5 Ways to Drive Direct and Referral Traffic to Your Blog

Generally speaking there are three kinds of blogtraffic: direct traffic, search engine traffic, and referral traffic. All are valuable and serve different purposes, but this post focuses on the direct and referral traffic.
Referral traffic is valuable in online marketing because it sends interested readers and qualified potential customers to your site from new domains and Direct traffic also catches the interested user.

Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog : 

1.Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is one of the most popular ways that people use to drive traffic to the blog. Searching around for relevant niche blogs which are around your niche, read the blog posts in the blog and leave a genuine and relevant comment to the blog post. It’s not only driving you traffic, it also helps to build up your brand.

2. Guest Posting
Guest posting is a great way to build up referral traffic. If you can set up a regular guest posting schedule, all the better, because that allows you to keep your referral traffic from those sources steady over time.
Guest posting has been claimed by many big guns out there to be the best way to drive traffic, build your brand and improve search engine ranking with one-way do follow backlink. If you used to read others blog in your niche, you can actually see a lot of guest posts in the blog nowadays. This is the way that would bring various advantages to your blog and traffic.

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3. Facebook, Twitter etc (Social Network)
Social media tends to be the second largest sources where people can drive traffic to the blog. In order to drive more traffic from social networking site to your blog, you need to get more followers or friends with your account, you’ll receive traffic when you share your blog updates in your account. There are many social networking sites which will drive you traffic such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linkedin and etc.

4. Build A Community Around Your Niche 
Building a community around your niche takes a long time, but it’s a good way to drive traffic in a long run basis. Nowadays, there are many bloggers are partner up to do something together such as building a blog, leaving blog comment in each other blog and etc. Building a healthy relationship between bloggers are good because bloggers will help each other if you’re in trouble. Indirectly, it could help to drive traffic to your blog with the help of community.

5. Forum Posting
Forum posting is not a popular way that people used to drive traffic, but I could see the potential of forum posting. You will still receive traffic if you do the right way, you’re required to join relevant forum which has similar niche to your blog niche, you also need to do forum posting the right way. For example, you have a blogging related blog, I would suggest you to join WarriorForum which has similar niche, there are many sections which are in internet marketing topic and all are open for discussion, there will be many people asking questions or sharing experiences, it’s your time to search Q&A thread in your niche and answer the questions with your profession. If they like your answer and help, they’ll be more likely to read your blog too. In order to get people to visit your blog, you need to place your blog URL in your signature.

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