Blogging for Traffic

Blogging for Traffic is a great and easy way to deal with the rigors of creating a steady stream of traffic. On the one hand, they can be used to drive traffic to your site, or even be a part of your site, but on the other, they can detract from your site and drive traffic away.

The easiest way to blog for traffic, of course, is to blog in your niche and include regular links back to your site, or post reprint articles directly to your blog – that way, you're getting 'double play' from the content you're distributing. Whilst this is, of course, a common way to use articles and other content, its important to add to this content, and make sure that your content is all relevant. You can then use these blogs as link exchanges, and more.

Most blogs are primarily designed to provide content for people to read – the 'stickivity' of blogs not only offers you alternative venues for traffic generation, and another place to post and work, promote and produce content and information from.

Commenting on blogs

If you're not interested in creating your own blog, you can still comment on other people's blogs, within your niche, and only in the case of blogs, related niches that would, conceivably, need information in your niche.

Commenting is easy to do – find the blog, find something that you can elaborate on or add to a conversation and do so. And that's the cardinal rule of posting comments – make sure it adds to the conversation on the post – as each post is a conversation, and interrupting or rudely adding to it is just like rudely butting into a conversation in real life.

You should only ever include links within the body of your comment IF you have reason to – such as for reference – always remember though, that you can add your own site in link back from the comment, as most blogging systems allow you to specify your name, and URL at the very least.