Blog Traffic Creation 2013

Blog Traffic Methods in 2013

Getting traffic to a website or blog is hard enough since all the Google Panda and Penguin updates, it's time to understand blog traffic methods that work in 2013.  I won't waste any time here and will get right to it.
 
The first way you can easily generate some visitors to your blog is to go into the Answers and Questions websites.  There are real people there with real problems, just provide them some quality answers.  And be sure to include only quality links to your blog, here is a list of some of the answer websites.
Quora
Mind the Book
Amazon’s Askville
Yahoo! Answers
Stack Overflow
LinkedIn Answers
Answers.com
YourAnswers.com
Opinionaided
Crowdbeacon
ChaCha
Honestlynow:
Ask.com
Blurt it
Anybody Out There
WikiAnswers
FunAdvice
Answer Bank
AskDeb
Able2Know
Mahalo Answers
Answer.ly

The second way is to submit only to the top quality article directories.  These sites have real readers and again, they have real people checking the articles and making sure it is up to par.  Here is a list of some of the top article directory sites.
Ezinearticles.com
Examiner.com
Articlesbase.com
Goarticles.com
Selfgrowth.com
Sooperarticles.com
Amazines.com
Articlesnatch.com
Articlealley.com
Articletrader.com
Articlesphere.com
Articleclick.com
Galoor.com

The next way is another sure fire method, get into the forums and build some equity so to speak.  Start replying to posts and then start leaving your signature link.  You can't just show up to a party and promote who you are, you have to engage a little and then you can toot your horn so to speak.  Finding forums are easy just use your favorite search engine and type in, "keyword fourm" .  You fill in the keyword with your subject.  I can't really build a list for you on that, but it just use that simple search operator and you'll be good to go.

Another quick way to get some presence felt are with videos.  Youtube as well as Vimeo and other video sharing sites are springing up in all niches and now it's your turn to upload your videos.  This can really help you in getting traffic to your blog creation as well as building trust with your audience.
Youtube.com
Vimeo.com
DailyMotion.com
Break.com
Metacafe.com
Revver.com
Viddler.com

Some people aren't speaking to much about it probably because they are quietly building their mobile sites.  But having a mobile website and/or app depending on your business subject, can get quality traffic from having these in place.

For multi-channel bloggers, meaning that you promote and run online stores and affiliate review stores. Getting your products into Google Shopping, Bing Shopping, theFind, Pricegrabber and various other shopping sites can help you get some traffic to your blog.  Remember if your homepage is a store, be sure to have a blog logo or text link above the fold where you visitors can click on your blog.

Another good way to get traffic to your blog site is by involving yourself in the web 2.0 sites.  You can of course promote your products and services and articles, but remember to see who views you and if your content is getting read is to leave links in both the content as well as your user profile.

The forums and answers and videos really seem to be where you see and read people and their sites.  As well as with video, it really does build that trust.  There are ways people are simply uploading pictures and clips like that to youtube and that's fine if you're shy.  Just be sure that videos help people out in some way because they will be going back to you blog site.