Boost Your Blog Traffic Today
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.
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.
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.
Which of the statistic counters would you recommend for a beginning working on an Apple Mac to start using?
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.
Out of all those analytic sites the ones I use are stat counter and google analytics, are the other ones any good?
I’ve been using Statcounter for years and it has been very helpful, and most importantly very easy to use.
I really thinks that bloggers should focus on broad topics because it makes it easier to advertise afterward.
Great post…hopefully can use your ultimate guide to boost my blog traffic
Thanks for the highly informative post. Helped me a lot.
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I’m not too familiar facebook or tweeter.
How do I spread the message about my site on there?
Thanks
thanks for this nice post. my blog has pr 4, but has poor visitrs