Bringing users to your blog

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Since it is a one month after I’ve started blogging regularly here on my little piece of the Internet it is time to focus more on getting me some solid user base.

Well it sounds like a plan but is it… doable? Just watch me.

Why getting users is such important? Meaning, why you should put an effort to invite them to your site? In my opinion to be a successful blogger you need not only provide a content that matters but also promote yourself. It is just like creating anything actually: if no one knows about it then where is the point. This is of course said under assumption that you don’t do it just for your private benefit. But if you take your stuff public, part of the whole process is promoting your work thus for a blog it is crucial to make your site visible for other users. How to do it? Read on…

Without any hesitation here is my list of resources on how you can drive users to your blog.

Let’s start with some basics:

• Problogger gives you advice on How To Drive traffic to Your Blog
• About.com has a great article for more business oriented blogs 31 Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Business Web Site
• Copyblogger gives you an ultimate guide How to Attract and Increase Web Traffic
• Over at SEOmoz.org you can read about 10 Remarkably Effective Strategies for Driving Traffic
• Social Media Trader does a little analysis of What Type of Content Is Most Popular On Digg, Reddit, Propeller, Del.icio.us and StumbleUpon?

And with that last article we move into more detailed information:

• Jeffrey Harmon talks about 10 smart ways to get dugg on Digg
• SEO Egghead shows you DiggBait 101: 8 Ways to Help You Get to Digg’s Front Page
• On 365questions.org there is a great article How to get Dugg - a lesson in Diggology?
• Graywolf talks about what content gets digged in How Do I Get My Website into Digg
• And on Performancing there is an answer to my biggest question Why You’re Not Getting on the Digg Homepage

Now my personal favorite - StumbleUpon:

• Starting with big players, Dosh Dosh writes about A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website
• Blog Anything About gives a good list 10 ways how to get traffic from StumbleUpon
• Search engine land goes for tactic and presents 5 Tactics For Driving Traffic From StumbleUpon
• SEOptimise tries to get you even more visitors How to increase StumbleUpon traffic?
• Over at Successful Blog there is a fantastic article that really got me thinking The Secret to Massive Digg/StumbleUpon Traffic Without Spamming

So now it is time to take all these articles, work on the proposed ideas, put them into action and wait for the results. I will be keeping you up to date on how am I doing and how am I progressing with promoting my own content. After that we will all see what really worked and what techniques are really useful. So stay tuned. Interesting things are coming up.

And what about you, dear reader? Any ideas you are willing to share about bringing traffic to your site?