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33 Tips to Get more Traffic

Discussion in 'General Marketing' started by gethistuff, Jul 28, 2011.

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    How to get traffic to your blog is a big issue.

    All bloggers want that their articles reach more people and to be known in search engines.
    It's essential for the life of a blog because without readers the blogs die.

    There is no point having the best articles in the world if nobody read your blog or web site.

    No matter if your blog is new or you has been writing during a year on it, all bloggers should look for ways to generate more traffic.

    Remember, Traffic = Money

    To achieve this I will give you 33 tips to make your blog a successful blog.


    Let's start!


    TIP 1 - UNIQUE AND QUALITY CONTENT

    Write quality content with interesting information and choose well the keywords.

    To build a great blog, the most important thing is to provide the information that your readers want to read And do it well.

    Even google webmaster guides talk about it.

    If you take time to think about useful content, people will talk about it and they will link your posts in their websites and blogs.

    Help readers to solve their problems.


    TIP 2 - WRITE, WRITE AND WRITE AGAIN

    The more posts you write more often they will find your blog in the search engines.
    Search engines prefer sites that are updated frequently.
    Don't stay 2 weeks without publishing.
    If you have time, update your blog once a day. If not, at least update it once or twice per week.


    TIP 3 - DOMAIN NAME EASY TO REMEMBER

    Like I said my other post 5 mistakes to avoid in your blog, a domain name like www.mynameisjohnsmith.com is long and hard to remember.
    Choose a short name, easy to remember and related to the topic of your blog.


    TIP 4 - USE KEYWORDS

    If you want that you blog appears in the search engines, you have to know what words people searh.
    There are free tools like Google Keywords that will help you with this.
    Search with this tool, words related to your blog and use the ideas that Google Keywords give you.
    Use them in your post bodies, links and post titles!


    TIP 5 - WRITE GOOD POST TITLES

    It's that simple. Write interesting post titles and you will call the attention.
    Look at the titles of other sites and aply it to your blog.


    TIP 6 - WORK WITH THE SEARCH ENGINES

    Every day the search engines make improvements to give bad rankings to sites of poor quality. So it's very important to write quality and useful content. Doing this, they will link to your posts.

    Here you got some tips that you should known:

    Find the appropiate keywords related to you blog and use them in the tittle posts, articles, footers, links, meta tags... and do it in Bold or Italic.
    Use keyword in the file names, for example: keyword1.html.
    Use synonyms.
    It's better textlinks that graphic links.
    Put your links in other blogs or forums.


    TIP 7 - SEND YOUR BLOG TO THE SEARCH ENGINES

    All the search engines and directories have a section to send them your blog link.
    They will add your blog to their search system.

    You can start with the main search engines and directories like:

    Google
    Bing
    Yahoo!
    Dmoz


    TIP 8 - WRITE ARTICLES FOR OTHER BLOGS

    Find blogs that accept third-party articles and add a link to your blog on them.
    Spread your writing on the Internet to be known.


    TIP 9 - PUT LINKS AND KEYWORDS IN YOUR PROFILES

    If you have a profile in Linkedin or Facebook, Tweeter, Myspace... you can put the link of your blog in them and also the keywords.


    TIP 10 - PUBLISH A TUTORIAL DIVIDED IN SEVERAL POSTS.

    If you are an expert on some topic or you know how to do something, then you can publish a tutorial in different parts.

    In this way your readers will return to read the next parts of it.


    TIP 11 - PROMOTE YOUR BLOG IN FORUMS

    Find some forums of your niche and put links in to your signatures and if it's allowed, put links in to the posts bodies. Be active in the forums and write interesting comments.


    TIP 12 - SUBSCRIBE TO EMAIL DISCUSSION LISTS

    Subscribe to some email discussion lists and contribute with your articles including links to your blog.


    TIP 13 - FIND OTHER BLOGGERS

    Make friendship with other bloggers, exchange links with them and write comments in their blogs.
    Doing this it's very probable that their readers will also visit your blog.


    TIP 14 - USE RSS IN YOUR BLOG

    Provide to your readers an easy reading of your blog giving them an RSS subscription.
    Thank to this, they can read your blog with their RSS software or recive the latest news in their email.

    You can do it with Feedburner for example.


    TIP 15 - MAKE YOUR OWN PODCASTS

    You can attract new audience with podcasts. Many people prefer to listen rather than read so record to yourself reading and explaining your best posts or make new content.


    TIP 16 - FOLLOW HOT TOPICS

    Subcribe to feeds of your own niche and when you read hot news, interesting things, scandalous or shocking stuff, go to be the first to write a post about it. You can watch TV or listen to the radio to know what is the topic that it's on the top.


    TIP 17 - LOOK FOR NEW AFFILIATES PROGRAMS

    Search for new affiliates programs, sign up to them and promote it with a new post or page. Make highligh this affiliates and write very well about them to call the attention. Make a marketing plan to promote them.


    TIP 18 - USE ANALITYCS

    Use analytics systems like Google Analytics to see where your traffic comes, wich pages or posts they visit more and wich words they use in search engines to find your blog or website.

    Knowing that you can improve your blog writing articles that more people like to read and use better keywords.


    TIP 19 - ADD A FORUM TO YOUR BLOG

    The forums can give you many returning visitors to your blog but you have to moderate it the 7 days of the week. This can be much work.

    The most effective way is to add one to a site that is already popular.


    TIP 20 - WRITE A EBOOK

    You can write a ebook just combining posts of your blog and ask to websites authors if they can give it free to their readers.


    TIP 21 - EBOOK DIRECTORIES

    Search in google for "ebook directory" or "ebook directories" and put your your ebook in all the sites that you can!


    TIP 22 - PROMOTE TOOLS

    Promote useful tools for webmasters or bloggers and tell them the tool that you discovered will make him life easier. If they like it, they will link to your article.


    TIP 23 - MAKE LINK BAIT

    Link bait it's quality or controversial content in your blog that other bloggers will link in their blogs voluntarily.
    Write that kind of articles and websites will love your blog.

    Search in Google for "link bait" to see examples.


    TIP 24 - BE AN EXPERT

    If you are an expert in a topic, write about it!

    Be an expert it's harder than work in a small and anonymous blog but if you becomes an authority in your field, the traffic will come alone and people will link to you without ask them.

    People will want to interview you and that will give you more publicity.

    Put your Photo in your blog and write a few words about you. Doing this, people will recognize you.


    TIP 25 - USE YAHOO! ANSWERS

    In Yahoo! Answers people offer free answers to other users that need help with something.

    Find questions about the niche of your blog and answer them putting a link to your blog or your post related to the question.

    It's easy and it will give you extra traffic.


    TIP 26 - COMMENT IN OTHER BLOGS

    Search for big blogs of your same niche and comment in their posts.
    Make useful comments. Writting something like "Good article!" just to put the link of your blog doesn't say good things about you.


    TIP 27 - STICKY CONTENT

    Sticky content makes to a user come back to your site. This method is used to build a community of regular visitors.

    Forums, chats, games and news are examples of contents of this type.

    Finds items that could be attractive to your readers and deploy it on your site. You will see how returning visitors will come back every day.


    TIP 28 - SOCIAL NETWORKING

    Sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace recive millions of visits each month.

    You must be present in the social networks. In my case, the vast majority of my blog traffic comes from Facebook and Twitter.

    So, don't wait more, make a profile on Facebook and Twitter now!

    Build a big community of friends with the same niche that yours and start to promote your articles. Post your articles in your wall and send messages to your friends talking about the interesting post that you have already wrote.


    TIP 29 - PPC ADVERTISING

    Create pages or special mini-sites without distractions.
    You need to focus the attention of visitors in the affiliate product link or in the form to receive the newsletter or mini-course.

    If your blog or website gives you enough income, you can create an Google Adwords campaign and redirect all that paid traffic to a product that will generate direct sales.


    TIP 30 - BUY ADS IN NEWSLETTERS

    You can buy ads in newsletters with thousands of readers but you need to capture the reader's attention. An generic ad will not work.

    Instead of announcing your site, send the people to a page where you offer a free report or mini-course in exchange for their e-mail.

    Then you can send them newsletters announcing that wonderful product that will make their life easier.


    TIP 31 - PUT YOUR SIGNATURE IN YOUR EMAIL

    It's something that many people forget and it is very important to do.
    As a blogger, I am sure that you try many ways to get traffic, and for some of these ways, you need your email adress. With time you will have many contacts and send and read several emails every day.

    Add your signature to the bottom of your emails so people can know who sent the email and can view your blog or website.


    TIP 32 - THINK ON VIRAL

    Write a ebook and split it on two parts. Then offer for free the Volume 1 and put a link with a descount coupon for the Volumen 2 wich will not be free.


    TIP 33 - PUT A GOAL FOR YOU

    Take the goal of doubling the traffic of your website or blog. Get 2 months or however long you want and work each week on a way to generate traffic.


    I hope these tips help you to improve your blog and get more traffic.

    Visit GeThiStuff to get more blog tips and learn how to make money with your blog!!
     
    gethistuff, Jul 28, 2011 IP
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    hashif Well-Known Member

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    Great tips, These are genuine and easy steps any one can follow..Your second post is Great..Yeah, updating blogs content is necessary to be in love with search engines..Another tip i would suggest is Guest Posting, because you can build reputation from high page rank websites and you can bring some quick traffic also..:)
     
    hashif, Jul 28, 2011 IP
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    steveeyes Well-Known Member

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    Wow great tips. Can you elaborate more on podcasts? Where do you go to create or submit one?
     
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    gethistuff Peon

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    Thanks for the support hashif!
     
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    steveeyes: Ok, in future articles I will write about podcasting.
     
    gethistuff, Jul 28, 2011 IP
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    very nice article, thanks.
     
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    #7
    This is a great list. Thanks for sharing!
     
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    thanks for sharing! great ideas and tips...
     
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    great tips, thanks for sharing :)
     
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    you did it..
     
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    That's a nice compilation...I'm sure a lot of us can get some help from this.
     
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    gethistuff Peon

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    I hope so, thanks to all for comment!
     
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    #14
    This is good Info. But how can we get maximum number of visitors?
     
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    gethistuff Peon

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    ameerulislam10: The original it's in my blog: http://gethistuff.blogspot.com I wrote it there first.

    Sandeep: Get the maximum number of visitors it's up to you. It depends of the work that you do to get it. You can follow these tips and work every day on it. Be active in forums, comment in other blogs, be social... there are many things you can do. Try each one and see what results you have.

    If you want that your traffic comes from Google and other search engines, you must learn some SEO. You can start with those links:

    SEO Guide for Begginers, easy to understand
    How to be on the First Page of Google

    With time and work you will get many visitors.
     
    gethistuff, Jul 29, 2011 IP
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    thanks a lot for the interesting ideas
     
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    Do you know that your site might get hit by panda because of the duplicate content? You will be competing with DP in the battle of originality, and your site might loose as DP usually gets indexed faster and they are more authoritative. You could have shared a part of it and linked it to the original source. Yeah! there is a chance of getting infraction as you are still very new here.
     
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    Thanks for taking the time to share this. It will be useful to many people looking to get more traffic to their site.
     
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    gethistuff Peon

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    Google Panda is not going to penalize my blog because the article was published first in my blog. Panda know that.
    Anyway, sorry, I would never publish more articles here because I don't want that DP get penalized by Panda.
     
    gethistuff, Jul 29, 2011 IP
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    Thanks for the tips
     
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