If you are a blogger and you want to be successful, writing great material, unfortunately, will not get you to your goal.  You need traffic to your site.  Without traffic, no one will read what you write and this is a challenge to many bloggers out there.  How does one generate traffic for his or her site? 

There are various online services and sources you can use as well as tips to generate the traffic you need to get recognized. 

 

The services and sources that you can use are on the websites Digg and Stumbleupon.  Digg.  They allow you to get your material on the web and generate popularity that way and then you can bring fellow bloggers over to your own site.  Digg works in the following manner:  First you upload an article, a story, a commentary, whatever you like.  Digg will put your entry onto its upcoming stories page where fellow visitors will check out your upload. 

If visitors like your submission then they can Digg it.  By doing this, you will gain popularity.  If you reach the number of popularity hits then Digg will put your submission on its respective homepage and if it continues to be successful there it will further be placed on the top ten list.  Digg also has a forum for you to add and meet friends who are interested in the same topics and you can discuss what Digg items you find.  This way you will build a network that you can direct to your own site.  You can also advertise your site on Digg. 

 

The other service is Stumbleupon.  Stumbleupon helps bloggers in the same way as Digg.  Based upon good and bad commentaries, while you are trying to “stumble” upon a website, the stumble search that comes up is generated from stumble friends and other members who have the same preferences and tastes as you do.  Therefore, if Stumbleupon members enjoy your website that you submitted onto the site, you will have good ratings.  The more ratings you have, the higher up on the Stumbleupon search engine you will be on.  Between Digg and Stumbleupon, these are the two top ranked services that will help you launch your website.    

 

However, even though you use services sometimes they are not enough.  It is one thing to have people to come to your web site, but it is another thing to keep them coming.  You want to generate buzz about your website so you are going to have to make your blogging skills top notch.  The following are a list of blogging tips to generate traffic to your site.

 

The first piece of advice is to follow your blog and the commentaries that are left.  If people are responding to your website, to your pictures, to your opinions, etc. you need to respond back.  With these responses you will create more buzz plus you will be telling your readers that you care what they think.  It also creates a conversation flow.  If you start to run out of ideas, hop onto your respondents’ websites and regenerate conversation on your blog.

 

Then you can research other blog websites that are similar to yours.  Start conversations on other websites with a similar premise and leave a link to your website.  You know that the people leaving commentaries there are interested in the same subject as you, so it should not be hard to win them over.  Once again you will have to write something catchy on someone else’s blog to make others want to follow your link.

 

Try to offer something that visitors need.  If you have quality writing you will keep your readers engaged.  If your blog is pure opinions regarding nothing, there is not much there to keep the attention of your readers.  If you write how to articles, news articles, movie reviews anything that is new and fresh that offers your reader more than you not liking a celebrity because of how that celebrity acts.  You have to have substance or else your blog will not survive.

 

If you are fascinated by rocket science, physics even mechanics, the general population does not understand that language per se.  It does not mean that your potential audience is unintelligent, it just means that they are not adept to it because what is the point of reading something that one does not understand.  Therefore, make your passion readable to all viewers.  Use ordinary terminology to explain complex ideas or issues.  Write directions, a bibliography or have a special vocabulary section to help your readers.

 

While writing make your blog special.  If you right plain, in between material that does not make a statement no one wants to read it.  Think of it this way.  When you read a headline that makes you sick because of the content it is suggesting such as racism, doesn’t it make you want to read it that much more?  It is not because you are in favor of the article, it is because you cannot believe that someone would say something so horrible.  It is provocative.  If you do not make a statement, if you are not provocative, you will not generate traffic. 

 

Jazz up your website.  By revamping your website you will please the senses of your regular readers as well as possibly attracting new ones.  You can submit your newly designed website to a CSS gallery which will have a back link to your website.  This will create more traffic to your site.  You can also add a translator to your page.  By adding this feature, you can attract non native English speakers.  The translation may not be professional, especially if it is a free translator, but it will at least get your message across and generate traffic from abroad.

 

If you need more help generating traffic to your site, now you know exactly what to do.  The Digg and Stumbleupon services will provide you with the starting point that you need while the tips in this article will capture the rest of your audience and catapult you into the spotlight.