How to drive traffic to your blog?
It is very easy to start blogging and write some articles in your blog. It hardly takes half an hour to start blogging and become a blogger. But if you want to blog for sharing your knowledge and resources with people around who have same thinking, then you must promote your blog to attract more visitors and also to drive traffic to your blog. There are some easy ways to drive traffic to your blog and if you want to invest some bucks, then it is even easier. But if you want to promote your blog for traffic without investing bucks, then you can follow some of my practices.
Well, there are community websites for bloggers and webmasters which connect millions of bloggers and webmasters. You can discuss about your new ideas with other bloggers and webmasters through those community websites. Some of the community websites are: Mybloglog, Blogcatalog, Blogdune, Stumble Upon, Digg, Sphinn and many more. Sphinn is especially for marketing and search engine. If you try to submit off-topic in Sphinn, then you will definitely ban from this community website. Therefore, submit only those topics which are related to marketing and search engine. Recently I got more than 1000 visitors per day from Sphinn because one of my topic became the hottest topic in this network for about a week.
Also StubleUpon sends a lot of traffic and you can discuss about any matter through StumbleUpon. I use StumbleUpon, Digg and Twittter for sharing my experiences with other people who have the same feeling. This is the easiest way to get traffic in your blog without investing any penny. This may take time sometimes but the most effective way is sharing the resource with other people through social networks. But CONTENT is the most important thing and you must have attractive contents if you have to attract traffic in your blog. Also contents make it possible for the visitors to visit your blog again and again if the contents are useful to them.