Okay, it is easy to start a blog, you can just register at any free blogging platform, and start posting in your blog. However, your blog will be useless if you have no traffic at all. It is very difficult to get the initial traffic for a new blog because your new blog has little content, and of course you will not be able to optimize you blog for certain keywords to get high ranking in Google, if you do so, your content will look spammy, and Google does not like this at all. You can check out more about SEO for a blog in my precious post : How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog. So, how can you get the initial traffic for a new blog? That is the sole question of all new started blogs, and here, I am going to give some tokens of advice.

The easiest way to get some traffic in the beginning is to write a couple of articles which are very interesting and attracting. The articles can be very bizarre, or humorous, everyone likes this kind of articles. Make sure that the post title is stunning and is able to catch attention. By writing these articles, you will get the people to read your entire articles, if they like your posts, they will of course return in the future. So, you will get more returning visits in the future.

The best place to promote your interesting and attracting articles as aforementioned is at social media such as Digg, Stumble Upon, Technorati, Reddit, Netscape, Propeller, Del.icio.us et cetera. You can use this http://socialposter.com/ to submit your posts to these social media. Again, make sure that your title is very interesting, only by doing this, people will visit your blog to read that particular post. Of course, most people will say that traffic from social media is useless because people will only stay at your site or at your blog for 1 second, then they will leave. However, I would like to tell you the truth that if your articles are genuine and interesting, the people will definitely stay and continue reading. People who are usually complaining that social media does not provide good traffic is because they are providing duplicated or boring articles. I would not want to read boring articles, so do the visitors.

Lastly, make sure that you install social bookmarker plug in and ask your visitors to bookmark the articles as a gesture of support if they like your articles. By doing this, your visitors are actually helping you to promote your blog in other social media. The more people who bookmarked your blog, the more exposure your blog will receive, which will ultimately generate more traffic in the future.

In conclusion, social media is indeed a very good place to get the initial traffic, however make sure that your articles are interesting enough to attract these people.