01. Email bloggers – (once in a while) to let them know about your posts; if they like your message, there’s a good chance they’ll link to you
02. Leave comments on other people’s blogs – it’s one of the best ways of blog marketing!
03. Create social networking profiles then add people as friends (i.e. Myspace and Facebook)
04. Create controversy on a popular topic – people will have something to say about it
05. Have an RSS-ready blog/site so readers can subscribe
06. Use social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, blogadda
07. Have your 404 page redirect to your home page
08. Write a press release and submit it to a PR site like PRWeb.
09. Use PayPerClick traffic.
10. Create viral videos and submit them to video sites like YouTube
11. Submit your blog to blog directories like Technorati, indiae, etc.
12. Link to other blogs, and ask them to link to you. (Link exchange)
13. Purchase blog reviews on other blogs.
14. Make business cards for your site that you can give out to friends and families.
15. Purchase links on other blogs (even if it’s “no-follow”)
16. Purchase ads on social networking sites like Facebook, StumbleUpon, etc.
17. Give away a free product (i.e. eBooks, software, etc.)
18. Create a poll or survey and let people know about the results.
19. Brand your site with a cartoon character – John Cow has a cow, Dean Hunt has killer bunnies, and The University Kid has a, well, student.
20. Run a contest on your site.
21. Submit your contest to contest sites and forums.
22. If you have other sites, link to your main one (make sure they’re related).
23. Use forums – Post your links into your signatures and that of your friend’s.
24. Create a newsletter list where you can have readers opt-in to be emailed.
25. Write good post titles – better titles get better clicks.
26. Exchange links and banners with other blogs.
27. Answer questions in Yahoo Answers, also ask questions linking to your blog.
28. Do article marketing (i.e. Ezine Articles).
29. Research keywords to optimize your content for SEO.
30. Last but not least, NETWORK, NETWORK, NETWORK! Get yourself known while you get to know others. Not many people know this, but it’s the most important part of internet marketing. The more people know you, the more they will work with you. Even having an individual blog or website requires teamwork.

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The blogging phenomenon perfectly integrates in the second generation of web services know as Web 2.0 since this is the most convenient platform for all Internet moves. What is there for bloggers with Web 2.0? First of all, the whole aim of the new web-technology is to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users, on the one hand, and increase the usage rate on the other hand. The next legitimate question that rises here touches on the best ways to attract traffic in the conditions of the transition to blogs that are sources of highly functional content.

First and foremost, we need to say here that with blogs web information is no longer centralized in terms of authority, not to mention that the freedom to use and re-use material is limitless. From a certain point of view blogs become a real market, in which content is the transaction environment. Hence, Web 2.0 traffic tactics mainly gravitate around the optimization of blog articles for advanced search on the search engines. Though it may be very tempting, don’t aim too high from the very beginning, it is almost impossible to get large numbers of visitors form the first blogging days.

The key to getting good traffic is perseverance and service quality. Content has to be re-freshed every week if not more often; in order to make that an easier task, it is enough to change some of the content, even if you don’t replace it all. With the large number of applications available with Web 2.0, you should place a Google search box directly on the site, so that any user may find it comfortable to perform any further search directly from your blog page. What’s there for you? You make the user spend more time on the site and, consequently, you increase the chances of his or her returning to the blog in the future.

People are now more interested in blogs that have RSS feeds; well, you’ll have to let Internet users know that as soon as you can! Initially, graphics were the best means to indicate the presence of an RSS feed; the great advantage now is that you can adjust the very colors used for this attention sign to the theme or topic specific to the blog itself. The system is created in such an easy to use way that all you have to do is insert the text and the color scheme and then a graphic pattern is generated immediately.