11 Best Tactics to Increase Your Blog Traffic

Are you concerned about traffic growth? If yes, you should read the information below.

You’ve got a blog. Everything runs well except for one problem: no-one notices your blog! As you know, there’s no point to have a blog up and running when no-one reads your blog!

Here are more than 10 tips of how to increase traffic to your website:

Note: not all tips may work for your website.

11 Best Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic

1. Write Well And Write Often

Updating your blog with hot content frequently is the best way to get readers to actually read your content. If the content you write is interesting, readers would want to come back to read more!

You then have to write more often so you don’t disappoint your readers! Make sure you ask for their opinions at the end of every posts you write. Include social networking buttons for easy sharing.

Related Post: How to Write Effective Content for Your Blog

2. Submit Your Website URL to Search Engines

This is one of the most important step to increase traffic — and that’s submitting your blog to search engines! Many blog services like WordPress and BlogSpot already include an option for your site — whether if you want your blog to be searched or not. But the negative thing is that search engines crawl around the web — not human. This means that it could take up to months for search engines to finally find you!

However, we could speed up the process. You could start by submitting your blog’s URL to Google (or other search engines). They would then crawl your blog and include your pages and posts in their search results.

Although submitting your blog doesn’t mean your pages and posts would appear at the top of search results, at least your pages are included and hopefully readers can finally find your posts. Posting more “hot” and interesting content would be useful.

3. Use SEO

Many users search up latest and hot news on search engines like Google. Google received over 8.5 billion daily searches from around the world in 2022. People often visit websites that are at the top of the list.

To help your posts to be on top of the list, websites often use SEO. SEO is one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog. In many cases, it can improve your Google page rank.

Here are a few sources for more information about SEO: SEOBook, MOZ, Google SEO Starter Guide (soon we will also cover topics about SEO, so stay tuned.)

4. Use Social Networks To Share Your Contents

Many readers actually go into their social networking accounts to see the latest updates. This could range from their friends’ status updates, to posts they share! Research shows that users click links that they are relevant from two sources:

• pages that they liked (on Facebook) and followed (on Twitter)
• posts that were shared by their friends

With over 2.934 billion accounts on Facebook and 1.98 billion users (Souce: Statista), you can see why having social networks for your website is a great idea. There are also applications that are specially created to automatically post content to social networks whenever a post is published on your website.

Another tip is to integrate social networking buttons (eg “like” and “share”) into every single page/post you published on your website.

5. Add Graphics to Your Posts

A lot of times, websites actually get around 30–50% of the views from Image Searches. This also shows that not all users are interested in searching for the content, but it’s the images they’re looking for! Research has shown that around 40% of the users would read about the actual post while trying to find the image!

If you use your own images, you could ask people to link-back to their post (or website) so your website could actually gain traffic hopefully!

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