advice I can give is make sure you're targeting the people who will be interested in what you're offering. Otherwise, it's like flinging mud at the wall and hoping something sticks.

Brad has a very good point. You need to target your audience (like everything else in marketing). Besides that, you can interest influential bloggers within your niche. If the article is good and professional enough, they might share it with their audience. Also, do not forget people in the real world (especially if it's a commercial blog). We sometimes forget how important and influential our neighbors, clients and visitors may be.

You could try Google+ as well.. how many friends/followers do you have on Facebook/Twitter? Another way to increase your traffic would be to increase your audience (get more friends/followers)

How much time has passed since you wrote your first post?
I suppose you also did some on page SEO.
Give it time, usually these things take time, you won`t see visitors come over night unless you will invest in a PPC campaign.
Use this time to educate yourself. You have come to the right place to learn all the things you need.

These replies are very helpful, thank you. Should I join the War Room? And how do I post a Thanks?

Hello Nicole, well, what is your target actually? To bring readership to your blog or to a website through it? I think it would be very important to know your niche of readers and simply try to keep it on track with that one theme that made them interested in the first place. If you speak about your favorite food, ugly sneakers and cute pets it might become confusing. Let us know how it goes

From reading your post I guess your blog is new? Give it some time, if it's quality content Google will automatically rank your article for the topic you're targeting. Other then that you can always drive traffic from Instagram or maybe by posting links on social websites?

You can try some other different traffic sources, like Pinterest, Tubmlr, Blog commenting, Guest post, other forums related to your niche.

You said "my first blog post" well you can't expect having a lot of traffic with a new blog, just be an active member and be social, traffic will come. Offer great value, if you can provide value traffic will be there for sure, they love great content and also Google will rank you up because they also love great content.

One more thing Nicole. While waiting for your traffic to increase you should add more posts to your blog.
When are you planing on making your next post?