Best Ways To Get Good Traffic To Your Blog/Site
@ Vanpir: Getting good traffic to your site/blog need lots of hard-work. I would like to discuss in details:
On-Page SEO
- Make a thorough analysis for your site's/blog's SEO. You can use tools like SEOquake which helps to diagnose your site/blog and provide solution tips even.
- Design your site/blog in such a way that it is attractive and user-friendly.
- Do keyword research and analysis for the site/blog niche's theme. Optimize title tag,meta-tag,meta-keywords,contents,anchor links, ALT tags and navigation links(might not be possible for some KWs) with the set of best targeted KWs.
- Use breadcrumbs for easy site navigation. Also , if possible , use HTML sitemap.
- Install google analytics code
- Use of less or no flash is preferable.
- Use social profile buttons, lightboxes and sharing buttons for maximum social traffic engagement.
- Use consistency in standard of your dynamic site's/blog's content, which get published regularly. Try to engage your visitors with questions, interesting topics and facts
Off-Page SEO
- Submit your blog/site to google, bing and yahoo
- Synchronizing of a blog with the social profiles and pages on facebook and twitter helps to keep your social audiences up-to-date with your present blog additions.
- Promotion of blog/site through facebook,twitter,linkedIn,foursquare, etc. will help to increase viral promotion for free.
- Submit your site/blog to quality directories after checking their PRs , which should be more than your site's/blog's PR.
- Write articles about the niche of your site/blog as guest author on high quality blogs and sites, and use put backlinks in it to your site/blog.
- Promote your site's/blog's feed.
- Create classified ads, comment of quality blogs with backlinks.
Including the above steps one have to analyze the analytic report of his site/blog on regular basis to keep track of the outcomes from the present SEO steps. This will help to take new steps or enhance present steps for better reach and promotion.
Some other techniques are also popular these days like mobile site which is compatible with all mobile browser and mobile phone apps which is compatible with operating systems like Android, iOS,BB, and Windows. You can use QR-codes even. It will help to sync digital media with print and visual media.
Other than above if you wan to spend money for getting traffic, then advertisement on Google (adwords), Facebook, affiliate marketing,etc will help. But I prefer organic and free promotion and marketing as it is useful and long lasting.