Top 10 free traffic sources for beginners
Here’s my list of the top 10 free traffic sources for beginner bloggers. Starting with the best at #1. My site is around 7 weeks old but already i’ve gotten a lot of traffic. My best day has been 366 visits from around 300 unique visitors.
1. Blogcatalog-add friends,join discussions, and visit other blogs. You will see some good referral traffic from blogcatalog.
2. Entrecard-this site is becoming viral. the sooner you join the more credits you can earn.
3. Digitalpoint-get involved with the best webmastering forum.
4. Mybloglog-not as good at blogcatalog but still worth joining.
5. Sitepoint-the second best webmastering forum.
6. Bumpzee-like blogcatalog and mybloglog.
7. Comments-this is the best way to announce yourself to other bloggers and to build relationships.
8. Stumbleupon-this should be ranked higher but i haven’t figured out how to work it. I’ve gotten stumbled twice and both time i got around 100 uniques.
9. Digg-should be ranked higher. just haven’t figured it out like stumbleupon.
10. Visit-Visit other blogs and they will visit yours. Make sure you have blogcatalog and mybloglog so people can know you visited.
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December 11th, 2007 at 8:57 am
Nice tips Noob loving your work the amount of posts you get out is amazing. Keep up the good work.
December 11th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Thanks for sharing this. I’m going to check them out.
December 11th, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hey noob, great post - always believe in comments to help the profile of bloggers.
Your link to digitalpoint needs a ‘t’ on the end though.
December 11th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I more or less agree with this list, with one exception…
I find I am getting more traffic from entrecard than from blogcatalog for roughly the same amount of effort expended (although possibly the entrecard traffic is not as good quality…)
December 11th, 2007 at 7:46 pm
I like this post… I know what you mean about using stumbleupon and digg, especially stumbleupon… having to download the software is a pain, but Digg is more userfriendly, but from what I hear people are exploiting it by creating “Digg Me” groups, so all the articles on the front page of Digg are no longer the best out there. But its still a great way to get traffic.
December 12th, 2007 at 5:34 am
parttimeblogger-thanks, taking the que from perezhilton an engadget. just keep posting and people will come.
brotee-welcome
nick-thanks for the find. i corrected the link.
jordanmcclements- i’ve read that for some bloggers, entrecard works better. i guess cause my blog is still young, blogcatalog works better.
globalwealthcreator- yeah i defnately need to focus on stumble and digg.
December 14th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Thank you for this list- traffic is definitely something I need to work on. I know about most of these sources except for Entrecard, which I will check out later.
I have had a few of my pages submitted to StumbleUpon (not by me), but I have not received the kind of traffic that most other people have reported. So far I’ve gotten a whopping total of about 10 hits from there- and that has been since April! Do you happen to know if it helps the Stumble traffic any when you actually download the software and surf through some sites? I have never actually used it before, but if it makes any difference I wouldn’t mind trying it.
December 15th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
karl erfurt-i’ve gotten stumbled 3 times. i still haven’t focused on it yet but someone stumbled my blog and three times i’ve received over 100 uniques. i need to focus on this soon. could be a goldmine
December 24th, 2007 at 6:25 pm
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July 15th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Thanks for the tips… I hadn’t heard of some of these before.