Easy Ways to Build Traffic for your New Blog / Website

As simple as it looks like, a blog is definitely one of the most popular medium that enables publishers to start earning money with Adsense. There are a few requirements though.. a nice, attractive and possibly viral enough, domain name and a good web hosting service. Content is the very next thing that you need to have, but again, the most important of it all. After that, driving traffic to your blog is also a very difficult part. Questions on driving traffic to the blog are always the most popular question to be raised in Adsense Help Discussion Group. Joing PPC advertising program can be one effecive way, but not every blog publisher can afford to pay to join such program. In this post, I am going to discuss three quickest yet free method that drive the first stream of traffic to your blog.

1. Post messages and leave signature on related forums/ groups

Just like what I normally do in Adsense Group. Leaving the URL of your blog as the signature is quite effective in driving traffic to your site. All you have to do is find some forums or groups that are related to your area of interest. Just like my blog, who is talking about making money with Adsense, I choose the Adsense Help Group as my primary forum to leave messages. Of course, if you have time, you can find out more related forums by searching through various Search Engines.

Go to a few that you find informative and read around a bit. Join a couple of the forums, that you find interesting and are of value to you, as a member. However, one thing to remind you is that you should check out two things before joining any forum after doing searching.

- A forum must be indexed by the search engines, particularly by Google. If it’s indexed, your posts will appear as backlinks to your site, raising your blog’s PR (PageRank) in the search engines. You can gain search engine traffic as a result.

- A forum must also permit the use of a signature file. By creating a signature, that includes your blog URL, you have a link that brings forum members back to your blog.

In your member profile, be sure to use a “signature” that includes a link back to your blog. Make certain the signature appears on all of your postings. Without that link, no new traffic can find you.

2. Tell everyone you know about your blog

This offline networking technique will bring a fresh batch of visitors to your blog. As you become more comfortable with talking to people about your blog, your traffic numbers will take a jump. Many of them will surf to your blog, to read what you have to say.

But remember, only ask your friend or relative to visit your blog, but do not mention or request them to click the ads for you. Encouragement or providing incentives to click your ads is highly prohibited under Google’s TOS. Bear that in mind!

3. Put your links on your e-mails

When you send out any e-mails, either personal or business, be sure to add a link to your blog to each and every one of them.

With a quick and easy to click hot link back to your blog, many of your e-mail recipients will drop by for a look. While not everyone will check out your blogging activities, a few will. Another source of new visitors has been added, with minimum effort.

4. Social BookMarking

Social Bookmarking has really pickup up in the last few years and now its kinda driving a third of my site’s traffic. So, below is a list of social bookmarking sites that you can submit your article / blog posts to and just wait for the traffic to flow in.

i89.us - Export to several formats, see popular & recent bookmarks, ability to shorten URLs.

AllMyFavorites.net - Create an organized page for your bookmarks that you can share with friends and family, access from any computer.

Backflip.com - Check out the most popular links each day, set “The Daily Routine” as your homepage so you can visit your must stop sites each day with ease.

BibSonomy.com - Public & private bookmarks, tag cloud, related tags, duplicate detection with the chance to merge their info.

BlinkPro.com - Dynamic folders, bookmark all links of a page plus all the usual features.

BlogMarks.net - Save your bookmarks, tag them with keywords for easy searching amongst your list, share with others.

Bluedot.us - Tabbed user page showing a network of friends, bookmarks, and related tags. Allows you to import contacts from all the major mail services such as GMail and Yahoo.

BmAccess.net - Bookmark a site, add tags, when you look up a tag, you get the names and a little thumbnail image of the site along with it.

BuddyMarks.com - Store your bookmarks online, share some or all of them, discover new sites to visit by searching the public bookmark area.

Chipmark.com - Browse random “chipmarks”, share them, sort, filter, and get personal recommendations.

Complore - 10MB of file storage, public & private sharing, tag cloud, popular feeds and more.

Connectbeam.com - A themed social bookmarking site for enterprise-scale business.

Connectedy - Import your bookmarks, batch edit them, check in on hot topics.

Connotea.org - A themed social bookmarking site specifically for researchers, clinicians and scientists.

Diigo.com - Highlight portions of a page, write on it like you would a piece of paper, share with your group, and search all publicly saved pages.

Excites.com - Organize your bookmarks by tags, add comments and notes, share publicly, subscribe to certain tags so you can be notified when a new site is added that may interest you.

Feedmelinks.com - All the usual social bookmarking goodies, but you can also add links via email.

GetBoo.com - Export your folders to HTML, import and remove duplicates, delete all bookmarks.

Givealink.org - Donate your bookmarks to this site to help them recommend sites and get a better understanding of how each person bookmarks.

Hyperlinkomatic.com - Import/export, categories, notes, sharing, block users, RSS, tags.

IKeepBookmarks.com - Folders, search folder names and more.

Lilisto.com - Ratings, notes, categories, smart categories and in-page editing.

Linkroll.com - Links open in new window, subscribe to tags, browse by archives.

Ma.gnolia.com - Discuss all the saved bookmarks in groups, see what the Featured Linker is all about, join discussions in the Hot Group.

Mister-Wong.com - Bookmark and tag, search for tags that interest you, make buddies with people who have interesting saved sites.

Netvouz.com - Save your bookmarks in folders, tag them with keywords, share them with others or password protect them.

Nextaris.com - Folders, tags, clippings; store up to 100MB for free.

Shadows.com - Share your already existing bookmarks, discuss and rate sites and see what you can find.

SocialBookmarking.org - User and global tag cloud, blogs, social networking, avatars and more.

StumbleUpon.com - Lets you “channel surf” the Internet and review sites; it learns what you like and recommends more of the same.

Unalog.com - A basic social bookmarking site, but with the ability to look back at specific days and see what was going on.

WireFan.com - You can vote on links as well as add thumbnails for sites.

Xilinus.com - Tags, rating, search, public & private listing, drag-and-drop sorting.

Yahoo! My Web - One button click adds your bookmarks to the search engine giants system, features duplicate detection to help you keep your bookmarks tidy.

5. SEO / Search Engine Ranking

This is one of the most time consuming processes involving proper optimisation of your blog posts with good titles, meta tags and a few tricks to help the search spiders rank your blog better. it usually takes about 4-6 months to naturally rank for a few keywords and start getting a good amount of traffic. In about 3 months, usually a good blog started getting 100+ unique visitors a day.

These are a few free and quickest methods are, after trial, quite effective to drive traffic to a new blog. You should make a try on them now and start earning big bucks through Adsense!