Bloggers, want to know how to increase blog traffic and grow lots of followers? I have practiced the tips below and they.really.work! I want to provide you with the best stuff so that you are successful as a blogger. I have sorted the list and put the easiest and quickest tips at the top so you can focus on quick changes and big results. Enjoy! If you haven’t started your blog yet, here is a step by step tutorial.
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Step 1: Get Blog traffic to your blog for free: Be Part of the Blogging Community
That advice mom gave you when you were 5 years old, do unto others as you want them to do unto you, yes that advice, it still works! And especially in the blogging world where everyone wants to get blog traffic and make money. The best way to do this is by helping others out first, and have the favors returned. Return emails, reply to comments, share their posts and link to them on your site.
How do you become a part of the blogging community effectively?
- Leave comments
- Leave enticing and insightful comments on others’ posts. This will compliment the blogger and will increase the likelihood of a reader clicking through to see your blog.
- Help Others
- Go out of your way to help someone else, that one person could potentially have a huge influence somewhere that could help you in the future.
- Besides, this should be one of the reasons you become a blogger. To connect with others in your niche, to learn from them and share their advice.
- Be a Friend
- Your followers will increase if you’re nice and genuine and kind. Even if it is just that one person, that is one more follower for your blog. That one person could share the story of how genuine you are, and bring you additional followers.
- If you’re a friend to someone, they have a much higher tendency to link back to your blog on their website. These back links increase traffic to your blog and your rankings in SEO.
- Share Others’ Posts
- This will build up your reputation in the blogging community as someone helpful and will get you followers. Share smaller and larger bloggers’ posts. Let them know through Twitter (or another social media platform) that you loved their recent article and send them a quick compliment. Most of the time they will retweet/reshare it and it will show up on their feed. That puts your name in front of all their followers, bonus!
- Have Role Models
- Build relationships with your role models. Share their posts, comment on their articles, learn from them. By learning from others you will become a better blogger. Additionally, you will see below how these relationships will come in handy for helping your site grow traffic.
Sound like the things you learned in kindergarten? Yup! Those golden rules apply in blogging too. Even Dale Carnegie dives deeply into the concepts just described in his world famous book that has been published for over 75 years, “How to Win Friends and Influence People”. I’m reading it now and it’s brilliant!
Step 2: Write Quality Posts: Increase your blog traffic and followers
You want to produce content that people find useful and are easy to implement. Those are the types of posts that get the most shares.
- Focus on Your Audience
- Always think about your reader’s needs and how you can transform their lives. Your readers are busy and have a lot of things to do, how can you positively impact and improve their day?
- Find sites that are in your niche and read the comments. Or join Facebook groups in your niche and read what people are struggling with. When you see a theme, this is what you need to write about. This will give you guidance to create fantastic posts!
- Your posts should be useful, practical and easy to implement with quick results.
- Example: During pregnancy I get very nauseous, my mom (love my mom!) advised me to drink water with lemon juice in it and shred an apple, wait 30 minutes until it turns brownish, and then eat it. Sounds crazy, but it worked immediately! That is my number one tip I give pregnant mommies.
- Always think about what’s in it for your reader. How will your blog post transform them and improve their lives?
- Post Often
- The more times you post, the more chances there are for search engines to find and rank you, and the more opportunities you give your readers to share your content.
- But don’t let the increase in frequency decrease your quality. If you have to chose, always post quality over quantity.
Need some ideas, check out What to Blog About When You Don’t Know What to Blog About and 8,000+ Blog Post Ideas for INSANE Traffic!
Step 3: Guest Post to Increase Blog Traffic
From your list of role models find a role model that is in your niche. You want their audience to be the audience you want to target. If they have a completely different following, guest posting on their blog will only bring you Hi-Bye traffic. Visitors will stop by but not follow you as they won’t be the audience you’re targeting.
- Research: Go through their blog and research their most popular posts. It will be the posts with the most shares on social media and most comments. That will show you what their audience likes.
- Write: Write a guest post that is in the same category as their most popular post because you already know that their audience will like it.
- Back links: Be sure to include one or two back links to your own blog to revert traffic back. Check with your role model what their guidelines are for guest posting.
- Share: When you send the post to your role model, you already know they and their audience likes the topic, so you chances of success are much greater!
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