These are some of simple ways to increase your blog traffic.
- Submit your blog posts to Social Bookmarking Sites like www.digg.com, http://del.icio.us, www.stumbleupon.com, www.furl.net, http://reddit.com.
- If you want to add more than above bookmarking sites just go to www.google.com and search for "Social Bookmarking Sites".
- Submit your blog to all blog directories like http://www.blurbdirectory.com/, http://www.blogcatalog.com/, http://www.blogengage.com/, http://www.pliggdirectory.com/, www.blogflux.com, http://www.top100bloggers.com/, http://www.blogtoplist.com/, for more search for "blog directories" on Google.
- Join in www.feedburner.com and burn your posts as feeds to give access to your readers via RSS feed Readers like, Bloglines, Google Reader.
- Submit your posts as articles to www.ezinearticles.com, www.goarticles.com, www.trumparticles.com
- Join in http://technorati.com and claim your blog, and create technorati tags in your posts by adding an anchor link in your posts.
- Join link exchange programs like http://www.blogexplosion.com/, http://www.blogbanners.com/ and submit your blog to them, browse some websites as they have given. The more credits you earn by surfing the websites, the more traffic for your blog will come.
- Create your own groups within Yahoo, Google and other sites who are offering free groups, and invite your friends or other people to join in your group.
- Join Online Forums & Communities, use your blog url as signature in replies in those communities and forums.
- Visit other people blogs and comment in their posts by putting your blog url. These can be called as backlinks. With these backlinks Google gives page rank to your site.
- Participate in answering programs like Yahoo Answers, when you answer a question, put your blog url at the end of your answer.
- Submit your blog url to major search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN.
- Join Google Webmaster Tools and validate your blog with Google bot, and similarly with Yahoo Bot , MSN bot also.
- Go to www.google.com/webmastertools for Google bot, go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ for Yahoo bot, go to http://webmaster.live.com/ for MSN bot.
- After submitting your blog url to these bots, they will provide two verification methods. One is inserting a meta tag in your blog's head element. Two is uploading an html file to your blog's root directory in server.
- I think inserting a meta tag is very easy method. After inserting the meta tag verify your site as they have given the instructions.