Social Media
These has been the best way bloggers use to drive free traffic to their blogs. social media is one of the place to use if you need to push targeted traffic to a website. The mostly used social media is Facebook, even though twitter and others are also very effective.
You can drive traffic to your blog through a Facebook group,page or probably through your timeline. Share your link to groups relating to your blog niche, also tweet your links for additional traffic (This only works if you have enough followers)
Note: Don’t spam your link all over Facebook to avoid ban.
TIP: If you have few bucks, you can as well run a Facebook ads
GuestBlogging
Guestblogging is done by writing posts to be published on other blogs with the aim of increasing traffic through backlinks. It enhance blog exposure and also help to build good relationship with other bloggers.
Guestblogging is another way of getting free traffic. It helps you gain traffic, grow backlinks and also increase your SEO ranking. You can check
The Importance Of SEO To a Blog. It is very important for you to
learn the Steps Involved In Writing a Good Blog Post to make you standout because we are in a world where everyone is a blogger
Comment
The linkback in blogs comment is also an effective way of getting traffic. Most blogs have a field for URL in the comment area, which is most likely to get readers click on it if your comment catches their attention.
Interlink your blog post
To make readers stay longer on blogs can also increase traffic. When writing your content, make sure you include relevant links to other post on your blog to increase readers durability.
“Interlinking you blog post gives your readers opportunity to judge your entire body of work, rather than just your most recent post” – Harsh Agrawal (SML Ceo).
TIP: For WordPress users, You can interlink blog post with plugin
Newsletter
Newsletter also help in increasing / boosting blog traffic in its little way. It is mostly used in getting unique visitors and turning your readers to loyal subscribers. Newsletter can either be created weekly / monthly depending on how constant you publish your blog post. It contains.