Blog traffic is a serious and
very popular matter in the field of blogging. If you want to become a
successful blogger then you must have a great blog with lots of traffic. But
getting huge amount of traffic to your blog is not an easy task. These days
there are millions of blogs related to every niche are available on the
internet so it is extremely difficult to survive between these blogs and get good
traffic. In this post I will explain you the 5 extremely powerful methods
for getting good traffic to your blog in a small amount of time.
Social media
Social networking sites are very
important source of internet traffic. Try to increase your fans and followers
especially on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest. If you have large number
of followers and you are active, then you can easily drive good amount of
traffic to your blog from them. Share your blog posts on these social
networking websites to gain traffic benefit.
Important tips regarding social
media:
Submit content to your social
networks manually. Do not use any softwares for submitting the content. This
will increase your engagement with your social connections.
Use Share buttons on your blog so
that your blog visitors can directly share content from your blog to their
social networks. This will give you huge traffic bonus.
Always remain active on your
social networks. Set up events on your social networks so that your
followers enjoy your presence.
Respond to the queries and
comments of your followers or fans on your social networks.
Guest Posting
Guest posting is also very
powerful way of increasing your blog traffic in a short period of time.
You must publish guest posts on well established blogs of similar niche.
Another benefit of guest posting is that your blog will also get one or two
do-follow backlinks which results in increasing Google page rank of your blog.
Guest posting will give you lots of exposure and helps increasing your social
networking followers as well.
Important tips regarding guest
posting:
Only publish guest posts on good
blogs. Do not waste your time on small blogs. because a single guest post on
well established blog will give you more traffic and exposure than 5 guest
posts on small blogs.
You must publish your guest posts
on the blogs of similar niche. This will send targeted traffic to your blog.
Publish at least two guest posts
per week.
Only publish original article
which are written by you from scratch.
Add some widgets on your blog
Not all widgets drive traffic to
your blog but there are some specific widgets (like share buttons, facebook
like box, twiiter follower button) which helps in driving traffic to your blog
directly or indirectly.
What are those widgets and how
these widgets drive traffic to your blog ?
Post Share buttons – While
reading your blog posts visitors can share your posts to their own social
networks and if anybody among their friends likes your post then they
also share that post to their own social network. In this way they start a
chain reaction of sharing the posts and it results increasing your blog
traffic.
Facebook like box – By
using facebook like box your blog visitor can like your facebook fanpage page
from your blog without leaving your blog. In this way this widget helps in
increasing your facebook fans. These fans will help you gaining traffic in
future when you publish new posts to your blog and your fan page.
Twitter follower button –
Twitter follower button helps in increasing your twitter followers directly
from your blog. More the twitter followers your have more traffic you will
receive.
Google+ badge – Google
plus network is another good source of traffic. Adding a Google+ badge to your
blog helps in increasing your Google+ followers.
Email subscription widget
– Email subscription widget helps in increasing readership of your blog
through email. As the number of your subscribers increases it will increase
your overall blog traffic.
Popular posts – Popular
posts widget attracts your blog visitors towards your most popular topics. In
this way it helps in increasing page views and the average time spent on your
blog.
Posting Frequency
One last but not least tip for
increasing traffic is high posting frequency. You must publish posts daily or
at least with the gap of one day between postings. This will increase indexing
rate of your blog. Search engines spiders will start crawling your blog at much
faster rates and your latest posts will appear fast in search results.
Remember my words if you follow
these tips then your blog are going to rock in blogosphere. You will see huge
changes in traffic graph of your blog.
