Blog Traffic - Simple Steps to Bring in Traffic to Your Blog For Free by Rammel Firdaus

You have a new blog and it's ready to go. The next step is to bring traffic to your new blog. How do you do that? Before you can bring in traffic, you must have at lease 10 articles so your blog doesn't look empty. Do you want to greet visitors with an empty hand? That's the first step.

The next 6 steps to bring in traffic to your new blog is:

1. Ping The Blog Services - Ping blog services after each post you made. This is to let them know you have a new blog and it's just updated.Ping-O-Matic is one of the services that can ping a number of services with a single click. Tracking and connecting blogs are specially design by these services.

2. Optimize Your Posts for Search Engines - To get your post listed on search engine result page, there are rules to follow. Your blog post title must contains primary keyword, secondary keywords in your body of your post and keywords in the anchor text of links in the body of your posts.

3. Press Releases Submission - You blog is new, tell the world. A great way to bring in traffic is Press release. A great tool for branding. It can bring in massive traffic and it's free advertising.

4. Forum Posting - Including signature of your blog URL. Join forums you are interested in or your niche. Post and respond to other posts.Help forum members by answering question. The more you expose yourself, the more your blog URL is visible. Don't Spam. It's a no-no on forums.

5. Exchange Links - Request link exchange with friends from other blogs related to yours. Make friends with the blog owner if you don't have friends, find a blog you like and post comments while creating a relationship. The more you post comments the morel likely you will get traffic. Again, don't spam. It will be a waste of your effort if you spam.

6. Sign up for MyBlogLog.com - Open an account, install the widget and upload a picture. Your picture will appear on the widget box every time you visit other blogs with a MyBlogLog widget install. Other people who visit that blog, might click on your picture and go to your blog.

These 7 simple steps should give you a little boost to start building traffic to your new blog. Furthermore it's free.

About the Author

8 years of experience in graphic design and multimedia, Rammel Firdaus Ramli recently setup his blog at http://rammelfirdaus.com a month ago, generating traffic from scratch with just 7 simple steps. For more tips on free traffic, you can subscribe at his blog http://rammelfirdaus.com