Okay first of all, lets clear things up. Don’t expect a rush of traffic from Knol (like the “Digg effect”). So here are the things you need to know:

Go write a Knol

Are you thinking about what you should write? Well write about the things you’re good at. Like I wrote a Knol about resellers. Find out what you’re pro at and the write about it. Just don’t spam and make sure the quality of the content is good.

Add a few backlinks

Go to my Knol about resellers. See how I added a backlink to my blog? Do that in your own Knol. Make sure the links are relevant to the Knol and try to keep the number of backlinks low (so it doesn’t look spammy). Plus you can also hyperlink a few words on your Knol to your site (keep it relevant!).

When should you start writing?

ASAP! Knol is pretty new right now and there aren’t a lot of Knols. So, you should take advantage of it. People will see your article, rate it high (if they like it) and then later on (hopefully) more people will read yours instead of the newer Knols on the same topic.

Why should you do this?

Well people noticed that Knols are ranking high in SERPs. Now that’s good for us. Jack some traffic! Your Knol ranks high, you threw in a few backlinks, people see your Knol and they check out the links. Tada! Simple as that.

Plus don’t forget you can also make a few bucks from Knol. You can link your AdSense account to Knol and get the revenue from the ads displayed on your Knol. So, there we go another reason to invest a few minutes in Knol.

This is even better than “Digg effect”

I’m not joking. You only stay on Digg’s front page for a few hours and you get about 15K visitors on average (and it crashes your server). On Knol, you’ll be up there forever (and no server crash!). No one’s taking you off, buddy. There is no front page that will take you off after a few hours and make you say goodbye to the huge traffic wave.

In my opinnion, this would be great way to get some long-term traffic. Writing a Knol doesn’t take you that long. I wrote my first one in about 10-15 minutes. Well good luck and let us know if it worked for you.

Stumbling other sites

I’m assuming that you have an account and have the toolbar installed. If not then go do that first. Okay don’t just start stumbling your own blog. Lets make it look legit and save your ass from getting banned by SU. So, go to some of your favourite sites and click on the “I like” button on your toolbar aka stumbling it.

Do that on about 2-6 sites. And make sure that you write a review on at least 2 sites. Make sure that the review is nice and not just some dumb shit.

Time to stumble your blog

Yeah now lets work on your blog. First pick a post (preferably a recent one) that you think is superb and would be useful to people. Bookmark that. Write a nice little review and try not to look spammy. Okay good. Don’t stumble all the posts. Just pick the best ones.

Adding friends

Add a few random people as your friend. And if you know people that use SU and has been a member for a long time then you just won the lottery. Add them right away. Ask them to stumble your blog and write a nice review.

Stumbling Networks

There are sites which are dedicated to stumble exchanges. Like people there will stumble you and in return you’ll stumble them. Smart bastards, huh? One of the sites that does that is StumbleXchange. And another one is BlogCatalog. You’ll find groups like this on BlogCatalog that exchange stumbles. You could give them a try. It’ll be worth it.

So that’s it for now. Have fun stumbling! And feel free to subscribe to my feed for more stuff like this. Or you can subscribe via email.

Now where you advertise really depends on your targeted audience. Advertising anime site in a tech forum won’t work. So you get my point? Okay now lets talk about some places in general that will help you.

Places that will bring traffic

Digital Point forums: This is one of the most active forums I’ve ever seen and the members over there know what they are talking about. Now you can get a good amount of traffic from this site. Open an account and put your site’s link in the signature and start posting (make sure that they are good quality posts and don’t spam).

If you don’t want to spend your time posting there. Then go over here and you’ll find a lot of people willing to post for you for a couple of bucks. And if you hire someone make sure that he/she doesn’t spam.

PayPerPost: This is a new site where you can pay bloggers to blog about you. Not a lot of bloggers and advertisers at the moment, but its still good. Make an account there and start getting people to blog about you. Its pretty cheap. Bloggers there would do it for $10 probably.

PayPerPost also gives you the ability to indicate in the posts if it was a sponsored or not. I would recommend that you don’t reveal that it was a sponsored one. You want it to look real.

StumbleUpon: A great social bookmarking site. You can get a good amount of traffic from this site only if you do things smart. First of all, make sure that you don’t just bookmark all your sites. Like bookmark a few other random sites and also yours. That will give your bookmarks a lot more value and won’t be flagged as spam.

Try finding people who have been using StumbleUpon for a long time. Ask them to bookmark your site. Or if you can’t find people then do like a bookmarking exchange. You bookmark someone else’s site and they will bookmark yours.

Digg: Another great social bookmarking site. Just do the same as StumbleUpon. One more thing, Digg works best with blogs, news sites, videos and forums.

Other ways to advertise

Comment on popular blogs, upload an unique video on YouTube, use Google AdWords, and make a big chain mail. Oh and Facebook and MySpace. Don’t forget them. Find someone popular on Facebook and MySpace (with a lot of friends) and ask them to send a message to everyone about your site.

A small gift

Well its not really a gift or something. But if you guys want to use AdWords then use this link to signup and you’ll get a $50 credit. Make sure that you stop advertising after you spent $50 or else it will charge you.

So try these tips out and you’ll surely get a good amount of visitors. And one more thing, never spam! Yeah don’t spam. It might get you a bit of traffic at first but in the long run it doesn’t work.