My three best traffic generators
Submit posts to Blog Carnivals
Go to Blog Carnival and submit your post to all carnivals you can find that matches your niche. If you have several posts you want to publish, save them for later carnivals. Since many of the carnivals are hosted by a new blogger every week you will spread your back links among more blogs that way. Even if a carnival is hosted by the same blogger every time your back links will be on more pages if you submit articles over a longer period of time. Since the primary reason to submit an article to a carnival is to get readers it must be better to have one link in five issues than five links in one issue.
Participate in contests and group writing projects
This post is submitted to Blog Project: Three and I have participated in the Top 5 - Group Writing Project with my other blog. Even though the Top 5 post was done in May I still see some traffic from the other participants. It made a huge impact on the amount of incoming links to idstam.com. Since you know your post will reach a broader audience than you usual posts it is an inspiration to do a litter better than average.
Take part in a controversial discussion.
This is something I did at idstam.com when the legal status of TestDriven.NET was questioned by Microsoft. That post gave me more comments than anything else and I still get some traffic from Google to those pages. Be careful though. Everything you write online is saved so make sure you write things you can defend and take responsibility for. Your blog is on big billboard for advertising yourself. A couple of years down the line a controversial post might become like a smelly shoe you can’t get rid of.
(At first I was going to add self submitting posts to reddit.com to this list but that traffic makes the Google Analytics graph look like a roller coaster.)
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Good post, I tested the first 2, still have to try some controversy.
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Nice tips. I guess controversial discussion really spark other’s attention.
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