Traffic for blog is very important to rank well in search engine. But that traffic should be in real way or relevant traffic. But this is important to know the real sources to get more traffic for your blog. There are many rules to do SEO for your website and you have to follow those rules in order to rank in Google search. You have to increase traffic for your blog maintaining the rules and regulations set by Google. That rules are being updated after a certain time. You may ask why those rules are so important? The answer is the Google spam team set those rules to stop blackhat SEO or unfair SEO and to rank relevant websites when someone searches in Google with keywords.
It is very easy to start a blog but it’s hard to continue that blog. Its even harder to get traffic for that blog but if you do SEO in right way then you can get the right traffic for your blog. Here I am going to tell you real sources to get more traffic for your blog.
1. Quality Content:
Content quality is the major and very effective way to get traffic for your blog. You have to share quality content for your readers. You need to find out the kind of content your readers like most. Make you content easy to understand, easy to read, choose a well readable font and size of that font, point out important matters with quote or marking with color.
Try to follow On Page SEO rules for each article, do not try for keyword stuffing, always use long tail keywords, and try to diversify your keywords because Google loves it very much. You content should more than 500 words; grammatical mistakes or spelling mistakes is not allowed. Always try to interlink your articles with each other, which will give you ranking boost.
You should provide eye catchy, reader friendly and helpful contents that will increase your returning visitor. Remember one thing, if your reader loves your article then you do not need to think about traffic, they are going to increase your traffic. What that means that you have to write articles always thinking about your readers and if you can then its called quality content.
You can read the articles below:
- 10 Tips for Writing a Viral Content for Your Blog
- Writing SEO Articles For The Human Mind? Keep These 5 Tips In Mind
2. Email or Newsletters:
This is very effective way to increase traffic. For this you need a huge amount of email list or subscriber, which is a big problem. Buying email list and sending emails with your articles will be spam and that traffic comes to you blog will not stay with you in future. In order to increase email list or subscriber you need to follow some fair ways, which will increase your traffic as well as make them stick with you.
- Try to sell free eBooks with email subscription
- Try to sell free application with email subscription
- Ask readers to subscribe for future articles and this will impact most to your blog.
- Add a subscribe button at the homepage of your blog at right side of a widget.
- Add subscribe button after every bottom of the article.
I have added one plugin to get more subscribers. If you want to know how, you can read the article How I have Doubled the Number of Subscriber of My Blog.
3. Social Media:
Increase your social media experience with Facebook, twitter, Google+ and others. Create an account or page in each and every one of them. Try to share your articles on there and also very helpful articles whether its not you articles. Follow people to follow you back and this works well in Google plus. Try to engage with your readers in social media by answering their questions and helping them. This will boost your social media traffic.
- Importance of SMO (Social Media Optimization)
- List Of 5 Social Media Tools To Get Social Share For Your Article
4. Social Sharing Community:
Try to engage yourself in social sharing communities like Reddit or Stumbleupon etc. with real interest. Make a plan, list each one of them and go for the work. Try to share everyday in these platforms. You can get a really effective article related to social sharing in my blog and you can read the article named ” E = MC2 Social Effect Of Viral Content Buzz“.
5. Guest Blog:
Few months ago there was some rumor that guest blogging is dead. But do you know that guest blogging is not dead? It’s dead for those who sells link to their blog. I told you before that if you do SEO in real way then its good for your blog and boost your traffic. Do not buy or exchange links while guest blogging. Always try to choose blogs that have at least page rank 4 for guest blogging. Before choosing you need to find out problems with that blog, try to check its ranking and SEO factors that the blog is good for search engines or not.
6. Links to signature:
Add homepage link to your signature if you are sharing your emails or PDF or any kind of documents. It will increase your traffic and they may become real readers. You can also register in some top forums like WorriorForum, Digital Point Forum and insert your blog link in the signature. You will get good number of visitors from those links.
7. Add SSL for you blog:
This is brand new rules from Google that if any blog have SSL included it will boost rank in Google. Its very good news that will secure your site and increase blog ranking as well. It’s a bit problem to divert to SSL but you can contact with your domain and hosting provider to fix problems about SSL.
8. YouTube Videos:
Try to make some video for your readers that because visual content is more friendly that text content. It will increase reader’s attractions. Add your blog link to your YouTube video to come and visit your blog when someone watches your videos. Ask people to like your video, answer the questions for the people ask below the video. Engage totally with the people and support their concepts.
9. Slideshare:
This is an awesome way to increase traffic for your blog. All you need to do is to create a PowerPoint or keynote presentation with your blog links to it and share to slideshare platform and then add that slide to your blog. You can ask people to share your slide on their blog or anywhere else, as Slideshare is very established platform. Visual contents are effective ways to increase readers interest. Always try to put step by step procedure or shorter form of a way into the slideshare presentation. But remember that it will have to be understandable to the reader.
10. Link Wheel:
This is one of the most effective ways to generate traffic for your blog. Most amazing matter is if you do link wheel for your blog then your traffic results and ranking will come for long term. But you have to maintain proper rules with actual plans. Otherwise Google will penalize your site.
There are lots of ways to increase traffic for your blog but you have to find out the fair one. Always try to increase organic traffic, stick with quality content, try to be active in Google+, share Google products links to your blog like YouTube or Google+ profile. Always try to be good in front of all the search engines, if you could do then you do not need to worry about the traffic, search engines will bring your traffic automatically.
