how to drive traffic to a blog: 10+ ways
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Driving traffic to a blog can be quite a challenge – and an enormous one at that! After all the brainstorming that comes with shopping for a domain name (and maybe theme), to the headaches of hosting companies right up to the nagging headaches of trying to create unique content, the realization that you’ve had only 3 unique visitors for the whole effort may not at all be welcome! Now, welcome to the world of blogging – a world where driving traffic to a blog is harder than creating, hosting and providing unique content for that blog!TRANSCRIPT
How to Drive Traffic to a Blog10+ ways of making your blog a popular one.
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1. Driving traffic to a blog is a slow and methodological process:most of the traffic driving techniques and efforts take time to reflect, be patient.
3. Consistency is key. That means, even when no apparent results show, your job is to continue.
4. Spamming other sites just to drive traffic to your site should be avoided. The results are not worth the headache and efforts.
4. Write for both the search engines and your readers. The key is to know how to define your content so that you don’t offend any.
Before you proceed, please understand:
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- Everyone loves good and quality stuff. What makes you think your content would be loved otherwise?
- In the race for ranking, length always wins. Writing some 300 word post and expecting to be on the first page of any search engine is a joke!
- How to you react to pirated CD’s or books? Is your blog one? To drive traffic to a blog, your content must be original!
TIP 1: QUALITY AND ORIGINAL CONTENT
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SEO is the backbone of the web. So how do you take it serious?
- Research your keywords properly. Generally, keywords with low competition are great.
- Use SEO plugins like WP SEO by Yoast or SEOPressor.
- Ensure you link – and link properly both internally and externally.
- Ensure you are using a SEO optimized theme.
TIP 2: TAKE SEO SERIOUS
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- Thousands of questions are asked everyday on Yahoo!
- Most of these questions have a direct correlation to a blog post
of yours. Learn to answer them and link back.
- You could be smart a little by crafting posts based on already asked questions, answering them and linking back.
- Be sure not to break Yahoo!’s community standards. Take time and read Yahoo!’s policy carefully.
TIP 3: USE YAHOO! ANSWERS
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Guest Blogging may be considered old school – but it sure works as hell. Below are the benefits:
- You have the unique opportunity to influence an already established community of readers who may want what you’re offering.
- Backlinks can easily be got by guest posting. In essence, consider every article sent out as a guest post as a backlink planted that will germinate in due course.
- Listen! If you have to guest post, send your articles to high PR blogs with a good Alexa rank, ok? Otherwise, assume you’re sowing the seed on concrete!
TIP 4: GUEST BLOG
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Article submission sites can drive tons of targeted traffic to a blog very fast. Why?
- Almost all the article submission sites have a good Alexa rank and high Google PR. That means that articles published on such sites reaches the world immediately you hit the publish button.
- As in guest posting, backlinks can be developed via article submission sites.
- Because of their (usually) high PR and Alexa rank, exposure is increased. In the long run, this exposure proves to be superior to even guest blogging!
- Great examples include Helium.com and Ehow.com.
TIP 5: USE ARTICLE SUBMISSION SITES
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Document submission sites work in the same fashion as article submission sites. The only noticeable difference is that document submission sites require you to encode your article in either PDF or Power Point formats.
- Almost all the document submission sites have a good Alexa rank and high Google PR. That means that documents published on such sites reaches the world immediately you hit the publish button.
- As in guest posting, backlinks can be developed via document submission sites.
- Because of their (usually) high PR and Alexa rank, exposure is increased. In the long run, this exposure proves to be superior to even guest blogging!
TIP 6: USE DOCUMENT SUBMISSION SITES
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Forums can work great in promoting online content if used appropriately.
- Never spam any forum with your links…no webmaster appreciates what is called spam.
- A smart way is to find niche related forum and contribute meaningfully to the discussions.
- Customize your signature so that it appears on every comment you make, reducing the need to manually insert your links for every post.
TIP 7: USE FORUMS
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You perhaps never knew that bloggers watch their sites like hawks…. Commenting on other blogs gets you noticed easily by your host(s). There are some tricks though:
- Never spam any blog. Great chances are that your comment will be deleted and no single visit will thereby result.
- The definitive advice of getting others to visit your site by commenting on other sites is by offering a comment either clarifying a post made or challenging it with better (and subtle) arguments.
- For maximum effect, use CommentLuv enabled blogs. They offer traffic and backlinks with a single stroke!
TIP 8: COMMENTING ON OTHER BLOGS
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No doubts, we all love videos…why not capitalize on the fact?
- Create clear and concise videos and upload alongside appropriate content. Appropriate content means ‘How To’ subjects which appear complex.
- Make your videos short and authoritative.
- Aggressively promote your Youtube channel and watch the results… .
TIP 9: USE YOUTUBE
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Man is a social animal…that was not quite true until Facebook, Twitter and its friends arrived….
- All the basic social networks have a ‘reshare’ button that may be called by another nomenclature. Such buttons makes your content go viral – as the reshares are basically unlimited.
- Your blog ranks higher on search engines when your content is shared across profiles. The act tells search engine that: ‘Hey! This guy’s good’.
- Why would be so anti social as not to share?
TIP 10: GET SOCIAL!
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Well, not everything is free. Consider the paid options below especially if you want quick results:
- Advertise on Google under their Ad programme.
- Aggressively promote both your page and posts on Facebook.
- Forget not Twitter and all the social networks out there. Go, try them!
TIP 11: YOU MAY PAY TOO!
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This slide is prepared by Akaahan Terungwa and constitutes an abridged version of the post, 10+ WAYS OF DRIVING TRAFFIC TO A BLOG.
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