The Personal Development Blog

This blog is still new so naturally there is no real traffic to it yet. But it is a fact that if you want your blog or website to survive among the billions of others you’ll have to be able to attract traffic. Lots and lots of it. I have gained some experience through trial and error in the past. It would be a pleasure for me to share it with you all.

I only have experience with generating traffic to a website, so it will be an interesting experiment to see if the same methods can be transferred to this blog.

The main thing you’ll need to have, if you are going to attract traffic to your blog or website, is content. It is not enough to just use articles from all the article directories out there. You will need to create real and original content. It is of course a good idea if the content you create also have some sort of a value to the readers. I have decided that the main purpose of this blog will be to create original content within all the areas of personal development. But I will also, occasionally, write articles in other categories. Like this one. When you create good and original content, people will want to subscribe to, or link to your blog.

When you first start to research how you can get more traffic, you will discover that there are a lot of information you really can’t trust. I have tried it all. You have the viral sites that claim to be able to give you a million visitors a month. You will also stumble upon tons of banner/ad exchange networks that make the same claims. This just is not true. No one can attract millions of visitors to a low/non traffic website over night. You will also be offered to buy traffic. I have done this and I can’t tell you how disapointed I was. It was a total waste of my hard earned money. Do not buy traffic unless you are 100% sure of what you are doing. I have also tried some of the traffic exchange networks (the ones where you have to surf others websites in exchange for credits). This is a method that actually can create a great deal of traffic for you. But the problem with this is that the visitors are not interested in your website. They are only interested in getting their credits. With that said, there is one traffic exchange network I know of that actually works pretty good.

Linkreferral is a traffic exchange network with a different approach. They have some interesting features that you should take a look at. If you do it right you will end up getting a lot of reviews on your blog or website. If you log in every day and review a few websites your self, you will get 20-30 visitors every day. I have gained quite a few subscribers for my free ebook service through linkrefferal.

I don’t want to make this article to long, so I’ll just stop for today. Check back later for more traffic generating methods that actually works.

Trackposted to Perri Nelson’s Website, The Magical Rose Garden, The Random Yak, guerrilla radio, The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns, On the Horizon, Blue Star Chronicles, Pirate’s Cove, Webloggin, The Pink Flamingo, High Desert Wanderer, Conservative Cat, Right Voices, and The Yankee Sailor, thanks to Linkfest Haven Deluxe.