Every bloggers wants to increase their blog traffic. Though Increasing website traffic is not an easy process, it isn't impossible. A lot of bloggers are competing against you to get a position on Google's first page. But many bloggers do not know how to get position on first page!
In this post, we are going to learn how to drive sustainable traffic & how to increase pageviews per visitor. Here, I'm going so share some techniques that you haven't heard before. Lets start our journey to success!
Every blogger knows that content is the king of a blog. But do you know how to create content like a book? If your answer is no, I will say 'no problem'! I am here to help you.
Do you like to read books? How many books do you read in a year?
Now lets think about a book. If a book gets a lot of pageviews - this book is good enough. But, if a book doesn't seem interesting in first few pages - will you read more inside?
So think your website as a book. If you produce good content, people will love to read it. Otherwise, they simply ignore your website like you ignore the book.
Make sure that you give you all attention in creating content, not in earning money. When you'll have a blog full of great content, money will come automatically. I discussed about
Creating Great Content that may help you.
First, you have to choose a keyword that is perfect for you. It might not be profitable, its needs to be perfect. Most of the keywords have the ability to be profitable. I discuss more about keyword on Blogging For Beginners guide.
However, creating good content isn't all to drive sustainable traffic, you have to do some basic SEO (label link ). This will make easier to get a position on search engine rankings. If you are a wordpress user (I think you are), you can use Yoast SEO plugin, this will help to optimize your content.
Its time to find the targeted customers on you
keyword . That's a huge task to do. But I am going to describe it with my own experience.
About a year ago, I created a blog called Food Nutrition Tips. I am looking to share my blog links in different kinds of blogs including technology blogs, health blogs, online newspapers, personal blogs etc. However, this didn't help me to reach my goal. //Your backlink needs to build by other bloggers, not by yourself. (This is real case)
I wrote blog posts about health, various kinds of treatment etc. My targeted audience liked that.
Unfortunately, the influencer's of my keyword - the health & fitness bloggers did not love it. They thought that my articles were so basic. As a result, they ignored it. So, not only I failed to gain backlink but also failed in search engine optimization.
So, you have to bear in mind that you have to
influence both visitors and bloggers to get success. If other bloggers pay attention on your blog posts - it will be good for relevant backlink.
Once you find your influencer's, its time to research on them. Find out what your influencer's care about. Then, write articles as their want. Your topic needs to have appeal to them. If they love your content, they'll love to share your blog link.
Creating evergreen and useful content is helpful to increase blog visitors. At first, you have to give more importance on quality, not on quantity. As always, quality articles ranks higher in search results.
Make sure that your articles full fill the needs of the visitors, and they can find every information they need at one page (you can interlink). Give more attention to help the visitors to reach a goal, solve a problem or find out reliable news. You must create shareable content. In this age of social media, shareable content is the king.
I guess, you have a question on your mind. And, the question is 'What is evergreen content?' If you don't know the answer yet, no need to fell scary. I'll explain everything.
Suppose, you are searching on Google 'Blogging Advice '. Then, absoulately, you'll find tons of posts on this topic. Every of them may help you or you must visit many site to know about blogging advice. And, now to then, after some years, new bloggers will search for blogging advice.
On the other hand, suppose, I am looking for a 'football match result'. This specific result might be searched for a few days. In fact, a certain period, no people will want to know the results again because they already know that.
So, which is evergreen content? Absoulately, the first. So write more evergreen content and update them regularly. As a professional blogger, you must avoid Content Generators. If you use this tool, you may get penalty from Google .
Always try to write evergreen content. Never copy - paste content from other websites - Yahoo, Google, Bing are too smart to find this. Evergreen content can be searched over years - that make more search traffic. I found a lot of blogs who find major traffics from evergreen content. You can visit Evergreen Content to learn more about this.
Evergreen content must be highly informative and useful. But your all content must cover only one specific niche. You might think that writing about all subject will increase your traffic. You are totally wrong. Writing about all topic will increase your traffic for first few days. But your bounce rate will increase day by day. Because who is looking for web hosting must not read a post about feeding a child.
This is a short section of Ultimate Guide Of Blogging. Visit there to find out more.
Website pageviews depend much on user experience. If you have a website where visitors can clearly navigate, you pageviews will increase automatically.
Now think about yourself - don't want to spend more time on a website that provides a great user experience? If your answer is yes, then apply the same trick for your own blog.
The first thing you can do - load faster! People love quick results. When your site loads slowly, visitors will ignore it. Other hand, faster loading site has a great value to search engines. Faster site always get higher ranks.
If you fail to do this, visitor will click on back button. Like your's, they have no time to waste.
Very big companies like Amazon & Walmart made improvement by using faster server. Amazon noticed 1% improvement on conversation for every millisecond faster load speed.
So, its time to make yourself faster. Fortunately, improving page loading speed is not a hard task.
Many tools available on the internet to do this. But recommend you to use Google Page Speed Insights for this. It is completely free to use tool.
Just put your blog domain name and see the results. You can fix all of them easily. But if you need any professional help, mail me at buetdihan[at]gmail[dot]com. I am ready to help you.
All work is not done yet. Now, I guess you need to display a pop-up on your website, right?
But this is not likable to visitors. They just want to read your content - not the pop-up. So try to use your blog without any pop-up. However, if you really need to show pop-up, make sure that it only shows once per visitor. The same rule is applicable for ads also.
Most of the website owners want to earn money from their website. They put a lot of effort for getting targeted ads, sure, you have some targeted ads also on your site. But more than 3 ads per page makes visitors uncomfortable. If you do this, you will loss long term profit.
Then, you have to analyze your visitors data. You can use Google Analytics tool to do that. Using this analytics tool is free for everyone (probably the best).
When you have your visitors information on your hand, you will acquire the ability to provide content which your visitors want.
Your website will be more successful if you write content continuously. Study shows that blogs with regular articles (minimum 6 a week) get 384% more visitors than other blogs. It is better to pick a schedule to publish your article.
Keep your article fresh, never publish a duplicate content. Visitors wont love to read a article more than once - in different websites. I know its hard to add fresh content regularly. So try to add fresh content in every few days - minimum 3 per week.
Only writing a good article is not enough. You have to use tags, labels, categories, description appropriately. It will help search engines to find the right article for the visitors. You can read a tutorial titled Use Keywords Effectively on Wikihow.
To have a successful blog, you need to make sure that you placed right tags in right point and your links are not broken. Broken link discourages visitors to spend more time. There are many tools available on the internet which help to check broken links. You can use
Small SEO Tools to check your broken links.
Many bloggers think that using more keywords helps to drive more traffic. In fact, this is a foolish thinking. Google loves keyword density 2-3% per post. So keep your keyword inside that length. Otherwise, using more keyword will result in a very low search rank which is not expected.
As last step of article writing, you have to put importance on link building. Internal links are very important for on page SEO. So, make sure that you interlinks with related posts that you've already written. This will help your visitors to find useful articles in related niche. It also increase your pageviews which is great for Search Engine Optimization (label link).
//This paragraph is a summary of How To Write Great Content . For Case Study results, you can visit this page.
I wrote previously, tags/labels/categories are very important. It will help you to promote related content on sidebar or after blog posts.
Using sidebar to promote related content is a great idea because it attracts your visitors to read more content of your blog. This will increase your pageviews.
You can improve your pageviews by promoting your old blog posts. I noticed many bloggers who have no knowledge about this step. However, If you write evergreen content - your content will be considered as valuable for years!
There are many ways to promote evergreen content . You can change or remove the publish date from a content that was visited by lots. Social media plays important role to promote your old but gold content.
Having a Facebook fanpage/ twitter account/ Google Plus page means you have strong and solid presence on internet. So create a Facebook page/twitter account/Google Plus page to create a strong community. If you use blogger like me, share every blog posts on your Google Plus account. Because Google Plus has a higher pagerank that will help you to get more visitors.
You can write guest posts on other blogs that relate with your niche. Be sure to add your site link on guest posts.
Promoting content is endless. You can not write down about all types of promoting content. I tried something - here you can view about How To Promote Your Blog Content .
There are competition everywhere on the internet. I tried to mention some useful tips about how to increase pageviews.
Not all the topics are included here. But take the short which are mentioned here and use them in action. If you can do this properly, there is a huge chance that your pageviews will increase.
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