Learn how to boost traffic to your blog with 5 simple to learn techniques.

Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, administer and update. Search engines love them too! But what is a blog without traffic?

Here are five simple ways to increase your blog traffic.

1. Build a list of blog services that you can ping
There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you’ve updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get traffic from them. These lists are available if you search Google or any other search engine for it.

2. Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or Google or bloglines, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let’s say 50 blogs listed on one page.

3. Update your content regularly
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It’s very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regularly.

4. Post in forums
Post in forums, but don’t spam them. Post something new and unique and then put a link to your blog in your signature. Use anchor text, not just your link. Example: Business Coaching Services versus http://www.coachwithjeremy.com/business-coaching.html. Don’t just post in any forum. For example if you’re selling books, post in forums that are about books. By posting in forums in this way, you will get one-way links to your site which are good for search engine position in search engines like Google.

5. Submit to blog search engines
There are many of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just Google for “blog search engines” and you should find at least 50 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description for your blog.

Follow these 5 easy steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic on your blog!

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