Wednesday, 23 May 2012

5 Effective Tips For Increasing Your Blog Traffic

1. Use e-mail marketing correctly – Email marketing is a very powerful tool to drive traffic to your blog when used correctly. DO NOT SPAM. Spamming just doesn’t work. On the contrary, it will drive off potential customers. Market your blog as newsletters and get your visitors to subscribe to your blog newsletter instead. We are using an email marketing tool called AWeber and it has the feature of connecting our blog to our database and send out regular updates! How cool is that.

2. Use the Social Media – Take advantage of the popularity of social media in promoting your blogs. Hundreds of millions of users are using social media sites every single day. You can gain followers by reaching out to them on a personal level. This method, however, requires time and patience to build network of friends and followers by knowing their interest.


3. Promote your blog – there are many ways you can apply in promoting your blog and getting a good amount of traffic. The following are well known and proven methods for generating traffic to your blog and eventually convert them as leads.
  • Article Marketing – Submitting your blog posts to many article directories for backlinking. There are tools like Article Marketing Robot that can help you to spin the article, submit to thousands and thousands of directories with just a few clicks.
  • Social Bookmarking – If you scroll all the way down, you’ll find a row of various social networks where you can bookmark the blogpost. Some of the most popular ones are Delicious, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Twitter.
  •  Traffic Syndication – This is a very very cool method for increasing your blog traffic. One of the top tool for traffic syndication is Ping.fm. Rather than going into a long explanation here’s step-by-step guide on what the tool does:
    1. Set up a Ping.fm account
    2. Sign up for all or most of the social network accounts available for syndication. These networks are of high authority and getting a backlink to your blog, weighs alot!
    3. Connect your RSS feed link to Ping.fm
    4. Keep blogging daily and the tool will keep automatically updating all these networks! Simple?
 4. Post regularly – If you are a newbie and posting articles or blogs at random interval, will give an impression to your followers that the site is abandoned with no new posts published for a while. Make a schedule of writing and publishing blogposts and stick to it. Posting daily is advisable, but if your readers got used to receiving newsletter from you on weekly basis, then stick to it. This actually gives you much time to think of interesting topics and builds the feeling of anticipation on the part of your readers or subscribers.

5. Don’t forget the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – Make the content of your blog SEO friendly. This will greatly help in keeping your site within the radar of the search engines. There are various ways of making your contents SEO friendly. This includes but not limited to using meta keywords, descriptions and tags; utilizing keywords in the title tag and body text of the blog; Image alt tags and outbound links in the blog.



Create hot, interesting and exciting blog posts

The success of blogging depends not only on drawing visitors to your site but how to convert them into returning visitors and eventually your followers. Once you master the techniques of drawing visitors to your site, then you must also learn how to make them stick around and become your followers. If you become a master of the two techniques, then you can congratulate yourself as a successful internet marketer by using the above simple tips for increasing your blog traffic.

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