Blog Traffic Tips

Do you want to increase your blog’s traffic? I can see a lot of hands, waving like crazy.

Isn’t it what we want in the first place? Since you want to achieve high exposure for your blog, make sure that you do some online effort to make it happen.

Yes, that’s right. But I tell you, that involves writing, something that a lot of bloggers are challenged to do. If you want to drive traffic to your blogs but does not have that much time to write those promotional articles, here’s five tips on how to come up with unique articles for quick blog traffic, without sweating of course.

Hire a professional writer online

Of course, this involves money. But remember this, you are only paying them for their talent and time. Make use of their expertise to work to your advantage. You can check out a lot of blog writers to do the work for you, and of course you have the liberty to check their sample output first to make sure that they will deliver based on your expectations. Whether you need a blog writer, a copywriter or an article writer it doesn’t matter, just make sure that you will check their credentials and sample works before you virtually inked the deal.

Open your blog for Guest Posters

A barter deal with guest posters won’t hurt since you are aiming to increase your blog’s traffic. It’s like sharing your traffic, something that will be both beneficial on you and the guest poster. This can be done without shelling out your hard earned money and will foster good online relationships with other bloggers.

Write a 101 list

Who doesn’t like a 101 list? This will only involve you to collect the details in number form. Short, simple and straight to the point. Who doesn’t want that in a blog article right?

Collect other people’s comments and suggestions, ethically

This is really easy, make sure that the purpose for collecting their comments and or suggestions is clear to prevent people from thinking that this is a way to spam them and encourage them to participate on your initiative.

Your suggestions

This is where I would ask for your input so we can help each other in the process. Share your related best practices here. What do you have in mind?

Forum posting is still a popular way to bring in traffic to your blog or any site you are maintaining. However it requires a bit more effort because you have to create a good presence on the forum you are frequenting.

For example, you can’t just join a forum and start pasting links to your blog with every forum post that you make. Because for most forums, the administrators require that you first reach a certain number of posts before you can past live links or even put a link to your site as part of your signature.

In short, you have to be really active in the forums and create a relationship with the other users. Only then can you start pasting your own links. Another benefit for this is if you keep on providing good and informative answers, people will start to see you as an expert in your field. Naturally, they will be interested to read more about you so they will click through to your blog.

There are other benefits of being an active member in any forum but these are the primary ones.

Writing dozens, hundreds or even thousands of articles and making them available for distribution is one of the best ways to ensure that your website gets surges in traffic over the long-haul. Why? Let me explain:

When you put your articles into distribution (meaning you submit them to ezine publishers and the article sites that ezine publishers visit for fresh content), you increase your chances of your article getting picked up as supplemental content by ezine publishers. They take your article and send it to their email newsletter membership or add it to their website. Read the rest of this entry »

For many years, article marketing has been used as an effective means to promote websites and improve blog traffic. Thousands of online article diretory sites allow website owners to submit articles and target web surfers. But only a few of them have high search engine rankings and ability to draw great web traffic.

An expertly written article can be easily positioned high in Google, Yahoo! and other search engines. On the other hand, a poorly written article will fail in terms of gaining attention of new visitors to your blog or site. But if you really want to make good use of your article as a selling strategy, you should see to it that it is informative and does not sound as a sales pitch. Read the rest of this entry »

Linkbating is really not a new concept and it has for years been used by expert bloggers and internet marketers to gain additional traffic to their blogs or websites. Linkbait is simply content written particularly to make plenty of interest for others to willingly create links back to your website. In simple words linkbaiting is all about encouraging others to link back to your web site.

Google and the other search engines also gives importance to the links for them to understand the page rank of a site. So your website  is directly related to the quality backlinks of your site
The the end purpose of linkbaiting is to offer something interesting and mentionable that other sites will link to your website willingly.

A number of good link baiting strategies are: Read the rest of this entry »

Some web site managers place their web site links in signature lines, vainly hoping that it will increase traffic to their web site. Unfortunately, even if you create good posts, people sometimes disregard the signature lines. Therefore, if you like to make these backlinks more useful when it comes to gaining more blog traffic, you will need to find some means to draw attention to your signature line.

There are times the simplest way to get people to click on your signature line is to ask them to do so. For example, if you are commenting in a forum, you can simply ask people to read your site for extra information. If people are interested in what you are telling them, there are chances that they might want to click through to your site. Aside from getting extra blog traffic, you can also have a better chance of employing popovers and other strategies to better increase your site’s conversion. Read the rest of this entry »

If you have heard of a lot of ways to increase blog traffic and are getting tired of hearing or reading those tips online, I have another one to offer you, now, it is not the type of all the list of to do’s to keep your viewers glued on your blog. This time, what I will share with you are the quick ways to slow down your blog traffic today.

1. Inconsistent Posting Frequency

If you will post say 10 quick posts in a day, then your customers will have to wait for a week or two before your next one, you’re sure to drive your visitors away.

2. Too Many Ads on Your Blog

Yes, you may want to earn some more money on your blog by posting these boxed ads all over the page, but if you will fill your blog with too much ads then they might click those ads instead and before you know it, they are already out of your blog.
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