Best Blog Tips List for Traffic and Marketing

I have been reading a few good blogs since the past couple of days and found a few great resources sharing tips for marketing and getting more traffic to your blog. Traffic is always an important factor for a blogger, as the amount of traffic mainly determines the quality of the blog. As you can see JohnChow.com, a penalized blog and not ranking for his own name “john chow” in google, is still earning good and is well known everywhere, is because of the traffic he gets. Check alexa stats for johnchow.com! And am also inspired by my brother Amit’s blog work and the ways by which he is gaining high amount of traffic these days!

I am not just that Mad to copy all the tips and share them here, so i would just like to share those resources(which would be just like indirect link baiting to them ;)) - Vote it if you like it.

1. 21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic by Rand Fishkin.
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A considerable portion of my consulting time has recently revolved around the optmization of corporate blogs (or the addition of blogs to revamped sites). As usual, I find a pattern emerging in the strategies that need attention and the pitfalls that must be avoided. So, rather than charging $400 an hour to give advice on the subject, I thought it would be valuable to share many of the most common pieces of advice here on the blog (business part of Rand fights with open source Rand, but loses, as usual)

He made some good points about choosing of the best blog software, analytics, guest bloggers, intelligence while posting, commenting etc. A nice read!

2. 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch - By Jeff Behrendt.
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Witnessing the launch of a blog as successful as Performancing’s first two weeks might lead you to think that launching a successful blog is easy… well, it’s NOT.
The 21 points included in this checklist will cover the basics of what you need to do during those all-important first two weeks of your blog’s life. While there are no guarantees in the blogosphere, if you follow these launching tips closely, your chances of success are greatly improved.

A few points that are said here relate to how a blog has to be launched to make it popular instantly, includes things like RSS subscriptions, social bookmarking, self promotion, networking in blogs, building of links and link baiting techniques!
A surely great read for a new blogger to launch a new blog in the blogosphere.

3. 25 Tips for Marketing Your Blog by Lee Odden.
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With so many blogs being created every day, it’s a mystery to many bloggers how to make their blog stand out. There are many types of blogs or purposes for blogs and a certain number of tactics are applicable to just about all of them.

These points are short and can be easily understood for those who are already having some knowledge about Internet Marketing. It is a list of blog marketing and optimization tips.

4. 8 Reasons Why Lists are Good for Getting Traffic to your Blog by Problogger Darren Rowse.
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I’ve been reminded by this again today by seeing just how many people are linking up to Piaras Kelly’s list of Tips on writing content for your blog. I must have seen 10 or 15 people link to it in the last few hours (including me). Even though I don’t agree with all of it there is something about a list that bloggers and blog readers love.

He mentioned a few good points such as Lists are Scannable, lists look neat, they can be comprehensive etc. It is one of the good ways to attract visitors!

5. 10 Tips for More Blog Traffic by Markus Merz from Performancing.

Right now there are numbers around that every day 70,000 new blogs are created. How can somebody develop a strategy to build up traffic or improve the traffic stream coming to his website? “Produce a lot of fresh content” is one of the standard answers. It is true! But don’t believe that writing 15 articles a day gains incredible more inbound traffic than just one or two. And the Blogger Burnout will be coming to you pretty soon!
“My cooking recipe for fast SEO results”. The approach is that you can use the support of modern blogging technology as a side kick to gain inbound traffic and fast search engine attention:

There are 10 basic and good tips for bloggers which can help them get some good traffic to your blog!

These 5 are my favorite resources that i wanted to share with all my blogger friends! You should share other in comments if you like to