If you want to attract a strong readership for your blog, it’s obvious that you need to create great content. But that’s not sufficient: amazing content that doesn’t get read might as well not exist. To build a thriving blog, you also need to learn to drive traffic to it.
Sometimes we do everything to attract new visitors. We spend hours to design our blog template, work hard to write quality and unique content to publish but if we don't have decent audience to read our content then all of our hard work will be in vain. Traffic from search engines (organic traffic) is really important to boost the ranking of blog.
So what methods do the experts use? We’ve compiled a list of 6 tried and true ways to build your audience:
Tips To Increase Blog Traffic
1. Keyword Research
Before publishing any article always do some research on your keywords, which you are going to use into your post. Always use Long Term Keywords (Long Tail Keywords) because they are easy to rank as compare to short term keywords. Google also show accurate result while somebody search for any information if the user query contains more than 5 words. You can use Google Keyword Tool to get idea which keyword you should use for your posts.
2. Use Share Buttons
Social share buttons really works to get new visitors to your blog. If your readers like your post content then surely they will share it with their friends. This will invite new readers to your blog to read the story. Beside this, share buttons also help to increase your blog backlinks and search engines loves these backlinks. It will also help your articles to rank high in search engines result.
3. Blog Commenting
Make it your habit to post comments on other popular blogs of same niche regularly. It is the best way to increase your blog readers. If possible then try to leave the first comment with link back to your sites. Because readers also read comments and first comment attract the readers and if your comment is interesting for readers then they will surely click on your link to know about your blog. It will increase your blog readership and hence more traffic to your blog.
Note: Don't put spam comments. First read the post and then leave a valuable comment that add some value to the conversation. Don't comment like 'nice post', 'helpful article' etc. These types of comments not attract the readers.
4. Quick Loading Design
You must need to make your blog looks professional. Always try to make your blog's look nifty. Visitors love fast loading blog and if your blog takes 5 minutes to load then they will click on back button and go to the other blog, which will also increase your blog bounce rate. Try to reduce loading time for your blog. Visitors like to read fast loading blogs.
5. Reply to Comments
Reply to your reader's comments. Solve their queries and doubt about the topic you are posting. It will help you to build better relationships with your blog visitors. They will like to visit your blog again and again to get something new. Returning visitors are really important for the success of a blog.
6. Use Q&A Sites
Use Question and Answers websites like Yahoo! Answers. Try to be active on such sites because these sites can give of lot of free and targeted traffic. Search questions to your niche and answers them and provide your website link as source. If you give best answer then it will attract new visitors to your blog and they will become your reader. You can also use some popular forums for this purpose like Digital Point Forums.
These were the 6 tips on how to increase blog traffic. These tips will help your blog to get notified in search engine eyes. Once your blog starts ranking in search engines then your organic traffic will increase automatically. Please mention below that how did you find this article.
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