15 Easy Ways to Improve Your Blog’s Traffic

15 Easy Ways to Improve Your Blog’s Traffic

Here are fifteen easy ways you can increase your blog traffic, and all of the tips are very easy to follow, with the possible exception of number 13, but even that is easy if you follow the Google instructions and learn a little about interpreting the data. Here are fifteen easy ways to improve your blog traffic with a list that is in no particular order.

1 - Target repeat views over new traffic

This is important because a successful blog has most of its traffic made up by repeat visitors and not new visitors. Do not write posts that will alienate your regular viewers for the sake for getting a few more new viewers.

2 - Tweet every time you post a new blog post

There are actually tools that can do this for you, but tweeting is no big hassle. Plus, if you write different tweets every time then they have more appeal than having the same message appear every week automatically.

3 - Improve your website SEO

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the process of making your website more search engine friendly, and if you do this you will get more traffic from the search engines.

4 - Participate in the online community where your target audience frequents

This is going to be a bit of a hassle, but if there are forums or interest websites where your readers may frequent, then you should go there too and participate in the community to try and attract people over to your blog.

5 - Post previews on your Facebook and Google+ profiles

This means simply posting a chapter onto the social media networks. There are no duplication rules about social media, and if you leave the paragraph to end on a crucial moment then there is a chance that the readers will go to your blog to see how it works out.

6 - More pictures may help more people return

People like pictures and people do not like big chunks of text, so you should open up your text with the occasional image.

7 - Make sure you install an RSS feed

An RSS feed is going to help you bring people back again every week. It reminds people of when your next blog post is published, and even if they forget about your blog for months it will still show up on the RSS feed.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

8 - Have a great blog design that is user friendly

If the design is user friendly then people will come back for more and more, and if the design is good then it has a good impression on the read. It is better than what happens if the design is ugly or makes the website look old because people will simply not return.

9 - Use Google AdWords

You may use Google AdWords in order to buy more traffic. Their simple advert functions are easy to get used to because they try to explain everything as you are working your way through process.                                                                                                                                                                          

10 - Install backlinks for direct traffic

On other websites you do not have to keep going for search engine friendly backlinks. You can get backlinks from other sites that have a no-follow tag if you wish. They can still bring direct traffic to your blog.

11 - Target a certain audience

Have a target audience and you will be able to angle your blog posts and your marketing to appeal to them. It gives you a group to sell to and learn about.

12 - Check your blog post keywords with a frequency checker

Put your blog post in a safe word frequency checker. A safe one does not copy your post and put it on another website. Check to see if any of your keywords appear too often, and if they should be switched synonyms.

13 - Use Google analytics to improve your traffic building strategy

Set it up in your website (which is sometimes tricky) and then monitor the results. You do not have to learn a lot about it. In fact, you can say that if your traffic keeps going up then you are doing the right thing.

14 - Have a suggested blog posts section at the end of each post

There are widgets that can do this for you, but there is no bother in making a small selection of your own blog post suggestions and putting them at the bottom of each post. It will help to keep people on your website and help to keep them coming back when they fall in love with all your posts.

15 - Guest blog with links back to your blog

This is an easy way of getting more backlinks to improve your SEO. It also helps you spread the name of your blog, and you may even get a little direct traffic from that blog.

Author’s bio:

The guest post is written by Sonia Jackson from www.cool-essays.com. She writes essays on different topics and can give you useful advice.