“How to get more traffic” – this is one and the only one question that gets into the mind of every blogger. Some are lucky enough to drive huge visitors to their site whereas few don’t really get what they deserve to. Here are some of the tips and tricks that should be followed by every blogger to generate better traffic to his/her website.
Different Traffic Sources
- Search Engine (This will be your main focus when you writing more a static article, like software reviews, tutorials etc)
- RSS Subscribers (This will be your main focus if you write articles that are meant for a particular period of time, say IndianAutosBlog, which has latest news about Cars in India.)
- Social Media
- Direct Links
Search Engine Traffic
When it comes to static articles, Search Engine are the major traffic generators over time. The traffic that you may get to a particular post through RSS or Feed subscribers may be high, but that limited for a certain time period, to the maximum for a week or so. But if you can get your post indexed in top pages in major Search Engines, trust me you will be getting visitors at any point of time.
First position in Bing Search Engine
For getting listed in the front pages of Search Engine, you must write the correct keywords,title and description. Don’t forget to use All in One SEO plugin, you would have taken an hour to write the entire article, but you just got to spent less than 2 minutes (filling the All-in-One SEO) to decide where will page be listed.At first I ignored this plugin, but now Im regretting for it, Anyway its never too late. Install the plugin and fill out all the details for each post with the right keyword.
First position in Google Search Engien
I corrected my mistake and made the required changes for each posts and It really worked, Some of my posts reached the top results of major search engines. Optimize your posts for anytime traffic rather a particular period traffic.
RSS Subscribers
This is another very important factor that must be considered for traffic. These RSS Subscribers are the loyal readers of all your articles. The world is huge, there are many readers out there, but the toughest part is that you must find the right audience for your blog. Consider each subscriber as a resource of unlimited money. A good blogger must not only find good articles to write but also must find the right audience for the blog. Not trying to get more RSS Subscribers is one of the mistake I did in my early days of blogging and now I’m glad that I found this trick.
#Info: Incase any of you are interested in finding out the number of RSS subscribers of anyone, do check out my software – Feed Counter. It is the first application developed in ByteChip, and its already listed in popular sites like SourceForge and Softpedia. Click here to find out more about Feed Counter
Social Media
Facebook:
Got a wider network of friends, well then Facebook is for you, What advantage does Facebook give a blogger? Well the answer is simple, A little traffic and a stronger relationship.
Use applications in Facebook, like Networked Blogs and RSS Graffiti to publish your feeds on your facebook page. Trust me atleast 40% of your friends will open the link , incase the article title is really catchy. Also start a Facebook Fan page and start inviting your friends to join your Fan page. I called it “little traffic” because the visits that you can get through Search Engine and Stumble Upon can be very much higher than Facebook.
ByteChip on Facebook Networked Blogs
But however you can form a better relationship with fellow bloggers and your readers. Incase you are just blogging without interacting with any of the fellow bloggers or your readers, note down that you are losing something bigtime. “Don’t just blog , interact and build relationship”
Twitter is one of the most under estimated item in traffic generation. Many people call it a Spam Trash , but let me tell you , twitter can generate the best of the traffic, provided you know to use it the right way. Use a good twitter client to get things started, follow the right people and keep it clean. You will experience the real power of twitter in no time. But don’t spam Twitter, never use third party tools can follow large amount of people at same time. You will end up seeing your account suspended the very next day.
Twitter Account
This is my favorite, StumbleUpon is the dynamic traffic generator amongst the social networking sites. Have a good number of subscribers list in StumbleUpon, because if an any of your subscribe likes your article, it may lead to a chain reaction. I’m lucky enough with StumbleUpon, I once got more than 11,000 visits to a particular article on SU. So don’t miss this , StumbleUpon may be unpredictable but the results are worth the time and wait.
Stumbleupon Traffic
End of part 1 – Check out for part 2 to find more information on other social networks and Direct link traffic.
please tell me how to get more traffic from stumbleupon ??
how to use it effectively ??
tell me some basic about how stumbleupon works ???
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Sure Sudharshan , Trying to write an article on SU, that will give answers for your questions,. Keep visiting , I will post it once done.
BUt please soon bro
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Im also waiting for your article mate..! I have posted on stumble for months, but still didn’t get much traffic from it! is there any sort of magic to get traffic through stumble?
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I also tried some of my post at SU but couldn’t get more than 3/4 visitors. Do let us know how to proceed with SU for attracting visitors…
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Great results. I think I need to edit most of my posts with tags and keywords and take careful tagging from now on.
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Nice Information ! Cannot wait for second article !
Thanks Siddharth, Will post the forthcoming parts too, Subscribe to our feeds to get updated posts from ByteChip, Cheers
All in one SEO plugin is very essential for every blogger. I personally recomment it to all bloggers.
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I would like to know more about StumbleUpon. I heard that many bloggers have got massive traffic from StumpleUpon than search engine.
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Sure mate, Im also planning to write a seperate post on SU, Im still kind of figuring out the way we can make SU more profitable. Will post it once done. Cheers
I just tried FeedCounter its working great
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Thanks for Trying FeedCounter mate
FeedCounter has now been listed in some popular download sites like softpedia and sourceforge.net
There are some good points in here. I will wait for the part-2!
Thanks for showing a glimpse of keywords/key-phrases for which you are ranking #1 in Google and Bing. Now it would be so much easier to topple you from the #1 spot!
LOL Just kidding
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My pleasure mate
., They are just two keywords for which Im in the top ., there are few more that I won;t leak out 
This is really a great article, appreciate the way you have dealed, u have touched each and every aspect. Nice one mate. Thnx for sharing
Thanks a Lot Sidduz, Welcome to ByteChip
I think there is no better way than driving traffic to your website using Social Media or Search engine Optimization…They are working methods which can surely improve your blog traffic..
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Nothing as effective as Search Engine and Social Media mate, Im still working on figuring out how to get the best possible traffic through Social Media.
Wow!!! You are getting serious traffic from stumble upon. Looking forward for your topic on SU.
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Sure mate, But StumbleUpon traffic also leads to high bounce rate.
Nice one Ram you have pretty much covered everything for traffic.. Now its time to elaborate every steps individually .. Like search engine traffic by sitemap submission backlinks and so on…
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Thanks Harsh, Will elaborate on each of them., I’m also going to write an ebook on this. Will give you the first copy when completed
Yep that’s right. Being elaborate helps it a little more. I would be interested in knowing the different ways to harness Stumble upon for a better traffic source.
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Really great to see this. Traffic is a life.
Thanks mate
Stay to touch to read our upcoming part 2 on getting more traffic to blog 
Good post Ram thanks for sharing and waiting for next post on this topic and SU
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Thanks dude, and yes the next post will be published as soon as I completely figure out the way SU works, it will also have few more tips on direct marketing. Cheers
I still have not understood how to effectively use twitter.
For Stumbleupon – it’s just for the numbers. You will never be able to get much out of it as the bounce rate is very high.
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Dude, the IAB Twitter Profile has around 800 followers, But being someone like you must have more than 10k atleast. Find the people in your niche, and follow them. 6 out of 10 will surely follow you back. The more followers better is the chance of traffic from Twitter. And I can see you are using Twitter without any tool. I recommend Tweet Deck (” http://www.tweetdeck.com/download “) . You can send DM, reply to ppl, and find out who are retweeting your feeds. Good luck
Good coverage. As pointed out by other readers here SU is a tough nut for me as well. No luck. Waiting for your post on SU.
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