Newbies How to build your own blog website

We all want traffic coming to our blog/ website and the easiest way is to follow these 3 steps.
You do not just want any traffic but want to target mainly people who are interested in your niche or passion topic to visit your site. These are the people who want what you offer and are more than likely to keep coming back.
So how is this done?

1. Write articles on your niche and submit them to article directories related to your subject. This way you are targeting an audience that are searching for your material. Offer good quality content that is interesting, informative and innovative, all related to your site that you want traffic coming to. At the end of your article offer a compelling free gift or incentive for the reader to click on the link that you add to your resource box to promote your site.

2. Press release promoting your new blog post using twitter, tweetmyblog, stumbleupon, delicious, technorati, face book, onlywire or any other social network.

3. Back links from popular websites related to your niche topic. Type your blog/ website key word phrase into google search and then visit the top 20 sites in your niche. Have a look through and see if you can comment on their material. Give good value added suggestions, ideas or opinions to your comment together with your website link at the end. This way the search engines visiting their site will follow through to your link and index/ rank it. Visitors looking through the comments will be curious for more information that you have to offer by following your link.

These 3 easy ways to get targeted traffic cost you nothing but your time and effort. By offering quality content establishes you as an expert that people interested in your topic will want to hear more from. This will get them to keep coming back.
**Christina Saunders**