Attract More Traffic to Your Blog
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Writing well researched and content-rich blog posts and regularly publishing them online seem not enough to increase site traffic nowadays. You tried taking a different approach to your writing and included valuable information and useful tips about your topics and your stats still aren’t improving as fast as you had hoped.
If you’re sure it’s not your writing that’s barring considerable boost in your site traffic, it’s time to snoop around and find out what else you may have overlooked. Here are a few suggestions.
Link Properly
Whenever you prep a blog post for publishing online, always look at it from the vantage point of someone relatively uninformed. As such, there may be some piece of information they would be encountering for the first time. In this regard, always employ proper linking to provide them with other source materials (if possible link to your other related blog posts) for some background reading. Always utilize this even if you are mentioning a site, brand or a person considerably popular by linking to their personal Web sites, but make sure you don’t keep on linking to the same target sites every time they are mentioned in your post.
Pair With Graphics
Needless to say, balancing a page’s elements has to be one of the oldest rules in laying out a page, whether in traditional publishing or online. As such, it’s also often overlooked by site owners, intending to prioritize enriching their content and relying instead on the banner graphics and sidebars for aesthetics. To the eye, a block of text is a block of text and it needs a visual break every now and then. Unless your content is busting at the seams with juicy fun information or it’s a required reading material for work or school, your site will only merit a moment’s glance. Integrating relevant multimedia elements like photos, artworks and animated GIFs into the body of your content can help.
Build Relationships
Creating a network of online contacts is important especially if you’re merely starting on the blogging space. Remember, you are creating genuine relationships that will have trust as its backbone, so make sure to actually befriend them and not try to forge a partnership just because they can help promote your blog. For starters, you can visit other blogs and message boards in your same general field of interest and participate in conversations and leave links to your blog’s URL as a way for others to reach you.
Another good way of building relationships online is by mentioning other bloggers and other people you’ve met online within your blog post or even invite them as guest writers in your blog and allow them to cross-post the entry in their own domain. This will give significantly boost your image as knowledgeable entities in your field, increase your site traffic and help enrich your content.
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RSpears @ April 19, 2010
