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The First 100 Insane Blog Traffic Ideas

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The First 100 Insane Blog Traffic Ideas

Is it  Insane ideas for blog traffic….
Or is it ideas for Insane blog traffic?

Or is it just Insane to neglect 100 great ideas for your Insane blog….?
Anyways….here are the first 100 ideas………

For those days when you just can’t seem to come up with an idea that will attract an insane amount of traffic to your blog……here is a handy checklist  of ideas…….
Reposted from Ana Hoffman www.trafficgenerationcafe.com

Amazed? You bet!   These tips ARE that good!

The best free blog traffic strategies to increase your traffic – guaranteed.

Or, at the very least, the most numerous ones.

All jokes aside, though these are the very same strategies I used to bring Traffic Generation Cafe from a brand new blog to Alexa ranking of under 15K in 6 months.

These short tips to increase your blog traffic are a perfect push to get your creative juices going and make them work for YOUR blog and YOUR audience.

Please enjoy, implement, and share.

How to Increase Blog Traffic With These Insane Tips

1. Create lists.

2. Write a tutorial.

3. Give away your very best content and some.

4. Be current – write about tomorrow today.

5. Don’t write about your cats, dogs, boyfriends, kids.

6. Be timeless – write a post that will remain current for years.

7. Write with “everybody is entitled to my opinion” attitude.

8. Write about your kids.

9. Write about other bloggers’ best posts.

10. Make your own “best of the best” list.

11. Become an expert in your niche.

12. Break news.

13. Make news.

14. Write short, laconic posts.

15. Do interviews with the “cream of the crop”.

16. Use polls, giveaways, and other eye candy.

17. Write long, conclusive posts.

18. Answer your comments.

19. Answer your email.

20. Write about pros and cons of an issue.

21. Write on a controversial topic and close comments.

22. Make readers depend on you by sharing your expertise generously.

23. Write about blogging.

24. Blog about writing.

25. Take an alternate position.

26. Write a post for beginners.

27. Ask experts to make comments on your best posts.

28. Write an advanced post.

29. Encourage your readers to digg, tweet, like, and plus your posts.

30. Write about Google.

31. Write about Twitter.

32. Bookmark all your posts.

33. Interview parties with opposing views.

34. Research a topic and post your findings.

35. Integrate references to sports in your posts.

36. Post with personality.

37. Run relevant ads that are even better than your content.

38. Write exclusively about a certain theme for a week.

39. Ask a question everyone else is afraid of asking.

40. Run no ads.

41. Use your skills to help a non-profit – pro bono.

42. Update an old post with new ideas.

43. Post your photos on flickr.

44. Crowdsource your next post idea to your readers.

45. Write a satirical post.

46. Use an outrageous photo.

47. Make it easy to share what you are doing.

48. Encourage visitors to subscribe to your RSS feed.

49. Give visitors a good reason to opt in to your list.

50. Coin a term or two.

51. Pioneer a great topic and then encourage others to blog about the same thing.

52. Don’t overwhelm visitors with too many options.

53. Write a list of 101 people, blogs, topics in your niche.

54. Create a mock head-to-head competition among bloggers.

55. Mention some useful, but little known resources.

56. Make a post that solves a problem.

57. Make a post that inspires.

58. Encourage your followers to help you dominate top blog lists.

59. Write a post that causes controversy.

60. Do a 30-day challenge.

61. Write a long comment.

62. Start a blog meme.

63. Share your blog statistics with your readers.

64. Pick a topic by reading business book titles.

65. Pick a headline by reading top Dugg stories.

66. Start a discussion in your blog comments.

67. Answer your readers questions in a post.

68. Challenge your fellow bloggers by writing something nearly borderline about them and close comments.

69. Share link love and expect some back.

70. Add to the list started by another blogger.

71. Be complimentary.

72. Do your market research on Amazon.com.

73. Write about stuff that most people want to read about, like Web 2.0.

74. Disprove a myth.

75. Write a post about something merely good, but not great.

76. Constantly read other blogs, leave comments, look for ideas.

77. Edit yourself without mercy.

78. Create cornerstone content.

79. Skip introductions and get to the meat of the posts – your readers do.

80. Point out something ironic or contradictory.

81. Write a series of posts.

82. Come up with a more efficient way of doing something.

83. Create a widget or plugin.

84. Make your content unmissable.

85. Be everywhere, all at once.

86. Take in other people’s ideas, learn from them constantly.

87. Tell a story through pictures.

88. Focus on unmonetized, but high-trafficked searches.

89. Combine some of your best older posts into a new series.

90. Treat every day as a new beginning, because you’ll always have new readers.

91. Be patient.

92. Post on the weekdays because more people will read it.

93. Change up your posting style every once in a while, like do reviews, etc.

94. Showcase some of your best posts on Squidoo lens.

95. Post on the weekends because there are less posts.

96. Leverage April Fool’s day with an outrageous truth.

97. Write about how things have changed in your niche.

98. Invite your readers to do guest posting for you.

99. Answer your readers questions with more questions.

100. Aggregate ideas, tips, etc from numerous places/blogs into a blog post.

Whoa!  that’s 100 of the best insanely good ideas I’ve read for that “what’ll I blog about today?” moment…..

Thanks to Ana Hoffman for sharing.  You can share these ideas too….

No more excuses….now you have a slew of ideas for your next blog past…your next 100 blog posts.

When you write on some  of these blog post ideas , please comment back….which was most successful?…which ideas were not good for you?  How did you adapt one or more ideas?

Another upcoming post will address 100 MORE Insanely Good Blog Traffic-getting Ideas.

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