How to increase traffic and comments on your blog?

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Everybody’s asking for it – time and again. It’s one of the most frequently asked questions at forums, conferences and blogs. I researched on the topic and found that most of the times it’s the same things that are repeated.

• Create compelling content
• Announce competitions
• Participate in carnivals
• Link to others
• Target a niche
• Blah blah blah..

I decided to bookmark all those top posts on “how to increase traffic and comments on your wordpress blog”, so that I can refer to one each time.

- 10 techniques to get more comments on your blog – Problogger

- How to get more comments – Blog Herald

- How to get more comments on your blog – DP forums

- Is it hard to get comments? – Blog Catalogue

- How to get more comments? Instigator blog

- 10 tips to attract more comments – Performancing

- How to get more comments? Webhosting UK forums

- How to get traffic to your blog – Seth Godin

- How to build traffic to your blog – Webpronews

- 10 remarkably effective ways to get traffic – SEOMoz

- Increase traffic to your blog from search engines – SEguide

Although there were lot of junk out there – these are the best posts on the topic. All of these posts speak from the webmasters experience and are not those “yet another post” kind of thing.Hope you enjoy all of them.

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