1. Start submitting articles to EzineArticles.com with a link to your blog at the resource box. People will come to your blog if they like your articles and trust you.

2. Get a article auto submission service or software that could automatically submit your articles to hundreds of websites.

3. Write articles with related keywords in your title to let people search your articles on the Search Engine

4. Create a link that have your keywords in your resource box to get lots of backlinks for your blog.

5. Write compelling titles that motivates people to click and read. You’ll get more traffic for every article you submit.

6. Learn to improve your writing for your resource box. Instead of just a link to your blog, write something that call people to action. Maybe some free offer or important information you want to use it to attract them.

7. Continue writing articles everyday for months.

8. Write lots of articles. It could be 100 or 200 of them. This will give you passive traffic over time instead of hoping a single articles will get famous and receive lots of traffic.

9. Write articles and contribute to popular blogs that are related to your blog. Don’t forget to link back to your blog!

10. Start creating new ideas and learn new knowledge about Word-Of-Mouth Marketing for your blog.

11. Choose a hot topic for your blog. People love to read something thats hot and new.

12. Choose a topic that is timeless for your blog. Topics that won’t expire allows you to generate continuous traffic.

13. Choose a topic which people are addicted to learn more about it. People love to come back often and share it with others.

14. Choose a topic you love to blog about even you are not paid. You passion will attract like minded visitors and spread fast within the community.

15. Choose a topic which you can be the pioneer. If you are a pioneer in certain area, people will quickly recommend you to others.

16. Choose a topic which you can be the best in. People recommend experts naturally and that makes them feel special for knowing something which is good.

17. Give valuable comments on popular blogs that are related to your blog’s topic.

18. Use Technorati.com to search for related blogs.

19. Use BlogCatalog.com to find blogs too. It is not as up-to-date as Technorati but it is more easier to find blogs.

20. Make friends with the blog owner and comment often on those popular blogs.

21. Don’t forget to make friends with bloggers which are at the similar situation with you. You can share traffic and grow blogs together.

22. Be the first to give comments on popular blogs. Usually the first comment will get more attention and more people will click on the link and come to your site.

23. Search for forums which talks about related topic. Join the conversation and create a link to your blog.

24. Put a link to your blog in your signature and comment often to people’s new topic.

25. Start your own topic which you think will attract lots of people to read. When people read and like you, they’ll go to your blog.

26. Comment often so more people in the forum are familiar with your name. When they get familiar to your name, they are more likely to go to your blog compare to a new comer who just comment couple times.

27. Learn more about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for blogs. Blogs have great advantages when it comes to ranking because Google perceive regular updating websites as websites that often provide up-to-date and fresh information.

28. Build backlinks from other websites by requesting a link exchange. This is not as effective as it used to be anymore. However, it is still better than not exchanging at all.

29. Go to DoFollow Blog list to give comments. This blogs have customized their settings or install a plugin which makes every link at their blog counts as a backlink to Google (Normally, blogs have nofollow settings to comments).

30. Download and activate ‘All-in-one seo’ plugin for your blog. This plugin gives blogs lots of SEO advantages at title tags.

31. Download ‘Sitemap’ plugin and activate it in your blog.

32. Change your blog title into keyword you want to rank for. This is very important and it gives you lots of advantages in SEO.

33. Publish new blog post often. Preferably 1 post per day.

34. Submit your blog to web directories. AddURL.nu has a list of 800++ active web directories. People could come to your site through those directories and it gives you hundreds of one-way backlinks too.

35. Submit your blog to blog directories.

36. Submit your blog’s feed to feed directories.

37. Don’t forget to set your ‘ping’ in your Wordpress blog. Ping allows you to announce to many websites everytime

38. If you don’t have the auto ping setting for your blog software, you can go to AutoPinger.com to ping your blog.

39. Create valuable and informational videos and submit them to YouTube.com

40. Create funny and interesting topic related videos that people want to share with friends.

41. Submit your videos to Google Video as well.

42. Submit your video to xxx that will automatically submit your videos to many video directories.

43. Choose a hot topic for your blog that you can be the first few people who talk about.

44. Choose a topic which you can be the best in. People love to recommend experts and they recommend it naturally.

45. Choose a topic which is timeless. I used to choose topic which have a life cycle and it is struggling to get traffic. People just want to read once and never come back again.

46. Choose an addictive topic. People always come back to your blog and want for more.

47. Prepare some good content before getting anyone come to your blog.

48. Prepare some content people are already paying to get. These contents might be information or knowledge they can only get by buying a book or going to a seminar. People will love your blog and will say “I can’t believe I discover a place I can get this information for free. John might need it.”

49. Prepare some contents that can really help people and make a difference to them.

50. Write the latest news related to your topic. When you do this often, people will perceive your blog as a place they can always get the latest information about what they want to know.

51. Write your personal opinion about the news you post too. People don’t want to read another newspaper or announcement. They want to read some stories and opinion from someone.

52. Write inspiring ideas.

53. Write your own experiences that are related to the topic. People love to read experiences.

54. Tell a story at your blog. They love to read stories.

55. Write list of tips.

56. Write secrets about your topic little people know.

57. Write about solutions to people’s problem.

58. Use your Facebook or MySpace account (or any other social networking site) to get traffic.

59. Write a good looking profile for your account.

60. Add friends often with your account.

61. Join groups which are active in social networking sites.

62. Post bulletins often. Don’t sell or promote anything with it. Provide information to them first.

63. Join StumbleUpon and install the toolbar at your web browser. Give a ‘Thumb up’ to your blog.

64. Give a ‘Thumb up’ to every blog post you have written.

65. Make friends with Stumblers so they will give you a ‘Thumb up’ and get your traffic.

66. Use Digg and other social bookmarking site too.

67. Join Yahoo Groups which are actively talking about the topic you are in. Start a new topic or reply to them often.

68. Join Google Group as well.

69. Go to Yahoo Answers and look for questions and answer them. Type in your blog as the source.

70. Write testimonials for other internet marketers. You’ll get lots of traffic if he/she got lots of affiliates who are sending thousands of their subscribers to the sales page.

71. Write a valuable free report with your blog url there and give your subscribers. Allow your subscribers to share with anyone they want.

72. Create your own ebook and sell it list it at ClickBank.com. People will help you sell your ebook. When thousands of people read your ebook and saw your link in the book, they’re likely going to come to your site.

73. Partner with other website owners which have similar topic (remember not to have the same topic). Share their website on your blog and they share your blog.

74. Build email subscribers on your blog. Offer them free video, audio or report so that they offer their email to you. Send email to them twice per week to inform them a new blog post you’ve written on your blog.

75. Create a big ‘RSS orrange button’ to attract visitors to subscribe to your blog’s RSS. Everytime you write something new, they’ll be inform through their feed reader and come to your blog.

76. Participate in BlogCarnivals. You could write a post and submit or host one on your blog.

77. Go to USFreeAds.com and post an ad there. You can choose the free or paying ones.

78. Go to Craigslist.org and submit ads often.

79. Tell your friends.

80. Use ‘ShareThis’ plugin on your blog. It makes the sharing process easy for people to share your blog with friends through email, social bookmarking or social networking.

81. Use blog designs that makes people feel good and comfortable to visit. This is very important for visitors to decide are they going to read your blog, come back again and share with others.

82. Don’t put too many banner and flashy ads on your blog. Do you like to read magazines when they have 50% of their pages are with ads? Flashy and distracting ads will make some readers angry and they might not want to come back or recommend anyone else.

83. Don’t pitch people to buy your products with your blog.

84. Print a sticker with your blog address and stick it behind your car. This is a brilliant idea because there’re probably more than 20 cars stopping behind your car. When they are waiting for the traffic light to turn green, they have nothing to do but to look at the car in front. It could be as long as a minute.

85. You can stick at both sides of your car too. It might look ugly.

86. Print your own t-shirt with your blog url behind or in front of it.

87. Have your blog address in your business cards. Make sure it is obvious and big. You can put your free offer behind the business card with the exact url to get it too.

88. Use Traffic Exchange programs such as StartXchange.com, TrafficSwarm.com, TrafficG.com and others. This are websites which allow internet marketers to promote websites to each other. I used to get sales and hundreds of subscriber from these programs.

89. Buy advertising space from related topic Ezines.

90. Write a free report people want to read. Request them to enter 5 friends’ email to get that report. Email their friends with autoresponder with an introduction.

91. Register Google Adwords and use their pay-per-click campaign to advertise.

92. Buy text link ads at Text-Link-Ads.com

93. Buy banner ads from other bloggers. When you go to popular blogs, you’ll realize that their blog have an advertise option. Check out their price and choose the option that fits you.

94. Buy leads from lead providers who have high reputation.

95. If you know some seminar trainers or speakers, make sure you build relationship with them and share your blog.

96. If you are doing your own seminar, use it to promote your blog too.

97. If you are maintaining your own business and have a list of prospect, share your blog with them too. When they get value from your blog, they are more likely to buy from you.

98. If you have a list of existing customers, share with them too. When they get value and trust you, they are more likely to buy more from you and remain as a loyal customer.

99. If you are going appear on TV programs, use that opportunity well to share your blog.

100. Same situation when you are going to appear on radio.

101. Put an ad on newspaper if you have the budget to do so.

102. If you have a bigger budget for your blog traffic, use TV advertisement instead.

103. Don’t waste time and money on safelists. They are probably safe but little traffic.



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