How do I get traffic to my blog/site?

There are many ways how to get traffic for your site.

The simplest method that I know is to post quality content that will capture the attention of the visitors. Once you've done this build some links, social bookmarking, article directories, digg, reddit, and you're done.

Read and search through this forum, especially the free ebooks. Post links everywhere you're allowed to. Create web 2.0 properties, make videos and promote them, write articles and submit them.
Research your keywords wisely, remember not everyone is searching for the same thing the same way, it's important to chose your keywords wisely.

Have a quick search through the forum...

Off the top of my head -

Articles
Videos
Social
Bookmarking

Some other more grunt-working methods would be forum posting, blog commenting, videos, and torrent creation.

This is what I do:

1. Provide updated and useful content (written, video, audio, graphical and software content as well as products and services) relevant to the needs and problems of my target audience.
2. Determine where segments of my target audience frequently hangs out on the Internet or even cold contact them in case that's possible (if my target audience = marketing VPs, business development heads, etc. of corporations and companies operating in particular industries).
3. Contribute updated and useful content in those online places while exposing links pointing to my pages offering supplemental content that provides benefits which cannot be found on those online places nor from my contributed content. I'll also send presentations and demo of my content, products and services if my target audience consists of the people mentioned above.
4. Contact webmasters of sites where my target audience frequently hangs out, particularly site owners with large mailing lists of people included in my target audience. Offer my content, products and services in exchange for ads and links placed on their sites and newsletters/updates. Also offer affiliate comissions per sale/referral.
5. Place my products/services in ClickBank as a merchant product so affiliates can market my products/services for me with commissions per sale/referral.
6. SEO for improving the search engine rankings of my sites and pages for my target keywords. Tackling this would be a lengthy discussion, so I'll leave this for another day.

What type of products or service or you promoting

The fastest way to get traffic is buying it via PPC, there are several options, but the main ones are:

- Google Adwords.
- Microsoft Adcentre.
- Yahoo.

The best way to get more traffic is to being active social media sites like facebook,add lots of friends and adding link whenever you post a new article.However you also can work with off-site SEO to get more traffic.

Social Networking sites like Twitter and Facebook are a major help. Make sure you have good content and you should be getting traffic with no problem.

Well, for me, one of the best method is to be a guest blogger on similar-topic blog.

Also, commenting and giving value in other similar-topic blogs helps too.

But that's just me, I like to write things that resonate with my targeted readers, so guest blogging would be one of the best method I would say.

Aiden

Simply think....

PAID Traffic

or

FREE Traffic


Depending on the type of blog you have
you can analyze the paid and free sources
to see which are most effective.

If you have a direct response sales blog up
have you tested to see if it converts?
You should do that before you hit the
traffic switch.

Wattap Jayzee a.k.a "Hova"

You've received some pretty good advice, but I know when I first started in Internet Marketing, reading great traffic generation techniques like the ones above is awesome and exciting. BUT when it comes down to actually taking action and generate some traffic I found myself overwhelmed and confused on where to begin and which one to use first.

So...my honest advice to you, as a newbie (if you are one) is STAY AWAY from paid traffic for now and especially stay away from...Google Adwords!

And instead focus your efforts and time with FREE SIMPLE traffic methods doing:

1. Forum marketing - if your niche is "internet marketing" then here at the Warrior Forum is where you should be 24/7, 365 days a year! Just be active, positive, and provide value in all your responses and questions. Oddly enough this will get people clicking your signature link, singing up to your opt-in page, and eventually purchasing your product or an affiliate product you promote.

2. Article marketing - I know, know...everyone is saying it's not working and not effective anymore but truth is it still WORKS and is free.

Just focus on submitting ONE article a day to Ezinearticles.com FIRST, wait for it to be approved, and then submit that same article (with a little rephrasing to avoid having Google think it's duplicate content, which will bring your search engine rankings lower) to goarticles and articlesbase.

3. Blog commenting - Go on the TOP blogs in your niche and be the FIRST to comment on a blog post, making sure your comment is valuable and contributes to the post.

Just focus on these three for now and master them.

DO NOT underestimate the simplicity of these methods, because from my experience and from many of the most successful marketers today, simple techniques like these when executed bring amazing results.

So, be consistent and persistent in your actions. And DON'T GIVE UP!

Within a couple weeks you should have a decent number of subscribers on your list to market to or sales if you choose to drive your traffic straight to a sales page.

Now stop reading this long thread and go TAKE ACTION!

Sonam

Blog commenting is still the best traffic generation method for me. It lets you to engage with the people in your niche, thus you'll be more familiar with it. Social media is also effective.

Andrea