13 Effective Ways To Drive Traffic To A New Blog
It's quite true that majority of bloggers do quit their blogging career simply because of low or no traffic. Perhaps you've spent sometimes and your hard earned money to setup a brand new blog and unfortunately you have just nothing to right home about. If that is the case you're not alone. When i started my journey in the blogosphere it wasn't that easy for me, i research day and night and come out with a unique and quality contents, but what happened? Even upon all my hardworking sometimes i do slept very late at night, the result wasn't that appealing in anyway until i got my foot wet on how to go about increasing traffic to a blog.
So in our today's tutorial am going to share with you the most effective ways to drive traffic to a blog being it a new or old blog.
Writing guest posts is one of the easiest way to reach out to targeted audience around the blogosphere. If you write at least of 4 quality guest posts per week for 3 months, you'll definitely get more exposures to thousands of readers out there, thus you automatically drive traffic to your blog.
How To Do Guest Posting? Before you start guest posting for other blogs there're some things you need to consider such as:-
So in our today's tutorial am going to share with you the most effective ways to drive traffic to a blog being it a new or old blog.
How To Drive Traffic To Your Blog?
1. Guest Posts:Writing guest posts is one of the easiest way to reach out to targeted audience around the blogosphere. If you write at least of 4 quality guest posts per week for 3 months, you'll definitely get more exposures to thousands of readers out there, thus you automatically drive traffic to your blog.
How To Do Guest Posting? Before you start guest posting for other blogs there're some things you need to consider such as:-
- You should only write for blogs of your same niche. Example: If your niche is about blogging tips and tricks, then you also need to write guest posts for any blogging tips and tricks related blogs. Doing so would definitely drive more targeted visitors to your blog.
- You should be able to figure out the traffic of a particular blog before writing a guest post. You can go through the blog contents to know its quality.
- Check the alexa rank of a blog before guest posting. It's recommended to guest post for blog with alexa rank below 200k.
To drive traffic to your blog you have to spend some limitless time and research on what is actually vogue in the blogosphere and bring them to live by posting it in your blog. If you keep refreshing your blog with quality contents there's no doubt, the traffic would automatically flow in.
3. Write Often:
Contents is king. How could you expect massive traffic when your blog isn't updated? It's impossible. Contents is king and that's for real. No contents; No traffic. Less contents; Less traffic. No one would ever wants to spend his/her time reading old and outdated blog contents that would never bring solutions to his/her problem. So updating your blog regularly would actually drive more traffic to your blog. That means, you'll receive traffic from search engines and also keep your readers updated.
4. Participate In Social Networking Sites:
As a blogger you must have to be social on the internet. You should not only write and relax. Try participating on social networking events, communities, groups etc. Joining this groups would add more grease to your elbow by exposing you to other influential and newbie bloggers. You can use social networking sites as a medium to promote your latest blog posts, thus boosting your traffic.
5. Join Social Bookmarking Sites:
Joining social bookmarking sites is also a very nice idea. You can join either with your Facebook or Twitter account. You can posts your latest posts on this sites; if your contents makes any sense to the readers they may also share it to their friends. You can register on the following bookmarking sites:
- StumbleUpon
- Delicious
- Digg
Building backlinks is essential for blog growth and popularity. Search engines like Google and others gives total authority to blog with genuine backlinks. If other blogs/websites link back to your blog, that would instruct search engines how important and popular your blog is, therefore putting your blog on the front burner of serp.
- Must Read:- Increase Backlinks With Comment Enabled Blogs
7. Comment A Lot On Other Blogs:
Always leave a useful comments on other blogs of your same niche. Blog commenting play three major roles on increasing your blog traffic. These are:
- It build relationship between you and other bloggers.
- It increases your blog traffic.
- You also get backlinks through blog commenting.
Search engine optimization is the major key for increasing your blog traffic. All you need is some basic SEO technique. This include the following:
- Using Google Adwords - Keyword Tool: You can easily optimize your posts for search engines by performing a keywords search. These would help you to find the exact phrase people are using to conduct searches; So using those phrase would actually help you rank well on serp, thus increasing your daily traffic.
Using an optimized images on posts is another way of driving and increasing your blog traffic. You can optimize your images by renaming, using titles and giving your images an alternative information (alt) example: <img src="blgostable-img.png" title="use image title here" alt="use alternative text here"/> Alternative text gives the search engines spiders the vividly description of what the image is all about. Note: Using keywords in the alt is highly recommended.
10. Submit Posts To Web Directories:
There're tons of web directories submission sites where you can submit your posts and get instant traffic and backlinks. To submit your posts to articles directories read the below posts.
11. Submit Your Blog To Search Engines:
To gain more exposure on search engines make sure that you submit your blog to search engines including Google. There're other search engines where you can also benefit from.
12. Submit Your Blog Sitemap To Google:
This is one of the necessary steps to take as a blogger. This would help Google to fully crawl and indexed your contents with no hassle. Taking this step would also increase your blog traffic gradually.
13. Use Email Newsletter Technique:
If you've already build a handy list of emails subscribers, it's now time to convert your subscribers to regular readers. Make sure you keep your subscribers updated, that would give the reason of coming back next time.
Conclusion:
This was today's tutorial regarding how to drive traffic to a blog. And we've mentioned all that is needed to be done in order to drive targeted traffic to your new blog. If you have any query regarding these tutorial kindly share your view through comment. Also remember to share these to yo your social networking friends. They may also find it useful.
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