How are you going to get traffic to your blog? You can either write articles or use ads. The secret is in ranking high within the search engines.
In order to rank well in the search engines you need to have a lot of backlinks to your site. The more backlinks you have the higher up in the search engines you will go.
There are three common ways to go about this. One of them is to buy ads, usually pay per click. The next one is to write articles and manually submit them to as many different directories as you can and the third on is to buy backlinks to your blog.
When you use pay per click ads you have to have a firm understanding of targeted keywords. If you target the wrong audience or don't pick highly optimized keywords you stand to loose a lot of money.
If you decide to buy links to get traffic to your blog you need to make sure that you are buying quality links. If you buy links that come from very low PR sites then they will not do you very much good. This can get very expensive.
You also want to make sure that the sites that are linking to you are in the same category as your blog. When you have links that are from the same kind of site as yours the search engines hold them in higher importance.
If you are writing article's the more articles you submit the greater chance you have of people reading it and going to your blog. Article marketing has two benefits. The first is that it gives people a sample of what you have to offer them. If they like what you wrote chances are good they will want to see what else you have to say so they will click over to your blog. The other benefit is that it gives you quality backlinks.
Article marketing is also the cheapest way to get traffic. You can write articles and manually submit them for free. Usually when you submit an article you can use an authors resource box. This is where you can put your links to your blog. Most directories allow two links per article.
There are two different ways to article market. The first way is to write your article and manually submit it to a directory. When you do this you need to write a new article for every directory you submit to so you don't end up with duplicate content. The other way you can go is to use an article submission site. Writing new articles and manually submitting them takes a lot of time but it's also free.
If you choose to use an article submission site they will submit the articles for you saving you a ton of time. When you use an article submission site to get traffic to your blog you need to make sure that they are sending out unique articles to all of the directories. Not all of them do this and you will end up with duplicate content all over the web and the search engines frown upon such things. Search engines frowning equals very little traffic for you.
