Most people struggle to increase their traffic, many get frustrated and quit. Don't fall into that trap. Driving traffic is easy if you know how to do it. Follow these 4 techniques consistently and you will increase your traffic.



Reciprocal Blog Links

Ask bloggers who write in related niches to swap links with you. This is called reciprocal linking or also blogroll link swapping.

Reciprocal linking helps in a couple of ways. You can ask the blogger to use specific keyword texts in your link on their site. This will give you a powerful link on each and every page, post and tag page of their blog. The more links you have the better your site will do for the keyword in Google.

If the blogger is getting decent traffic you may also see traffic come directly from the blogroll link.

Bookmark Your Posts

Each time you bookmark your posts you give yourself another backlink. These are not the best backlinks as they are not keyword anchor text liniks, but all links count at least a little.

You also give others the opportunity to find your site when they search on a bookmarking site.

Bookmarking all the different sites can be time consuming, but there is software available to make it a little easier. You can try social poster, or only wire if you want to submit your site to many bookmarking sites at once.

Article Marketing

This is one of the best ways to build backlinks and drive traffic to your site. The more backlinks the better you do in search engines.

After you have written your post think of a few other related topics and write a quick article on those topics. You can then use your resource box to include 2 links to your site. These can and should be keyword anchor text links.

Then submit the articles to as many article directories as you can. There is software available to make this process easier, and there are services that will do the entire submission process for you.

Blog Directories

My Blog Log and Blog Catalog are two of the most popular blog catalogs. This is where you can submit your blog and interact with other bloggers.

They are also like a huge search engine for blogs. You can just submit a search and it will bring back all the different blogs in the directory that talk about that topic.

There are so many ways to drive traffic to your site. No matter how you decide to do it, you must do it. Your site will never make money if no one ever sees it.

Remember, small consistent action usually does more good than one grand action. Just choose a couple things to do and do a little bit daily and you will see your traffic increase.