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How To Get Traffic To Your Blog

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As we probably know, good number of visitors is good amount of money, there are good numbers of posts out there talking about different ways to get visitors to your website, some worked, some didn't while some messed up your SEO, but not to worry, am here to approve some of those method you might have read out there, that is to say they are fully save.

So i did a lot of research on the issue of getting visitor to you website and came up with this 20 lists.

1. Hubpage
This is an awesome way to earn money at the same time  drive traffic to your website, Hubpage is a place you write great content and Receive payments, in other to drive traffic from Hubpage to your website, you have to write contents related to your website post(s) so you can leave a link or two to redirect readers to your blog, remember not to add many links so your content can be published so your write up can be publish.
Read: How to earn money from hubpage in 8 steps

2.YouTube

This is another great way to drive traffic to your website which am sure you are familiar with,
Now to driving traffic to your website, you have to make a video related to your post.
During your upload, below the video you should see a description box. its where you will have to leave your site link(s) for viewers to click on.
How to make money with YouTube

3.Yahoo Answer

Yahoo answer is a question and answer portal, do a search and look for relevant questions that can get or has gotten many attention, relates to your  posts that you can answer,
Answer the questions also leaving a link to redirect them to your website, to earn from it
Note: Its how convincing your answer is that determines the number of attention it will get, so try and be very convincing.
 How to make money with Yahoo Answer

4.Quora

By answering questions related to your website posts, it almost like yahoo answer, it has millions of people coming in everyday asking questions on different kinds of topic. To gain traffic with Quora, follow the exact process with "Yahoo Answer"

5. Reddit

Social media's can drive insane traffic to your website depending on how its being utilized, Reddit is a perfect place you can get lots of visitors to your site. Its all about popularity, karmas and upvotes, the more of those you have, the more your post are to be seen by Reddit users, write a shot note about your post, leaving a link and share, remember to use the right subreddits to prevent downvotes or being share to the wrong people.

6. Twitter

This is one of the most popular ways to drive traffic to your blog, open an account with the name of your blog,  if you domain name is http://ghtven.com let your twitter username be @ghtven so they can easily find you and gain follower. Share your blog post with the links on your tweets so your followers can click on it and get redirected to your blog.

7. Facebook

Facebook is one of the easiliest ways to get traffic to a website, popular social network.
Apart from meeting new friends and families, it can also be used to drive insane traffic to your websites, To do that, you need to open a Facebook account, find friends(thousands), join lots and lots of groups, like pages and create fan pages related to your website.
After you have join enough groups(join groups that are related to your website contents) have enough friends,  have enough likes on your fan page, then your good to go, this is what you do to get traffics, share your website post on your timeline, share in groups, connect your website to Facebook and post your links on page comments, with this, you should incread the number of visitor coming to your website.  click here to know how to add thousand of friends on Facebook in one day Read also: How To Drive Insane Traffic To Your Blog using Facebook

8. LinkedIn

This is also like Facebook follow the same process as the Facebook part and you can also drive traffic to your website but for me in LinkedIn, i mainly make use of groups there, it one of the best ways to redirect people to your website .

9. Pinterest

This is a social media network where people go to this days to read articles of their interest, so then Pinterest can be used as a traffic source, write great contents and share on PinterRest. 

There are several ways to draw traffic to your blog using this method, to have more knowledge on this read:
5 ways to flood your blog with traffic using pinterest

10. Google

No matter how much traffic you drive to your websites, its incomplete without Google, optimizing your website with Google get you free readers, is  the best method you can use to gain visitors/traffic to your website, for you to understand how to use Google as a source of traffic,  read lots of SEO books, to get SEO friendly.

11. Google+ 

This is another social media that looks more like Facebook and LinkedIn. you can use this also to drive traffic to your website , create your website pages, groups and mores, join related groups and share your website posts,
How to increase traffic to your blog using Google+

12. Warrior forum

This a forum Where Internet businesses gentlemen and ladies meet,  blogging and affiliates programs are really discussed there, so this can be a very good source of traffic to your website especially, participate in forums related to your website and share links, 

13. StumbleUpon

Another place to get traffic to your website is using StumbleUpon, create an account and share your website post, it works.

14. Email list

Building an email list is also a nice way to get visitors, Its a way of getting or notifying previous visitors to come back and read more of your new posts, this can be a very good source of traffic if well utilized, to gain more knowledge on how it really works, read:25 easy ways to grow your email list

15. Work on your content headline

This is also good way to get people to your read your website , an enticing headline works like a butterfly and a flowers, it attract reader, so it work as a traffic source.

16. join blogging communities.

This is where new blogger make mistakes, when running a blog, joining communities like problogger and Copybloggers is a great way to network with other blogger and cross promote each others contents.

17. Add text to your blog post image

When writing a post or after writing, it  advisable to add text to your image(s), text like post title or blog url, for easy re-connection if your post is share or pinned.

18. Add your blog to Alltop

Submitting your blog to alltop can increase the chances of your post being found by people looking for your content.

19. Focus on long tail keyword

The days of focusing on one keyword on your post pages are gone always use terms and phrases that are relevant to your post topic.

20. Make use of categories

If your website doesn't make use of categories, it time to get it activated, it does not only support in SEO improvement but also makes it easy for your reader to find content if their choice.