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As the title mentions this is a post intended to help amateur bloggers to drive some random traffic into their blogs. This can be helpful during the early stages of your blog and we do not recommend you to follow these basic steps once you get more than 200 unique clicks a day. Every blog has a time. During the initial stages all the blogs that are popular today had a time of struggle. Do not give up while you find low traffic on your blogs. It might be one single post that would change the future of the blog. At the mean time try these basic promotions to drive some random traffic into your space.

#1 - Facebook Promotion
Promote each and every new post on your blog using Facebook among your friends, colleagues and relatives. This is the first step of driving traffic into your blog. Tell your dear and near ones that you are writing something, and ask for their reviews. Post your blog's links in all the groups or pages that you have a hand in. Each time you might be getting a single click after all the effort you take, but that single click is an achievement. Keep trying and there will be a day others promote your posts while you sit idle.

#2 - Burn a feed 
Always make sure you have a feed being burnt as you write a blog. Feedburner is the best service provider to generate an RSS or Atom feed of your blog posts. Make sure you provide a form to invite your readers to subscribe to your posts. It is also appreciable if you can have a pop-up window inviting your visitors to subscribe your posts. Each subscription counts. By getting subscribers, you are making sure of certain permanent clicks to your blog.

#3 - E-Mail your blog 
Mail your blog to your friends and colleagues. There might be a lot of people who are inactive in the social networking sites. Catch their attention. Mail them your blog posts or post links. Once you get them onto your site, it is your luck that decides whether the visitor would be a frequent reader of your blog or a one time visitor. Make sure you have quality content to retain your visitors on your blog. Having interesting content is the only way to attract readers to your blog. Make sure you spend enough time to produce quality articles.

#4 - Do Not Monetize
Do not monetize your blog during the initial stages. Forget the idea of earning right from the beginning. The only aim during the first few weeks of blogging should be to construct quality content and to grab a few retaining visitors. These are the assets you need to develop before you monetize your blog. A visitor who reaches your site should be comfortable there. The site should load faster. No one is gonna wait longer for an amateur blog to load. Keep it lite for the beginning. And once you develop visitors, monetize it.

#5 - Host it preferably on Blogger
Different people would have different opinions on the this issue. But I personally recommend you to host your first blog on blogger. Word-press has advanced features and greater flexibility. But during the beginning try to stick onto blogger. Blogger is easy to use and has a simple interface. You wont have to eat up your head to keep your blog running. Besides this, posting and writing on blogger can also be easier. Fetching an Ad-Sense account can also be done faster and easier if you host your blog on Blogger. Once you find your blog gaining popularity, you can switch onto other platforms as you develop your expertise.


Do not feel tired of trying and writing. Quality content would always be recognized. If not today, tomorrow is your day. Keep trying. Try to post frequently. More than the frequency of posts, concentrate on their quality. Every visitor is important during the early stages. Make sure you have a good content in your blog to retain the visitors.