21 High Traffic Sites For You To Increase Traffic And Promote Your Blog
No matter you are blogging or doing any other marketing online, I am sure you would like more traffic to your website! I understand that tons of people struggling to get traffic to their blog and because of this, they just simply give up blogging. So, what’s the secret of getting avalanche of traffic to your website? Apart from delivering great quality content to your readers, you also need to promote your blog posts to increase blog traffic. Do not ever assume people will come to your site just because you just wrote a quality piece of article! Over the time, I have compiled a top list of high traffic sites full with targeted readers to promote your blog in order to increase blog traffic! These are high traffic sites with good Alexa rank that you would want to get exposure with.
Tutorial Sites
If your blog consists of tips and techniques, you will definitely want to submit to these tutorial sites below:
Once you submitted your blog post with the relevant information such as blog post URL, post title, keywords, description, etc…You will need to wait for a few days for the editor to manually review and approve them (or reject). So, make sure your posts are of high quality content. After your posts are published, you can expect a surge in traffic. Do this consistently for every single of your blog posts and this is how you can increase blog traffic.
Blogging Community To Increase Blog Traffic
There are quite a number of blogging communities that allow you to submit your own blog post for the communities to read and vote. So, these blogging communities are full with bloggers that you can interact with, learn and leverage from each other!
Added BlogEngage.com (Need 1 time sign up fee).
These blogging communities are packed with bloggers so depending on your blog post topic, the traffic you gain from these sites are very targeted. The great thing about them is that you only submit the blog post URL (same as the tutorial site), description and other necessary information. So, people have to click the link to view the full blog posts. This is how you can funnel the traffic from these great Alexa site to your blog. Use this wisely and do participate the communities to get even more exposure so that people will be interested to your posts whenever you post there.
This is really a simple and one of the overlooked traffic method to increase blog traffic. Utilize your existing content!
Design News Aggregators
These are the sites that love design news, inspiration posts, etc…I have stumbled across lots of cool article there!
- design-newz.com
- webdesign-ne.ws
- hongkiat.com/blog
- Speckyboy.com
- wparena.com
- webanddesigners.com
- visual-blast.com
- FuelYourCreativity.com
- instantshift.com
- imnewswatch.com
- TopDesignMag.com
- Designsmag.com
- FamousBlogger.net
Apart from getting a lot more exposure and click through to your sites, you also gain a quality backlink from all these sites. Cool eh? Also, all these sites are free for submission at this time I am writing the post. So, do tap on these 21 high traffic sites to harvest tons of traffic to your blog.
You might want to check out my post of build backlink to your website to try out other cool and free methods such as submitting your blog posts to powerpoint sites, article sites, web2.0 sites, social bookmarking sites, RSS sites, social networks, document sharing sites, etc…to harness the power of traffic explosion!
Take some actions to submit your blog posts to these sites to promote your blog and I am sure you will be able to increase blog traffic.
Do You Promote Your Blog?
What other sites do you tap on to promote your blog posts to increase blog traffic? What’s your blog promotion strategies? Feel free to list down below and share your experience!
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Comments on 21 High Traffic Sites For You To Increase Traffic And Promote Your Blog
Great list of sites! The only one I think is missing is Blog Engage. Brian rocks! Thanks for the links.
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@Ileane: Hi Ileane, great to see you here. Thanks for the reminder! Just added BlogEngage (need a 1 time fee)!
And I will add a great tutorial site for Blogging, Theme design and Videos Tutorial Site
http://www.BuildWPThemes.com
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@Henry: It seems like a pretty new site without Alexa ranking info. It probably won’t have any benefit to submit your link to it at the moment…
@Ming Jong: Brian just started charging the one time fee this month. I think you gave me a good idea for a Twitter contest with the prize being a BE membership fee. I’ll be in touch with you about it soon. Thanks!
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If you subscribe to one of Blog Engage’s RSS Membership services, they will waive the one-time-fee to join. Their “Bronze Membership” (which I subscribe to) is $1.99 a month. That makes it affordable and you can cancel it at any time if you decide that it’s not for you.
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@Sherryl Perry: Thanks for the news! BlogEngage is definitely a great place to be! To those who are really on a shoe string budget but still love to get into BlogEngage community, you can contact BlogEngage and let them know your situation. Check out the bottom paragraph of their page –> http://www.blogengage.com/register.php
I was really surprised BlogEngage wasn’t on the list as it has more traffic and a larger community than every other site listed in the Blogging Community section. It is membership only though and costs $29.99 to join, however I wrote about how you can join and get registration for far less by joining the RSS Syndication Program.
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Great list of sites … Glad that you added blogengage
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Great resource list Ming Jong. Using these sites can create a serious flow of traffic…
Helpful stuff. Hadn’t realize there was a sign up fee for BlogEngage now either so I’m glad to have an ear into this conversation too.
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@Justin Germino: BlogEngage has the highest alexa rank among the blogging communities and I am sure the benefit will definitely outweigh the 1 time fee. Still you can contact them if you really struggle to pay for the fee yet still eager to join! Very comprehensive review for BlogEngage. Good job!
@Salman @ Tech Blog: No worries Salman! Glad you enjoy the list.
@Jym: Hi Jym, great to see you here. This will definitely drive lots of traffic coupling with the great content
Somehow, your comment is in my spam, strange… Sorry for the late reply …
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@Ming Jong: It sure will mate. Thanks for digging my comment out of spam. Are you using Akismet by any chance?
I found it ‘spammed’ too many genuine comments, so I switched to GASP instead…
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@Jym: No worries mate! I am using Akismet. Just checked out the “Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin” you mentioned, it will basically add a checkbox to confirm not a spammer. I have however a captcha box instead.
Anyway, will give it a go
Thanks!
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That’s true Ming Jong, it will basically perform the same function as Captcha but in a simpler way. The effect (as I’m sure you’re well aware) is to knock out all spambot comments in one go. So you won’t need both running.
Manual spam is a harder issue to deal with – I get a few spam comments fairly regularly, which I have to moderate myself. But the alternative is activating Akismet, which means I have to moderate genuine comments out of spam and back onto the posts!
So it depends which way you want to do it…
Let me know if you find any better solutions!
@Jym: I get what you mean. I will try out what you suggested. and monitor it along the time
Thanks for the head up. I’ll keep you updated should I come across other great solution!
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Hey Ming! WOW! I love this list! I only knew about Blokube, Blogengage, and blog interact!
Signing up for the others now.
Thank you my friend!
keep the rocking article coming!
Joshua the ZamuraiBlogger
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Hey Joshua, great to see you here
These are high Alexa sites that will bring you serious traffic that I personally use. Taking action is the best thing you can do. Well done!
Hi Ming,
First time here. Your comments on FamousBloggers got my attention.
Anyway, I really like promoting my blog with tutorial sites and blogging communities. However, how would you use those Design News Aggregators if your niche is a totally different one? I mean dont you have to publish design related posts?…
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@Satrap: Hey Satrap. Thanks for stopping by
I found that tutorial sites and design-newz & webdesign-ne.ws send me most of the traffic. For those design news sites, you can only promote your posts that are gear towards design related post. They do accept Blogging, Internet marketing, etc.. niches.
Similar to tutorial sites, most of them are gear towards web design, photoshop, CSS, etc…Only a few of them accept blogging & IM types of posts. I guess if you niche is totally not relevant (such as weight loss, dog training, etc…), you can’t submit to them (all submitted posts are moderated…).
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@Ming Jong:
Oh I see, well since my niche is make money and blogging related, I guess I could give those few that do accept such posts a try.
Thanks for clearing it up for me Ming, very nice of you.
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@Satrap: You’re welcomed Satrap. Just give it go to submit your posts. Keep me updated on how you go about it
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Geat list Ming and it’s appreciated along with the other reports I’ve downloaded from you. Do you know any blogs that promote directories? Would love to get the word out about the ones I’m working on.
Thanks
@Dave: Hey Dave, you are welcomed
Not sure about blog. I prefer forum marketing. You can always do a search in Google, i.e. your niche directories + forum. I usually stick to forum as I gained decent traffic from them.
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Hi Ming,
Great list, but I have a question for you. What’s the best way to promote my new site (www.listburn.com) that is NOT a blog-based site? I’m trying to leverage the power of the blogger and social media, but not sure “where it belongs” if that makes sense. What are your recommendations?
Thanks,
Steve
In the SEO world, getting back-links from high quality and ranking sites could be considered as finding a treasure! This post is very helpful, thanks for the list! =)
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This is great information. Thanks for sharing!
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@listburn: Hi Steve, as long as your site contain content that belongs to design niche such as internet marketing, SEO, make money online, tutorial, WordPress, etc…you are free to submit to those news aggregator. For Blog Bookmarking, there are more categories for you to select (not limited to those mentioned above). The key here is to have content related to the sites and submit them for review and approval.
For social media, you can definitely create a FB, Twitter, G+ account and spread the word there. Hope this help.
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@JoMi: Absolutely. On top of the backlink, those sites are high traffic sites so you can expect direct traffic from there.
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@Jason Baudendistel: Glad you like it Jason.
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I just got your twitter invite. Thanks! I am not a very sophisticated computer person but did just manage to start a blog for the job openings I have. I am a recruiter. I will look into all of these sites in order to drive jobseekers to my blog. I want to build a website, but need a suggestion as to the easiest place to go to do this. I am excited to follow you and hope to learn more as I go.
http://www.blogger.com/posts.g?blogID=4016759099800633763
@Shari: Hi Shari, the easiest way to build you site is using WordPress, with your own hosting and domain if you are building your business. If you are doing it as a hobby just go for the free WordPress or Blogger site to play around. If you are not familiar with WordPress, I do have a free course (30 step by step videos) where you can access for free via my fan page. You can refer to the WordPress Mastery sales letter for more information.
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Thanks for this information. I will give this a try. I am trying to build my business and to drive more candidates to look at my jobs.
Shari
@Shari: Welcomed Shari
Once your websites is up, it is time to drive traffic to your site. Keep me updated 
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nice article
when ever i need to increase traffic on my blog i mostly use ping site.
or 1st i submit my blog in blog directory…
Thanks for the information. As usual the list is top notch. I use podcast directories and submit a podcast version of my blog post. I have just started this as a source of traffic.Do you have any experience with it?
@rafaquat: WordPress will automatically ping the list you specified so you don’t need to do it manually for your blog.
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@Saviour Thomas: Pod cast certainly is another great traffic source. I used to have a pod cast version of my blog but it seems to slow down my blog tremendously so I just remove the plugin.
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i will try this information, very informative, i suggest this to all my co-bloggers in asia. Thank you very much.
@Gilbert Canda: Definitely give them a try. These sources bring me hundreds of extra visitors and build quality backlinks.
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Hello Ming,
Thanks for the usefull list. I will give them a try for sure bcoz before reading your post, I don’t know these sites. i’m just using Twitter and Facebook.
Thanks alot for sharing.
@Ajnabii: Welcomed Ajnabii. These sites will definitely bring you additional traffic and they are all free (except BE). So, just give them a go and monitor via your Google Analytics.
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Hi Ming,
I want to know that bloginteract.com site is off or its just for me ? 2 days before i was used this site and registered and account. but now this site is not working to me. would you please check and let me know what happend with this site ?
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@Ajnabii: Em…It seems like Blog Interact is down at the moment. I have been using it since this post written. I guess might be the server issue. Not too worry. Just check back some time today or tomorrow.
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Thank you so much for reply and confirmation.
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Great list, actually the Design News Aggregators list is something new for me. anyway thanks Ming Jong
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@Navin Kunwar: This is one of the overlooked traffic source, which can bring in tons of traffic when you have great content.
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Thanks for this list! I didn’t know that you could get traffic from other sites by submitting them to blog directories and the what not (I always assumed they were ‘no follow’)
Looking forward to seeing if this pays off!
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@Nicole: Welcomed
Majority of the links are “dofollow” and you will attract a lot of traffic from those sites! Give it a go.
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