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Originally Posted by Cleo
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1. Effective non-spam pinging is the most effective way to generate organic traffic - Use the Ultimate Updates Smart Pinger plugin and follow their directions. Once the blog is picked up, posts will be picked up by the SE's rather quickly
1a. Blogs are about content and the ping crawls like originality and highly searched keywords.
2. Point a couple of links from other sites in its direction that are relevant.
3. Link Exchanges
4. Top Lists (very underrated for blogs)
Those are the four that I use. Other options are..
5. Scripted traffic exchanges through plugs with other sites (I use this on one site but it is time consuming)
6. Scripted skim trades if you are into that - I suspect you are not. I do not use them on any blog.
7. Directories: Be careful. It depends on the niche, the site structure of the directory, and the deal. Most want an index page link on a blog (which is a labor intensive site) and three weeks later you end up on the eighth page of a category that has no backlink value (a very inequitable exchange) - but you are giving away an index page link that draws down your own PR. There are some, very few, that are worthwhile depending on your niche, unless, of course someone is treating their blog as throwaway traditional free site (which simply discards the value of having a blog format - might as well build a free site)
8. Buying Links - I stay away from things that can get one banned at SE's no matter how difficult it may be to detect. People, in this case sellers of links, get greedy and do things to get discovered. If I know the person well (and I have done it a couple of times) and their methods, I might make an exception.
9. Social Bookmark Sites: This is not a core strategy, but, should you have extra time, bookmark some posts at the SB sites that accept adult. You get a backlink and a tiny amount of SE juice.
10. All of the methods used to get traffic to other core, destination sites: linking from galleries, landing pages, building deep directory free site/galleries that build backlinks that ultimately give some juice to the root domain/sub-domain index page, etc.
Best wishes with the blog..