How You Can Increase Blog Traffic Fast

So, you're starting a new site and hoping to learn how you can increase blog traffic fast? Join the club! There are thousands of new bloggers giving it a shot every day, so the competition is fierce. But, if you learn how to ride the wave of newcomers you can find yourself successful in no time at all.


Don't be alarmed if this doesn't make sense to you quite yet. Most unsuccessful bloggers don't understand how they can put their competition to work in promoting their blog. This guide will teach you how to do it in an ethical and fair fashion. That's right! You won't have to feel guilty about being successful.

Finding Other Bloggers in Your Niche
Your first step should be visiting Technorati.com. Search for your niche, and then sort the results based on low authority. This list will provide you with at least a dozen blogs that are focused on your topic, and most of them won't be too impressive.

After that, hop over to the Google blog search and do the same. Take a good look through all of the blogs you find and isolate those that seem to have regularly updated posts but little social interaction. They might not seem too valuable at first, and they might not seem like they can provide you much help.

With that being said, these blogs are still bringing in new visitors on their own. Once you have this list, review all of the sites, make a few comments, and finally send an email pitching a topic for a guest post.

If you're lucky, you'll be able to get an opportunity to do so on several sites. All of the accumulated comments and posts will drive traffic from those sites to your own. You'll also get a few valuable links, which will help boost your rankings in the SERPs.

Writing Compelling Guest Posts
Once you land your chance to write a guest post you need to hit it out of the park. You want to become a recurring writer for several blogs if possible. This will help to funnel new traffic to your site on a regular basis, increase your exposure (and guest blogging opportunities), and build a solid foundation of organic SEO.

Don't just limit yourself to blogs specifically in your niche. Think of blogs that are similar or share similar readers. For instance, if you own a site about model trains, you might want to write a guest post on a site that focuses on building impressive dioramas. Believe it or not, Google blogs search results show 235,000 blog posts on this topic - so it goes without saying that you can use this tactic no matter what niche you're in.

Build Your List of Publishers
If you do a good job of this, you can have a list of 20 or more publishers within the first month. They'll all be feeding new traffic to your site at different rates. Assuming that each blog sends about 10 new visitors to your site per month, you'll have at least 200 readers per month from the first month you star this campaign.

Considering the fact that it takes most blogs at least 6 to 12 months until they have any regular stream of new visitors, this is very fast and very impressive. If you keep it up at this pace, you'll have more than 2,400 new visitors each month just from your guest posting sources.

When you combine that with the new traffic you'll be generating from the organic SEO these posts provide your site should have at least 3,000-5,000 new visitors per month.

Of course, this isn't very scalable. You can't keep adding new sources to your list of publishers every month. As time goes on you can drop some sites and focus on getting new ones. The links that they send to your site will be there forever. You don't have to keep working on them.

By adding at least 20 new guest posts to your arsenal each month you can end up with serious amounts of traffic in no time at all. Outsource the guest post writing and you can take it to another level, entirely.