Increase Traffic to Your Blog With 15 Easy Tips

1) Write a minimum of four keyword posts every day. Blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit have tens of thousands of visitors every day and these top blogs create about 30 short posts (100 to 150 words) on a daily basis based on "Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts" by TNL.net

2) Submit your blog RSS feed to My Yahoo! and Yahoo will index it.

3) Submit your blog to Google's Reader. By submitting your RSS feed to Google's Reader, Google Blog Search will index it.

4) Exchange links like there's no tomorrow and include a relevant link directory in your blog. This isn't as effective as a one-time submission to a search engine, but it's a great way to increase the traffic to your site. You can use Zeus or similar software to increase your link trading efficiency.

5) Ping your site every time you add a new post using ping sites such as ping-o-matic.

6) Submit your blog to AltaVista, and MSN and other traditional search engines.

7) Submit your blog to DMOZ and other traditional directories.

8) Submission to RSS directories and search engines is simple but quite repetitive. Try software such as RSS SUBMIT to make your life easier and watch your traffic grow.

9) Leave meaningful and relevant comment on other people's blogs. Make the readers want to know who wrote the comment and they'll see a link to your blog in your signature.

10) You can increase your link popularity and get a few additional readers through the use of track backs. If you refer to or quote a blog that is highly relevant to your subject, leave a track back.

11) Use public bulletin boards, newspaper advertisements, business cards, stickers or any other offline medium and get the word out about your blog.

12) In your e-mail signature block, include a link to your blog.

13) Use Usenet Groups. Use Google groups, MSN groups, Yahoo groups or any of other free group services to find people that care about the subject of your blog. Use your blog URL as your name and you'll get the word out.

14) Forums are used by many people to get advice on various subjects. Visit forums and solve some of these people's problems. Follow the forum guidelines but try to post your blog name or include a link along with your posts.

15) You can also tag your blog. Del.icio.us, Technorati and other similar sites use a social feature that allows you to tag your article under keywords or "tags". Anybody else interested in that particular tag can see your blog.

These 15 tips can really help you increase your traffic but don't stop there! Be creative and come up with new ways to get more traffic to your blog.