Many people have asked me how they can get more traffic to their blogs. Obviously some will bring more than others, but the key is to get many different traffic streams going and leverage them all.

So below I’ve listed the different ways that I get traffic to this blog:

Direct hits – These come from sending emails to my different lists

Forum Traffic – I’m a member of quite a few forums, so a good amount of traffic comes from those.

Search Engine Rankings – This is traffic I get from being ranked in different places for keywords.  This is always cool traffic to see because it’s very targeted.

Articles - I have various articles on many of the different article directories and that brings in some decent traffic each month

Rss Feeds – Each post I put up is pinged and I submit the rss feed to the different rss aggregators. This doesn’t bring much, but it does bring some

Videos – Again, I put up a few video’s pointing back to this blog and that brings in some traffic as well.

Blog Comments – I regularly leave blog comments on other people’s blogs and that brings in some decent targeted traffic

Twitter – This is a easy way to get traffic to anywhere you want it if you have a big enough following.

Paid Advertisements – I use different things like banner adds and services like List Auction that sends some decent traffic here as well.

Put them all together and they equal some decent traffic.  It’s all about getting it in different ways and having your eggs in more than one basket. The more you do each one of these, the more traffic you get. The key is to not expect to see crazy results in the first few weeks. These things build over time, just like your business will