SIX EASY STEPS TO GENERATE TRAFFIC FOR YOUR BLOG.

In my last article, I focused on applying for a Google Adsense account - which is not an easy task because of the stringent  criteria google has set before they approve adsense applications these days.

Like I said, it is important you pause for some period and focus on building your blog with lots of quality posts and  also drive traffic to your blog before applying for an adsense account.

Promoting a blog is much easier and faster than promoting a website, because blogs are so interactive, and if you are using Wordpress, there are tons of site promotion plugins you can use.

For instance, people can come to your blog, subscribe to it, leave comments on it, and go to their own blogs and write about something that you wrote about, quote you and leave a trackback. This works the opposite way as well.

To promote a blog, there are very specific things you do:

1. You ping your blog after each post. You can do this at a site such as http://www.pingomatic.com/, which will send the ping to multiple blog directories at one time.

2. You use social bookmarks each time you make a post, tagging the post with your keywords. You can quickly and easily send out multiple bookmarks at one time by using a service such as http://www.onlywire.com/

3. You burn your feed at a free site such as http://www.feedster.com/. This lists your feed in their directory, so that people may subscribe before they ever even visited your blog.

4. You visit relevant blogs that belong to others, and leave relevant comments (not comment spam) with a link back to your own blog.

5. You quote other people’s blogs – just portions, not the entire post – and link to it using your trackback feature. Your link to that post will automatically appear on their trackback list for that post, if they have enabled trackbacks.

6. Social media: Successful bloggers use the social media platform to promote their blog. With facebook and twitter having millions of followers, they are just the perfect platforms to promote your blog. There are lots of bloggers groups on facebook like BlogShare, Bloggers Lab and others that you could join and meet other bloggers with whom you can share your articles apart from sharing with your friends on your wall.

We'll definitely expand on this later but suffice it to say that there are other social media platforms like Google+, Linkedin where you could publicize your blog posts and get traffic.

I shall in due cause expand more on each of these six aspects for better understanding. However if you consider this topic of benefit, show some appreciation by dropping a comment.