6 Traffic Generation Techniques You Did Not Think Of
Generating traffic to your blog, whether new or old, is one task most webmasters are unable to do in the right way and are still struggling in traffic generation. They often try the wrong techniques and then get disappointed by lack of results. This is one of the reasons why so many bloggers give up so quick.
However, the point is… Generating traffic to your blog is amongst the easiest task you’ll ever come across. All it takes is a bit of reading on the internet and then adding your own creativity and mixing it. And of course, do it with dedication. If you’re going to do it as a job that needs to be done and get over with, then you won’t succeed at it.
Here are those 6 Unique Ways OF Generating Traffic which you may have not think of earlier.
1. Renovate Your Blog Design
Creating a new design for your site can often give you a boost in the traffic. Not only does the change spike interest everywhere, but you can also submit your new design to a few popular CSS Showcase galleries. These galleries, being popular, send back quite a bit of return traffic that can end up turning into loyal visitors. And at the end of the day, loyal readers is exactly what we want!
2. Write An Interesting List Article
If you’re looking to get seriously targeted traffic, then be one of the first people to write a ‘Top 10′ post about anything that’s new and being talked about. You could also simply write a ‘Top 10 Blogs” post relating to the blogs in your niche. That’s something a lot of people search for, and you stand a chance of getting a lot of search engine traffic.
3. Tener un blog Traductor – Have A Blog Translator
You may have not understood above line(instead of people understanding spanish) if I wouldn’t have provided the translation. And same may be the situation with the people who may not understand your blog language. Installing a translator plugin could help you to increase the blog traffic highly.
Don’t forget the fact that English is not the only language that users on the internet speak/understand. There’s quite a few that do not understand English very well. Having a translator facility on your blog will mean you can get a more diverse range of traffic. And quite a few of them may end up being repeat visitors. Because your blog is one of the few that allows them to read posts in their own language. There’s a few free plugins available to do that. But there’s a plugin or two that are paid. They do the job much better, though.
Note: At SmartBloggerz, Translator can be found in the footer. So use it 
4. Create valuable content
Nothing (and I mean, NOTHING) will ever create traffic that’s more valuable then the content on your blog. What you post should not only be informative but should also be capable of sparking a discussion. Such posts often get linked to from a lot of places and that’s when your traffic starts spiking.
5. Offline Promotion
Don’t forget that the only way to generate traffic is not just online. Include your URL in every place you possibly can, offline. On your business cards(if it’s a business blog), your car, your house (YES! it may sound funny), letterheads, etc. It’s not often that you see websites (particularly blogs) being advertised offline. And when you DO see one, you tend to remember it very well. That’s the affect offline advertising has on everyone!
6. Link baiting in forums
This is one overlooked traffic generation method. Write an interesting post, and include only a quarter or half of it. And leave a backlink to the blog in that post. Let people click through to your blog to be able to read the post.
How does this help? When they click through to your blog, a good % of them will generally engage themselves in another post or two on your blog. And quite a few will eventually subscribe. That’s it. That’s what I/you want!
Conclusion
So you just read 6 unusual but effective ways to bring traffic to your blog/website. Trying these methods will substantially increase your traffic if implemented properly. Do you have any more unusual or interesting ways of traffic generation? Then please do share with us and your opinion about this article by commenting below 
Article written by Typhoon
Yo! I am Typhoon a.k.a Sushant, a 17 yrs. old blogger from India and the owner of SmartBloggerz. Here I try to share useful Blogging related articles which would help a blogger to succeed. You can connect to me on Twitter.Typhoon has written 332 superb article(s) on this blog
January 13, 2010
3:06 pm
I have worked on translation idea before and it worked for me. There are many plugins available free for wordpress blogs which translate your blog in different languages automatically. It brought more traffic from search engines of those languages for example, i was getting traffic from google.fr
January 13, 2010
7:41 pm
Thanks . . . adding a translator was a great and EASY idea. Also unique. Best part; didn’t really require ANYTHING from me.
January 14, 2010
11:50 pm
Thanks Lady Hotchkiss
Just visited your blog.. good work. I didn’t see any ad sense advertising, why
January 22, 2010
11:06 pm
hi lady hotchkiss,
please ,what plug in did you use for the translation?
thanks in advance
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January 14, 2010
7:05 pm
Beautifully put. I guess i am becoming a smart blogger read smartbloggerz. It’s time for me to incorporate number 5 and 6
January 15, 2010
7:35 am
The list article method seems to be working pretty well for me since I started doing my Top blog posts of the week
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January 16, 2010
4:28 am
Point 4 is the life-blood of the blogosphere. No one forgets that. I just think folks are lazy and would rather cut and paste.
January 16, 2010
6:46 am
I like your no 2 article above. I never think about it. thanks. I have some exprience to get traffic from search engine. 1. write information in our blog. 2. write useful article. 3. write how to article.
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January 16, 2010
12:37 pm
Well, Realy nice article with unique thoughts. I think #4 is the main factor of Traffic Generation.
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January 16, 2010
7:17 pm
Number 6 I like. Though some forums don’t allow this. I never thought of the quarter post though. That’s clever. I’ll have to try that sometime.
Thanks for the tips!
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January 16, 2010
9:41 pm
Great tips. I did renovate my blog and it did work. Content that too unique is always a strong factor. Its the genuineness of your posts that keep it high in standards.
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January 17, 2010
11:15 am
Creating valuable content is definitely a best way to attract visitors, and the blog translator idea is an unique to me.. I’ll try that.. overall very informative post.. thank u very much.. keep up the sharing..
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January 22, 2010
8:04 pm
Great ! The 6 traffic generation tips are really killer
January 22, 2010
11:04 pm
i need to work on 1 ,5 and 6…short and straight to the point…thanks for the tips
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January 22, 2010
11:51 pm
Hi Typhoon,
Great post, redesign is a great way to refresh things overall, I do it on all my blogs every so often. And, lists, are fabulous for any niche, I have written tons of great lists, and they always bring loads of traffic and readers, and commenters. Blog translation is something that I need to do, thanks for the reminder! Great stuff going on here, thanks!
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January 24, 2010
9:49 pm
You are right I had not thought of some of the techniques you have mentioned and didn’t even know they were feasible unless one was a larger scale business such as the off-line marketing but come to think of it I can see how it would work well
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March 10, 2010
5:01 pm
I’ve noticed that adding content constantly, along with some quality links are very good to have traffic from search engines
March 15, 2010
8:37 pm
Hi I’m from Malaysia.
Nice tips in generating traffic. I’ve done some and my traffic do increase. However, I got this slight uneasy feeling of sometime we are too focusing on increasing traffic. I love to write about my life , but as you said, posting entries that have great keyword will be more search engine friendly. That is why i found some of my blogger friend started to write about topic that is out of their blog content, in the en devour to increase traffic to their site. There is no right or wrong, just voicing my concern here
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April 20, 2010
1:13 pm
The blog translator is an excellent thought. Overall you’ve provided me with some useful information indeed… thank you!
May 20, 2010
3:33 pm
That’s some very useful information. I would just like to add that people should not only focus on increasing traffic. They must also spend a lot of time on their actual websites to ensure that they have quality content, as there is so much junk out there now. Many thanks. Miky
June 8, 2010
5:52 pm
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July 19, 2010
5:08 pm
Really great article – just one thing about the translations. Automated translators can quite often come up with mistakes in the spelling, grammar or tense, only professional translators can make sure that it is error-free, as a person is manually translating each one, rather than a machine.
July 23, 2010
5:58 pm
Hi, always good to find someone giving out good free advice especially related to generating traffic. How many would be online marketers give up because they just can’t generate enough interest in their website or blog? I have read that 90% of those who try will fail andI am sure it is mainly down to not getting the traffic. Being diverse is the key, try lots of different ways of getting traffic and keep doing them. I personaly use article writting and submission as my main traffic generating method because it is free to do and once you have a few good articles written you can submit them to lots of article sites.