By now, maybe you already have your own blog, and you also know that blogging is a valuable pursuit. According to Hubspot, companies that have blogs get 97% more inbound links. As for your blog, you may be thinking, what if no one visits my blog? How am I going to generate links, traffic, and sales? Don’t worry; you are asking the right questions.
Reliable and qualified traffic is what any blog owner wants. In this article, we will look at some of the strategies we can use to increase your blog’s traffic.
Creating a Viral Content
Every blogger wants to write contents that get viral. However, it is not as easy at it seems. There are ways that we can create content that is more appealing. One of these ways is to create captivating headlines. If you get the headlines right, you can be sure that readers will be clicking on that. Another way is to get the content length right. Most of the shared contents have a word count that ranges from 3,000-10,000. The last technique is to create a killer idea that is surely going to get viral.
Remember these four tips when creating your post:
- Get to know your audience so you’ll know what sparks their interests.
- You can use Buzzsumo to help you with the ideas for your contents.
- You can use Ubersuggest to also help you get ideas.
- You can take advantage of the comments from your previous posts for your ideas for your next posts.
Restructure Your Posts
When writing for your target audience, you can consider restructuring your post. This is to suit the content to the audience better. You may not notice it, but sometimes, your readers don’t really buy what you’re saying on your post. You can tell that if no one is commenting or if the comments only say “nice post.” What this means is that you didn’t really get the reader’s attention.
In any case, try to think about restructuring your post. Learn about how your audience speaks and speak the way they do because that will make your content more relatable. An example of this is that if your audience is beginners when it comes to technological stuff, don’t talk to them with so much jargon. Try to ease them in with every technical term that you use and make your content more hip and not just a dry, technical manual. When you are successful in doing this, your audience will gladly cite, share, and promote your post.
Creating Evergreen List Posts
Another strategy to get your blog more traffic is through Evergreen list posts. It is known to generate traffic even if it has been years since the post was first published. There are ways to know if your topic has a potential for Evergreen.
The first thing to do is to make sure that there is at least one publication such as in magazines where your topic in mind has been written. This is to make sure that your topic is a popular one. To do this, you can go to magazines.com. In there, type your keyword in the search box. The results will reveal the magazines where a certain topic has been published. The next thing to do is to assess previous list posts that were successful.
Remember these tips when thinking about your next topic:
- Brainstorm with your team.
- Participate on forums and discussion of your niche.
- Read the latest news about your topic.
- Once you have published your topic, promote it on your social media accounts.
Do Guest Blogging
The first step to do guest blogging is to do research on blogs with good social influence. Google really likes authority blogs. What are authority blogs? These are blogs that have a lot of followers on social media. When you guest blog on these sites, there will be a good chance that you will get more traffic. Read the Difference Between Traffic Authority and Trafficforme at EmoneyPeeps.com.
Before pitching a blog, though, you ought to check the social influence of the site to know how much traffic that you may expect to generate from the social media in the event that your post gets featured. To check their social influence, you can go to their Facebook and Twitter pages. You will see there the number of followers they have.
Kindle Select 90-Day Traffic Plan
These days, self-published books represent over 31% of ebook sales in the Amazon Kindle Store. Before, self-publishing will cost you thousands of dollars as well as a contract with a publishing house. But today, it’s different.
If you have an idea that is worth sharing, you can now be a published author within a week! Imagine what that can do for your blog traffic. If you publish with Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing, you get to drive your targeted traffic and can reach hundreds and thousands of people without spending a cent.
After publishing your Kindle book, the next thing you do is to enroll the book in the “Kindle Direct Publishing Select Program.” What will happen is that your book will become exclusive in the Kindle Store for 90 Days. The book will also become exclusive in the Kindle Owner’s Lending Library. When you do this, you get to reach thousands of your targeted readers because they can borrow the book for free. Also, for five days of your 90 days, you can run a free promotion for a paid ebook.
Takeaway
One more thing to remember is this: consistency is key. The traffic strategies we have learned here may have been proven, but the results won’t come overnight. You have to stick to your technique and be patient. You still have to do your research and write your own content because these techniques won’t be writing them for you. Take the time to get to know your audience and participate and converse with them through the comments sections and the forums. Eventually, visitors will come to your blog, your email subscribers will increase, and your conversion rates will boost. Consistency and patience will do great for building your sustainable business.
Author Bio
Nicolas Finet is a technically-minded marketer and the co-founder of sort-list.co.uk helping customers to get the most out of their digital strategies. Follow him on twitter @nifinet