Blogging is a way to make both the blogger and the reader a very owing relation. When you start a blog, you would be wondering on how to get your blog recognized in your niche. Based on your niche and category, other bloggers are too interested in your blog. But this ain't enough, you need to get organic traffic from search engines. Driving traffic to your blog is greatest challenge a blogger faces. There are several ways to drive traffic to your blog, but most of them are all known ways. What if there are other ways, where even professional bloggers wouldn't know? This post here will provide you the upperground ways to drive traffic to your blog.

1.Underground Blogging clubs:

Joining a secret blogging club could catch some importance of your blog, and get well recognised. Very few people are using this, so there is a great opportunity to drive traffic through these clubs.

These clubs consists of group of professional bloggers with only aim:to help bloggers on driving traffic to their blog. The idea is simple, you join a club and send a link to this group id, and ask other people to forward. This generates wider spread of your link and you get traffic to your site.

An example of a blogging club is the DailyBlogTipsRetweetClub by Daniel Scocco.

2.Blog networking sites:

Since most of the people are spending there time on social networking sites, so are several bloggers who spend their valuable time on various other blog social networks like Blogengage or Blogkube. Spend some time in promoting your blog post onto these sites, to drive decent amount of traffic to your blog.

The best strategy to use here is to go viral with your post, ask some of your friends to vote your post on these blog social networking sites. Get atleast 20votes and your blog post goes viral and you have the ability to get more traffic to your blog.

3.Ning Communities and Content syndication:

Getting traffic through Ning communities is fun way to get traffic. Very few bloggers use these methods. A method used by Kim Roach is very effective in driving traffic to your blog. Like blogging, a lot of people have a version of themselves or their business on Ning.com. You can create a portal in the form of yourusername.ning.com, which can also be a great way to get traffic to your blog.

I've seen that not many bloggers use this method to drive traffic to their blog, but it can be highly effective to syndicate your blog content to online niche portals. Many people visit these portals and syndicating with them will help you to drive traffic in long term.
Some of the best syndication sites are Alltop and TheDailyBrainStorm.

4.Online groups and Authority sites:

Several online niche groups are present which would help a blogger to drive a great amount of traffic onto their blog. Two most popular online groups are YahooGroups and LinkedInGroups. Most people search for answer in forum or groups, utilize this as a way to attract people to your blog.

Writing your content or news on wikipedia page could send a good amount of traffic for long term. For example, you can read and review some of the top books in your niche on Amazon while including a link back to your blog. Or interview the top bloggers in your niche, then include your link as a resource in their Wikipedia page.

5.Webrings:

This is very cool method where not many bloggers would have known about this. A Webring is a collection of websites that are linked to each other. A major advantage of using a Webring is that it also helps you get high quality links which means both short term direct traffic and long term search engine traffic for you. Probably the most popular Webring is Webring.com.


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