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Here are ten ways you can get more traffic to your blog.

1. Blog Consistently

 So blog consistently. You don’t have to blog every day, but create a schedule and stick to it. Maybe you can blog 2-3 times weekly. Or maybe blogging every Tuesday works for you. Be consistent.

2. Share Your Blog Posts

Don’t just put great content out there and wait for people to find it. Let them know it’s there. Share your blog posts on the social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Look for smaller social networks and forums that your ideal readers are active on and share your content there, too.

3. Let Others Share Your Blog Posts

Make it easy for your readers to share your blog posts with their friends by offer “share” buttons. Check out ShareThis or LinksAlpha.

4. Offer an RSS Feed and Email Subscriptions

Use FeedBurner or FeedBlitz to make it easy for readers to subscribe to your blog with an RSS reader or by email. If you can get them to subscribe, you’ve got a much better chance of them continuing to read your blog.

5. Comment on Other Blogs

Identify other blogs on the same or similar topic as your blog and go join their communities. Leave helpful comments on their posts. Each comment gives you a link back to your blog (be sure to put your blog URL in the website field as you enter your comment).

6. Guest Post on Other Blogs

Are you writing guest posts yet? It’s a great way to get yourself noticed. Many blogs accept guest posts, and not just the “big” ones. Be a good guest blogger by submitting your best work (proofread and ready to go), then staying actively engaged by replying to comments on your guest post and promoting it to your readers and on the social networks.

7. Send Out an Ezine

With a regular ezine you can include links to your latest blog posts and drive traffic back to your blog. Try MailChimp for a free mailing list if you’re just getting started. Or, if you’re a business blogger go with 1ShoppingCart’s autoresponder only package or AWeber.

8. Get Listed in Blog Directories

Listings in blog directories can help you get traffic to your site, and they also help you build backlinks to your blog. Here are some directories to start with.

9. Do Interviews and Feature Others

Interviews are a great way to provide helpful content for your readers and drive more traffic to your blog. You could do audio interviews and post the mp3 to your blog (try http://freeconferencecall.com) or you could do interviews via email – you write up questions and send to the interviewee and they send back their answers when it’s convenient for them.

10. Participate in a Blog Challenge

Have you participated in a blog challenge yet? There are different types of challenges so look around and see what’s coming up soon. Some challenges are “post every day” types or “X posts in X time” while others involve a task a day. What they have in common is that a group of bloggers come together to meet the challenge and support each other. By actively participating and getting to know other participants you’ll find that you can not only increase traffic to your blog but also build relationships and opportunities.

If you’re looking for a blog challenge to participate, I co-host several that repeat throughout the year so I invite you to join me in the 31 Days Blog Challenge  or Ultimate Blog Challenge .

Now, pick one of these 10 strategies and put it into action!

Michelle Shaeffer has been a work at home mom for more than 10 years and loves to share the tips and strategies she’s learned to help other home based business owners balance, manage, and market their businesses. Visit her website here.

This entry was posted on Thursday, June 30th, 2011 at 8:30 am and is filed under Blogging, Michelle Shaeffer. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.