Getting traffic to your blog can be difficult. You have heard all the things you need to do like write good content, submit to directories, submit articles etc. These all work very well but say you want to get immediate traffic. How would you do it?
Well there is one little trick that I know, in fact I am doing it now, what you need to do is read through some busy web forums, find something of interest which is related to your blog. In this case it is people wanting to know how to get free traffic to their blog. Then you write a blog post, like this, about the subject in question.
The final step is simple, answer the forum post and include a link back to your blog. It probably won’t generate much traffic, maybe 10-20 people, but if they become regular readers then it is worthwhile. Additionally if you find a topic where people are always asking the same question, you can always post the same answer, with a link. Then the free traffic coming to your blog really adds up!
Has this ever happened to one of your sites? You go from a pagerank of 3 or 4 to 0 all of a sudden. The next few updates happen and you stay at zero?
This happened to a site that I recently purchased, Poultry Pages. In fact when I purchased it the pagerank was zero and it had a few other problems but that’s a story for another day.
The site had previously been selling links. Google does not like this and so manually they removed the pagerank. Reading various forums told me to build quality backlinks and it will come. This also made no difference; the site has links from education sites and DMOZ, which in my opinion are strong links.
Anyway I eventually found the solution under Google webmaster tools. They have a link there called “request reconsideration”. Here you can have your say about your lost page rank. I wrote a quick note to say that the site had previously been selling links but does not anymore and that all links on the site were now no-follow links. Just three days later I had the page rank back!
