In this post I mention some tips to increase blog traffic using free methods. As everybody knows that blogging is becoming a rage nowadays. 

Did you ever wonder how top blog sites bring in traffic?

some of the highest traffic blogs in blogosphere get thousands of visitors and page views daily. To get an idea see this post - high traffic blog sites

How do they get such traffic to their blogs?

 While it certainly might take long time and effort to reach their position (and every blogger may not attain such success), but it is possible to build atleast a decent amount of traffic and community for most of us.

One of the best free methods to increase traffic to a blog and build a high traffic blog is using social bookmarking sites. They are common and everywhere now. If you are a blogger, you most probably are familiar with the top social bookmarking sites. I will not go into depth into what they are. However I will provide a link which has a list of quality social bookmarkting sites and services (over 40 selected social bookmarking sites mentioned here). Here is the link:

How to increase traffic to your blog 

The above webpage also can provide us inspiration as it shows how a common blogger like us has succeeded in getting 1 million visitors to the blog. We too can do it if we try.  Try to aim for the moon, if you don't reach it, atleast you will reach somplace which is high enough.

Want to another example of  a common guy breaking into internet scene and getting good results in terms of traffic within few short weeks? See this - 3 Week Old Blog Gets Massive Back-links and Good Traffic

 By no means are this guy's statistics huge, but they show that you can acheive satisfactory results in short time if you work hard to build traffic to  your blog.

 More Methods to Get Free Blog Traffic

There are other free methods of traffic. I use article marketing as an excellent method of getting more blog traffic. Article marketing can really work, if you do it a lot. Read my helpful article on article marketing - Article Marketing Secrets

Finally, last bit of inspiration from my part. There are people who seem to be earning excellent money online, like this guy does promoting affiliate products - Lazy Super Affiliate Marketer Reveals His Secrets

If he can do it, we can give it a shot. what say? 

I will hopefully continue in future posts about more methods of free or cheap traffic generation that can bring in high quality targeted web traffic. Keep in touch.