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Monday, January 26, 2015

Increasing Blog Traffic: 3 Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog


When you start a blog, figuring out the most common ways of increasing
blog traffic should be at the top of your To-Do list.
You can spend hours and hours putting together the most exciting, attractive, and content rich blog ever in the history of blogs. But, unless you get the word out that it exists, no one will ever see the fruits of your labor.
And, if you are trying to make money blogging, you won't have any visitors to click on your affiliate links, buy the products you’re promoting, and line your bank account with commission checks.
So getting traffic to your site is important. And here are three simple ways to do it.

Article Marketing
Article marketing is one of the most tried and true methods of getting more traffic to any type of website, including blogs.
All you have to do is write a series of articles related to your topic. And they don't have to be very long. At many article directories, the minimum length for articles is 200 to 250 words.
After you have written your articles, submit them to article directories. Some of the most popular options are Ezine Articles, GoArticles, and Article Dashboard.
In the author's bio box, include a link back to your site, along with something that will make the reader interested in seeing what your blog has to offer.
Submitting articles to article directories is a quick and easy way to dramatically increase the number of visitors to your blog.

Social Bookmarking
At social bookmarking sites, you can share links to articles and other useful or interesting online content. When you post a link to one of your blog posts at a social bookmarking site, you are exposing it to hundreds, or even thousands, of people who could end up following that link and visiting your site.
You should get into the habit of bookmarking your best posts at some of
the big social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon etc

SEO Techniques
Another way to get more traffic to your blog is by applying SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques to your posts. These techniques can help your blog rank higher in the search engines for certain keywords. The higher a site ranks, the more likely it is people looking for info on that topic
will visit that site.
When writing a blog post, make sure a keyword or keyword phrase is used in the title and the first paragraph, as well as being sprinkled throughout the post. If possible, you should also use the keyword in the page’s meta tags.
Learning some simple methods of increasing blog traffic is an important step in becoming a successful blogger. And, by using these three easy techniques, you will quickly increase the number of visitors who will be dropping by to take a look at your blog.

Hope this Helps

5 comments:

  1. Wow! This is an eye opening post. I have an active ezine account, but I dont use it. I think its high time I started using it. Thanks so much.

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  2. As regards the articles on ezines, can you please explain what the minimum number of words the articles should be. I write articles not more than 100 to 200 words so that my audience can read it easily, but do you think E-zine would approve such short article?

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  3. SEO and article marketing work great together. If you can find a place to put a guest post that is going to bring in a lot of traffic, you are going to be sitting pretty good!

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  4. Article marketing is great, but it does take some work. I think people should understand that there is work to be done here and NONE of these options is a "set it and forget it" thing.

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  5. I agree with others there. SEO is a great thing to get to know and once you have it mastered, you are going to see some great results whether that be just traffic or even money from products that you might be selling.

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