3 Steps to Generate Blog Traffic

You don't need to beg people to come to your blog. There is hundred of way a blogger could use to generate traffic to his/her blog. Traffic is known as the bloodline which helps any blog/website from failure due to lack of visitors. One key secret of generating long lasting traffic to any website is by keeping a link in other websites which could divert their visitors to the intended blog/website. This link could be archived even without the permission of the third party websites owners' consent. Here are the three key methods:

Google Your Competitors
This is one of the methods which many bloggers or even so call “internet gurus” rarely speak about, but it is very effective. Assume you are selling handmade lamps via online website. If you are new into the selling lamp business, definitely you going to have almost no one linking to you. Therefore you would not get any traffic from third party source. You could find your nears 10 online competitors, and Google their domain name. You may use other search engines, but Google alone should be fine.
Once you have Google their domain name, you will see the search results that many other websites which are linking to them. Some of the links could be from comments in blog, forums, community websites and etc. Visit as much as you can each one of these links and try to place your comment, you input in forums, joining the community websites and do repeat this process until you have Google all the competitors' websites. Now, you already have links from all the major sites which referring your competitors. If done properly, the link will last long and will help your traffic build up and link popularity.
Yahoo Answer – A Must To Do
If you ever visited to Yahoo Answer, you will realize many people asking questions regarding many issues. If you see the answers given, often people are pushing some kind of products or services which the asker has to purchase. Very few will give straight answers, and this sometimes makes the asker to feel frustrated. Remember, people are looking for answers and not promotional talk.
You should always visit Yahoo Answer, and provide relevant and good answers for a question asked. However, you could leave some crucial information’s from the answer and ask the asker to pay a visit to your website to get the remaining of the information. Try to make it clear that you are not pushing any e-books, but sincerely offering an answer for the question asked. When you leave a link in Yahoo Answer, always give the link straight to the page where the reader could find the information. This link will be alive for many months or years, thus giving you repeat visitors in future.
Commenting on other’s Blogs
This method of marketing is known to give good amount of visitors to a website if it is done properly and regularly. Try to get a list of 30 to 50 high traffic blogs related to your own website/blog topics. Try to make it a point to visit few of these blogs everyday, and leave constructive comments. Remember, a constructive comment does not mean you have to agree every time with the blogger's view. Sometimes writing opposite views properly could excite the blog environment and cause many readers to wonder who you are, and visit your website instead from you signature. Your signature carries your website link, and unless the blog owner removes it from his blog, your link will be alive and diverting traffic to your website.
Generating traffic is very important, and always trying to leave links in other peoples' website is better compared to generating traffic from a source which does not give you a permanent link back to your website. A permanent link will be able to transfer traffic for many years, and building a chain of these links is crucial for a website to be successful.