Killer Method To Market Your Blog And Boost Traffic

Today blogging is considered as one of the best ways to gain online recognition as well as earn money. Hence, the competition in this field has also increased to a great deal. In addition to writing unique and valuable content for your blog, it has become necessary to promote it so as to gain a good number of readers. You need to market your blog so as to get a huge readership and attention online. With so many blogs present online, it becomes really tough to direct traffic to your blog. Having a proper promotional strategy is the basic requirement to move ahead in the process and get success.

Promoting the blog not only enhances its visibility but also proves to be effective in generating leads and also brings in more business. Here are some effective promotional tactics which can be implemented to market your blog. 

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Social media marketing

You might be aware of the power of social media platforms like facebook, twitter, YouTube etc. All these sites receive a huge amount of traffic everyday and can be the best hotspots for blog promotion. You can create fan pages and communities and promote your blog among huge number of people for free.

Read: Social Media Tools To Increase Online Business

Conduct contests and offer attractive prizes

In order to generate traffic towards your blog, you can start contests and offer attractive prizes to the winners. People might start visiting your blog with the motive of winning the contest and getting prizes thereby increasing the blog traffic.

Ad banners

There are some reputed sites that provide the facility of creating banners and adding  them on their sites. You will have to pay a certain amount for availing this facility. The visitors of that website can easily be directed towards your site by these ad banners.

Guest blogging

You can also market your blog by means of guest blogging. The process requires posting a high quality blog on other’s website and getting a backlink to your blog. This is an effective way to get high traffic from top ranking sites to your blog. There are certain things that you need to keep in mind while guest blogging. You need to select a high ranking blog in your same niche and produce a high quality and informative content so as to get it approved from the blog owner.

Read: Why and How to Write Guest Blogs

Social bookmarking

Backlinks play an important role in generating traffic to the blog. So, you should get backlinks from the top social bookmarking sites. Most of the sites provide backlinks for free and you can easily promote your blog by means of these sites.

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Blog commenting

Commenting on the blogs operating in the same niche can be an effective way to promote your blog among the interested group of people who can be active readers of your blog also.

Read: Why You Should Comment On Other Blogs

The above discussed methods are effective in blog promotion and can help you market your blog and generate huge bucks. All you need to do is to prepare your action plan and work  accordingly so as to get the best results.

Author Bio: Sohan Jayasinghe is the owner and author of Bloggertrix.com .He has been blogging since 2009 and writing Blogger trix since 2010.If you want to contact him, Just leave a message via contact us page.