There are lots of challenges to face in the blogosphere and one of the major ones is traffic generation. The tips listed below if used properly and effectively can help you get a significant amount of traffic to your blog:
1. PAY PER CLICK: Pay per click is a method that can be used to get traffic, unlike other traffic generation strategies it only bring traffic when you have money, but what happens when you don’t? No traffic.
Some very good pay per click traffic sources are Google adwords, Yahoo search marketing, miva, looksmart.
2. PRESS RELEASES: Press releases are also a very good means of generating traffic, press releases are also like news websites and they get enough attention from journalists, and you know what it means if your press release gets picked up by a journalist? Traffic. Some tips to consider when writing a press release are:
I. Let it be newsworthy, only a newsworthy press release will get the attention of journalists.
II. Let it be short and give more insight about you; your main objective is to get traffic and you can do this by making sure your
press release gives your readers some info about your product/service/website thereby convincing them to visit your website.
III. Make sure you use your anchor text with a link back to your website in the body of the press release.
IV. Make sure your headline is catchy.
3. VIDEOS: Create high quality funny or tutorial videos and embed your link in it, try to submit the videos to as many video sites as possible. It is also important to use your desired high traffic keyword in the video title and description because this gives it more visibility when searched for in the video site.
4.BLOG CARNIVALS: I haven’t used this one yet, but it has been reported by so many successful bloggers that blog carnivals is a successful means of getting high quality traffic to your blog, i will like you to give this a trial, a good blog carnival website is blogcarnival.com
5. ARTICLE SITES: Try to submit as much articles as possible to article sites, make sure you use your desired anchor text as well as a direct link back to your website. Most article sites have high search engine rankings and this will help your article get quick attention thereby giving you more high quality targeted traffic. All the above can be effectively done to give you a rise in theamount of traffic you do get.
Onibalusi Bamidele is a 16 year old student and blogger, he shares so many blogging tips with his readers on his online success blog at http://www.dataentryforall.net.

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