{"id":899,"date":"2018-06-20T06:41:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T06:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/increase-blog-traffic\/"},"modified":"2024-02-23T22:23:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T03:23:48","slug":"increase-blog-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstsiteguide.com\/increase-blog-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Increase Blog Traffic (100+ Hands-on Tactics)","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Did you know that there are more than 570 million blogs<\/a> online? And only a few thousands of those attract a significant and satisfying readership. Building a blog, writing and posting articles is one thing while increasing the blog traffic and maintaining it is quite another.<\/p>\n\n\n \n If you have ever wondered how you can increase your blog traffic, read these essential tips that will help you put your blog on the map.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n\n\n The content of your blog will be the bait that attracts readers. You will need to figure out who is your targeted audience. Here is the list of questions you need to answer first to get a better understanding of your audience:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n An important thing you need to understand is how to make people come back to your blog, share your content and link to it. The format of content you create will play a critical role in getting more visits and social shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Good content makes people take action because they show one of the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It can be tricky to come up with content that would cover all the wishes and concerns of your audience. But if you have the right approach, your content will get a lot of traffic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The headline, or title of your blog post, has to capture the attention of potential readers. People may see it in their social media newsfeed or search results. Make sure you include the main keyword phrase that people could use when searching for the topic you are covering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s also important to include the principles mentioned above in your headlines. Show social currency, practical value, or focus on emotions to get your headlines clicked more often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are examples of good headlines:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You need to properly structure your content so that people can quickly scan through it. Use elements such as subheadline, bolded text, bullet points to optimize each post for both readers and search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n According to studies by SerpIQ long-form content usually gets higher rankings in search engine results. Below is the graph showing the connection between content length<\/a> and positions in search results.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n One type of long-form content is evergreen content. Evergreen content continues to be relevant to its readers and gives them value years after the publish date. It will help you improve your SEO ranking, and you will drive more traffic to your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n People also love tutorials. If you can explain something in detail and write instructions on how to do it, people will spend more time on your site. If the tutorial goes into detail, people will be more likely to share it with their friends. Also, long tutorials are something Google really likes so you might increase your page ranking in search results over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just like allowing guest posts, you may use a different approach to user-generated content. Instead of allowing people to have control over the entire article, you may enable them to post their photographs and videos. Individuals who find their material online will be more likely to share your site with their friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Creating a consistent schedule of posting on your blog helps your readers know when they can expect to hear from you again, whether it’s daily, weekly, monthly or even quarterly. The key to maintaining publishing consistency is to be realistic. Individual bloggers will find it difficult to create high-quality content<\/a> on a daily basis. Start with weekly or bi-weekly posts and work your way up to daily posts, if that is your ultimate goal. Just don’t sacrifice quantity for quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To help you maintain consistency, be sure to use some form of an editorial calendar. You can use Google Calendar, Outlook Calendar, or even a simple spreadsheet. Use it to manage your ideas and plan your content themes for each month so that blogging is something you focus on, not something you do in your spare time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is an example of the blog content plan:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n When you\u2019re working on SEO, you need to be aware of the existing factors that influence your ranking. These are elements that affect your ranking in either a negative or positive manner. There are two types of ranking factors: On-page and Off-page. To make your content SEO-friendly, you will have to pay attention to on-page factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is the list:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is an excellent example of elements of an optimized<\/a> page by Moz:<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n As we already mentioned and as you probably already know, SEO takes both time and knowledge. And while there’s so much you can do to improve your site in this area, you can start by installing a free SEO plugin if you’re using WordPress. Consider installing Yoast SEO<\/a>, or All in One SEO<\/a> which will help you optimize your articles for a specific keyword.<\/p>\n\n\n To create a list of targeted keywords for your content, you can use special tools such as SEMrush<\/a>, Google keyword planner<\/a>, KWFinder<\/a>, etc. These services provide an opportunity to see and estimate what requests, and in which amount is entered in search engines by users on a monthly basis. From this data, you must choose “keywords” that will be most useful for your post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No matter what tool you use, the selection process can be reduced to two conditions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s important to invest time and energy into creating quality content. But, it\u2019s as important to invest time and money into the design of your blog and content. Many studies showed that good design helps<\/a> you build trust with your visitors. Remember, you have about 50 milliseconds to make a good first impression<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If people trust and like your blog, they are likely to come back. Thus, make sure you invest in good design.<\/p>\n\n\n Every kid in school knows that you can’t have a fixed-width site anymore. Your website, no matter the topic, has to be mobile-friendly<\/a>. If you spend some extra time during development and make sure that your site looks good on each and every smartphone and tablet, you will get more visits from those devices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Check your Google Analytics report to find out how many visitors come from smartphones and tablets, and find out which resolutions were they using. Then add that extra CSS line to make your responsive site even better for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Create and add graphics to your content. Images can be a great source of additional traffic<\/a> to your website. Different types of infographics<\/a> can also help to build traffic. You can let people use your images and ask them to cite you as a source. You can even create infographics<\/a> and then create a pre-made HTML code that people can copy and paste on their websites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is how we do that in our Infographics and Cheat Sheet sections:<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Before getting to the description of an image, make sure that you name that image correctly. Instead of random letters and numbers, try to add a keyword directly into the name of an image. For example, if you’re writing about Twitter, try including “Twitter” in the name of your featured image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you upload an image to your article, don’t forget to add a description. Google and other search engines are smart machines so don’t just add a simple keyword into the description. Still, don’t write an entire story in the description. Be brief and precise, and write several words for each image. This can help you with SEO, and it will help you to get your images on top of Google image searches for the specific keyword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n While you will probably share your articles and stories from your niche, sometimes it’s ok to share something totally unrelated. For example, include occasional funny quotes, jokes, funny images and videos which may interest your followers. It will allow you to connect with your audience on another level, plus it might get you a share or two more from people who usually wouldn’t share business material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interlinking your blog articles between each other is important. If done correctly, this technique can get you some nice traffic benefits. If you include links to other interesting articles on your blog people will eventually click and visit more pages on your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Social media is a useful instrument for promoting your blog content. You need to make sure to include social buttons to all your content, so people can easily share it on social networks. That would help you get additional traffic and exposure to your content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You can place sharing buttons at the top of your content, at the bottom of your content, or on the side, as a floating widget. Or you can use all of the options if you want.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone who comes in contact with you should know that you have a blog. Some good ways to ensure this include the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thousands of people are looking for answers on the web every day. You can create accounts on Questions & Answers websites such as Quora<\/a>, Stack Exchange<\/a>, and similar and start helping people by answering their questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The idea is to find topics that are related to your niche and be active in those sections. It will help you get your name out there and build authority. You can direct people to read more relevant content that you have created on your website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here are couple of examples of topics from Quora:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Here is a list of different topics on Stack Exchange<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Commenting on other relevant blogs is a great way to build relationships with top bloggers within your niche. Research the web to find top blogs<\/a> in your niche and start commenting on their newest posts. It will help you make them and their readers aware of your existence as well as a way of developing your authority within the niche.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Whenever you can, try to engage your readers. A simple call to action can be enough to make your reader leave a comment. Ask them a question at the end of your article. Ask for an opinion. Start a discussion. Any of this can bring more people into your post which will become more enjoyable to everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This one is a no-brainer, and it should be number one on your list. Once you start your blog<\/a> and write your first piece of content ask your close ones to share it online. If you ask twenty people to share it on social media with their connections, you will slowly start getting visitors to your blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you build relationships with fellow bloggers within your niche, you can ask them to share your content with their audience. If your content is great or you have done some proper research you could also request a link. Not only it will get you some referral traffic, but links also help you to rank higher in search engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Don\u2019t wait until you get a substantial amount of traffic, start using email signup forms<\/a> to collect subscribers from the beginning. If on the first day of launching your blog you get few people who love it, you want those people to give you their email address so you can keep them up to date with what is happening on your blog. Later, this list will be what you use to promote your new content or products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Offer your blog visitors a way to subscribe to your blog via RSS readers such as Feedly<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n102 techniques to increase traffic (visitors) to your blog <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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