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If you have a blog, you will need a steady stream of traffic to make the most of your online presence. If you thought that you can get the necessary traffic just by writing and publishing the content, you are wrong. You need to distribute your content effectively on the web so that people know about your presence and what you have to offer. So, here are some effective content distribution techniques to increase your blog traffic:

• Use social networking sites: You can use various social networking platforms like Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn to popularize your content among your followers, contacts and friends. You can also participate in groups, where your content adds value to the discussion or provides an insight from a different angle on the topic. You can also start your own group and create your dedicated followers, which in turn will allow you to reach these people directly via individual messaging.
• Social bookmarking: This is a method to save your blog URL as a bookmark on various social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us etc. Apart from giving you precious backlinks, this technique will help your blog to have traffic too as more and more people will click on your blog link and visit your site.
• Content as PDFs: You can use WordPress plugins to let people enjoy your content in the PDF formats. You can even integrate some special fonts and graphics as an added attraction for the PDF readers.
• Podcasts: Some people often prefer to listen to articles rather than reading it. If you want to take your content to these people, creating your own podcasts will help. Give people the option to download the same so that they can play it at their own convenient time and enjoy what you have to share.
• Videos: Creating videos with killer taglines and submitting them to places like Google Video, YouTube, PhotoBucket, BrightCove and Vimeo can also help people take notice of your offerings and flock to your blog to read more about it. In case you are writing about a specific niche, you can use some video sharing sites that cater to such clientele. For example, Tubetorial.com and ThatsHow.com are good places to popularize how-to videos while CritterBytes.com caters to matter related to pets and animals. If you want to promote cooking videos or recipes, try using ClipChef.com.

So, bring some creativity to create compelling and unique content and then fire all guns to market it on the World Wide Web.