So you’ve finally got yourself a blog. You’re posting daily on loads of cool stuff and doing all the things a great blogger should do but where are the visitors? What’s the point of spending all that time and effort on buildling a great blog if nobody comes to see it?

You see, it’s not enough just to have your blog, now you need to get people to come to it.  Bringing traffic to your site is difficult at first but once your site  has been around for a while and you are posting to it regularly, the mighty king of search engines, yes, I’m talking about Google, will begin to show you some love and send traffic your way without you have to do much to get, except maintain a great blog of course!

So while you are waiting for Google’s love, along with millions others, there are some things you can do to get people to come to your blog and check out the great stuff you are posting there, and maybe click on a ad or two, which makes it all worthwhile if you are in blogging for the money!

There are dozens of ways to bring visitors to your blog.  Lot of people who are new to blogging and desperate to get visitors will dive right in and start working on all of them a once which turns into a ‘jack of all trades master of none’ type of situation.  If you wanted to learn a new instrument you wouldn’t try to learn the flute, guitar, piano and diggeridoo all at once, would you? Yes, the diggerdoo is an instrument! What you would do is master one a time and the same goes when it comes to learning the skills needed to get traffic to your new blog.

Here are 5 quick tips you can use to start bring visitors to your blog:

1. Hunt down relevant places where you can link to your blog. A great place to start is Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answer nearly always come up top of Google for question type searches. If somebody asks where can I find great Twilight wallpapers and your blog has some, leave a reply. This is a quick and easy way to get a link to your blog on page 1 of Google.

2. Organise a link or banner swap with blogs that compliment your own. Or arrange to be a guest poster on a similar blog. By collaborating and bulding good relations with people in with blogs similar to your own, you can open your self up to a whole new source of traffic.  Just like in the offline world, be nice to poeple and you will generally find that they will be nice back.  So get emailing right now! The amazing thing about the Internet is that there are so many people out there to colloborate with and most like you, are looking for easy ways to get free traffic.

3. Social bookmarking is huge … who hasn’t been to Digg, Stumbleupon or Delicious.  Everytime you post, remember to submit your post to as many social booking marking sites as you can find. This is an excellent way to get links to your site. Google loves to see links to your site from some of the biggers sites, it know and trusts.   Post something great and the chances are it will go viral.  Social bookmarking sites are excellent for an instant traffic boost.

4. If you love forums this tip is easy. Join lots of forum related to your blog, if you haven’t already and reply to posts that are relevant. Don’t spam or you’ll be hated and banned.  Try to hang out there often and build a reputation for providing useful information and links if relevant.  Forums are a great place to pick up tonnes of free traffic.

5. Keep a twitter profile  for your blog and update it everytime you do something related to your blog, like post or promote.  Notifying all your followers will bring some immediately traffic to your blog to check out your new changes. This is great in two ways, one, you get traffic and two, it creates a link (backlink) to your blog from sites that Google loves.  Google will come check you out and add you to its list of sites to love too! Nice