Traffic is the currency of the web. Not just any traffic, but high quality traffic.
If you’ve been reading any marketing blog for anything more than a week now you would have come across an article or two giving you tips on how to drive traffic to your blog. Many of these articles talk about various common means to generate traffic, and some of them can be as long or short as possible. There are even articles that list as much as 101 ways to generate traffic. The problem with many of these articles is that due to the fact that the tips in these articles are starting to become very common, a lot of new bloggers want more unique ways to drive traffic to their blogs. Mind you, I’m not saying the tactics listed in any of these kind of articles don’t work; in most cases, they do! If you’re looking for more unique ways to drive traffic to your blog this article will be giving you 4 unique ways to drive traffic to your blog. Some of them you might not have heard, and some of them you might be familiar with, but these tactics are yet to be blogged to death, and by implementing them you can easily get some cool results for your blog.
One of the most common ways to drive traffic to your blog is by making use of blogger groups or tribes. In most cases, these tribes consist of a group of bloggers with the same goal, interested in sharing their audience to help each other get better results. In other words, if there are 100 people in a group with 900 Twitter followers each, every member will share the post of each other with their followers, and combined, that means the message of a single member will be able to reach up to 90,000 Twitter followers. There are a lot of groups online where this is done manually, but one great website that has automated this, and that has a great user base already, is Triberr.
Another way you can get traffic to your blog is by making use of social blogmarking sites. The word “blogmarking” might be new to you, but it’s just like another form of social bookmarking site, just that this time, the site focuses on blogs only instead of general websites. There are a lot of social blogmarking sites online with great support for bloggers, and the two popular ones I can recommend is Blokube (which I’m a moderator of) and Blog Engage.
You can also get traffic to your blog by making use of blogging aggregators. Most of these aggregators try to be the best source of information online on any subject. While they don’t provide detailed articles on any subject, they link to the latest, or the best, articles on the blogs in their index. In most cases, your blog needs to meet their criteria to be accepted, but if you are, they can be a cool source of traffic to you.
Two great examples of blog aggregators are Alltop and Before Its News.
One thing about the internet is that there are so many big and highly respected sites that are focused on providing quality information to their users on various subjects. In most cases, some of these sites allow their users to contribute or edit information on them, and they also require the person contributing or editing the articles to include a link to the source of their information. There are a lot of these kind of websites online that we ignore. For example, take a look at Wikipedia or Yahoo Answers. You can easily contribute to any of these sites, and if necessary, include a link to an highly informative page on your blog that verifies your information in the reference section.
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