As most of you know by now, the volume of traffic that a site receives has an undeniable effect on the amount of revenue that it generates.  In other words, if you want to make money blogging, you have to encourage a lot of people to go to your site and convert them into loyal readers.  While this can be quite a challenge, you don’t need to be a rocket scientist – or a Black Hat SEO specialist – to figure out how to attract more visitors into your blog.  Here are a few tips that you can use to do just that:

1.  Get out there and network!

Widen your online social circle!  You won’t get any visitors to your blog if you don’t visit other blogs yourself.  When you do go out and drop by other bloggers’ sites, leave comments on their blog posts and make yourself known to them and their readers.  Don’t just post any comment for the sake of putting up one.   Leave a comment that’s intelligent, well-written, and polite so you’ll make a good impression on the blog owner and his visitors.  Don’t forget to tack your own blog’s URL at the end of your comment, so people have a way of finding you and your site.

Another tactic to consider is that of linking to other blogs.  A word of caution, however:  linking to other blogs doesn’t always guarantee getting a link back, but you can at least count on a fair number of blogs who will return the favor.  Just be sure to pick blogs that are at least related to the niche you’re already specializing in.  If you’re going to link to a blog that isn’t in the same niche as yours, at least make it a site that you genuinely enjoy!

Forum boards are also a good venue to plug your site in subtle ways.  Participate actively in discussions that you have some good knowledge of, and make sure that your contributions are informative and helpful.  Don’t forget to leave a link to your site in one of your messages or in your signature!

2.  Fan out your work to article directories:

Come up with articles on your area of expertise, and submit them to article directories like eZine Articles and Buzzle.  These articles should be different from the ones that you’ve already posted on your site, and should give readers an idea of how much you know regarding your niche.  At the end of your article, you can leave a link to your blog, which readers can click through.  Other people can even use your article and post it on their own blogs, as long as they retain your blog’s URL at the foot of the article.  Instant backlink!

Remember that these article directories often have guidelines for posting articles.  For example, you can’t promote yourself or your site excessively, and each post must at least be 250 words long.  Some topics are definitely taboo, as well.  Need it be said that your work must be all original and not plagiarized?

3.   Write better posts
The best thing you can actually do to attract more traffic to your site is to create better, high-quality posts for your readers.  Remember, the reason why your visitors are in your blog is because they think that you might have something interesting to offer to them, or that you might be able to share something about your niche that other bloggers can’t.  If they like what they see in your blog, they’re going to come back again and again – without your having to resort to other gimmicks.

Keep in mind that if you want to make money online with your blog, you should do more than create a marketing strategy that aims at driving traffic to your site.  At the heart of your blog lies its content, and when your readers find that you always have something good and interesting to offer to them each time they visit your blog, they’re bound to return again and again.  That’s much, much more than what traditional SEO methods can accomplish for you any day.

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