Have you ever wondered how to increase blog traffic? The major step towards it is to research hot trends and write the article. Say, if you write on Halloween or any seasonal topic, you are more likely to drive large volume of traffic.
My tips is make 4% keyword density in content and get many backlink for page content not homepage link.
I have found that making comments dofollow [and some promotion on dofollow lists] creates traffic. Google images brings traffic [although does not convert as well as direct] Using your ad-space wisely on your blog network to promote your other sites brings traffic.
To increase your blog's traffic, here are the following that I wanna suggest: 1. Build your own list and create any free report related to your blog's niche. Attach the web form to your blog and watch your subscribers opt-in to your newsletter. 2. Post blog comments to any high traffic blog that are related to your niche. 3. Post on relevant forums with your signature link on it. Show them that you are trusted and a good member to the forum community. 4. Publish and submit your articles to top article directory sites like Ezine Articles, Go Articles and ArticlesBase. Squidoo and Hubpages are also good for you to write articles and build more traffic. 5. Videos are very powerful right now to promote your blog. Create your own screen capture tutorial or review about a related product and link it to your blog post where you published a review or tutorial. Hope this helps you a lot.
Apart from writing new posts on blog, you must also advertise your blog and include adsense feature. List your blog in web directories and blog directories. Write unique and well presented articles that will impress readers. Add photos, images and videos which are exclusive and that are in order with your topic of article. Thank you http://www.mailmeforwritingneeds.blogspot.com
posting in relevant forums works the best for me. Commenting on relevant blogs, submitting to niche specific directories and article submissions also work. Some people find general directories and social bookmarking sites very effective, but for my blog they seem to bring lower quality traffic.
I totally agree with Bogartkick (nov 1st). drive free traffic to your blogs from articles and how posting sites. another way is to several blogs within the same niche and link them to eachother; you must have a mother (or cash) site that lists all the blog links on it too to maximise Google rankings.
You also would like to consider other blog who you could include the link in your blogroll. Is kinda cross promotional. And try not think this would be your competitor but target those blog that might be related for your niche. Also you can search those blog that powered by worpress MU to get link back by registering and posting an article and get backlink. This traffic must be related to your topic. What kind of business that you are running?
I've always found writing what people like to read is the best way to get traffic. Regardless of keyword density or making some complicated formula out of creativity, why not just write a very compelling post or article and let people come to you.
i agree i write what people like to read and i also write stuff about what i get up to threw out work and teh days ect people just like a good read now and then
People search a lot for images and photos. Getting your blog images indexed in Google helps with traffic.
i find these very effective though but it just need lots of effort. for some niches such as celebs, i guess youtube videos works good.
totally agree with you....that seasonal topics draws more traffic...Once I blogged about "Save our tigers" initiative by AIrcel and was able to draw lot of traffic
Unique and fresh content gives you huge traffic plus also your back links count in SERP's and give you better ranking.