I grabbed 183 traffic generation tips from pros who’ve been good enough to shared their secrets. The following list represents many of the best of these tips, and I’ve included profiles and links to the aforementioned pros who’ve shared their lists online. Of course, some of their lists contained duplicates, so I took those out along with suggestions I thought were not-so-hot.

The list is not in any particular order. You’ll note that a number of the suggestions are SEO tips and so they will generate traffic indirectly through better rankings in search results.

Over the next couple of months I will organize these tips, and start discussing them on the podcast in much more detail. Until then, enjoy this list and if you have any questions hit my up on twitter @adamsaverian

Here’s the world’s largest list of traffic generation tips

In no particular order

• First, build your blog on a solid CMS: WordPress, Joomla, Blogger
• Host your blog on your own doman
• Build a brand
• Build an email list
• Write a regular newsletter
• Submit your blog to these directories http://j.mp/szcuB1
• Blog as a team. Create or participate in a carnival or blog tribe. Link, share and comment on each others posts. (From Word Carnivals)
• Be among the first to write something insightful about a news worthy topic
• Post to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, etc.
• Provide real value in your content
• Make your content controversial (sometimes)
• Give your best content away for free
• Optimize your blog for better search engine rankings
• Use Tags on your posts
• Install a translator plugin
• Use smart internal linking
• Target long-tail keywords with lower competition in search engines
• Write and give away an eBook
• Comment on other blogs

Some of these tips were originally shared by Darren Rowse of Pro Blogger. He’s considered to be one of the worlds leading experts on blogging so I think he knows a thing, or two, about traffic. I’ve been following Darren for years. I don’t remember when I started reading his blog, but it was a long time ago. His traffic generation tips are located here. He’s on twitter at @problogger.

• Add social media sharing buttons to your blog
• Ping search engines and aggregators like Technorati
• Update your website design, and get yourself listed in a design article/blog post.
• Limit advertising, initially, so that you don’t drive people away
• Sign up at BlogEngage.com to connect with other bloggers and get your articles listed
• Buy advertising
• Run a pay-per-click campaign
• Swap ads with another blogger or website
• Create and give away a video course
• Submit your content to stumble upon, digg, dilicous, pinterest, etc.
• Make a round up of all of your archives in a particular category
• Create a better user experience on your blog
• Use h1, h2, h3 tags in your posts
• Jump on the chance to be interviewed in writing, audio, or video
• Interview other bloggers in writing, audio, or video
• Introduce yourself to other bloggers
• Combine all of your RSS feeds using RSSMix.com, or a similar tool, and submit it to an RSS aggregator
• Host webinars with other bloggers
• Release content at about the same time every day/week
• Utilize video and images in your blog posts
• Invite guest bloggers
• Submit your site to CoolSiteOfTheDay.com
• Provide search engines with an up-to-date sitemap
• Make youtube videos
• Contribute to Wikipedia
• Create a hub for your blog at hubpages.com
• Start a podcast

Next up, is Tom Ewer of the Leaving Work Behind blog. He recently published an article at WPMU.org titled 50 Tips To Increase Traffic To Your Blog. He writes about his own online businesses and is really transparent about his tactics. He even provides income reports on his site. Follow him on twitter @tomewer.

• Bold, highlight or italicize some of your keywords
• Write snappy, short, keyword rich titles
• Answer timely relevant questions (keep your finger on the pulse of your niche)
• Use Alt Tags for images
• Turn your blog posts into PDF docs and share them Scribd, Docstore, and similar sites.
• Write list posts
• Find and write about
  unique

  news in your niche (don’t post what everyone else is posting)

• Get into guest blogging
• Use animoto to create a killer animated slideshow and push it everywhere
• Join a forum
• Attend conferences for networking opportunities
• Handout business cards
• Use Odiogo to turn your blog into a podcast automatically
• Put out a press release
• Put your URL on everything
• Make stickers, bumper stickers, etc., post them, and give them away
• Speak at relevant events
• Focusing on building your Community
• Answer questions on YahooAnswers, Quora, etc. (Ad a link to your profile, or mention your site in your answer.)
• Use Feedburner
• Add your URL to your email signature
• Advertise on eBayClassified
• Always link to your blog in your online profiles
• Use friendly URLs

Rand Fish is the CEO and co-founder of SEOmoz one of the most helpful SEO resources in the known universe. SEOmoz provides a community for search engine optimization professionals and do-it-yourselfers along with an acclaimed toolset for SEO and social media monitoring. If you’re looking for an authority in SEO then look no further. Rand is also known for his great weekly SEO sessions known as Whiteboard Friday. Read his post on traffic generation here, and follow him on twitter @randfish.

• Join the comluv.com network
• Design and sell products on CafePress, Zazzle, and any number of other similar companies
• Write an ad for your blog on Craigslist.com
• Comment on related videos on YouTube
• Take advantage of bumps in traffic by pushing out content fast
• Let your analytics data tell you what’s working and duplicate those efforts
• Create Squidoo Lenses
• Create free pages at About.me, LookUpPage.com, and similar sites
• Follow people on twitter
• Create a page on 43things.com about your blog and your goals
• Submit your site to BlogCatalog.com
• Join your local chamber of commerce
• Start a meetup
• Launch a conference
• Use your blog’s name as a username
• Buy an ad in your local news paper
• Host a blog contest
• Engage on facebook pages and mention facebook pages in your own updates
• Create a Google+ brand page
• Submit articles to EzineArticles
• Do keyword research
• Utilize bread crumbs and related articles
• Come up with a great April Fool’s prank for shot at going viral
• Write about other blogs
• Link to other bloggers, if you want them to link to you
• Comment on another (related) blog
• Be yourself, use your own unique voice

Corbett Barr is the fonder of Think Traffic home of Traffic School and a brilliant resource for anyone serious about improving their blog, or website, traffic. Barr has excellent content you’re crazy for not subscribing to. Follow him on twitter @CorbettBarr and @thinktraffic.

Well, I hope you found some useful tips that will help you increase traffic to your blog (or website). I definitely ran across some suggestions that were new to me. Don’t forget that over the next few months I will be looking at these tips in more detail on my podcast. I will discuss how to implement them, and some helpful resources and tools to use. So be sure to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes, or anywhere else using the RSS feed

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