What are the best methods to drive traffic to a website or blog?

[Simeon Tuoyo]

I just launch a blog that centers on Technology news http://latesttoptechnews.blogspot.com. However, my blog page rank is too low on search engines. I want to increase traffic to my blog.

[Dev]

to drive traffic on blogspot you must post there unique content.
but it is very useless to do hard work on blogspot kind portal.

[babyrice]

The most important part of a webpage to a search engine (like Google or Bing) lies in the meta tags. The meta tags are a part of the HTML code that makes up a webpage, and basically tells the search engines what is on a particular website (site title, keywords, description, etc.). When you go to Google and search for something, Google brings back a bunch of results with a website title and a short description. This website title and description is pulled from the site's meta tags.

I also use blogspot for my blog and had to do some research to figure out why my site wasn't even showing up in the search engines. Try using the step-by-step instructions in the link below to add meta tags to your HTML code. After a few days, you should see your website starting to show up in the search engines. This is the first step to driving traffic to your blog - to make it searchable! From there on, it's all about promoting your blog on technology websites, to your friends on Facebook, on forums, etc.

Hope this helps!

[Grace]

you can made relevant, unique links and rich content on the blog.

source (s)
http://www.myperfectearth.com/alexa-traffic

[Hotstuff]

When you ask a question like this, you will find yourself beseiged with people trying to sell you traffic and SEO tricks. Save your money. You can do it yourself for free.

Increasing traffic to your blog is all about what I like to call, the Famous Five...

1. Write guest posts on other blogs that are more popular than yours. The owners will always be happy to have great free content, and your blog will be visited by their readers! Technorati.com is a great option for a technology blog like yours.

2. Comment in technology forums and leave comments on technology blogs - it's important to get your name known in your industry, but also, your blog will feature higher in the search engine results (e.g. Google, Yahoo, etc) if you have lots of "back links" to relevant (i.e. technology) blogs. A back link is when your blog URL features on someone else's blog - Google like you to have lots of them!

3. Write amazing content regularly and often. At least once a week, and ideally everyday... It grows your audience and Google will reward you for it in their search engine results. If you want more traffic, write more!

4. Do some research into keywords. Keywords are the sorts of phrases people type into the search engines. For example, "best thing about an ipad" - what you'll want to do is look on the Google Keywords Tool and find technology phrases that are high search (lots of people searching for them) and low competition (not many other blogs using the phrase). It's not a perfect system but it will give you a good idea.

When you've found a phrase, make sure you include it 3 or 4 times in your next blog post - not too many times as it will diminish the quality of the article...and you will start to rank for that phrase on Google! Also use keywords for your "tags." Google it!

5. Work it on the social networks! You should be sharing every blog post you write on your Twitter Account, Facebook page, and on social networks like blogbods.com and stumbleupon.com and creating youtube videos (vlogs).

All of the above famous five strategies will see your traffic increase - it won't be overnight, but slow and steady wins the race! By the way, lots of people will try and sell you facebook likes or will offer an automated backlink programme, so you can shortcut this hard work....don't do it!

Google is very clever and usually finds out when you're cheating...it likes to do updates to how it ranks blogs and websites - and many blogs that have tried to take a shortcut get penalized.....and have to start all over again...