Boost Your Blog Traffic Today

Posted on 02. Feb, 2009 by Adam in Blogging

blog-traffic If you have any desire to make your blog profitable, traffic is the name of the game. But for a new blogger the task of bringing thousands of people to your site each day seems almost impossible. You write great posts, you send your links out on Twitter, and you exchange links with a few other blogs; but still it seems you are not getting the attention you deserve.

There are many ways to boost your blog traffic, but I’ll briefly discuss some of the most important here.

Be topical.

People are on the hunt online every day for information. If you have a track record of providing up-to-date content about topical issues, you’ll be part of the daily routine for thousands of people. Find ways to incorporate current events into your blogging, even if you don’t specifically write about politics or business. Subscribe to major news sites and power bloggers so that when news breaks, you hear it right away; then as soon as possible afterward write a post. You will find that you draw in a wide range of people who may not have initially been attracted to your blog simply by writing your opinion on the day’s news.

Anticipate high traffic days.

Some days are going to be busier than others: Election day, the day of the Oscars, New York Fashion Week and the season premiere of American Idol are just a few examples of times that you know in advance internet use will be high. Plan around those dates (and other dates that are pertinent to your blog’s main subject matter) by preparing posts in advance, or making sure you have time open on your calendar to blog as events occur.

Participate in online communities.

Blogs, message boards, forums, and social media sites like Facebook are excellent ways to stay connected to people and alert them when you have fresh content up. It also exposes you to thousands of other potential readers who happen to be ‘friends of a friend’. Make sure that any site you participate has a complete profile filled out, linking people back to your blog.

Use regular features to keep them coming back.

Regular posts such as a monthly book review or a daily “top ten” list is a great way to get people coming back to your site again and again. They’ll be more likely to link to your blog, and refer friends to it and make it a part of their regular online reading if they have something enjoyable to anticipate.

Learn to Read Your Analytics.

These programs help you track your traffic. They can tell you everything from which site referred each reader, to how long a particular visitor spent on your blog and how many pages they viewed while they were there. You will be able to tell which efforts in marketing your blog are most effective this way, and you’ll have a concrete way of knowing which topics you write about get the most attention.
Free traffic tracking apps:

• Site Meter http://www.sitemeter.com
• Stat Counter: http://www.statcounter.com/
• ShineyStat: http://www.shinystat.com/
• GoStats: http://gostats.com/
• GoogleAnalytics: http://www.google.com/analytics/
• FreeStats: http://www.freestats.com/
• OneStat: http://www.onestat.com/

I would love to hear from you if you’ve got personal experiences you would like to share in boosting your site traffic.

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24 Responses to “Boost Your Blog Traffic Today”

Clarky

02. Feb, 2009

Great post, to be honest, I really want to boost my blog traffic, but I just can’t do that, maybe because I am too lazy to join in a community like facebook, I don’t very like crowding, many people like spending in a forum, but I don’t, I want to be alone sometimes.

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Dave Starr

02. Feb, 2009

Two things I belive a lot of folks ignore is day of the week and time of day. I prefer to use AwStats in my blog’s cPanel.

One of my blogs gets far more traffic on Tuesdays than any other day of the week, and far more visitors around 9 am and 9 pm, US East Coast time. So I try to schedule anything ‘special’ that I am working on around those hours. If most of your readers were from, say, the UK or perhaps Australia, you wouldn’t want to schedule your best posts to come out at 1 am in those countries … hit them with your best efforts when they are sipping their morning coffee or surfing after dinner.

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Sue Wilson

02. Feb, 2009

Which of the statistic counters would you recommend for a beginning working on an Apple Mac to start using?

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Truck trader

03. Feb, 2009

taking part in online communities is the best thing to get good amount of traffic to ur blog … and yes content plays a big role to attract visitors and get them visit ur blog again n subscribe to it.

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Classifieds

03. Feb, 2009

Out of all those analytic sites the ones I use are stat counter and google analytics, are the other ones any good?

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Peter/The Radioaffliction

08. Mar, 2009

I’ve been using Statcounter for years and it has been very helpful, and most importantly very easy to use.

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TrafficBatch.com

04. Jul, 2009

I really thinks that bloggers should focus on broad topics because it makes it easier to advertise afterward.

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Cipan

27. Dec, 2009

Great post…hopefully can use your ultimate guide to boost my blog traffic

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Jubair

09. Jan, 2010

Thanks for the highly informative post. Helped me a lot. :)

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kinaryk

12. Jan, 2010

thanks for sharing
i aslo use dsl speed which is an online tool which helps to optimize ur pc performance

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kinaryk

15. Jan, 2010

i’ve been using dsl speed, it helps to tweak ur internet performance and boost dsl connection, easy to download and use ^_-

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Spotlight Deals

22. Jan, 2010

I’m not too familiar facebook or tweeter.
How do I spread the message about my site on there?

Thanks

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Han

20. Jul, 2010

thanks for this nice post. my blog has pr 4, but has poor visitrs

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Ret

02. Oct, 2010

I just found your blog on top of the Google search pages for the keyword” how to boost traffic to your blog”. I think SEO and Google can really bring you lots of traffic. My blog is new, that’s why I search for this article – and this was helpful.Thanks.

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Bhupendra Singh

11. Jan, 2011

Hii,
I am new to blogging and I started my blog 1 month ago but I am not getting enough traffic.Although my blog is on top of google search page for keyword “Bhupendra Singh Blog”..but still I need a lot of traffic. Thanks for sharing this helpful post.

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- Zg
  
  30. Mar, 2011
  
  I think your blog is in top of google search because your keyword and you blog name are a 100% match so google placed it there.
  
  By the way, great post Adam.
  
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Travis

20. Apr, 2011

What about the use of traffic sites such as Zaparena and 2leep. I have used these for a few months and after some point the traffic became stagnant. To my surprise I still had the same amount of visitors after abandoning the service. So I would recommend for use with new blogs.

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increase your blog traffic

20. May, 2011

i agree with Travis. sites like 2leep will bring you tones of traffic for a day.

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Patrick C.

10. Jan, 2012

I’ve been blogging for about 4 days and I have had my nose searching sites for about 72 of those hours and this is probably in the top 3 for info….good job

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