57 Surefire Ways to Drive More Traffic To Your Website

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Submit your Site to blog directories- here are the top 6 according to PageRank:

blogcatalog.com/directory - Reg /Free
blogpulse.com/ - Free
blogged.com/ - Free
dir.blogflux.com/ - Reg / ?
globeofblogs.com/ Free
bloghop.com/ - Free

Don't just Join/Submit either- add friends, join communities, read and comment on other peoples blogs!

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Submit to RSS Directories for your Feeds
Here's a GREAT list to the submission pages:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

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Use Trackbacks (when someone links to your pages!)

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Leave comments often on similar blogs- if you write about car audio, visit and leave comments on car audio blogs

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Create a MySpace page, use the Blog feature and start collecting friends. Don't forget to broadcast your RSS feed address to all your friends.

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Write GREAT stuff and always use a spell check and use good grammer. People notice these tings, doncha tink?

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Offer FREE stuff (ebooks, stickers, whatever)

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Write about big names in your chosen niche and make sure to tell them about it (or comment the link on their site), they won't be able to resist linking back if it's a good article!

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Make your Website/Blog easy on the eyes and even easier to get around. Forget all that tom foolery, great content is much better than great widgets (for traffic purposes)!

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MAKE A SQUIDOO LENS (Like I need to say this right?)

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Use questions and Top 5/10/20/57 Lists as the title of your postings, it attracts more eyeballs.

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Promote your posts on Newsgroups/Forums related to what you are writing about

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Create a Signature (SIG) with a link to your site and use it EVERY time you post anything anywhere at anytime and also use it in emails.

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Submit your site to Wiki's related to your content, they will be happy to have you.

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Let all your friends on IM or email know to Digg, Stumble or (Social network of chose) your Posts!

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Be the first to write about something

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Submit your best posts to Netscape
http://blog.netscape.com/2006/10/04/3-ways-to-submit-stories-to-netscape/

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Submit your blog to DMOZ (look it up!)

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Write press releases for your blog, locate and submit to free press release websites

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Leave plenty of comments on Blogs/Sites that advertise the fact that they are a DOFOLLOW site- like Mine ;-)
http://www.ideanip.com

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Make something for webmasters and give it away for FREE in exchange for a backlink to STAY on the page- like a Theme, Template, Plugin or Script. Using themes is an awesome way to create hundreds of backlinks quickly, however they must be GOOD themes.

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Have you told a friend lately? Seriously, everyone has an attention span of like negative 5 seconds these days, email often to let your friends know about new posts and remind them to Digg, Stumble, etc. Even if they are RSS subscribers (as they should be!)

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Befriend active bloggers and exchange links, comments and ideas. I'm currently taking friend applications at billy@ideanip.com be sure to include a link to your site (wink wink)

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Write GREAT content

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Write Great content

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Write great content (it's THAT important)

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Link frequently to other bloggers in your posts, they will check to see WHO you are and possibly comment, link, wink or ? it's people who make things happen, not Automatic anything

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Have other bloggers write on your blog

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Participate in blogger forums like
http://www.bloggeries.com/
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/

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Use pictures in your posts, these attract the most traffic

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Constantly improve your writing by taking classes, reading, participating in writer groups, etc.

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Join SpicyPage.com

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Start a group blog and link back to all the members blogs!

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Use Google Webmaster Tools & Analytics to understand how/why and when people are finding your blog, how long they stay, etc. Track this stuff!

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Use keyword research tools (like google's or overture) to find good keywords to use in your posts!

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Write about controversial topics

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Tag your posts using Technorati tags

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Answer peoples questions on Yahoo! Answers and link back to your site

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Write articles and submit them to article directories with a footnote linking back to your site- do this as often as you post, over time it drives immense traffic!

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Post at various times of the day

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Make it easy for your readers to submit your posts to services like Reddit, Digg & Stumble- have a Share button at the bottom of each post

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Make your comment boxes DOFOLLOW and ADVERTISE the fact.

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Invite readers to submit ideas for future posts- have a form handy to do it quickly

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Establish yourself as an authority by becoming a big kahuna in a forum, community or website like Stumble, Digg, etc.

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Help anyone and everyone you come across on forums, etc. if you can- people love to help those who help those in need. if you come across as sincere and helpful in forums, etc. people will tend to click on your links to find out more about you

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don't try too hard, relax and let yourself be you, people are more attracted to those who convey a sense of character without trying. don't spam or force what you have to say/do down other peoples throats, just be you and the rest will follow

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Join LinkAndBlog and become active in link & blog challenges

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Selectively exchange links with quality like minded blogs

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Market your blog off-line. Get free bizcards at VistaPrint with your blog & email info and hand it out to cashiers at the supermarket, gas station and tellers at the bank. Become the professional "Blogger" that they know and soon they are talking about you to others

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Use OnlyWire.com to submit your blogs to multiple social networking sites all in one page!

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Give it some time! Your most valuable traffic will ultimately come from search engines and they will naturally gravitate you up over time if you are consistently producing good keyword rich content and increasing your readership. Search engines operate on secret algorithms yet the one thing that holds true is that over time as your backlinks, content, etc. increases, they rank your further up this natural Page Rank is vital in the long run

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Get a good domain name that has at least one of your sites main keywords in it. Like Ideanip.com

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Join a blog web ring with similar content

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Encourage and make it easy for your readers to sign up for your rss or email newsletter

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Use StumbleUpon to stumble your posts, get active, makes tons of friends and then send them messages, cool websites and comments- you will soon have a loyal following of people who will stumble every page you submit or favorite

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LOVE what you are writing about. Everyone can tell, believe that!

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Add a forum to your site and let people discuss topics related to your content. This is a great way to add immediate value to your site and keep users actively involved in it's development. Ultimately, you will only do well on the web if everyone on the web wants you to do well. So give, live and learn, but always remember to GIVE.

p.s. If you feel mislead because #'s 24, 25 & 26 were the same tip, email me at billy@ideanip.com and I'll send you two more, ok?

Signing off! Billy Jack
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