As blogging becomes a very popular way for people to interact nowadays, it is also becoming a popular search engine optimization (SEO) tool as search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo are frequently searching for new content to include in their index and we all know that these blogs are frequently updated with content or visitor comments.
Increasing traffic to your blog is very important, though it takes time and patience and talent for blogging as some search engine optimization experts say.
SEO company employs many methods to increase blog’s traffic, some of these effective methods are the following:
#1 Quality Content
If you want people to be interested to read your blog, post quality blog content. This means that your content should be relevant, interesting and valuable to your readers.
#2 Publish Regularly
Publish new posts on your blog regularly or as more often as possible for the more frequent you create new article or news, the more traffic you get for search engines are indexing your content more frequently.
#3 Optimize your Blog Post
Whenever you create a new blog post, it’s always good to insert your targeted keywords on its title and content. However, do not overstuff it.
#4 Images as Visual Blog Appetizer
It is a fact that colors, particularly found in images or pictures, can first attract a person to any object before any text. Add images to your blog post in order to entice people to read your blog. A captivating and relevant image is what you need to visually entice people to read your blog.
#5 RSS Feed Button: A Traffic Generator
Add RSS Feed Button or Link (RSS Feed Subscription) at the End of your Blog Post. This RSS will make it easier for readers to subscribe to your blog, get your blog updates and become loyal readers, thus sending back more traffic to your blog.
#6 Share Buttons to Syndicate Your Blog
Add Share Buttons like Digg Button, Tweet Me Button, Twitter, Facebook and other social plugin buttons. This would make it easier for readers to share your blog content to Twitter, Facebook, Diggs and other social networking sites.
#7 Hanging Question as a Comment Generator
Add a hanging question at the end of blog post to encourage blog readers to put comments. Comments are often how new visitors judge the popularity of a blog. Don’t forget also to respond to reader’s comments to show them your interest to their opinions and suggestions.
#8 Social Bookmark Sites and Blog Directories
Submit your blog post to Social Bookmark Sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon as well as submit blog to Technorati, the largest blog directory on the web, in order to increase visibility of your blog.
#9 Syndicate to Social Network Sites
Post your Blog posts on Social Network Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin to share your blog thus increasing visibility of your blog.
#10 Google Analytics
Monitor your Blog’s Google Analytics so that you track your visitors and know which posts are more viewed, don’t get viewed, and are well liked as well as know how the search engines are delivering traffic.
There are more ways to increase traffic to your blog, stay tuned for the Part 2 of this article.
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Some tips here I’ve already used for my blog, there are other tips the first time I know. Thanks for the good article. I’m waiting for the next parts.
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I do agree with all the ideas you have presented in your post. They’re really convincing and will definitely work. Still, the posts are too short for beginners. Could you please extend them a bit from next time? Thanks for the post!!