Using Yahoo Answers to generate traffic

Another great way to generate a traffic surge is to use this free service from Yahoo. This involves people asking questions about various fields and then experts in those fields answering them. Fairly simple isn't it? But it presents a unique opportunity to get free traffic to your website/blog.

The process is very straight-forward. You need to have a yahoo account and then you choose a category of your choice where you think you are an expert or at least for which you can answer questions from newbies or other people looking for answers. There are many categories to choose from and you will definitely find a category that suits you.

After this you should wait to get questions from the other users of the service and prepare to give solutions to their problems. While answering give logical answers to the queries and try and satisfy the person. The thing you need to do here is to add a link to your website/blog in this answer and lo behold you have a free link to your site from Yahoo Answers. Now the trick here is to be the early bird and answer a question before other experts answer it. This gives you more exposure and increases your reputation.

If your answer is fairly good other readers will be inclined to click on your link to know more about you and your work. This will further give a booster dose of free incoming traffic.

So go ahead and start answering questions - you never know that helping somebody might actually give you some real Karma points...You might earn something also.

Using Blogrush to Turbocharge your blog traffic

All of us bloggers are always running after ideas and new tips to get more traffic to our blogs. This traffic is the prime reason why we bust our backs day in and day out writing new posts everyday so that someone somewhere reads it and appreciates it. The more people read it and appreciate it we all get a kick out of it (at least I do). That this leads to a small profit to us is a small matter...

Everyday I scan the net for new ways and means to get this elusive traffic and everyday I am looking for more. Internet Marketing Guru John Reese has come up with an excellent tool just what I have been looking for all this time. Its called BlogRush, and what it basically does is that when you add this small blogrush widget on your blog, you will get to see a list of posts posted on the blogs by other blogrush users. The system works on the principal of reciprocality. If you give a page-view of 100 to the blogrush widget, then your blog post title will be visible on the same widget in 100 other blogrush user pages.

This gives an enormous visibility to your blog as well as you benefit from the affiliate program of the system. This widget shows the first 40 characters of your post titles, therefore writing good titles within 40 characters is of the essence if you want good traffic from the Blogrush network.