Get more traffic with related posts.

I was already posting my tips for getting more traffic to you blog. You should follow these tips especially if your blog is fresh and want to get indexed by search engines.

Today I would like to add one more tip how to get more visitor to your web site. I found out it with my financial blog StockWeb. Recently I submitted blog to new service provided by Wikinvest. Wikinvest is kind of Wikipedia focused on investing and world of finance. They launched new service which is linking of related sites though widgets. displayed at the end of related blog posts. Widgets themselves look nice and are fully customized with web site design.

Back to my traffic increase tips. I have noticed significant traffic growth since "related posts" widgets are running. One benefit is exchanging really targeted visitors as they are coming for related content. And next is positive impact on your ranking for search results. Widgets contain direct link to 3rd party pages and therefore you are getting backlinks, your Technorati Authority is increased etc. And this has positive impact on number of visitors coming from Google, Yahoo...

Of course Wikinvest is not for everybody as it concerns finance blogs but If you google "related posts widgets" you will definitely find other providers.

I just want to highlight, If you want traffic increase start with cross sites linking through related posts.

3 tips how to get traffic for new blog.

I'd like to share with you my experience with getting traffic for new blogs. I know there are thousands posts like this one over the web. But this reflects my start up with blogging.

1. Write interesting posts and frequently - This is the most important. If you don't post on regular basis and your articles are not interesting following 2 tips will not help you. As I've noticed 3 posts per week are optimum. Please also note that you shouldn't write too much posts as some of your subscribers could get annoyed by full inbox in their RSS reader. Which could cause that they will unsubscribe your feed.

2. Submit your posts to Carnival - Blog Carnivals are in fact aggregation of different posts hosted on one blog. Hosted blogger announces carnival theme and receives relevant posts (links) from other bloggers. After that the most interesting posts are shown in one post.
The best source for submission your posts for carnival is web BlogCarnival.


3. Link building - This comes automatically with my second tip. By submitting to carnival you informed about yourself other bloggers from your niche in blogosphere. Some of them (usually also hosted blogger for carnival) will link to your blog.
In addition to that after some time (after you write some tens of posts you can try to contact other bloggers with reciprocal link exchange offers.