Hy i have 2 blogs but it is really hard to get visitors on it, webmasters say that it is easier to bring traffic to blog than websites, Please post me some tips experienced bloggers. Thanks
What is the blog about? What makes it different than others on the same subject? Are you creating posts that will stir up some controversy and get people to link to you/visit (ie linkbaiting?)
I've found that it just takes time. Google loves text and that's what Blogs deliver. Blogs have the ability to gain traffic through very specific keywords. This month I've received 129 visitors from Google so far which really isn't very much. But if you look at the keywords that people found my most searched keyphrase brought in 6 visitors from Google. Almost all 129 visitors came from Google searching totally different keyphrases, mainly detailed keyphrases. I have had 694 uniqes so far this month. Most of them are referels from different websites and stuff like that.
If you have quality content blog then try to get any of your posts to the front page on digg, reddit, newsvine, furl, etc. That will get you good traffic and returning visitors!
Try commenting on other related blogs. Don't shamelessly insert your link, but make meaningful comments.
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I personally fucking hate blogs, I can never bring myself to pen down all the happenings in my life & making it public for the world to see. It would be a violation of privacy committed by myself, kind of like opening a window into my mind. Besides, who the hell wants to read the rants of a single person on this planet unless you are a celebrity, politician or a porn star? Probably not more than 30 people all of whom you know personally. The only exception to this is if you have an incredibly witty style of writing & can get people cracking with laughter, like maddox. To get significant traffic to a personal narcissistic rant blog, you need to achieve a level of publicity, get your name on the map. Or give away free stuff. That being said, blogs are indeed a good content publishing method for topics that mandate regular updates, tech, gaming, seo & mobile blogs are a good example of this. To get traffic to these kind of blogs: follow the same strategies as you would for a site of your topic that isn't a blog, + offer rss feeds & promote your site on forums & irc channels that are related to your blog. Just my 2c
Blogs are 'liked' by Search Engines because of their quality of being regularly updated with lots of fresh content. You should be making 2 - 3 posts in your related niche every day, and within a week, you will start seeing people coming to your blog from sites like technorati and others. But then again, you have to be persistent in posting.
blogs have some advantages over website including followings: Ability to Comment other peoples blogs . Ability to add your link automatically on someone else blog if he/she like your blogs (eg.link this blog) Auto Archiving Save times from html and coding updates . Blogs are considered as personal not commercial so peoples donot hesitate to visit blogs like commercial sites .
Write articles related to the blog topic and submit them to directories. Write the articles so that the user will want to visit your blog after reading. For example, write an article in two parts. Submit "part one" to article directories and tell readers to visit your blog for "part two."
Write everyday in the same time, and forget about the Copy and past habbit because people is not that stupid .
I use to believe that it took time, but I'm reading a blog now that has proved that wrong. Honestly, how silly does that sound when you say it to yourself. Just "give it time and it will come to you all on it's own". I'm not trying to make you upset or go against your beliefs, it just makes a lot more sense that I would have some sort of control over what happens to my sites and how popular it gets.
When I said that I found that it just takes time, I wasn't meaning that you just sit on your hands and then the traffic magically appears to you. But I can see how I could be misunderstood. I firmly believe in hard work and consistancy. Every site that I have ever had that is bringing me money and traffic has taken both. I believe websites grow exponentially with age if you have been doing the work to get it there. You're right you do have some sort of control over what happens to your site. I think we have nearly all the control over what happens to our sites. There are only a few things that are totally out of our control when it comes to the success of our sites.
Another way to promote your blog, is to find some top blogs of your niche and trackback their posts from yours. Do this frequently, but not too much, because after all you want people to read your own content right?
Discuss about your blogs in different forums and post comment to others relevant blog, link your site with your blogs, it will help you to get targeted traffic.
Netowork Get the name out and let people know. Create some buzzworthey content and you will most likely get some traffic.
eXe, you'll be surprised the kind of personal stuffs people wrote that racked in unbelievable traffics. Blog promotion requires slight different approach than a typical forum/content site. You need to build relationship with other bloggers by commenting on their posts, get into their good books and hopefully they will do the same to you.