I have found the best way for me to start generating traffic is to 1. create content, and 2. submit some articles from my posts to some article sites. This helps to create interest in your site when their readers view your article, they stumble upon yours, like it and hopefully click through to your blog afterwards. Of course, content is the key, which I’m starting to build up. I believe wordpress is best for this as it creates the site very easily as well as ensure it is SEO friendly to the search engines. In some cases I’m hoping my traffic is exponential, so that the longer it is up there and the more posts I make, the traffic increases faster and faster.

Thanks for the tips Darren, I will look into the guest post idea as well. Especially great for blogs that have a large readership already.

Matt

Just wanted to say thanks for the pointers will try some of them out and let you know how i get on in a later post perhaps.

Regards,

Darren

Thank you to everyone

Pierluigi Rotundo

Shafqat
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I have glanced your blog and would like to ask your permission to place a referral link in my blog under how to drive traffic to new blogs.

I will not use any of your content for my own, I simply want to referral visitiors to your blog for additional information.

Thank you.

Thank you for your attention!
Pierluigi Rotundo

I think one of the key ones is differentiation. Part of that is about finding a niche that you want to blog in. But that kinda only works when what you’re interested in *is* niche. If you’re into mainstream stuff (like me…I blog about SEO, blogging and web marketing stuff on http://itsanonlineworld.blogspot.com/ ) it’s really tough. In this case, I guess it just means you have to work harder at all the other points you made!!!

Would love your comments on my blog if you get a chance!

This is a two fold reply first to Aiden on how to approach a blogger for contribution.
Firstly people don’t care what you are doing or why you are doing it. People want in most cases, and hence why it can be hard to find good free writers, want something ether in return or it brings value to them.

If you are looking at collaboration firstly you need to know whay you are doing it in the first place. Blogging for the sake of blogging can be fine if that is your goal.

If you are looking at making money than you need a plan and a final vision. If you have no final destination, than you have no building blocks along the way, you are simply playing Basketball with no hoop!

Reasoning one why so many of us do not give game plans to how to become at least financially secure from the net is because for one it requires dedication, capitol, a business plan and real goals.

No 1 rule is to know what you are doing before you leap in, I have just spent 12 months researching a new idea for us to launch soon. 1 year of research, experimentation and developing the concept into a viable proposition.

If you want to make money from blogging, first research a market you can penetrate. Have something unique or different to lift yourself above your competitors.

To make money you need a business plan, if you do not have a plan you are not moving forward. If you don’t have a final vision, you do not know what you are working towards or indeed the steps even to get there.

And for Nitinpal, then write something better sunshine if it makes you yawn so much, and why should we give away money making ideas that require skill, time and focus for free when we feed our family’s by teaching these skills.

have a B L O G G I N G good day!