3 Long Term Methods To Get More Blog Traffic – Part I

by: Mr. Ven 11

Traffic is the mainly Assert for a blog. Driving more traffic to your new blog is one of the toughest part of blogging. In actual, it doesn’t happens very soon or immediately. It definitely requires good amount of work and patience. You are looking to Understand the long term methods to get more traffic for your blog, that’s a good decision you have made today. There are tonnes of resources on blog traffic in Internet and you could get more insights on this topic from many of the industry experts. First, your blog needs more traffic for making money.

Blogging is all about sharing information to others, not only sharing its more about networking, helping & caring. There may be shortcut methods which immediately surges your traffic up but do those methods lost long term ? May not be.

As a new blogger, don’t look for such methods which gives you instant traffic for the short term (always). Instead, you must focus towards those “Long Term Methods” which gets you traffic for the life time. Blogging is a Long term online business and hence it requires long term investment, ideas. This article is for those who are more serious about blogging especially looking to increase their blog traffic for the long term. Lets see those “Long Term Methods”.

This is a huge topic and it won’t be good to cover nook and corners in single article. So lets break down into 3 parts.

Part I – Search Engine Blog Traffic
Part II – Social Media Blog Traffic
Part III – Referral Blog Traffic

Part I – Search Engine Blog Traffic.

Search engines are major source of traffic for any blog. This blog gets about 80% of its traffic from search engines especially Google, Yahoo. (To mention, this blog stands No. 1 for the keyword Money making online (in yahoo) and related words) Also, it is strongly believed that search engines traffic is the most quality traffic because searchers are seriously looking for information. So how to get more traffic from search engines ?

Traffic Long Away !

SE’s Are Stupids (Because of SEO).

The first thing you have to understand is “Search Engines Are Stupid“. This is my argument that search engines are not intelligent to analyze a site. For that reason only webmasters are optimizing their sites for search engines. Yes, if search engines are well intelligent, why do we need SEO ?

Okay, so our first step is learning SEO. I am not going to take a lengthy class today instead i would recommend you read Google’s SEO for beginners, a nice guide every new blogger must understand. This guides you on how to write content and design your site optimized for search engines.

Importance of Blog Design.

You must optimize your blog design for search engines first. If you have already optimized design then its good. Few of the factors to consider in optimizing blog design are:

Easy To Navigate Layout.
Should be Able To Reach A Page not more than 2-3 clicks.
Highlighted (h1,h2 tags) Post titles and sidebar headings.
Fast loading without junk html/script/css code.

Don’t crack your head, the easiest way is finding search engine optimized free Themes and use it in your blog.

Have XML SiteMaps.

A sitemap is a file which tells what are the pages available in your blog. It actually sorts the pages based on the recent date/time. So if you publish an article, it appears on the sitemaps. Sitemaps are food for search engines, it finds new information easily through the given sitemap.

For wordpress users, Use this Sitemap plugin which builds sitemap & pings search engines whenever there is an update.
For blogger users, see how to add sitemaps for blogger blog ?

Now whenever you publish an article in your blog, search engine will get to know about it.

Write Content – Useful, Consistency.

Writing content for your blog is the on-going activity which goes through out the life cycle of blogging. You must write useful articles only. Its not about quantity but about Quality. Every article you publish should be in the topic and it should help the visitors. Basically, your articles should solve the readers problem.

Always write articles of length more than 500 words or even more based on the context/topic.
Use Sub-headings in the article.
Use bullets by listing down the important points.
Use Bold, Italics on the content.
Have introduction, conclusion of the topic with “targeted keywords” in those paragraphs.
More important, have keywords on the title & its description.

Next comes consistency, have a writing schedule and stick to it. Keeping your blog with always fresh information makes search engines to come back again & again. It also makes the visitors to come back looking for more information.

So keep on writing useful information consistently. Your blog gets more traffic naturally from search engines.

Importance of Incoming Links.

Search Engine Authority grows based on the number of links pointing to your blog/articles. Its more about from where it is linked and not about the quantity. A blog with incoming links from other related pages increases the authority. If you gains authority, your blog & its articles are respected by SE’s and placed in the top of result pages.

Simple Tips to gain incoming links:

Write guest post on a popular blog in your topic and link your blog in that post. Want to write guest post ?
Leave comments on blogs related to your topic. This is a dofollow blog !
Join Forums and add your blog link to your signature, participate in discussions. Learn forum marketing tips.
Bookmark your articles on sites like Mixx, Digg & Stumbleupon. Encourage people to promote it.
Naturally, having useful content in your blog automatically gains you incoming links.
Keep variety of targeted keywords in the links. Lean to gain targeted visitors.

Getting more traffic from search engine is a long term approach, its toughest one too because its not in your hand/control.

But you could control your blog. So optimize your blog, use sitemaps, write useful articles consitently, build quality incoming links. Finally, your blog grows naturally and gets more traffic from search engines.

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