Every blogger’s dream is to increase their website traffic, grow their email list subscribers, gain conversions and maybe even sell products.
If you are here am assuming you have followed all instructions that you have been given on “how to start a blog” from your favorite blogger or even from watching YouTube videos.
You have even written a few posts on your brand new blog, but nobody is reading, or commenting, or even liking the posts, talk more of sharing it?.
This post is definitely for you,
The truth is, there’s no extremely fast or easy thing to do and bam, there goes a spike in your website traffic!
It’s going to take a lot of work but more importantly, its going to take time!
And time is something you have to keep in mind when waiting to see if your efforts are paying off.
In this post, we are going to be sharing with you,
12 things that you can start doing right now that will increase your website traffic by at least 77% within 3 to 6 months.
The techniques discussed in this post has helped grow the blogs of most of my clients from from 500 sessions a month to almost 12,000 within 3 months of constant application.
If you are ready, lets get right to it….but first
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When it comes to blogging,
The common phrase you hear will be “Content Is Key” or that to increase your website traffic, you need to keep posting consistently.
While these are true, and are really important to grow a successful blog,
they aren’t the only thing that is required to create a six figure income blog.
You see,
it is more than possible for you to keep posting great content consistently on your blog and still not have any website traffic,
one of the most common reasons for this is usually…..that’s right….SEO.
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization,
In very easy to understand terms,
SEO simply means following the search ranking guidelines of popular search engines that you would like to get website traffic from to help them show your blog posts to people searching for your content using these search engines.
So what are these rules you might ask…..?
Truth is…..
There aren’t a set of specific written down rules for all search engines.
Each search engine has unique guidelines and tips that you have to implement on your website to see that spike in website traffic.
This means SEO techniques for Google will be different from that of Pinterest, Bing and Alexa etc.
For this post we will be focusing on the search engine optimization for Google.
Google SEO is divided into two major sections
This refers to SEO actions that you can take within your website to increase your search engine ranking,
It can be anything from :-
All these things when put into consideration help you to build up one hell of a blog post that attracts backlinks and increases website traffic.
These are actions that are taken outside of your website that can impact how high or low your website ranks in google.
It can be anything from back-link (incoming links from other websites pointing to a page or post on your website) building,
Post social shares and comments, brand name mentions etc
These signals help google understand that your content is providing value and your brand and domain becomes an authority in your chosen industry,
This improves your search rankings and in turn, your website traffic
This is where you get technical on your blog.
Metrics such as page speed, page, loading time, user experience, etc have become so much more important that Google itself made page speed a ranking factor.
The reason is because nobody wants to wait 8 seconds for your webpage to load!
At 3 seconds, the user is already refreshing the page to see if it works,
if it doesn’t load, guess what they are out!
According to a study conducted by Backlinko, A leading expert in SEO, readers will leave a website if it takes more than 2 seconds to load!
Improving your website speed helps determine that you aren’t loosing your readers.
Guest posting is one of the most popular ways to get website traffic.
According to a research by Buzz Sumo, they were able to increase their website traffic by 100% in 9 months by writing 150 blog posts!
How awesome is that!
It is a really effective blog traffic growth strategy that when utilized well can help get online blog visitors from the guest post website onto your own blog!
The most important things to bear in mind when writing a blog post are
Learn more about guest posting.
According to a research by WordPress,
more than 2.3 million blog posts are published daily.
2.3 MILLION! on WordPress CMS alone!
Only about 10,000 of these posts ever make it to googles front page.
There are tons of reasons for this but most importantly, it’s about your CONTENT!
What makes your post stand out?, what makes it different from others?, how well does it meet the readers needs?
Google studies the behavior of a user from the moment they click on your post to the moment they leave your website and what they do after they leave your website.
If the user leaves your site and keeps searching for information on the same keyword,
Google algorithm understands that your post did not meet the users needs and will ultimately lower your search rankings as more users continue to do the same.
This is where the sky scraper technique comes in….
The sky scraper technique of writing a blog post,
Is one where you conduct proper research for a keyword you would like to rank for by checking out articles that are already ranking for that keyword,
Then improving on the article in anyway possible by creating a more recent and comprehensive version with a lot more to offer.
It can be anything from writing better content,
Providing or linking to better resources,
Adding more images or even making your post 10x more concise, comprehensive and easy to understand.
This way,
Google can see that the better article to be ranked for that particular keyword is yours because it is way more comprehensive and covers everything the user is searching for.\
Writing an article is one thing, promoting your article is another.
To get in the good side of your already established and competing websites,
You want to link out to their best articles that are relating to the keyword you are writing about,
Then send them an email informing them that you have just written a blog post that comprehensively covers a keyword relating to one of their articles and you have linked to them in it.
Attach a link to that blog post and ask them to share it if they liked it.
The email template you send them can be anything like this….
If they liked the post they will share it on their social media channels or even link back to it.
Helping you build a back-link and get more traffic in the process!
People love facts and data..
Regardless of the topic, or industry, data is one of the most sourced after piece of information out there…
If you want to get more back links and grow your blog traffic or even build your brand name,
Then you want to be known for presenting good visual data to topics related to your blog niche.
The best way to do this is to collaborate with other bloggers!
You can team up with one of your favorite bloggers in your niche by reaching out to them via email and asking them if they would be willing to collaborate with you on a case study.
Together, you can gather important analytical data people are really searching for or even paying money for and present it in your blog posts.
Then share the content on blog and link to your collaborator in it.
Your collaborator will be more than happy to link to it since they are part of the source.
This way, you build more back-links and your link is shared on your collaborators blog and social media pages, giving you more website traffic in return!
If you don’t have push notification settings enabled on your website, you are missing out on a ton of blog traffic.
Research shows that 70% of users who visit your website probably won’t return to it if there isn’t any plan to remind them to come back.
This is where a push notification service come in..
Using plugins like OneSignal (free) or WonderPush, you can keep your users notified of every new post upload you make to your website by directly feeding your post notification straight into their web browsers!
So that every time you upload a new post they can see it on the home page of their web browser and click on it.
This technique can help you build loyal and returning readers back to your blog!
The most shared blog posts on the internet or blog posts that went “viral” are posts that have a carefully designed beautiful and comprehensive info-graphic that summarizes the blog post into simple sentences with images designed to answer a question a user has or meet a users needs!
The easiest way to do this is to create info-graphics using any graphic design tool of your choice and summarizing all the best points in your blog post into a single sheet of paper with images to illustrate each point.
Regardless of the topic, if your info-graphic design is good and neat , easy to read with nice images,
It will continue to be re-posted online eventually drawing more and more users to your website daily.
A research by Cheryl Conner, A former contributor at Entrepreneur and a current contributor at Forbes shows that 74% of marketers rely on visuals in their social media messaging, 56% of companies queried use info-graphics and 84% of marketers who have used them consider them very effective.
The reason for this being that visual information presented in info-graphics are retained 400% more than written content.
In other words, people are more likely to remember and save your info-graphic than they are to remember a specific content you wrote.
So when writing that epic content, take out the time to create an equally worthy infographic to go with it!.
Improving your website content is one of the best way to increase your blog traffic.
According to research, most bloggers see a spike on their blog traffic, after they have improved on old posts.
Every now and then,
It is very important to update your content, add fresh new images,
Do research to find out how much your old information on your posts have change and offer the new solutions on your blog.
Posts like “how to start a blog in 2019” won’t entice a reader to click on it better than a post with the title “how to start a blog in 2021 | The full Guide” mostly because the 2nd post is current and offers more promise to the reader.
The takeaway – always update your content and keep it epic.
Many people don’t know this,
but one of the best ways to grow your backlinks is to leave comments on posts written by other blogs in your niche citing your own blog in the process.
Now wait, before your go crazy, leaving comments like “nice post!” or “really great content” on every post on a competitors blog , know this.
Writing repetitive comments like that over and over again on so many blog posts will make other bloggers and google think you are a spammer (someone who sends irrelevant messages continuously for the purpose of advertising).
Trust me you do not want this!,
It will make google see you and your website as a spammer and you might even be blocked or banned by spamming agencies if reported by your competing websites.
You want to make sure that you have read the post of your competitor very thoroughly and take the following points into consideration when commenting.
Remember to keep it real!,
Don’t write something you don’t mean just for a backlink (an incoming link from their website to your own, know to help improve your websites SEO).
Most time the blogger will reply your comment if it was helpful and other readers or commenters will want to check out your blog,
Bringing you more traffic in the process.
Nobody likes those annoying emails that are delivered to their mailbox from any website with the same generic format and content telling them to go and read yet another blog post from you!
It usually goes something like this…
Little to no one will click on this email, reasons are, it’s generic and not personified,
It doesn’t make the reader think that you have created this post for them.
Instead it gives them the impression that,
“Hey, i have written another post, read it!’ and that’s the last thing that you want.
Creating a custom and personalized email blog post outreach like
Am sure you can guess which blog post notification Eric is most likely to click on
Takeaway – Always create custom and personalized blog post RSS feeds for your newsletter subscribers.
This is a very underrated aspect of blogging that most people often just ignore.
After creating your content, its not advisable to sit and wait for magic to happen,
You want to make sure that you are getting your content in front of as many people as possible and not just anyone your target audience!
According to Neil Patel, an SEO and Marketing expert, he spends 20% of his time writing content and 80% percent promoting that content.
Meaning, spending money on ads facebook, google or even pinterest ads,
Posting on social media channels like Instagram Facebook, twitter and even LinkedIn.
All in a bid to bring your content in front of people who are searching for them.
Come now, you don’t just want to write a blog post and abandon it,
Make sure that you are available to reply to users queries and questions,
This gives them the impression that you are a real person giving them these tips.
Not just a face behind the computer.
They get to trust you and your brand more this way and might even get them to subscribe to your newsletter so they can find you again later on.
Increasing the website traffic on your blog is very important if you would like to one day monetize and make a 6 figure income from it.
Consistent application of the techniques we have listed above have helped grow many blogs to earning almost 10,000 dollars a month in blog revenue and it can work for you too!
What did you think of these techniques?, do you have a technique that works for you that wasn’t listed here?
Let us know by leaving a comment down below!
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