16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
By Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff

Like any other web venture, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site before you can turn it into a money maker. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get some serious traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates. This sends emails to any opt-in members about updates on your blog. Access it at http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com). Access it at http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Get yourself into the industry. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog so that other people are drawn there

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish so ther blogs know of the update. Access it at http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines like Google or Yahoo.

6. Submit your blog to related blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories related to blogging is at http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

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