18 July 2009

Some practical tips to increase traffic levels

These are some practical tips to increase traffic levels that have worked well for many experienced bloggers.

  • Build useful, quality, interesting and original content - Reflect on the blogs that you read often and think again why you read them.
  • Good blog design - Do you tend to think that a blog has quality content if the design is terrible?
  • Link to others - You'll only have others linking to you if you have shown your generosity in linking to others first. Linking helps in two ways: (1) Bring more visitors. (2) Increase your ranking.
  • Comment on other blogs - Interact with others genuinely (not spamming) by giving thoughtful comments in other blogs. People will grow their interest in your blog as you interact more with them.
  • Update frequently - a significant part of large traffic comes from frequent readers, who wants to see fresh contents all the time.
  • Interact with readers - Interact with your readers actively. Answer comments, questions, create memes, games, etc.
  • Optimize for search engines - Visitors that tend to click on the ads the most come from search engines. Doing SEO will increase your revenues and your rank as well.
  • Add your blog add in your email signature - This can help increase visitor numbers to your blog too.
  • Create RSS feed - Let your readers have the option to subscribe easily to your blog's content. Visit Feedburner.com for more details. This method eases their connectivity to your blog.
  • List your URL in directories - This increases the chance for people of relevant interest finding your blog easier through many mediums and portals.
  • Submit to search engines - Send your blog URL to search engines too and similar sites such as Technorati. Use the right and relevant keywords to describe your blog as this is the most crucial information that connects your blog to your visitors.
  • Create a newsletter - This is another option to update your readers of new postings.
  • Get involve in other blog projects - Make yourself visible in the blogosphere by actively participating in other projects or memes. The more visibility you have the better.
  • Participate in forums - This are the places to find other with similar interest. You can draw visitors to your blog by making yourself visible through helping others in the forums.
  • Promote your posts - Send your great posts to others or submit them in social media if you think they have a chance to get votted up. Be selective of which posts to promote to avoid being too annoying.
  • Add an 'Email a Friend' button - Add this button below each of your posts to let your readers have the option to email their friends.
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