Succeeding in blogging as an online venture depends so much on the amount of traffic that is visiting your site. The higher the number of visitors to your blog, the better for your online business. There are several ways in which you can generate Traffic to your blog. In this article, we are going to look at different ways in which you can generate free traffic to your blog as detailed below:
Social Media
Social media networks like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr, LinkedIn etc. can be a major source of free traffic if used well. All you need to do is post your blog post link on any of these social networks, whenever a person visits your site through a link posted on social network, it is treated as a free traffic. But this doesn’t come that is easy, you will need to time engaging your followers in the comment sections, and replying to their questions or queries to build a reliable traffic base. Your followers need to see you as someone they can interact with freely and learn from. Also you need to have a quite a large following on these networks to be able to get a reasonable traffic from them.
Search Engine
This can be one of your major traffic sources. The Search Engines includes Google, Bing and Yahoo. Most of the successful bloggers in fact use Search Engines as the main source of traffic. But for you to benefit from Search Engine free traffic, you have follow Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Techniques. Some of the Techniques include, On Page Optimization, which if followed well, may see your blog pages or posts ranked high in Search Engine Results Page (SERP), and thus you get high volume traffic to your blog.
Email Marketing
If you want to generate highly targeted, free traffic to your blog, that is relevant to your blog content, then email marketing is a good option. This involves building an email list. To achieve good results, you need to entice your visitors by offering free Newsletters, or E-books. Once you build your email list, you can pursue email marketing. You can send emails to these subscribers with links to your latest blog posts. When the users clicks on these links, then are directed to your site. The advantage of Email Marketing is that it goes a long way in helping you build a fruitful and long-lasting relationship with your visitors.
Guest Blogging
Guest posting is also a free traffic source. You need to select high quality blogs in your niche that have a good traffic for your guest posting. When your guest posts are approved, they are then published. To be able to benefit from the traffic from those blogs where you are guest posting, you can include one or two back links such as from the author bio section or from within the guest post. Guest blogging also helps you build backlinks for search engine optimization.
Forum Posting
Forum posting/Forum Marketing is where you share your views, opinions and expertise as well as ask & answer questions on topics relevant to your niche, you then leave behind your identity signature that carries a link to your site or blog post. These forums usually have a large audience base where people participate in discussions. If you actively participate in these forums, you can benefit from these large audience by driving them to your blog besides benefiting from back links.
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Video Marketing
Nowadays videos are getting more popular with most of the internet users. You can use Video marketing as one of your strategies to drive traffic to your blog. You develop a video that is relevant to your blog’s niche and upload to sites like YouTube or Vimeo. In the description section, you can include a link or two pointing to your site. When users watch videos posted by you, they also get links to your blog. Once they click on these links, they arrive at your site or blog hence bringing in more traffic to your blog.
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Blog Commenting
This is similar to Forum Marketing though the only difference is you are commenting on the blog. With good blog commenting, you can build up your brand value. Regularly commenting on blogs helps you to build your relationship with other bloggers. You are seen as an expert who has authority on the subject in which you are commenting. You can leave a link to your blog where necessary in the comment section. This can bring free traffic to your blog.
Document sharing sites
These are sites used to host PDF files or any other documents. All you need to do is to upload PDF documents, which can be downloaded by other people. You can attach a link to your site from within the PDF document. This will enable you to drive traffic to your blog.
RSS Aggregators
These are websites which collects/aggregates blog post. You need to list your site in a RSS Aggregator and your latest blog post will be shown on their website. The advantage here is that you get an opportunity to access a larger readership base.
Q&A Traffic
Q/A sites like Quora, Yahoo answers can be used to drive traffic to your site. When you answer questions in your niche, you have an opportunity to place a link to your site in the references section. This can boost your traffic when people visit your blog for more information.
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182 responses to “How to generate free traffic to your Blog”
This was a great post on other ways of driving traffic to my website i have been wanting to get into going to forums or other pages that are within my niche but just not sure where to start this helped
Hi Tianna, am glad you learned some ways to drive traffic to your site from this post.
I do want to seek out more information on the RSS feed. Great information.
Hi Ann, I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks I have learnt about Quora and am gonna check it
Hi Lydiah, I appreciate your feedback!
Really good ideas. It certainly takes a lot of time and effort.
Hi Melanie, true! it takes consistency, patience and hardwork to succeed online blogging.
I need to check out using Quora!
Useful tips! Thank you!
Welcome!
I can see that I still need to do more. So thanks for the tips.
Hi Lani, you are welcome.
I feel that this is an area that I need to improve in, so this was a really interesting read.
Thanks for sharing.
You are welcome!
These are some great tips. Keep up the good work
Welcome.
Great post John! Keep it coming X
This is a very informative post. Blogging is a never ending learning process. I will be using a few of the tips you presented. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Kevin, I appreciate your visit and taking time to comment on this post.
Great info! I’m always looking for ways to generate more traffic. Thanks for sharing your strategies!
You welcome Tiffany!
Great information you shared through this blog. Keep it up and best of luck for your future blogs and posts.
Hi Ravin, I appreciate taking time to provide a feedback.
Nice list. There are a few on here I need to spend more time working on.
Hi Brooke, am grateful for your feedback.
Thanks for super tips .
You are welcome.
These are great tips and once again, I learn some new and valuable information. Thanks for taking the time to share!
Hi Christy, I really appreciate your feedback. You are welcome.
This is very insightful and informative. I really appriciate your help.Thanks for the tips to improve traffic. Will use them.
Hi Amit, am grateful for your visit and taking time to comment on this post.
I am so pleased to see that social media is very helpful to increase blog visits!
True! thanks for dropping by.
Leaving comments and participating in Facebook groups has really helped me to get to know other bloggers. There is always so much to learn from our friends!
Hi Erin, yes, engaging with other bloggers is key to succeeding online.
Quite a lot of ideas. I have tried some of them . Thank you
You are welcomed!
Good information! As someone who is struggling with traffic, this gave me some new insights. I will begin researching forums, RSS Agreggators and Quora – have not used these methods. Thanks!
Hi Lori, I appreciate your feedback!
These are some great ideas. I hadn’t fully considered the forums and such. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Christina, thanks for visiting!
Awesome! Thanks for this. It is going to be of so much help!
You are welcomed.
Oh! Some great ideas here! I need to look at a lot of these. Thank you for sharing.
Welcome Tamara!
Thank you for sharing another great post – I have recently set up a Quora account so I’ll definitely be utilising it to drive traffic (which I never knew I could do) xxx
I appreciate your feedback. Welcome.
Thanks for sharing this informative post with us. However, some of the points (email marketing) here require one to have traffic already. Of which, this leaves sharing on social media and search engines optimization as the best ways to drive traffic.
I have written similar content here: https://knowelite.com/2019/03/20/basics-to-optimize-wordpress-blog-for-better-search-ranks/
Otherwise, thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for your comments.
This is very insightful. Thanks for the tips to improve traffic. Will use them.
Hi Curtis, glad you found this helpful!
Wow this is great! I didn’t even think about Q&A sites or Forum posting. I can definitely see how that can drive a ton more traffic. Great tips, very helpful. Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks Dayna for reading and taking time to comment on this article!
As a fellow blogger, this is some really helpful advice and tips! I would love to increase the amount of traffic to my site 🙂 x
Hi, thanks for the feedback.
These are some great ideas! I’ve been working on my SEO a lot recently using WordPress plug-ins.
Hi Shannon, thanks for the visit.
Honestly, I believe it’s between seo and video these days.
True, thanks for reading!
Hey john, your posts are always on point. Social media has really worked wonders for me.
Hi Matthew, Yes social media if used well can drive big traffic, the problem is always, when we lack a strategy on how to use it effectively.
Thanks for the very useful tips!
Welcome.
These are such great tip, I am still learning and trying different thing, thanks for such awesome information.
Hi Armelle, your feedback is well appreciated.
Great article! I definitely picked up some great tips, some of which I had never thought of.
Hi Veryerin, am glad you have learned some blog promotional tips from this post.
Thank you for those tips they are very helpfull indeed , i am yet to try guest posting
kind regards Pati Robins
Hi Olivia, welcome.
There is always something to learn about this topic. I’m going to try some of your tips, looks good!! – Paolo
Hi, I appreciate your feedback.
Hi John, I’m always searching for ways to generate free traffic to my blog. Currently, I’m focused on Pinterest and Google+. I’m going to use them for a while and see how it turns out.
Hi Jennifer, I too use Pinterest to drive most of my traffic. Google Plus hasn’t worked well for me, though I keep on trying.
It is such a hard balance between writing and SEO. These are great tips.
Great tips, it is a hard balance between SEO and writing. Generating free traffic is essential!
Hi Evelyn, thanks for dropping by.
These are really great tips for increasing blog traffic. I have seen good results from Pinterest and some from Facebook. But need to work on other social media sites. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Gursimrat, thanks for your feedback.
I didn’t know about some of these. The RSS sites and the sites for PDF documents sound very interesting. I will be looking into using them.
Hi Gillie, Glad to learn that you picked some tips to implement from this post. Thanks.
So interesting! All the different ways social media can be used to drive traffic to a website in one concise article!. As usual John, your piece had some great advise. I would love it if you spared more of your in-depth knowledge on SEO techniques and strategies too! I’ll be waiting!
Hi Carrie, I really appreciate your feedback on this post. Thanks very much. I have several articles on SEO. You can check the category on SEO Strategies for bloggers, and if you have a question feel free to write back. Thanks.
Thanks for your tips! I definitely find social media helpful, especially Pinterest. I will definitely work on SEO/search engine traffic and email traffic.
xoxo
Annie
Hi Annie, I appreciate your visit. Yes SEO if well done on your site can help you drive free traffic from search, and actually traffic from Search engines converts well especially if you are selling products on your blog or website.
Some useful tips, but I was barred from Facebook for over promoting my blog #trafficjamweekend@_karendenbid199@gmail is
Hi Karen, thanks for visiting. Everyone is facing problems with promoting on Facebook. They do remove blog posts without your knowledge when you share say in groups. That is why we are using other social media networks to drive traffic and also bloggers communities. You can check out this new bloggers community and join to help you drive traffic to your blog. Bloggers Traffic Community
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Tina
Most welcomed.
Great ideas. I had heard of many of them, but I’d never thought of the Q&A forums. That’s a great idea! #embracingchangelinkup
Hi, am glad that you picked some helpful tips from this post. Thanks for visiting.
These are some great tips John. Excellent post! It is perfect for newbies who want to know how people get traffic to their sites.
Hi Arfa, thanks for visiting!
Becoming part of a forum or even yahoo answers sounds like it could be a fun little community. I need to motivate and give them a try!
Yes, It is always good to try out different strategies until you find out what works best.
I never really thought of using Quoro as a way to drive traffic but it does make sense. I will have to check it out more.
Hi Dr. Elise, Yes Quora is a great site to build audience especially in a given field of expertise. If you can be able to set yourself as a person who can solve problems in a given field, then overtime, you build an audience base. Driving traffic is easy as putting links back to your blog in the answers to their questions.
Thanks for the tips!
Most welcomed.
great post.. it gets really hard to follow all the tips mentioned..with my new blog i m doing few mentioned above
Hi, thanks for visiting, it takes time to become an expert in anything, so don’t worry. Take one step at a time, with time you will master all that is required to succeed online.
I’m a newbie blogger and I’m determined to not spend a dime on marketing my blog and create traffic organically. It takes A LOT of effort when you go about that route, but I think the pay off is greater. Thank you for the tips John!
I too don’t spend money driving traffic to my blog, all you need is to use various ways like Social media and Optimizing your site for organic traffic from search engines.
That’s a great post! I like how you summed up all the different ways to drive traffic to your blog, instead of focusing only on social media like most people do. That’s a perfect list for new bloggers!
Hi, thanks for visiting and taking time to comment on this post. Most welcomed.
Some great tips! I am using some of them, but hadn’t thought about others. Thank you for sharing!
Hi Cherryl, thanks for dropping by.
Great ideas here. It’s always super important to be working on new traffic generation. I’m just getting started so this is super helpful.
Hi Kat, glad that you found useful tips here. Thanks.
This is awesome advice! Something that I really needed to see. Thank you!
Most welcomed.
These are great tips. You can really drive traffic to your website for free.
Hi Megan, thanks for visiting and taking time to comment on the post.
very informative article. thank you.
very helpful. Nice article. Quora can be a good source if your blog posts are about answer to a certain query.
Yes, Quora if used well, can drive in additional traffic to your blog.
Does forum posting also includes quora?
Quora is a Question and Answer site.
thanks for the ideas and tips. So many different ideas around but this was interesting.
Welcome.
Thanks for all the great info. Awesome
Most welcomed.
wow, theres a bunch of this I had no idea about.
Thanks for the post
Welcome.
This is a really helpful, easy to follow list. Great for anyone who, like me, has just started their blog.
Welcome.
I haven’t tried guest blogging yet for traffic yet but i will.great post
Welcome.
Hi John.. Great tips. Could you list a few RSS aggregator and document sharing sites ?
Hi, examples of document sharing sites: Slideshare, Scribd, Box.net, Zoho etc. For RSS aggregators, some in use are Feedly, Feedspot, Comma Feed etc.
Very helpful information. I am currently working on my blog’s traffic so this is great!
Welcome.
Great article! I use most of these traffic sources now for awellpacedlife.com. Are there any good tools to find a site within my niche(health/fitness, healthy lifestyle blog) that I could guest blog on?
Thanks for visiting, at now I haven’t heard of such a tool but if you can check with Facebook groups especially in your niche, am sure you will get bloggers you can work together with.
Good article, thanks John. The trick is not running all over the place to get traffic (it’s not really free if you have to spend hours just to promote a post) and find out which channels, whether it’s social media (what sites then), email marketing or something else, that works for you.
Hi Vladimir, thanks for the insightful comments. Welcome again.
Thanks for the info! I didn’t know about the document sharing sites
Welcome.
commenting on forum or blog is useful, but most of the times its a nofollow.
Content is the king.
– AM
Blogger @ http://physicsteacher.in
The best way to do, is leave your blog URL or Post link as part of a signature when you are commenting in a forum.
Thanks for the tips! What exactly is an rss aggregator? I’ve hear a little about it but don’t know much
Hi, RSS aggregator, is kind of a web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as blog posts in one location for easy viewing.
Hey! That was quite helpful and a good round up of tips! Thanks for sharing
Welcome.
Those are some great tips! Most of them I already do, but I’ve never gotten around to comment and answer questions on Forums. It’s definitely in my plans for the future!
Hi Isabel, thanks for commenting on this post. I use facebook groups to drive most of the traffic to my blog.
Sone usefult ips here. Hopefully I can use them to help drive some traffic to my travel blog http://www.theglobetrottergp.com
Hi leanne, am grateful for your comments. You can pick the ones you are comfortable with, and try them out.
great article! an awesome summary of how to get free traffic to your blog and all of the different ways you can do it.
Hi Rachel, thanks for the visit and taking time to comment on this post.
Thank you so much for sharing. This list is going straight to my todo lis.
Appreciated. Welcome again.
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I need to work on my blog traffic so thank you for these helpful tips.
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Such a great post. Thank you John
Welcome.
I would add – write content that people are compelled to read.
Hi, thanks for that additional tip. Welcome again.
I really need to start taking advantage of more of these avenues! Great post!
Hi, welcome.
As someone who is trying to grow her blog I found this post very useful ! I’m definitely going to try some of your tips ! Thank you
Hi Kimberly, thanks for those nice comments.
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I will look into RSS generator. Never heard of it but If it’s something to generate traffic hey why not.
RSS generators were very popular in the past, but they are still in use. You can use them as secondary ways of driving traffic to your blog.
I’ve been struggling big time. Thanks for the ideas!!
Welcome.
Thanks for the post John. This was really helpful
Hi Shruti, thanks for dropping by. Welcome.
Did you try RSS, i felt this is old technique which is not valid anymore … well will try and see, thanks
There are a fewer places where it is used for content sharing like Feedly. Check my post on Content Promotional Communities. But I think few people still use it.
Hey John…Those were some pretty awesome tips you gave for getting traffic to your blog. Using most but will definitely look into the others. Have a great day! 🙂
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Really great article. I like how you explain things clearly. This is a great post for bloggers no matter what stage they are in!
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Hi John,
Great article. We are like-minded bloggers. I have also blogged about how to get free blog traffic.
Janice
Hi Thanks for the comments, glad for the connection, am still in the learning stage. I hope to learn from your blog too.