Blog traffic tips - Using social media network commenting and voting to attract readers

Direct the traffic to your website of blog 

Last week I mapped out an easy strategy for increasing high quality traffic to your blog.

In this article, I'll discuss using new-style methods with social media sites that are just crying for you to use them. In return for you posting your posts with them, they in turn send you high quality traffic and subscribers; not to mention valuable backlinks

This strategy uses comments to attract visitors to your blog, but these will be post on indirectly-related blogs and not niche-concentrated.

This strategy is fairly easy. The only real time consumer, if you consider it that, is registering for four social networks where you will post your content along with placing rating on other blogs. This will be short as you only need to place a rating and not a full comment per se.

The mission here is to locate the best posts on indirectly-related topics, then place ratings and comments if possible.

1. First, sign up for each of the below social networks:

PlugIM This site is directed at the Internet Marketing niche. It is a super site to add your blog posts to directed at  related topics. You are not required to sign up for this service if you simply want to place votes, but for adding content you will be rewarded with some nice traffic to your site.

Sphinn - At Sphinn you will see varying topics on Internet marketing and search engine optimization. They have a wonderful membership presence and community. They do require registration in order to place votes.

BloggingZoom - This site is fairly new, although growing quickly. Their content will more than likely fit anything you are looking for related to or indirectly-related to your blog. The best sites of this type have been developed by bloggers for bloggers and this site does not disappoint.  You will need to register to place votes, however, you will have some steady traffic coming to your blog as a result.

2. Next, you will submit your personal blog posts to each of the above sites. You will need to ensure you use the best keyword-related categories. You are almost guaranteed good ratings on your postings as long as you provide them to others.  

The number one strategy to keep in mind is locating content directed at and indirectly-related to your blog, then comment and vote on it!

This is one of the best ways to obtain targeted readers to your blog as long as your make valuable  comments. This is also a great way to obtain backlinks to your site and boost yourself as a mover and shaker.  

Keep this up over four to five days per week and your traffic will not only increase, but your blog will also  and gain better search ranking and relevancy with the search engines.

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Dr. Dave Hale is the founder and Chief Social Marketer at The Internet Marketing Professor, a business coaching firm dedicated to assisting small to medium sized businesses with integrating Web 2.0 into their marketing mix. He has written over 40 books and how-to course on Internet marketing related topics, is a professional speaker, business coach, and a professor at Webster University, Columbia, SC where he teaches business development and organizational psychology courses.