Few of my readers had asked me to write a few tips on increasing traffic to the blog. If you need to establish in the blogoshere and make some money out of blogging, then you need traffic. Although there has been many posts on this topic, I’m explaining 5 simple tips, which I feel can definitely bring traffic to your blog.
- Content is the King: This point needs no explanation as content is the ultimate thing which drives traffic. It’s not enough to provide the same news as every other blogger in your niche topic. You have to come up with something new and unique and provide some analysis. If you need to say something through your blog, say it well and clear.
- Read Blogs and Comment: This is again a good way to bring some quality traffic to your blog. Read other popular blogs and also blogs which are related to your topic and post valuable comment. Posting comments definitely makes your presence felt, but make sure that you don’t spam blogs by posting comments.
- Add tags and concentrate on SEO: Tags and Keywords are important from the point of view of Search engines. You need to make your blog search engine friendly. There are lots of plugins for SEO and also tutorials on how to do SEO for your blog.
- Encourage Reader Participation: To make every new reader a regular reader you need to offer something new. You need to encourage participation either in the form of comments or through polls or contest. If you have some money, best way is to hold some contest as contests are easily noticed in the blogosphere. But remember, do not give any false contest just to get some traffic as this may effect your blog status.
- Make use of Social Sites: Social sites are always useful and among these, popular ones like Digg and Stumble Upon can really bring good amount of traffic. As I said before if you write good content, then your posts are automatically shared through Social sites.
What strategies do you follow to get quality traffic, Please share it in comments.
Simple and great tips …how you apply all these tips to your blog is what matter the most 🙂
Nowadays, I’m really in need of traffic and I think you have done a great job of posting these tips because they are going to be helpful to many like me. 😉
It’ll also be good to build a list of subscribers for a newsletter, one that will be of value to them.
Promote yourself. If you have written a good article, sumbit it to Digg. Send links to fellow bloggers.
@Shashank,
You are right, application is what matters.
@Harris,
Glad that it was helpful for you.
@Clara,
Thats a nice suggestion.
@Binny,
Thats right, you can submit good articles to Digg and other social sites and do a bit of promo.
Short, simple but very practical.
😆
Jamy
Great Tips !
@Jamy,
Thanks for the comment, Glad that you liked it. 🙂
Since maximum traffic depends on search engine if you dont have a large reader base. Hence make your post title search engine friendly.
Also , take out yourself from google’s supplement index. Came to know about this yesterday. Seems like many blogs see a rise in search engine traffic by pulling out your pages from google’s supplement index.
Alexa and google Analytics are best option to analyze your sites traffic from countries and hence will guide you where you need to do your blog’s promotion.
@Kanak,
You are right, need to remove Supplemental pages as it will reduce search engine rankings.
Great tips. I’m planning to conduct contests in the future. 😀
@Shankar,
Contest can definitely attract lot of traffic, good that you are planning one. 🙂
good tips – I wish more people woudl follow them.
I am following your No. 2 advice now.
Been following your blog through Google Reader. However, sometimes we need to come to the actually blog and leave a comment and say “Thank you” 😆
nice tips nirmal. Stumbleupon pulls lot of traffic. if you write a good article, stumble sends the traffic for few weeks.
Nowadays i am looking into social sites seriously for the first time.
@Ram,
Thats true, Stumble Upon can send you traffic for a long time. A post in July got me around 40k page views in August.
@Shashank,
You should definitely consider Social sites as they bring lot of traffic.
Nice tips Nirmal. Simple and short but very useful
Thanks
Great tips, Nirmal. I feel like submitting to Stumbleupon is the best way of getting traffic in internet.
agreed with “content is king”. actually content is everything!
i agree !!
Regards
Manoj
http://techno-globe.blogspot.com
Thanks a lot for the informative content. The content helped me a lot to increase my traffic form hardly 25 -50 form 300-400
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can you share some ideas about contest to be held? Thanks
Really great. Small step makes big success