Increasing Blog Traffic with Interviews and Guest Posts

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Every blogger wants to learn new ways to increase traffic to his or her blog. After all, what's the fun of writing online if no one is going to read your stuff? You might as well chisel it onto a block of marble and drop it into the ocean if you can't develop a readership.

Publishing interviews and guest posts on your blog serves to increase visibility immediately, and also to increase number of visitors over the long run.

Interviews

Interviews are great for a variety of reasons.

• They let other people in your industry know that you exist.
• You can learn terrific new things about publishing houses, other authors, techniques for getting published, etc.
• They increase the traffic to your blog, because the interviewee usually posts one or more backlinks, and helps to promote the interview in other ways as well.