Use these blog traffic tips to make your blog a vibrant community!

Have strong content. No matter how people find you, your content is what will keep them coming back for more.

1. Be unique. Even if you’re posting about the same subject as millions of other bloggers, make sure yours stands out as unique. If your subject is one that only you are talking about, congratulations, the field is wide open, now you just have to find your audience2. Post frequently. In the first few months of your blog’s lifespan, you should post at least once a day. Although it may seem like a lot to commit to, it’s vital to show visitors that your blog is well updated, extremely well updated. To help ease the burden, break up the content created on prolific days into several days, or even a weeks worth of posts. Just make sure you don’t miss any relevant breaking news in the meantime!

3. Be consistent. When you have a strong following, you can decrease your posting frequency to 3-5 times per week. If you’re going to be away, let your readers know. Trust is important in the blogger-follower relationship. To keep your follower’s trust you must be a steady source of information and be consistent in expressing your unique perspective.

4. Write with personality, your personality. The driest subject can be fascinating and the most exciting story can be sawdust. It’s the human element that draws us in. So make sure that whatever you write about, the reader knows its yours.

4. Let people know who you are. It doesn’t matter if you’re blogging about tax codes, let your personality shine through. Actually, especially if you’re blogging about tax codes, let your personality shine through! An occasional personal anecdote can do wonders for your blog.

5. Post pictures, videos, and links. Not that you have to have a link in every sentence, or even every post, but when properly used, these elements will fill-out a blog. As an added bonus, they’ll increase your SEO (search engine optimization). As a beginning blogger, don’t plan to get much traffic from search engines, but as you build up your base and learn other SEO tricks, you’ll move up the listings.

Get involved in the online community and make your blog feel like a community to your readers.

1. Post on other people’s blogs in your niche. Post about other blogs in your niche, then use trackbacks so they and their readers will see that you’ve posted and check out your blog2. Encourage comments. Ask questions. Ask for input. And respond. Comments give a blog legitimacy. Responses encourage comments.

3. Host a contest. Reward your loyal followers and gain some new ones by offering a contest related to your theme. This is especially helpful if you have a product you’d like to promote. Promotional giveaway of your first book, anyone?

4. Get involved in a link exchange. Make friends with other bloggers and set up a program of linking between your blogs.

4. Make contact with websites in your field, and exchange links.

Establish your credibility as a knowledge source.

1. Go to Yahoo Answers and LinkedIn Answers, and start answering questions.

2. Join online communities and forums, and join in the discussion.

3. Write articles and submit them to EzineArticles, Helium, ConstantContent, or another online article source. Be sure to put a blurb explaining who you are and linking to your blog at the bottom.

3. Write articles and submit them to an online article source like EzineArticles or Helium. Include a blurb explaining who you are and giving your blog address at the bottom4. Create a Squidoo lens. Use Squidoo to share your knowledge, and draw people back to your blog.

5. Publish an ebook. For many bloggers this is a natural evolution after they have established a strong body of content. If your blog has reached that level or you have the material for a different book then by all means publish it! With self publishing online, there’s no excuse not to do it. It will increase your credibility and provide another avenue for people to find you, not to mention being a possible source of income.

Promote your blog offline. It’s amazing how many potential readers there are right in your own community. Although you don’t have to promote offline, this innovative tactic can have some surprising returns if you do your research first.

1. Enlist your friends. Whatever you blog about make sure they know to casually mention your url whenever the subject comes up. “You’re interested in raising exotic animals? Well, there’s this great blog…”

2. Find your niche in their offline hangout. Is your blog political? Go to a coffee shop and make some new friends.

3. Get endorsements from other experts. You’ve already established yourself as an expert, but don’t forget to take advantage of opportunities to network with other leaders. Who is a leader? Anyone who influences people. Is your blog about childcare? Review some toys and let local toy store owners know what’s going on. It can be beneficial to both, if you recommend that people buy from that store.

4. Put up fliers. Or, even better, give fliers to the experts who are recommending you. Bonus if you can get them to hand some out to their peers!

5. Go out to an open mic night. Use the forum to read aloud a favorite post and sign off by sending your listeners to your blog with a question to answer.

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