Since traffic is the single most driving force of your blog… what beginners really need to do to get more people visiting their blogs??

1.      Blog carnivals –

What is a blog carnival?
That’s a great question, for many people don’t know the answer! To tell you the truth, I’ve known about blog carnivals for a couple of months. I definitely don’t consider myself an expert in this field, but blogging is a learning process, and I intend to do a lot of learning and helping others learn too.

Anyway, to answer the question, a blog carnival is not an actual carnival with lions, elephants, acrobats, and clowns. It is actually a type of blogging event. Blog carnivals are published on a regular basis, and a lot of the time each edition is hosted on a different blog (but not always). The publishing can be weekly, monthly, the first Saturday each month, or just anytime the creator wants to.

Why should I enter a blog carnival?

When you submit one of your posts/articles to a carnival, it will most likely be featured in the carnival’s next edition. This way you will not only get a link, but a lot of exposure and people seeing your article! This can help your page rank, Technorati rank, traffic reach, and more. There are so many advantages, and a lot of people are already in on this secret. You should be, too!

How do I enter a blog carnival?

Just go to BlogCarnival.Com and sign up. Once you’re registered you can browse through all the carnivals and find one that looks right for you. There is a carnival topic out there for everyone, so when you enter, be sure the article you’re submitting is relevant to the carnival.

Go ahead and enter as many relevant carnivals you can to get a lot more links, exposure, and people reading your blog! After that, if you’d like to take a spin with being in charge for once, host your own carnival. It’ll be fun.

2. Comment Marketing

Yes, it’s common advice, but leaving comments on other blogs works.

When I first began blogging I had a little routine each night. Before going to bed when I was too tired to write anything lengthy, I’d leave at least ten comments on a handful of related blogs. It’s worth forming a routine like this because consistency matters!

3. Forum Marketing

Just like commenting, a few value-adding contributions to relevant forums with links back to your blog in your signature file will bring visitors to your blog. Again, the more time and energy you invest in establishing a credible profile in a forum, the more traffic you will send to your blog. Some popular forums are- www.bloggertalk.net, www.bloggertalk.com, www.bloggerforum.com...

4. Trackback Marketing

This technique isn’t nearly as good as it once was, but it still brings in a little traffic. Send trackbacks to articles on other blogs whenever feasible in your own blog writing.

All you have to do is to mention an interesting article in some other blogger’s page, in your blog and provide a link to it.

Trackbacks are placed in the comment area following a blog article and if you can be one of the first to trackback a hot post on a popular blog, some of the traffic will trickle to your blog as people look for more discussion of the hot topic.

You also get the attention of the blog author when you send trackbacks.

These are few low traffic techniques that I used to generate initial traffic on my blog. They are important for any beginner but to get those thousands of hits everyday… u need to apply some more techniques, which I’ll b discussing tomorrow...