The blogosphere is a big and busy world with over 100
million blogs and growing. How do you attract visitors to your blog? Follow
these simple tips to drive traffic to your blog.
1. Write
Well and Write Often
Frequently updating your blog with useful content is the first
step to building your blog's audience. The content you write is what will keep
readers coming back for more. Make sure you have something meaningful to say to
them and say it often to maintain their interest and keep them loyal.
Furthermore,
post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog's
content to be noticed by search engines such as Google or Technorati.
2. Submit Your Blog to Search Engines
Get on the radar screen for the popular search engines such as
Google and Yahoo! bysubmitting
your blog's URL to them.
Most search engines provide a 'Submit' link (or something similar) to notify
the search engine of your new blog, so those search engines will crawl it and
include your pages in their results.
It's important to understand that
simply submitting your blog to search engines doesn't mean your pages will
appear at the top of a Google search results screen, but at least your blog
will be included and will have the chance of being picked up by a search
engine.
3. Use and Update Your Blogroll
By adding links to sites you like in your blogroll, the
owners of those blogs will find your blog and will be likely to add a
reciprocal link in their blogrolls. It's an easy way to get the link to your
blog in front of many readers on other blogs. The hope is that some of those
readers will click on the link to your blog on the other blogs' blogrolls and
find your content interesting and enjoyable turning them into loyal readers.
4. Harness the Power of Comments
Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase
your blog's traffic. First, respond to comments left on your blog to show your
readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way
conversation. This will increase reader loyalty.
Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Make
sure you leave your blog'sURL in your comment, so you create a link back to
your own blog. Many people will read the comments left on a blog post. If they
read a particularly interesting comment, they are highly likely to click on the
link to visit the commentor's website. It's important to make sure you leave
meaningful comments that are likely to invite people to click on your link to
read more.
5. Syndicate Your Blog's Content with an RSS Feed
Setting up an RSS feed button on your blog makes it easy for your
loyal readers to not just read your blog but also know when you publish new
content.
6. Use Links and Trackbacks
Links are one of the most powerful parts of your
blog. Not only are links noticed by search engines, but they also act as a tap
on the shoulder to other bloggers who can easily identify who is linking to
their sites. Linking helps to get you noticed by other bloggers who are likely
to investigate the sites that are linking to them. This may lead them to become
new readers of your blog or to add links to your blog from theirs.
You can take links to other blogs a step further by leaving a trackback on the other blog to let them know you've
linked to them. Blogs that allow trackbacks will include a link back to your
blog in the comments section of the post that you originally linked to. People
do click on trackback links!
7. Tag Your Posts
It takes a few extra seconds to add tags to each of your blog posts, but it's worth the
time in terms of the additional traffic tags can drive to your blog. Tags (like
links) are easily noticed by search engines. They're also key to helping
readers find your blog when they perform searches on popular blog search
engines such as Technorati.
8. Submit Your Posts to Social Bookmarking Sites
Taking the time to submit your best posts to social
bookmarking sites such
as Digg,StumbleUpon, Reddit and more
can be a simple way to quickly boost traffic to your blog.
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9. Remember Search Engine Optimization
When you write your blog posts and
pages, remember to optimize your pages for search engines to find them. Include
relevant keywords and links but don't overload your posts with too many
relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords. Doing so can be considered
spamming and could have negative results such as your blog being removed from
Google's search entirely.
10. Don't Forget Images
Images don't just make your blog
look pretty, they also help people find you in search engine listings. People
often use the image search options offered by Google, Yahoo! and other search
engines, and naming your images with search engine optimization in mind can
easily boost your traffic.
11. Consider Guest Blogging
Guest blogging can be done
when you write a guest post on another blogger's blog or when another blogger
writes a guest post on your blog. Both methods are likely to increase traffic
as your blog will be exposed to the other blogger's audience. Many of the other
blogger's readers will visit your blog to see what you have to say.
12. Join Forums, Web Rings or Online Groups
Find online forums, web rings, groups or social
networking sites such
as Facebook andLinkedIn where you
can share ideas and ask questions of like-minded individuals. Add a link to
your blog in your signature line or profile, so each time you post on a forum
or participate in another online network, you're indirectly promoting your
blog. Chances are many people will click on that link to learn more about you.
13. Promote Outside Your Blog
Promoting your blog shouldn't stop
when you step outside the blogosphere. Add your blog's URL to your email
signature and business cards. Talk about it in offline conversations. It's
important to get your name and your blog's URL noticed offline, too.
14. Nominate Yourself and Other Blogs for Blog Awards
There are a number of blog awards
given out throughout the year. Nominating yourself and other blogs and bloggers
can draw attention to your blog and drive traffic to it.
15. Don't Be Shy
The most important part of the
blogosphere is its community and much of your success as a blogger will be tied
to your willingness to network with that community. Don't be afraid to ask
questions, join conversations or just say hi and introduce yourself. Don't sit
back and hope the online world will find you. Speak out and get yourself
noticed. Let the blogosphere know you've arrived and have something to say!
Establish
relationships, get links & optimize your blog for Google
Another way to get
traffic to your blog is by making your site “Google friendly”. In that way you
can get traffic from Google, as well as from Bing and Yahoo. In a nut shell, in
order to get better rankings, they all want you to have:
1. Good content
2. Links to your site from other blogs/resources
3. Social shares/likes
In order to get links,
you need to share your content. If people like it, they will most likely share
it on their blogs and websites. In case they don’t FIND your content by
themselves, you have to build relationships and use e-mail outreaching (See
step 4 – 5 again)
For further reading
about Search Engine Optimization, I suggest you to read those articles/blogs:
Start participating in forums and blogs that
are similar to yours
Another great way to start receiving traffic from different
sources is becoming active in all sorts of discussions that are relevant to
your blog. Here’s what you should do:
1) Become an active member on 2-3 forums that have a lot of
members. Start sharing your opinion on different boards/threads and don’t
forget to add your blog link in your signature. I used this strategy few months
back; every single day I made approximately 5-6 threads/replies on different
forums and I received ~100 visitors per day from it. Not too bad
Become an active reader
on blogs that are similar to yours. For example, if your blog is about fashion,
then it’s also wise to leave comments to other blogs that already have some
sort of audience. In that way you literally “steal”
Ask a small favor from your close friends
Pick 5-10 friends and send them a short and personal message to
ask for a share. You can send this through Facebook as well, but I personally
think that e-mail is way more personal. (The script for doing this is listed
below.)
Another option is choosing people who are interested in the same
topic that you cover. For example I’m covering blogging and how to get started,
so I targeted people who already have blogs but who have friends that may want
to start one.
readers from different blogs. However, make sure you don’t “spam”,
instead you should leave meaningful comments that actually attract others to
read your own blog.
Make a public announcement on your social
media profiles that you’ve started blogging
Most people are present on different social media platforms,
such as; Facebook, Google+, Twitter and others. Check where you have the
biggest number and most active followers and make a public announcement that
you’ve started a blog that covers [TOPIC]. Write your industry/niche there and
add a link to your blog. The first readers are usually your friends, family and
acquaintances. They are easy to catch online.
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