Tips for Increasing Your Blog’s Followers and Traffic
Tip #1 – Stop Using “Get Traffic Quick” Tactics
Stop trying to circumvent the traffic generation process. Building a solid blog following is a process that does inherently take some time.Tactics like gaming StumbleUpon or Reddit, writing deceptively attention catching titles and so on are not the answer to getting high quality long term traffic.
Instead, aim to provide quality content that people will actually want to share. Create content that inspires people to come back time and again. That’ll get you more blog traffic than any quick fix solution.
Tip #2 – Tap Your Customer Base
One place people often neglect is their existing customer base. Often time’s people try to separate their customers from their blog.
For example, they might only send marketing materials using email to their customer list, while they try to use their blog to attract new customers. This is counter productive.Your customers need to be sold just like anyone else. They need to continually be reminded of your credibility and expertise. Furthermore, by continually providing value in the form of free content, you increase the chances that they’ll buy again.
Try and get your buyers to become readers. Let them know about your blog in your promotional emails and perhaps even in the product itself.
Tip #3 – Narrow Down Your Audience
Does your message hit home? Do your customers feel like you’re talking to them directly?
Many blogs try and be far, far too broad and generic. For example, a blog that’s targeting “internet marketers” is almost definitely going to get lost in the crowd.
On the other hand, a blog that’s dedicated to helping new stay at home moms create a second stream of income could work very well.
What is your core audience? Try and narrow your audience down to the people who would most likely relate to you. Then speak to them directly.
Tip #4 – Do Guest Posts, Accept Guest Posts
Guest posting is one of the best ways for bloggers to vouch for one another and share traffic.
If you guest post on someone else’s site, they’re implicitly endorsing you. You’ll get your content in front of their audience, which means a lot of high quality traffic back to your website. You’ll also get a great backlink.
By accepting guest posts, you give back to the blogging community. You add variety to your blog, so it’s not always just you writing. Other bloggers are also likely to link to their own guest posts, which means a high quality backlink as well.
Tip #5 – Leverage Current Events and Trends
You can get a lot of blog traffic by tapping into existing trends and things that people are already talking about right now.
For example, the founders of Air B’n’B tapped into the election by helping people find beds near the democratic and republican conventions. A spa might tap into Valentine ’s Day by offering a couple’s tandem massage.
Blogs can do something similar. Try to tie your blog’s content to existing events and use that to drive more traffic to your blog.
Tip #6 – Publish Consistently
Having a consistent publishing schedule is one of the most important things for a successful blog. If you get someone interested in your content, they’ll want to come back and see new content. If they come back a few times and don’t see anything new, they probably won’t return again.
Set a publishing schedule and stick to it. Let people know what to expect from your blog. That schedule could be every day, or just a couple times a month. You don’t have to publish very often, you just have to commit to publishing consistently.
Tip #7_ Start by getting on social networks and forums.
Check out twitter and Facebook and Book .Bloggers on Ning. Post in forums and always leave your link. But don’t be in your face about it. Just post it at the end of your signature. Here is an example: http://allabout4fun.blogspot.com/
Get on Twitter and follow other bloggers and readers and authors. Retweet interesting things and reply to certain tweets that the people you follow send out. A lot of the times just saying hi will get them to follow you back.
Jump on Facebook and create a fan page. It’s very simple there is just a button at the top of other people’s Like pages that says Create A Page. Follow the directions and soon you’ll have your own LIKE. Don’t forget in INFO to put your URL! Then staying LOGGED IN as your Fan page (there is away to Use Facebook as YOUR BLOG – check the top right hand column) go and like other people’s blogs. If you see questions on them or places to comment — say something pertinent. Get involved. Comment, follow and like. You need to get yourself out there if you want people to find you.
Goodreads is also a great forum for finding friends and followers. Jump on there and see who shares your tastes in books. Befriend them and start commenting and saying hi.
Most of the time getting that first onslaught of followers is by extending that olive branch yourself. You introduce yourself and follow them and they’ll follow back. Befriend on Goodreads, follow on Twitter, Like on Facebook. Comment, say Hi, send out invites.and follow all these instructions and lets go for big one traffic for your blog ....please must comments on these tips and tricks...
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