21 Tactics to Increase Blog Traffic

It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic.

#1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share.

#2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers.

#3 - Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly.

#4 - Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections.

#5 - Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results.

#6 - Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing).

#7 - Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts.

#8 - Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others.

#9 - Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon.

#10 - Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others).

#12 - Interact on Other Blogs' Comments.

#13 - Participate in Q+A Sites.

#14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!).

#15 - Attend and Host Events.

#16 - Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog.

#17 - Survey Your Readers.

#18 - Add Value to a Popular Conversation.

#19 - Aggregate the Best of Your Niche.

#20 - Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog.

#21 - Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers.