Without a steady flow of traffic, no online business will last for very long and this is something all merchants are already familiar with.



Blogs are without a doubt, one of the best online publishing platforms so during the course of this article we'll be looking at four ways in which to use them to drive traffic to your site.

RSS Feeds

Apart from the fact that RSS feeds are free and that they never require any personal details of subscribers, they can for the most part be compared to subscription style newsletters. Unfortunately, even though most blogging software such as Wordpress comes with a RSS feed already built in, most people simply allow it to lie dormant on their blogs. In order to drive traffic to your site by using RSS feeds, you need to submit you your actual RSS feed URL to the maximum number of RSS directories. Providing you do this, all new content you post on your blog will be syndicated to your RSS feed and as a result, the RSS directories will display that content which essentially means that this is the easiest way to obtain exposure to all your new content.

Commenting on Blogs

If you're looking for targeted traffic and some solid one way backlinks to boost your search engine listings, then try commenting on other people's blogs leaving a link back to your website. Providing you post relevant and useful content/comments on other people's blogs, the blog owner will "approve" your comments and you link will then become live. This can bring direct traffic and of course help with your rankings in the search engines.

Guest Bloggers

Allowing guest bloggers to post comments on your site adds a substantial amount of credibility to your own blog but that's not the only reason for encouraging it. By allowing these visitors to post their comments on your site, you're more or less establishing a partnership with them which in many cases could see you then appearing as a guest writer on their blog. Of course when this happens, you stand to benefit from all the additional exposure and the backlinks which you will no doubt have included.

Trackbacks

Trackbacks are another great way to get more direct traffic to your site while at the same time providing additional backlinks. So what exactly are trackbacks? A trackback is a way for a blogger to let others know they are writing about one of your posts. For the most part, this happens when you've written an exceptionally good post and bloggers has been so impressed, that they've gone ahead and written about your post themselves. In the vast majority of cases, this will happen when someone reads your post and decides they have additional information which they'd like to add.

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