12 strategies to pull traffic to your blog

12 STRATEGIES TO PULL TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG
For most blog owners, the problem is not building the blog, but the problem is get people to visit the blog regularly and so they go everywhere looking for how to get more people to visit their blogs i.e more traffic. In order to give you blog owners an answer to your questions, I have piled up 12 strategies to pull traffic to your blog.
1.    Try to submit your blog to as many search engines as possible. This helps you to increase your blog publicity and it in turn, earns you a higher page ranking.
2.    Write articles of high quality: when you write the great articles, you submit them to sites like articlebase.com, buggle.com, ezinearticles.com, goarticle.com, articledashboard.com and articlecity.com. This helps you create inbound links which leads to extra traffic.
3.    Comment on blogs that have relative contents to yours as much as you can: when you comment on blogs with relative contents to yours, you make sure you always put a link to your blog at the end of your comment. It helps you create backlinks. When people read an article on a particular blog that you commented on, they might click on your link to see what you have to offer and this brings you some extra traffic.
4.    Yahoo answers: this is one of the best ways to build backlinks. Search for your niche on yahoo answers and answer as many questions as possible. This will enable put your link in the source and this helps in gaining backlinks. There are a lot of blog owners who use this method to pull some extra traffic.
5.    Send your articles to top notch bloggers: if you have good articles you can send them by e-mail to top notch bloggers. If they like your article, they might decide to give you a backlink. This will also increase your traffic.
6.    Add bookmark links: when you post articles on your blog always add social bookmark links at the end of your posts. This will make people re-visit your blog.
7.    RSS feeds: you should make it easier for your blog readers to locate your RSS feed. This will enable them get notifications whenever there are new posts on your blog.
8.    You can also comment in forums and leave backlinks to your blog.
9.    Join directories: joining directories like yahoo directory, blogged.com, greenstalk.com, familyfriendlysites.com and dmoz.org, will help you get more traffic.
10.              Signup for blog communities: signup for blog communities will also get you some extra traffic. You can signup for blog communities like myblog.com, technorati.com, blogcatalog.com e.t.c
11.              Always write wanted articles: always write articles that people are looking for. When you write articles related to the information people are looking for, then you get more people to read your article which means more traffic. You can find out the most search keyword on search engines like Google which in turn brings lots of traffic. You can search keywords using Google hot trends or Google insights.
12.              Link to other blogs: when you link to other blogs in your articles, the blog owners might appreciate the traffic you have sent them and decide to pay back by linking to your blog in their articles.