How can you get more traffics and reader to your website or blog? How to attract the traffics and what should I do to stimulate it? I already offer a great content and the best of me in each post. I already implement all the search engines strategies, but the traffics low as usual. Below some of the miscellaneous strategies to increase blog readers that you should consider implement it. Actually there are keys to help you build a better blog.

1 - Announce a contest - I like to get something for free, other people also like to get something for free. Often, a “free” term will get more attention from readers; even you only design a contest and offer only a free short review and link back to your site for the winner. If you want to publicize and announce a contest on your site that surely can generate more traffics than before, you must design a right contest with a great price to attract reader attention. There no need to announce an expensive prize, just offer a valuable prize to the reader. This way you can interact with your reader .

Recently, the power of contest fully uses by other successful and high ranked blogger to get some activities going around the blog. Usually they will design a contest where all participants must make a short review and place an anchor link to their blog. The winner will be announced randomly and will get free review or link back to the authority site for a certain time. Here the page rank authority and high traffics from that blog will become the main attraction to all participants, win or lose they will still get the link back. Mr. Rajawang already highlighted 4 tips for hosting a blogging contest.

Nowadays, there are blog just dedicated a post to all blog contest in bloggersphere. These kinds of blog create unexpected attention to small section of readers that really enjoyed participating in a contest. Actually blog contest can create attention, all you need to do is participated, usually you just make a short review about the contest or the blog, place a link to that blog and done. That why, after you announce a contest, you will create unexpected attention from other bloggers. Head up to Contest Blogger blog to search and announce your blog contest if you had one.

2 - Ask your visitors to bookmark and subscribe to your feed. This strategies look like a shameless promotion, the true is that is the better way to get more visitors and keep update the reader with your fresh content if you had your own blog subscriber. Even now, there are Wordpress plugin that display welcome messages and ask them to subscribe your feed. You can install and use What Would Seth Godin Do Plugin. I think this is a simple strategy but effective one.

Other key point to increase the number of RSS subscribers (remember that subscriber is your loyal visitors) to your blog is by make sure that your RSS icon stands out and that icon had a “holly great” looking. To increase the likelihood of readers subscribing to your content, your RSS feed must immediately visible on your blog and being placed on the right section. You can make your RSS icon stand out by using one that is unique. Below some of the free customized feed icons that you can use.

3 - Be a guest blogger. This some of the advanced way to get some “spill over” effect from other blog. You can apply to be a guest blogger to other blogs where you can offer your expertise and knowledge. Why? Actually if you be a guest blogger, you (the writer) had more authority to the article than the blog where you publish the article.

Here you can increase your visibility and get more attention from readers. Readers that like your writing style and article maybe want to know you more than the blogs owner (where you publish the article). Then, if they know you, they will stick to you and now you already reach new audience. To make it successful, ask the editor or site owner to include a link back to your site just in one line. Now, you just wait for the viral explosion. For more information you can read 5 Reasons To Start Guest Blogging Today by Performancing.

4 - Promote your site in all outgoing email. You can install a signature in all of your email, either the email to your friend, colleagues, fellow blogger or your client. Most of the email such as Yahoo Mail, Gmail, AOL and other allow you to design unique “signature” to appear in all outgoing email you send. To make it more appear and get enough attention, you must limit it to 6-8 line that included only your name, address, company name, site URL and one-phrase of your business tag. Remember, don’t ask other to click that link, just let it be there. This method look likes a small strategy to get some traffic, but if you send an email to thousand of possible reader’s everyday, sure you will get some click

5 - Build networking. Use social networking to get connected with other bloggers that have same niche content and interest with you. Give a visit to other fellow blogs, leave a comments can simple help you build a networking. Join MyblogLog or Blogcatalog to get know other bloggers. I make myself to join the big community blogs in MyBlogLog, browse the entire member there and give a visit to other blogs, give a comments if the topic really interesting. Worth to digg these social network river. The tip to success with these social networks is you must participate and get know all other users not only promoting the site in your blog or sidebar. As a new blogger, I actively use this kind of strategy to make some friends and by the same time I use this method as a key to attract new reader to my blog.

6 - Create “buzz” and attention. Other way try to create something that will explode the bloggersphere world. Use your creativity try a link bait or something new.

Sure there are other successful strategies that can be done to increase our blog readers and get some activities going around the blog. If you had any ideas and strategies, you can drop a comment.