Increasing traffic to your blog doesn’t have to be complicated and expensive. There are a few things that you can do right away to your blog that will generate significant traffic. Here is a great article by Jack Humphrey with his 21 tips to increase blog traffic.

By Jack Humphrey

If you are stuck and don’t know what to do next to increase your blog traffic, this list of hand-picked resources is going to come at the perfect time for you! If you are on track and growing your blog traffic, there’s still going to be some things below you haven’t read or done.

I’ve left out some tips. There are many more. Please feel free to share your favorites with fellow FTR readers below!

1. Commenting: The importance of commenting and engaging on other blogs in your niche cannot be overstated.

Tactics and Resources:

• Blog Commenting for Traffic
• Link Building with CommentLuv
• When Do You Comment?

2. MyBlogLog: Join MyBlogLog and then join communities.

Tactics and Resources:

• 10 Important Blogger Hangouts
• MyBlogLog

3. Blog Catalog: Join Blog Catalog and participate in threads.

Tactics and Resources:

• 10 Important Blogger Hangouts
• BlogCatalog

4. SEO for Bloggers: This is for search engine optimization. Your main keyword should be early in your title and then repeated somewhere within your first paragraph. First sentence preferred. Shorter titles generally are better than long ones.

Tactics and Resources:

• How To Increase Blog Traffic and Improve Search Engine Exposure
• SEO for Wordpress
• SEO for Wordpress (2)

read more at jackhumphrey.com