Oh we still can buy text link ads or other advertising campaigns. But is it really suitable with our budgets? So I’ll tell you alternative ways how to get natural flows of your blog’s traffic. What I’ll write below is based on what I’ve done with this blog.

How’d we know that our blog’s traffic increase naturally? We need a stat tracker tool. Just for example that I use ExtremeTracking.com free service.

Believe it or not that the blog you’re reading now is not older than three months (while this article posted). I never did any mass submission thing but Google. But take a look at my blog stats. How much unique visitors I’ve got.

Screen shoot below illustrates this blog’s recent weekly unique hits. See the pattern of increasing unique visits. Is it looked so natural isn’t it? No instant traffics and no black hat SEO.

Note: Image taken at Week 07 on 04:56

How this could be happened? First, always update your post. Provide your readers with fresh contents. It doesn’t have to be daily post. You can do this once every 2 days, 3 days, and weekly. The success key is “Regular update” of your posting. Quality contents are suggested but it doesn’t need to be. You can provide light information and some jokes are fine too. But keep in mind that your post must be unique and informative.

Second, do a blog-walking around famous blogs across the net. You might visit blogs which have similar topics with yours. Read what you think interesting there and write comment to appreciate other bloggers.

Third, promote your blog. Write your own opinions and leave a link to your blog. Please beware of spamming alerts. Don’t leave a link with nonsense text without unique quality opinion. Otherwise you’ll be marked as spammer.

Fourth, join bloggers communities. The most famous giant community that you must join is MyBloglog. I think I’ll write a tricky article about gaining most attention from other bloggers on MyBloglog next time. But I swear this isn’t a promise.

Top of those steps, your blog needs to be indexed by Google. So find a way to get indexed. Or simply by submitting your blog’s url here. Until nowadays, Google is still the giant traffic machine.