How Traffic Will Actually Reach Your Blog: 4 Ways to More Blog Audience
Any problogger can tell you that traffic is vital to success. If you write interesting and engaging posts and keep up to date on your SEO, your blog will attract a moderate amount of traffic. Getting return visitors is where things get tricky; there is a natural run-off of visitors as people get disinterested or get pulled away by other blogs. To counter-act this, probloggers must constantly strive to increase traffic.
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Why Successful Blogs Still Need More Traffic
Whether your blog is already pulling a decent amount of visitors daily or you need a serious boost, any increase in traffic is a good thing. If you’re already holding your traffic amount steady, anything you do to increase it is like extra—and that’s ideal. The more visitors, the better the chances of a blog producing income.
Increasing Traffic on the Cheap
There are many ways to increase traffic to a blog, but cost-free ones are ideal. The less money out of your pockets, the more you get to keep, after all. The following are some particularly good traffic-increasing tactics that cost little to nothing.
Zugo
This partner of online content publishers and distributors works by creating custom-made start pages and toolbars featuring your brand name and logo. Imagine the increase in visitors with a Zugo Bing, Yahoo or other engine’s toolbar in their browser providing a one-click way to visit your blog.
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Social Networking
Include share buttons for as many different social networking sites as you can. Anyone who shares one of your blog posts on a social networking site is giving you a free backlink—and backlinks not only attract more traffic, but also help your rankings in search engines.
Disabling Comments
Disabling comments might seem counterproductive; after all, if a viewer wants to leave feedback, shouldn’t you let them? No, at least not at first. Disabling comments for awhile when you first start a blog provides several advantages:
- Nobody can tell how much or how little traffic you get. This way there isn’t a “0 comments” written beside every post giving away that nobody would comment if they were able to.
- More backlinks. When people have a burning question or comment about your blog and no comments section to leave it in, often they will blog about your post in their own blog—with a link back to yours.
- No dealing with spam posts!
When your blog becomes popular enough to have steady traffic, you can turn the comments on again, and then they will be an advantage, demonstrating that people do visit by the posts they leave behind.
Reinvent Yourself
Change things up. Readers will get bored of the same kind of content every post, even if it’s great content. Vary your backlinking, SEO and traffic-building tactics, too. Even if the current tactics are working, more methods at work equal more potential traffic. Good luck!
Do you have any questions or great traffic-building tips to offer? Feel free to share in a comment!
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