When you create a blog your idea should be to provide information to a targeted audience. Good Blogs are those that receive a lot of traffic as we all know Traffic is vital to the success of any Blog/Website. There are many ways you can get traffic to your Blog such as from search engines, directories, and word-of-mouth.
–> Once we talk about Search engines then sites like Google and Yahoo comes in our mind where people search for their certain keywords and get results in form of blogs or websites that are related to those keywords they are looking for. If you also have a blog that is related to specific keywords, your blog entry will also appear in the results when people perform a search and hence you receive traffic.
–> Word-of-mouth is just when you have happy customers who recommend your site to others. This may be by word-of-mouth or it may be recommending your site to social bookmarking sites.
–> The directories are lists of categories where people can access the information they are looking for.
To receive traffic from both search engines and directories, your Blog must rank well for being among the first results.
To receive traffic through word-of-mouth you need to provide a good quality Blog/website and good service for others you want to recommend.
The SEO is a good way to get traffic to your website. With this process, your site is marked by a large number of people and their findings will raise the ranking of your site. Every time someone visits your site, the popularity of your site increases. To make the best use of SEO, you must use appropriate keywords and phrases.
The above methods will bring you a lot of traffic, but they will ask a lot of work to reach this point. You must be determined and stay focused on your efforts to bring your blog in a good position. When you see traffic arriving on your website you will know that your efforts have begun to pay off and it will keep you motivated to continue.
There are other simple methods you can use to get traffic such as posting in forums, newsletters, affiliate marketing, RSS feeds, blogging and video marketing. Add more quality content or functionality to your site will also help you to increase your traffic.
Also try to think outside the box because if your site offers something that others do not then it will be more attractive to visitors. You do not need to be number one in your field, the most important is to make efforts both in the content of the site and also in the generation of traffic and hopefully you will have an awesome Blog/Website quickly.