Blog traffic need not come from search engines alone, it can also be sought from various other sources. Though, one must master SEO, both on-page SEO and off-page SEO which will get us organic traffic, we must be aware that good traffic can also come from various other sources other than google or bing. Visitors can find our blog from the links that we share on other websites, social media or blogs, or maybe they learn about our page through word of mouth. There are many ways that we can use to increase our blog traffic. In this article, we will share 9 proven ways to drive traffic to your Blog.
9 Proven Ways To Drive Traffic To Your Blog
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Provide quality content
The first and most important way is to provide your audience with good quality content. Traffic can come from anywhere, but we must have good content or something useful, to offer them. Remember the more visitors linger, the better it will be in the eyes of search engines (the longer visitors on our blog page the lesser the bounce out rate and the blog will gain more trust of serach engines, but if visitors find our blog and they leave immediately, the bounce out rate will be higher and conditions like this are not good ifor the blog). So, before you try to increase blog traffic using other ways, make sure to provide unique and quality content on your blog. In addition, do proper SEO for it, both on-page and off-page.
Increase Content posting
Provide more good quality content on your blog and do it consistently. Making blog visitors feel at home is a thing that has a positive effect on our blog. Visitors may visit our blog at first only looking for one article, but after seeing the availability of interesting content in it, visitors feel at home to read other articles. The more articles read by visitors, the better it is, for the page authority, especially for our blog. so always be consistent in publishing articles. The more articles we publish, the more positive impact it will have on the blog, and there will be more keywords, which can provoke search engines to pay attention to the blogs that we have.
Interact on Q&A Forums
The question and answer forums are full of people with similar interests who interact with each other regularly. Where there is a problem, there is a solution. This is where our promotional trick is, we can provide solutions that lead to our blog articles that has content related to solving the problems in the forum. You can answer in short and for more details ask the readers to visit our blog. A Q&A forum or site that we can use is Quora – this is one of the sites which is widely used, you interact there, look for topics that match your blog, and then choose questions that can direct answers to your blog.
Join Online forums
Online forums have a very big influence on increasing traffic. We can do this by inserting our links in relevant comments or adding backlinks on articles that we create in online forums. Nowadays, several online forums already provide a signature link facility which we can use to add a link back to our blog page. Every time we comment or make a post, the signature link that we create will be included automatically under the comments or the article posting, which we publish on the online forum. With this signature link facility, we do not need to write the link manually.
Use Video Sharing
One of the most effective ways to attract visitors is to actively participate and interacting with free video-sharing services. One of the free video-sharing services that we can use is Youtube.com, the largest and most popular video-sharing service. Youtube is most popular in cyberspace today, and we can use it to increase visitors to our blog through video sharing, by publishing videos and promotions on the same topic as the articles we post.
Blog Commenting
Blog commenting is an activity where we visit other people’s blogs to strengthen the relationship and also increase our existence in the blogging world, to increase traffic. Visit other people’s blogs that are relevant to the articles on your blog, read and comment with relevant and genuine feedback and don’t be a spammer. Once in a while, you can use name/URL, open ID or use your blog’s userId. To increase visitor traffic, we can use this blog commenting method, without having to think about do-follow or no-follow. You can rely on this method to increase your site traffic as it is widely used by most bloggers.
Promotion through Social media
Social media can be a very effective platform to increase traffic to our blog. The phenomenon of social media is currently a trend, this opportunity of course should not be wasted. We can create a fan page or pages on social media sites, and use it to post and promote our articles. Indeed, there are many ways that we can use to attract visitors to our blog through social media. Some of the widely used social media sites are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, telegram etc…
Promotion through Social bookmarking
Social bookmarking provides an opportunity for us to share the address of the site that we have, which allows anyone to see the address of the site or blog that has been stored in the social bookmarking based on the category we want. If we interact a lot with social bookmarking sites, not only can we increase visitor but can also add backlinks that lead to our blog page. Social bookmarks that we can use, for example, are Reddit, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Dribble and many others.
Increase Do-follow Backlinks
This method plays the most crucial role in helping your articles to be easily found by search engines. One of the commonly used backlink-building techniques is to comment on do-follow blogs, both domestically and abroad. However, it is recommended not to spam just to build do-follow backlinks, once a week is just fine, say 10 backlinks, so that you are not considered a spammer.
Conclusion
There are many ways that we can use to increase blog traffic, however, what we have to keep in mind is that our blog content should be of good quality, Always remember – Content is King!
Well, these were 9 proven ways to drive traffic to your Blog. These tips can turn out to be valuable information if you are looking to increase traffic to your blog or site without spending money.
Let me know if you have used any of the methods mentioned above and do share your experience with us.
Look forward to hearing from you.
