Internet plays very important role in the modern world. Now it is the most powerful source of information. Blog are now very popular in cyber world because it is easy to manage it and the second reason is that the internet is now in the access of large number of people. There are so many free blogging services like wordpress and blogger which are available for free. So it is easy to start and manage a blog. But the most difficult barrier to cross is to bring visitors to the blog. A blog which has good traffic would be an earning source if ads are placed. The question is how to get traffic and how one can judge that which marketing and promotion strategy is successful and which one is the wastage of time.

Types of Traffic:

There are three types of visitors. One are directed from search engine such traffic is called organic traffic. Second type are those visitors which are directed from the websites other than the search engine such traffic is called referred traffic and third one is direct traffic which find your blog or website by directly typing its address in internet browser.

How to Get Traffic:

To get organic traffic you have to properly do the SEO of your blog according to the rules of search engine. Google is popular search engine so follow the SEO rules given by the google. Use proper keywords to write content and carefully set the meta tags and meta description of your website. Meta description and meta tags are for the search engine and it would rank and position your blog or website pages by using the information provided in meta tags.

To get referred traffic put the link of your website or blog in different link directories, forums, groups and online communities. It is an easy but laborious way for the promotion of your blog or website.

To get direct traffic just use blog or website URL in your introduction or visiting card. You can get direct traffic by oral promotion by telling your family members, friends and colleagues.

How to Find Right Direction:

Get account on the google analytics and place the analytics code in the main page of your blog or website. Regularly visit analytics account and concentrate on the information provided by it. For example if you are working on a forum and it do not direct traffic to your blog or website then it would be useless to work on it then find other forum. By using analytics you will be fully aware of the sites which are refrying traffic. Only work on those sites which are directing traffic. You can measure the effectiveness of your promotion or marketing strategy. I hope these simple tips would be useful for you. For further question do comment on this piece of content.