New to Blogging? Here Are 6 Free and Simple Methods to Increase Your Blog Traffic!

Anyone with a blog wants to get more traffic and often blogs are experiments rather than a full scale business blog, so people do not want to spend a whole lot of money on traffic. Well, let us look at so 6 free and simple methods to increase blog traffic.

Below are 6 free and simple methods to get more blog traffic,

1. RSS feeds can be a great way to get traffic so make sure that the RSS log is on a prominent easy to see part of the blog, preferably before the fold (The fold is everything that is visible on a webpage before needing to scroll down)

2. Get to know other bloggers in your niche or related niche's and ask if you can make guest posts and make useful comments to their posts. There is free software called comment sniper that alerts you whenever a new post has been made to a blog in your niche, it then allows you to be one of the first to comment.

3. StumbleUpon is great free way to get traffic, this social bookmarking tool allows you to ‘stumble’ your own content, and hopefully have others do the same.

4. A great website that not many are using that gets you instant free traffic is Twiends.com. You are rewarded with credits for visiting other sites by following on Twitter or liking a Facebook page. These credits can then be used to have people visit your site or follow you on Twitter or Facebook. This is instant traffic and if utilised properly can be very valuable.

5. Forum posting can be an extremely powerful way to get targeted traffic. If you have a link to your blog in your signature, and you are posting on a forum related to your niche you could get many new targeted visitors.

6. Final method: This is long-term traffic generation methods. Start posts related to future events:

Yes you heard right, predict the future and blog about it. This is in fact very easy as there are future events that are certainties that you can blog about before they happen in order to get interest and rank for way in advance.

A good example is the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate, the day it was announced many quick thinking internet marketers and bloggers already started posting about it and using key words that would be popular in the future e.g. Princess Kate’s wedding dress or Royal wedding cake.

Other certain events are big sporting tournaments that are scheduled years in advance, Political elections etc.... THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX !

You may want to gamble on uncertain future events, starting posts like “First women president in America in 2014” or “Saddam Hussein captured” etc. These posts can be speculative and if worded carefully will not seem like a prediction, but should any of these thing happen the possible traffic could be very big.

Getting traffic to your blog is easy in that there are endless ways to do it and more being thought of every day, remember nothing you do on the internet will ever be a waste, so just go ahead and do this and your blog traffic will increase.