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Sameep Shah
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By Sameep Shah
Published on 05/10/2009
 
Nearly everyone has their own Web site these days, whether it's for business purposes or simply a small blog they write on occasionally. If you have a business site, you might not have much trouble with traffic generation because you have the funds to advertise your site on and offline.

Nearly everyone has their own Web site these days, whether it's for business purposes or simply a small blog they write on occasionally. If you have a business site, you might not have much trouble with traffic generation because you have the funds to advertise your site on and offline. For those of you who have a blog and would like to see an increase in traffic, there are easy ways to do this. People have always said it's not what you know, it's who you know. This old adage can be applied to blog traffic generation as well.

Think about it for a minute. Who do you want reading your blog? Most likely it would be other bloggers or people who read blogs in general. You can approach traffic generation that way. Read other people's blogs to see what the general public is reading. Try to post comments on their blogs as well. After you post, make sure to add your own blog's link so people know where to find you. Expand upon this by reading and posting several blogs that would tie into your own. Be smart with this, though. Don't post comments and your link on every blog you can find. Post on ones that are relevant to your own blog's content. For example, don't post a comment on a dog grooming blog if your site is about politics. It would defeat the purpose of generating traffic.

When you are using this traffic generation tactic, make sure to post intelligent comments that will draw people into your site. If you post comments that don't make any sense or are dull, people won't want to read an entire blog like that. Entice readers from other blogs by showing them that you have something to offer them. Show them they should be reading your blog also. Another way to use this tactic is by going through your own blog to see if people have linked their own sites. If so, visit their sites to see what they are all about. Put your link on their site to expand your reader base.

Traffic generation doesn't have to be difficult or expensive if you have a small site such as a blog. Possibly the best way to generate traffic on your own site is by searching for other sites and posting comments regarding that site with a link back to your own. Not only are you searching for new blogs for yourself to read, you are networking yourself and your blog.