How to make your blog more visible and add traffic to it - PART 2

6. Create e-mail list

Email listings are best source for repeated visits to your blog. If you don't have email list, you need to create one and adjust it for your needs. Instead of someone visits your website and never comes back, you can invite visitor to sign up for your list and offer some benefits for that, free membership, comment etc. You can get 20, 30 visits from one person just by using this email listings.

7. Register on forums

Take some time to explore forums - places where you can register for free and meet other people with same interests. Even though you will not get visits in the beginning, if you are active commentator on forum, people will notice you and enquire about your profile and website you wrote in description or signature. You will get reputation on forum and you are free to promote your blog just by leaving comments on themes and threads. This is popularly known as "Forum marketing".

Here is what you need to do:

- Before you register on forum read terms of use

- Create free account

- Login and adjust setting on your profile

- Put link to your blog in "Signature"

- Give reliable and interesting information on forum and build reputation

- Do not put link in comments, that is signature meant for

- Do not SPAM forums!

8. Social networks

Social networks and Facebook especially could be great source for traffic to your blog. Create Facebook page if you want to collect likes, post articles you wrote on FB and get new visitors if you offer valuable content. Facebook has become necessity nowadays and with FB statistics you could actually follow and research for important details about visitors, best time for publishing articles etc. Also, you could pay small amount for post boost and create audience for your blog.

9. Leave a signature in emails

Most email platforms offer option of signature template. Enter URL of your blog so everyone could see you own a blog and visit it.

If you know any other direct method, feel free to comment or write me down. Hope I helped someone. Cheers!