Getting more traffic to your site for free

May 21, 2008 – 4:17 pm

My friend asked me the other day if I had any  ideas how he could get more traffic to his football blog. I had a look and made a few suggestions, but my main suggestion was that he should register the RSS feed of his blog on feedburner. http://www.feedburner.com/

Feedburner is a free product that pushes your RSS feed out to various ‘news websites’ I have tried it on this site before and not really seen any dramatic increases in traffic. However my friend registered with feedburner last week and has seen traffic increase dramatically! For most of May traffic to the site was sitting at around 2000 visitors per day, after using feedburner traffic has increase to over 10′000 visitors per day which is a five fold increase in traffic - On the 16th of May the number of visitors to the blog was 24′652. Not a bad increase in free traffic to the site.

If you do run a blog it is def worth setting up - as I say I think that the amounts of traffic you will receive vary depending on the subject matter of your blog, a football blog is going to be popular where a blog on stamp collecting may not be as popular.

http://www.feedburner.com/