How to get free traffic to your blog Part 2

Hi all!
This is the second part of our getting free traffic to your blog. Here are more ways to get free traffic to your blog.

6. Using Social Networks

Social networking is a very powerful way to free traffic to your blog. You should grow your friends circle in social networks. You should make a seperate fan page for your blog/site on Facebook and regularly update it with the latest news on your blog and in the niche you have made your blog on. Facebook, Twitter, Google+ are some examples of most popular social networking platforms. Make an account there if you don’t have, synchronize your website with them. Follow people and like most popular pages. Keep updating there and definitely you will get good amount of traffic from there. These are very powerful tools if used correctly and wisely.

7. Choose a memorable Domain name

Choose a memorable domain name. If you're launching a new site, choose a name people will remember easily. Ask Yourself "Will people remember my domain name?"Try to choose a name which won't be confused with similar names. You don't want people typing your competitor's domain name when they’re trying to find your site. NameBoy.com has a handy tool to help you choose domain names. Also, you can find a surprising number of good deleted (expired) domain names at Whois.net

8. Buy the wrong domain name too

If you think people may confuse your domain name with a similar name, try to buy that name, too.Here is an example sometimes when newsletters mentioned AssociatePrograms.com they put the "s" in the wrong place and called it "AssociatesProgram.com". So when that wrongdomain name became available, buy it. Now, if you muddle up the name and type "AssociatesProgram.com" you're automatically redirected to “AssociatePrograms.com”. A good domain name registrar will make it very easy for you to redirect one domain name to another. 000Domains.com is one that does.

9. Make your domain name easy to read - especially if it's a .NET

Which of the following is easier to read and understand? www.facebook.com or www.FaceBook.com. See how using a capital letter at the start of each word makes the second domain name easier to read - and easier to remember. Whenever you mention your domain name anywhere, ALWAYS present it in its most readable form. A good place to start doing this is in your email signature file. If you're unfortunate enough to have bought the ".net" version of a domain name because someone raced you to the ".com", help people to remember your site by writing it like this...

Example.NET

Being MEMORABLE helps you get more repeat visitors.

10. Use appropriate keywords in your image file names.

You can get hundreds of visits a month from people who are searching for images. I'm not sure how valuable those visitors are, but I didn't have to do anything very special to get them. Google Images - http://images.google.com - makes it easy for people to search for graphics online. To take advantage of this, when choosing the file name of an image on your site, use an appropriate key phrase, for example, "book-ends.jpg" if you're promoting book ends. When you search in Google Images for "book ends" I discovered that the very first search result was for a page which did NOT contain a graphic of book ends! Instead, the page contained a "book ends" LINK to a book ends graphic on a second page. It if suits the design of your site, you may want to experiment with this technique. I'm not sure how much use traffic to images is, but if it's ADDITIONAL traffic you can get simply by choosing image file names carefully, it's worth having.

11. Rename downloaded Images

If you have downloaded some images from internet and you plan to use them on your blog then you should rename them to any other key phrase so that your image could be indexed in Google. Google would not easily index an image that is already in its records and with the same name. If you publish a photo on your blog without renaming it or editing it then you would not be successful in driving traffic to your website from image searches. It is very important because there is a very big number of image searches in Google because of new bloggers.
Good Luck with your blog.