I’m not going to write a long explanation about this since I think you’re going to look straight to the list anway. This list, a compilation of many different techniques and levels, is meant to be a guideline for marketing for any site, especially blogs. Some of these are things you can easily do. In fact, it’s even possible to execute all of it. So without wasting anymore of your time, here are 30 tips for exploding your blog/website’s traffic.
- Email bloggers (once in a while) to let them know about your posts – if they like your message, there’s a good chance they’ll link to you
- Leave comments on other people’s blogs - it’s one of the best ways of blog marketing!
- Create social networking profiles then add people as friends (i.e. Myspace and Facebook)
- Create controversy on a popular topic - people will have something to say about it
- Have an RSS-ready blog/site so readers can subscribe
- Use social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us
- Have your 404 page redirect to your home page
- Write a press release and submit it to a PR site like PRWeb
- Use PayPerClick traffic
- Create viral videos and submit them to video sites like YouTube
- Submit your blog to blog directories
- Link to other blogs
- Purchase blog reviews on other blogs
- Make business cards for your site that you can give out to friends and families
- Purchase links on other blogs (even if it’s “no-follow”)
- Purchase ads on social networking sites like Facebook, StumbleUpon, etc.
- Give away a free product (i.e. eBooks, software, etc.)
- Create a poll and let people know about the results
- Brand your site with a cartoon character – John Cow has a cow, Dean Hunt has killer bunnies, and The University Kid has a, well, student.
- Run a contest on your site
- Submit your contest to contest sites
- If you have other sites, link to your main one (make sure they’re related)
- Use forums - here’s how
- Create a newsletter list where you can have readers opt-in to be emailed
- Write good post titles - better titles get better clicks
- Exchange links and banners with other blogs
- Answer questions in Yahoo Answers
- Do article marketing (i.e. Ezine Articles)
- Research keywords to optimize your content for SEO
- Last but not least, NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK! Get yourself known while you get to know others. Not many people know this, but it’s the most important part of internet marketing. The more people know you, the more they will work with you. Even having an individual blog or website requires teamwork.
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Great tips! Thanks for posting this:-)
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Rahul Jadhav Reply:
February 22nd, 2009 at 11:42 am
Creating Controversy helps a lot. I have seen a blog which used to get around 5 comments per post. In one post he created controversy and that post got 50 comments!!!
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Some very good ideas. Reminded me of some things I know and other tips which I could try. Thanks for the post.
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Quite a comprehensive list and makes for very interesting reading… Hopefully will be able to do it all though!!!
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Thanks for the tips. Interesting but looks like there is some hard work ahead for me!
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great tips. maybe i have done half or 3/4 of this
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your secrets revealed!
Even though I’ve been doing most of these I’ve always wondered why we were constantly neck-to-neck on the alexa charts. I get about 1,500-2000+ UVs per day. And even when you weren’t as active your site site was still competitive haha.
btw, how many UVs/day do you get; I’m curious
Thanks for sharing!
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I do most of these but i’m not the best at videos. I actually haven’t done and videos but looking into doing them thats for sure
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Great advice and tips, Thanks so much!
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Wow. Awesome post!
John Cow has a cow…LOL
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Thanks so much for this information … I’m already doing some of these suggestions but there are many others that are new to me.
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Nice tips. You did not write sponsoring contest. This gives you backlinks.
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Hey, that’s a great list of tips. Picked up a tip or two from it…thanx.
Cheers
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thanks for the mention.
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Great list of tips… I am really doing to have to think about a cartoon character now!
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Excelent tips!
I really like the cartoon character idea. When I use forums and social networks, I tend to prefer and trust people using avatars, even if it is an image that you know for sure it’s not them. It somehow let’s you know a little about their personality.
Creating a personality for your blog could be beneficial.
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Haven’t known that there is a contest submitting site before!
Thx
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Thanks! This will greatly help a newbie like me.
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@ 3magin8 - Well, ever since I got back in business, I’ve had over 450+ uniques per day (according to my stats). Not as good as your 1,000+ but I’ll get there.
@ everyone else - Glad you guys like the post!
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Tip #31 Read SlyVisions daily!
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I am not sure how to work with the 404 page. Can you go into a little more detail on that for us?
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I would lead you to my post on how to create a 404 page, but it wasn’t made to be a tutorial for WordPress. You can try reading this post about 404 pages right from the WordPress team. Hope that helps.
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All 30 tips are very good. Thanks for the post.
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Great tips to get traffic. Well done
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almost more than half of the tips work for me ! yippy, i had an increase of 2000 visitors in two days !
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
Those are great results!
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Wow…All the tips are really wonderful for a noob bloggers like me. Thanks Sly!!! Please keep posting such things for the benefit of your visitors…
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Even a pro blogger, they still using those tips =D
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I am a newbie blogger here and I really appreciate the tips. Hopefully I can get a lot of traffic by following all of them.
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These are really awesome tips, I learned a lot. Thanks a lot for sharing these information to us.
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Article marketing is awesome. You just have to be careful because if you submit articles that are posted on your blog it can actually have a negative effect (lower seo rankings) because of dulicate content
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Interesting list although I’m struggling to see how incorporating a cartoon character can help “explode” traffic. Perhaps it’s just me
BTW - Your “Simpson” is quite cool.
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Thanks!
By the way, I’m in the process of giving The Sly Guy a major face lift. He’s going to be back up in just a few days, so keep an eye out!
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Great list and deserves a thumbs up from me. I will sure blog about this article….
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Some of them are very common but everybody should know and use them.
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Sly I am a bit suss when people who haven’t exploded their traffic write about “How to Explode Your Traffic”.
You have really good tips, but do you have the experience to back up what you are saying?
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
Yes of course! I’ve implemented at least 90% of all the things I have listed here. Some things I haven’t done for example is making business cards to pass out and using PPC ads for traffic (which I don’t need to do).
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I’m using most of the items here on this list, and having some great success! Starting a contest on our blog Oct 1st, will be interesting to see the results!
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Nice tips!!
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It really takes a lot of effort to make a blog successful.
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Well written teemed with cream. Thanks
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It is a nice, accurate list, there is no doubt about that. But I would have preferred if you went a bit more in depth to be honest.
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
What would you like to see more information of? I’d be happy to write an individual post just for that topic.
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pretty comprehensive list here. :O trying to think of something to add. hmmm… ah well. anyway, i’m a big fan of commenting on other blogs, as well as posting in forums.
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Straight to the point and all excellent recommendations. I appreciate articles like this and will be checking back on this blog regularly.
Thanks!!
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nice article!
I fully agree on #19
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this is a great post, will come in handy for me to boost my blogs.
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You can always use traffic boosters. They are software with limited(alexa booster) or no installation(increasesiterating) both relay on increasing the numbers of the total page visits and unique page views
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Sly Reply:
October 8th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
The thing about traffic boosters is that they are not real targeted traffic. It’s not what you would want for your site.
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Awesome list here.. most of which i already occasionally do..
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Nice post … It will be really very helpful…
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about purchase ads it has been sometimes since I purchase ads from PW
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Thanks for the tips, they are really helpful for me…
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This is a pretty comprehensive list and if you’ve been online awhile most marketers are probably doing most of them, but regardless, it’s a great list.
Don’t forget Twitter!
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about purchase blog review. I remembered winning one blog review but the blogger never make for me.
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Great list. Looking forward to implementing them. Thank You.
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Now I am sponsor some ad space and Entrecard credits for contest.
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The business card tip is especially good, in my opinion (wink). And with businesses like VistaPrint and Moo.com offering great deals on business cards, there’s no reason NOT to have cards for your website or blog.
Who knows?
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m not a blogger but i addicted to read and share my thoughts via commenting on posts like this …
very good tips ur sharing frd … haven’t seen such detailed tips on any other blog yet
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Agreed, I find writing press releases, viral videos, and commenting on other blogs to be the easiest way of getting quality traffic back to your blog.
Social bookmarking has also become huge, a single thumbs up from stumbleupon can send thousands of visitors to your site throughout the month.
Cheers
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Agree with this “Purchase links on other blogs (even if it’s “no-followâ€)” but now I like to use social bookmarking sites to explode my traffic
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Sly Reply:
November 12th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
It’s good to hear that you’re using social bookmarking sites. A lot of bloggers out there don’t know the power they have!
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Puneet Reply:
November 14th, 2008 at 6:07 am
i hv tried getting traffic from sb sites … but are sb sites worth tryin to get traffic for business niche websites ?
i have tried for non commercial or fun stuff blogs or posts … received huge traffic but not sure abt serious niche traffic
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Hey ..thanks for the tips
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It’s a good list, all the way from free to moderately expensive activities.
One more suggestion: make sure that you write good content that provides information and mental stimulation for the readers. Proofread well and be true to your mission (whether the mission is talking about your personal life or talking about the health of the planet).
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Great post thanks for sharing. I find forums a really good way of getting traffic to my blogs.
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I agree with the tips list.. thanks.
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A lot of good tips here. I have been doing a lot of this stuff but this list reminds me of many things that I need to start adding to my list. I’ll be sure to include some of these new things to my list.
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Great list and I think I have done most of them. Still a good refresher. Thanks!
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Great list and I think I have done most of them. Still a good refresher. Thanks!
Peter Lee
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very useful tips, especially for bloggers. as for me, i create websites, and i place seo optimization on top of the list, not the end. thats slightly different strategy in promoting blogs and websites.
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Thanks for these great ideas..I have recently made one blog..so I will surely use your ideas to have more eyeballs at my blog…
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Writing good content is the best way to explore your site traffic.
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I find forums a really good way of getting traffic to my blogs. thanks
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Great tips! Thanks for posting this
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Good tips.Blogging regularly and commenting on related blogs is very effective.I have done most of the things on your list and it has increased my traffic relatively quickly.
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Good read, thanks for the information, it was really informative.
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You have sparked some of my interest and I am going to do some additional research. Feel free to check out some my blog in the near future… as I just posted a great blog about the 36 Best Wordpress plugins for 2009. thanks
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Oh, This is excellent tips. I looking forward to reading more here.
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great tips. I use some of them already…but you brought up some that I never thought about. thanks.
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I’m loving this site so far! I’ve had good fortune promoting our blog on Craigslist. The trick is to know how to do it. Some of your suggestions are things I’m not doing yet but will. Thanks!
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Thanks for the tips. You really put a lot of effort to list down these.
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i already did almost all that you mentioned above, except payperclick traffic
but, my blog traffic is still poor
can you help me?
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Hi
I like point 4 - “create controversy”. People are sadly more motivated by disapproval than approval
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I agree with you,,,,thanks for sharing
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Thanks for the tips. We run a lot of contests - and I never knew about a site where I could post them - what a great tip.
I am a new blogger and am so excited about how open the blogging community is. My background is Spirituality and Energy Healing - not the Internet and definitely not marketing. I expected learning the ins and outs on how to get my message across would be much more difficult.
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thanks for the list - really informative and useful - going to look into working with the contest sites - we run one about once a month
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Awesome tips. Sadly i only managed to use few of them. Moving forward, i think i have to allocate my time and break it down to few sections in traffic generation. Just to do it evenly using the above 30 tips.
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Great post and will pass this on to my clients.
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