Ways
To Increase Traffic To Your Blog – Most Common To The Most Innovative Ideas
- Talk to your friends about your blog.
Many people don’t know
the impact this simple effort can have on their blog. We think of promoting our
web only in digital ways and not in organic ways. If you don’t feel comfortable
or enthusiastic talking about your blog then how can you expect others to show
interest in your blog? If you can talk to at least ten of your friends, it will
soon grow in to 100 new visitors. Just try it and you have nothing to lose.
- Send your latest blog post links to your contacts
that wouldn't mind receiving the link.
You are likely to
have friends in your contacts list that would actually like you sending them
the links to your new blog posts if it is a matter of interest to them. Identify
such friends from your contacts list and start sending your links to blog posts
that will interest them. Success often starts in a small way!
- Add your blog URL to your email signature.
If you are a
person that sends numerous emails per day then here is your way to capitalize
on your email signature. Add a cool email signature that will give quick access
to your blog. Even if 10% of the recipients should visit your blog, it will
still be of your benefit. This is not going to cost you anything extra but it
is certainly worth the effort.
- Put a sticker in your car.
If you are so
proud of your blog then you will certainly do this. You should have that kind
of drive to take your blog to the next level of success. Try this and you will
notice your traffic rate growing gradually over a period of time. This might
start new visitors trickle into your blog even if it doesn’t make them flood
your blog. This should not take more than a few minutes to get this done but
you have lasting advertising solution sitting right on your driveway.
- Share your blog in Facebook.
Oh yes! Social
media marketing! What can we do without Facebook. Today all things bright and Facebook!
If you do not share your blog and your blog posts in Facebook, you are doomed. Facebook
has got such a great potential to send loads of traffic to your blog. This of
course will work only when you have a network of friends or followers in your Facebook
account.
- Tweet about your blog.
Keep sending periodic
tweets about your blog to regularly refresh your traffic rate.
- Pin images from your blog in Pinterest.
This is something
you have got to get in to the discipline of doing it, if not you will miss a
potential platform. The idea here is to keep as many doors open as possible for
your blogs to catch fire. Once the ball starts rolling the momentum will increase
and you cannot keep up to the rising momentum!
- List your blog in blog directories.
Look for blog directories
that will list you for free. Don’t go to Technorati because it is no more a
blog directory. Hundreds of resources out there will tell you to go to
Technorati to gain blog visibility but that information is outdated. There are
other blog directories that you can try. Just make sure to get your blogs
listed in some reputed blog directories.
- Bookmark your blog posts in social bookmarking
sites.
Think of Digg,
Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc., when you make a blog post. All these have their role
to play in bringing new traffic to your blog.
- Take part in forum discussions that are relevant
to your blog and include your blog address in your signature.
I am not talking
about some cheap forum discussions but, you should contribute positively to the
forum more than, I agree to Mr. X kind of posts. If you have something valuable
to say, people will want to see what you have to say in your blogs.
- If you are selling a product or service through
your blog, then list your blog in free classifieds site.
Why not? Free classified
sites are meant to tell people about various products and services that are
available in a given area. Do list your blog in free classifieds sites only if
you are selling a product or service but not otherwise because such listings
will be classified as spam otherwise.
- Keyword targeting the content will help you get
better visibility in the search results. Target long tail keywords in your
blog articles.
Write for human
visitors but be mindful that human visitors can come to your website only
through search engines at least a great percentage of them do. Carefully target
your top keywords in your blog posts. Let those top keywords reflect in the
blog titles, sub-headings, tags or labels.
- Try PPC campaigns initially to kick-start the
traffic rate.
You can keep this
as a last resource though. There is nothing wrong in setting aside a meager
budget to promote your blog if this means some commercial value to you.
- Find other blogs in your niche industry and take
part in the discussion in those blogs. Contribute positively and include
your blog’s link.
This is another underutilized
avenue. You think the other blogs in your niche industry have grown too big and
that they will not notice you. Surprise yourself and you will certainly not
regret. Bloggers that share genuine interest in a topic will look at
partnerships positively.
- Create an article on the same topic as your blog
and post the article in the article directories along with your blog’s
link.
Why limit article marketing
to just promoting your products and services? In a way, your blog is a product
that you are promoting. So go ahead and start writing some good articles and
you should be really good at it if you are a blogger. Try your hands on article
marketing and it is a free blog promotion strategy. This of course will cost
your time though.
- Create headings or blog titles that exactly match
popular internet searches.
Remember we talked
of keyword targeting. This point is an extension of keyword targeting, you will
be able to find what search terms are being used by your visitors or the
internet users in general. Try to incorporate such keywords and such terms in
your article titles.
- Increase the number of posts per week.
Blog harder! One
post per week will certainly not create the impact that you would like. I recommend
a minimum of one blog post a day.
- Provide useful statistics in your blog.
Make your blog
resourceful. Try to provide useful statistics to your blog visitors so that
they have a reason to come to your blog.
- Promote your blog in YouTube. This is one of the
most underutilized methods for blog promotions.
You can attract
hundreds of visitors to your blog through YouTube. People spend several minutes
every day watching videos online. Create interesting videos about your blog
posts and use them as teasers to get the attention of your target audience so
that they can come to your blog to consume more.
- Try answering questions in Yahoo Answers and
include your link.
This is another important
way of getting blog to the forefront. If you have something valuable to
contribute, people will start noticing you and will also start searching for
you.
- Try also to focus on traffic outside Google.
We have become pretty
much “Googlish” yes we cannot think outside Google when it comes to attracting
traffic to our blogs and websites. Google has in fact succeeded in achieving
its own goals but you can still think outside Google to attract more traffic to
your website. This is not to mean that you should not focus on Google traffic. If
Google is sending you 89% of the traffic, the remaining 11% traffic is
untapped, I am saying that you start tapping on the remaining 11% as well to
get the best bang out of your blogging efforts.s
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