8 Blog Traffic Tips : Free Traffic Tips

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Before you write your first blog post, make a list of topics that speak directly to what people in your industry are most asking about. If you don’t know, consult WordTracker Questions.
Do keyword research on your topic to use as tags and as subjects to write about. Run them through an online thesaurus as well.
Optimize your blog for search engines. Properly configured blogs can get a continuous flow of traffic from search engines that is easy to maintain.
Already have a blog? Double your blog posting for a week. Look at your traffic stats – this can bring 25 – 200% more traffic.
Comment on more blogs by people in compatible markets. If you’re an interior decorator, it’s all well and good to comment on other interior decorator’s blogs, but you have more of an exclusive market among, say, local realtor blogs
Submit to as many blogs taking guest blog posts as you can.
Get some guest blogging happening on your site – it’ll give you a break and help you form partnerships.
Don’t discount blog carnivals, or think that they’re beneath you. They tend to drive a lot of targeted traffic that’s actively interested in the topic.

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.

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Bertus

These are all excellent tips. And you can actually apply them to other aspects as well. keep them coming.

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Mitch

These aren't bad blog tips, but there are two other things to mention. One, if you're already writing a post a day, doubling that might scare some readers off. Two, gotta keep up with your spam type comments, because that makes people wonder if the blog is legit or not. Looks like mine might be the only real comment you've received so far on this one, and that's a shame because the tips are good.