This article will cover one of the unique methods of getting traffic to a blog that doesnt work for regular sites. Remember that every blog is a web-site, but not every web-site is a blog. My top methods of getting traffic to a web-site are still my top methods of getting traffic to a blog. Those include: article marketing, link building and content creation/ranking factors.
But blogs are a special breed of web-site. There are additional methods of getting new visitors to your blog that are very effective. The first one I played with was linking to others. For your blog marketing efforts to work, you must understand that bloggers are part of a community. Those of us old-timers on the net remember when the entire net was a small, close-knit community when it was OK to send an email telling others in your topic area that you just set up a site and would like a link on their site.
That isnt what Im suggesting with the blog community. The days of sending even a personal email to someone you havent met are nearly over. The spam problem has made that more and more difficult. However, it is still OK and still rather expected that you introduce yourself when you come into...