5 Best Ways To Drive Referral Traffic To Your Blog

Traffic! One thing which comes to your mind when you think about creating a blog. If you want to survive in this huge heap of new websites that are arriving every day, you definitely need good traffic towards your blog.
Today, I am going to share some sources which will help you in getting referral traffic.
Before telling you about the various sources let me tell you what referral traffic is?
By referral traffic we mean getting some targeted audience to our website. We share our link at one website and with the help of that link we get visitors to our blog.

Various Sources of Referral Traffic

 

 

Below are some of the best sites that you can take in use to gain massive referral traffic to your blog. I’m damn sure that you would like to know about them in depth.

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1# Google Adwords

 

 

The very best option to drive referral traffic to your blog is with the help of paid advertisements. You can use Google Adwords and use Pay per Click programme to get referral traffic to your blog.
Sometimes when you enter a query in Google, you see an advertisement on the top or on top right of the page. This is the advertisement of a website which is using Pay per Click programme.
You can get a lot of visitors with the help of this method. You can also use Bing Ads which is very much similar to Google Adwords. If you purely want to target US Audience then you should use Bing Ads.

 

 

2# Facebook/Social Networking Websites

 

 

Another great source to drive referral traffic to your blog or website is through Facebook. Just like Google ads you can also get Facebook Ads of your blog or website or any product you are willing to sell.
Now everyone uses social networking sites to pass their boredom. So, you are having a great opportunity to drive referral traffic from Facebook.
Apart from advertisements that you can get from Facebook, you can also create your website pages. Submit interesting content on those pages with mentioning the link of your website which will generate referral traffic for your blog.
Apart from Facebook, you can use other social networking platforms like Twitter, Digg, Stumble Upon, Pinterest etc.
Spread as much as you can spread your content on social networking websites because a lot of people now a days use social networking websites.
Digg your posts using Digg. Pin your Pins on Pinterest. Ask your friends to share your content on social networking websites so that you can get nice referral traffic for your blog.

3# Yahoo Answers

 

 

Yahoo answers is one of the best services that is provided by Yahoo in clearing queries of a user. You can drive referral traffic to your blog with the help of yahoo answers.
If someone asks a question, answer that question and put the link of your website in the Source field. The person will definitely click on that link and visit your website for knowing more information to his/her query.

4# Blog Commenting

 

 

Blog Commenting can also help you in getting better referral traffic. Comment on all the blog which are similar to your niche.
If you have some interesting information about the post for which you are commenting, don’t hesitate to explore them there. The blog owner will be thankful to you for your comment.
Use CommentLuv and KeywordLuv enabled blogs for blog commenting because they are the great source of free traffic. When we leave comment on such blogs, a link of our recent post automatically shows below our comment that gives us traffic and backlinks together at same time.

5# Forum Posting

 

 

As same as Yahoo Answers, forum posting is also used to ask and to solve queries.
Big forums like Digital Point are great source of targeted traffic. There are so many active users who are looking for the solution of their queries.
Find forums which match your niche and submit appropriate information there to help others. Put your blog link into signature field. In this way you’ll get nice referral traffic and targeted readers to your blog.

Final Words

 

These all were the methods which will help you in driving referral traffic to your blog or website. I hope you would find this articles worth reading. Please share your views and experience on how we can get more referral traffic from authority sites.