Tuesday, 22 October 2013

How to Drive Referral traffic to your blog/Website ?

Traffic is the basic life for blogs or websites . Day-by-day with the increase of number of websites there is a huge competition in the web world . So the websites having good quality traffic only survive in this world . Many newbie bloggers start their blog and quit blogging after 2 or 3 months because of lac of traffic . Once a good readership is established traffic will be automatically generated . Initially no blog gets quality organic traffic . so the only way is to get referral traffic . In this post I will discuss about some resouces which can help in Driving referral traffic for your blog .

Also check : how to increase blog pageviews and blog traffic

What are advantages of Referral traffic ?

With Referral traffic you can build some targeted audience for your blog . This helps in increasing blog readership . Also Driving referral traffic helps in improving Search Engine Ranking Position .






Tips to Drive Referral Traffic to Blog :

1. Facebook and Other social Networking sites :

Facebook is the first and best source to get referral traffic for your blog . You have lots of groups in Facebook where huge audience is found . Try sharing your content in Facebook Groups . 
First find the groups in your blog niche and Join all the best groups with good amount of members . Then start posting in these groups which helps in driving referral traffic for your blog .

A part from groups you can create facebook page through you can build targeted audience for your blog . Once you have more number of likes you can share your content with those audience . 

Facebook Advertisements in another way to promote your content with huge audience . You need to pay to Facebook to promote your blog post .


You can share your content in other popular social network sites such as Twitter , Reddit , Digg , LinkedIn etc . I have a detailed post for increasing referral traffic using social network sites .

Also check : How to increase referral traffic through social media 

2. Google Adwords :

Google Adwords is another best choice to drive huge referral traffic for your blog . Google adwords is the advertising product of Google through which you can display your ads in search results of google .

You will get lots visitors when you advertise with Google adwords and you ads will be dsiplayes in search results (above , below and in sidebar of search results ) . You can even use Bing ads to get targeted US audience .

3. Blog commenting :

I have already about blog commenting in one of my previous posts . Blog commenting is one of the best way to build backlinks for your blog . You need to comment on commentluv blogs of good pagerank . Writing attractive comments will surely catch the eye of the visitor and helps in improving referral traffic to your blog .
Using commentluv and keywordluv blogs for comment is the best way to increase referral traffic to your blog . You will also get a dofollow backlink after commenting on commentluv blogs . Read the post and comment your idea or experience . Don't simply comment for the sake of backlink .  

4. Forum Participation :

Forum participation implies being active in forums by replying to queries and posting your queries . There are many good forums which have huge traffic and high pagerank .

Find the forums of your blog niche . Submit your solution to the questions of your blog niche and at the end give your blog link in the signature field . There are many active users in forums which help in increasing referral traffic for your blog
Moreover Forum participation builds readership for your blog and increase readers for your blog . 

In the similar way participating in Yahoo answers will bring huge referral traffic for your blog . You need to answer for the questions related in you niche and give your url in the source field .

5. Guest Posting :

Guest posting is another best way to increase blog traffic . In Guest posting you need to write post for high page rank blog and you can provide your blog link in the author bio . You can even get a dofollow backlink for your blog .

Final words :

These are the best possible ways to increase referral traffic for blog . If you find another other possible way please get it to me through comments . Share your ideas , experience with us through comments .      


1 comments:

  1. Awesome, thanks for sharing. Social media and Guest blogging actually work for me most

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