How to increase your blog’s traffic

People create blog’s for a variety of reasons and most of these people want traffic on their blog. They may want traffic for a variety of reasons, but, since my blog is about making money online, I’ll limit the reason to making money.

So, how can you attract more traffic to your blog for the purpose of making money? Use the following techniques to increase the amount of people who view your blog:

Technique 1: Post Frequently

Frequently updating your blog will not only rank your blog higher in a search engine’s index, it will create a larger blog with a larger amount of words.  A larger amount of words will make search engines direct people to your blog who entered a certain keyword into the search engine. For example, if you use the keyword “Banana” in a specific article on your blog, search engines are more likely to send people to your blog (if those people searched for the word “banana”). Additionally, the more times you use the word “banana”, the higher your blog will be ranked in a search if a person searches for the word “banana”. Additionally, using a large variety of words also increases the chances your blog will be found, depending on the keywords in your blog and in the search engine.

Posting frequently also helps in maintaining any kind of audience you’ve already acquired.

Technique 2: Use Keywords

Given the preceding paragraph, you may have seen this technique coming a mile away. This aside, if you want people to come to your blog, use certain keywords. For example, if you want music fans to visit your blog, use keywords like “music”, “songs”, “rap”, “rock”, etc. I don’t always use keywords, but keywords are a way to increase the chances of someone finding your blog.

Technique 3: Write quality articles/entries on your blog

This relates more to keeping an audience, but it can also help you build an audience since well-written material on your blog may convince your current audience to recommend your blog to friends and acquaintances. So, how do you increase the quality of your articles? It’s easier said than done. Here are a few tips:

• Write about interesting things
• Use pictures, especially high quality pictures
• Use proper grammar, spelling, and punctuation
• Make your blog as easy to read as possible

Let’s face it; writing well is difficult. Currently, I’m struggling to write this article. Writing is a skill and, like all skills, it needs to be practiced over and over again. In time, and with much practice, your writing abilities will improve. So don’t worry if your first few articles are perfect, you’ll improve with practice and effort.

Technique 4: Have your blog focus on a particular niche

This is a good way to retain your blog audience and attract new visitors. Your blog audience expects something consistent from your blog. Whether it is articles about sports, bead-work, music, etc., your audience wants it. Make sure it’s a niche you care about or writing about it will be a pain.

Certain niches, more than others, will attract a large amount of traffic. If your blog is all about cars, you’ll likely have a fairly large audience. But, again, be sure to choose something you have some interest in.

Technique 5: Network with your peers

Network with your fellow bloggers. If you have a blog on cars and you know someone who has a blog on cars, have your blog brother give you a shout-out. Get to know other bloggers in your community, especially if those bloggers discuss blog themes similar to yours i.e. sports, cars, etc.

Network with your friends. Ask your friends to check out your blog or ask your friends if they can refer others to your blog.

Technique 6: Advertise your blog

If all else fails, buy ad space for your blog. I don’t think this is necessary to have a successful blog, but if you’re desperate, you might want to at least consider it.

 

Since I’m all about making money (this is a money-making blog after all), I recommend this book to you. It will give you tips and tricks on how to increase your blog traffic and capitalize (profit from) that traffic. I use many of the techniques discussed in the book on my blog. I found it worthwhile to buy the book; you might find it worthwhile too.