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Maybe you Have the Best Blog on the Net but there are a Few things you Should know before you Think Anyone is Going to Visit.So how Do you get Traffic to your Blog in the First Place well you Will Have to Do some of the Following for a Start you Must Submit To the Three Major Search Engines Bing, Google and Yahoo

When you Have Submitted to search Engines you Also Now Have to Submit to Directories and the First one to Submit to is the Open Directory and This Can Take a Very long time before you Get  Accepted into The Open Directory Project.Now you Have also have to Submit to the Other Directories but wait there are Tens of Thousands of Directories so which one's Do you Submit to the is Something Many waste Time Doing and you Could Save lots of Time if you Just Search the Open Directory for Directories and Submit to the Directories Listed in the Open Directory.

After about 6 months your blog will See a Slight increase in Traffic as your Blog Slowly gets indexed by Search Engines. While you Wait for this to Happen you Can find Blog in your Niche and Place Comments on them are Read them Also but Never forget your Own Original Ideas and Do not follow the Instructions of just One Blog because it works For them. Article Directories are not for all Blogs and Don't pay too Much attention to them as they are mostly aimed at Affiliate Products and if you Have a Personal blog you are better Targeting People in Social Network here are the Most Important Social Networks to Join and How to Use them to Get Links and Traffic to your Blog.

Twitter is great if you Use it Correctly on follow people that Interest you because you are what you Read and if you Follow people that make Repetitive Tweets you are going to be a Bad Writer.Set up your Twitter Account to use Twitterfeed and this will Automatically Tweet you Latest Blog Post

Delicious is a Social Bookmarking Site Make an Account with Delicious and Bookmark All your Blog posts on Delicious and Add the People who you find Interesting to Add to Your Network.

Friendfeed is another Important Site you Should make sure you Have a Friendfeed Account as it Keeps you connected in multiple Networks.

Google Bookmarks like Delicious Bookmark all your Blog Posts using Google Bookmarks the Same goes for Mister Wong another Bookmarking Site make an Account hereand bookmark your Blog Posts

Mybloglog is a Blogging network where you can Find Other bloggers to get in Touch with use it.

Blogcatalog Also a Blogging community which can Be Better than Mybloglog as there is Active Community Groups and Discussions which you can Take part in.

Make Accounts at Digg and Stumble upon and Bookmark your Blog Posts there Also Join these Networks Today and Get it Over With because you Will need them in the Future.They are all Important if you Wish to Get Traffic to your Blog and Just Writing a Few Comments on Big Blogging Sites like Chris Brogan, Problogger and Copyblogger are Good Ideas most of the Time but you Should Also Comment on Smaller blogs as there is More Possibility that the  Authors Will Comment on your Blog.