When it comes to marketing online, one of the most effective strategies is blogging. Blogging can help you to build a group of followers that can propel your income through the roof, granted that you are providing good content. But before you can build a following, you have to be able to let the blogosphere know that you blog exists without spending a ton of cash; So how do you get more traffic to your blog for free?

Just writing great content is enough to eventually get your blog noticed, but it will take time. Therefore you have to be able to market your blog to the masses. There are a few ways to get this done and in this blog post, I am going to show your five ways to get more traffic to your blog for free.

Syndicating Your Blog Content

Syndicating your blog content to document sharing sites such as Scribd, Docstoc, and Slideshare will bring your blog more exposure. Document sharing sites are well respected by the search engine and are a great source of quality backlinks. In addition to providing your website with traffic from their large amount of readers, document sharing sites also can boost the ranking of your blog. You don’t have to worry about duplicate content penalties as long as you introduce the post on your blog first.

Social Media Announcements

Your blog post should also be posted to your Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and all your high authority social media profiles. You can use a service like Hootsuite to automatically syndicate your blog feed to your social media pages. Additionally, you can join a Tribe on Triberr to make your content available for other internet marketers to share your content as well. The more readers you can engage, the higher chance you will have to gain a loyal subscriber.

RSS Feeds

Every blog should have an RSS feed where visitors can subscribe via RSS to automatically be notified whenever you publish a new blog post. Therefore you should make sure that your RSS feed button is visible on your blog. To get best results however, you will need to add your feed to the top RSS feed blog directories like Blogarama and BlogDigger. This will make your feed available for anyone searching those sites for feeds related to your niche topics.

Blog Consistently

Blogging everyday is the key to keeping your visitors engaged. Everyday blogging will keep the search engines crawling your blog while increasing your authority within your niche. When you blog in a consistent manner, you stand a better chance of getting ranked higher in Google. This will happen because your readers will get accustomed to reading your post on a frequent basis.

Guest Blogging

Lastly, guest blogging is by far my favorite method for generating free traffic to my blog. The reason guest blogging is so effective is you can literally piggyback of another high authority blog’s traffic. But before you can gain the benefits of guest blogging, you have to create some great content on your blog. This will help you to get approved for a guest blogging appearance on a high authority blog.
Getting your post approved is simple as long as you follow the guidelines specified by the blogger you are soliciting. For the most part, if you deliver great original content that is not promotional in nature, you will get approved. Majority of bloggers will allow you to leave an author bio leading to your blog. some of them will also allow you to leave a link in the body of the article as long as it a link that is beneficial to the reader.

A link within a great guest post on a high traffic blog can generate literally hundreds or visitors to your blog instantly. In fact, you may able to enjoy visitors to your blog for months or even years from a great post. To ensure maximum results, it is wise to promote your guest blog posting.
Getting more traffic to your blog for free is simple when you find creative ways to share your blog to the world. These steps are just a few that can help you do just that. The good part is when you get the traffic rolling, it is almost impossible to stop, a long as you are providing great information. Great content is still King!