How To Get Instant Free Traffic To Your Website

You have a new blog or website, you have spent weeks making it just right, you have shown it to all your friends and family, and yet, something is missing. Something very important - ah yes, traffic.

It turns out that almost anyone can make a blog or website these days and make it look pretty darn good. But traffic is another story. What’s the use of having that site if no one is around see it and interact with it? And how are your going to differentiate your site from all the other millions of them out there? If you ever hope to sell things on your blog and make a little money you surely can’t do it without traffic!

Before you ever start thinking about traffic you should have thought about a theme for your blog. What will make it different and stand out in a crowd? What will make people go to your site and want to keep coming back? What exactly is the purpose and what is your goal with the site? It is best to figure that out right from the beginning, before you are several months in and it is too late.

When you have your site up, you are then faced with that new challenge of getting traffic. I have found that one of the first things you need to do is register your blog with the social blogging sites MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog. It might take a day to get your blog approved and you should use that time to fill out all the info you can. Fill out your profile, put in a picture avatar, fill in all the tags (subjects your blog is about), and fill out your “about me” page.

Once your blog is approved get ready for some serious clicking. What you are going to do is join every community you can and especially add as many “contacts” or “friends” as you can. MyBlogLog will only allow you to add 15 new contacts a day and that will only take you 5 minutes. But that is 5 minutes you want to make sure you do each and every day! BlogCatalog is different and it will allow you to add as many friends as you like. I have added over 300 on occasion and only stopped when I couldn’t take it anymore.

How does this get your site traffic? Many of the people you add as friends will be curious to see who is adding them as a friend. They will click on your profile page and then through to your website. Not everyone will do this but I guarantee a fair percentage will. If you add 300 friends on BlogCatalog I will almost guarantee you will get 50 to 100 hits on your website within the next 24 hours. And it is all FREE! Now it may not be the most targeted traffic you will ever get but if you have a nice blog with a good hook, you will get some interest. Just keep adding friends and writing good content and you will be on your way!

How to Comment Without Spamming

Leaving comments at other blogs has been known to yield instant massive traffic for many sites. Take careful note of the fact that I am NOT talking about spaming blogs with your selfishly irrelevant comments.

Here are seven courteous, ethical and legal ways to leave comments at other blogs and in the process create sudden massive traffic to your own blog as well as creating valuable links that will improve your ranking with major search engines.

a) Comment without a single link at blogger.com sites
You can comfortably make comments at blogger.com blogs (the vast majority of blogs out there are blogger.com blogs anyway) and interested persons will still be able to find you and your blog. All you have to do is to update your blogger.com profile so that when people click on your name, they will arrive on your profile page and be able to see what you want them to see. You don't even need to have a blogger.com blog. You can stay at Wordpress or wherever else it is that your blog is hosted and then simply register at blogger.com to make comments only. There is a saying to the effect that to catch fish, you must conceal the hook. This is powerfully illustrated by the fact that in many cases you will find that people are much more likely to look for you when there is no link available rather than when you have a link prominently displayed next to your comment (hook clearly displayed so most people avoid it as fast as a fish that sees a harmful hook sticking in front of it)

b) Offer genuine friendship and help as a clever, invisible way to link to your own blog.
When you come across a blog you really like or a post that you love, then this is the perfect opportunity to make friends. Leave a comment saying why you are so impressed and then add the fact that you have recommended their blog and the post you like in particular at your blog. Naturally you will need to tell them where to find the post. So linking to it in this case should be acceptable. What you will have done here is exchange reciprocal links which some people say are not as effective as one-way links but always omit to mention that they are much, much better than nothing where search engines are concerned and anyway they will get you massive amounts of traffic.