How to make your blog more visible and add traffic to it - PART 2

6. Create e-mail list

Email listings are best source for repeated visits to your blog. If you don't have email list, you need to create one and adjust it for your needs. Instead of someone visits your website and never comes back, you can invite visitor to sign up for your list and offer some benefits for that, free membership, comment etc. You can get 20, 30 visits from one person just by using this email listings.

7. Register on forums

Take some time to explore forums - places where you can register for free and meet other people with same interests. Even though you will not get visits in the beginning, if you are active commentator on forum, people will notice you and enquire about your profile and website you wrote in description or signature. You will get reputation on forum and you are free to promote your blog just by leaving comments on themes and threads. This is popularly known as "Forum marketing".

Here is what you need to do:

- Before you register on forum read terms of use

- Create free account

- Login and adjust setting on your profile

- Put link to your blog in "Signature"

- Give reliable and interesting information on forum and build reputation

- Do not put link in comments, that is signature meant for

- Do not SPAM forums!

8. Social networks

Social networks and Facebook especially could be great source for traffic to your blog. Create Facebook page if you want to collect likes, post articles you wrote on FB and get new visitors if you offer valuable content. Facebook has become necessity nowadays and with FB statistics you could actually follow and research for important details about visitors, best time for publishing articles etc. Also, you could pay small amount for post boost and create audience for your blog.

9. Leave a signature in emails

Most email platforms offer option of signature template. Enter URL of your blog so everyone could see you own a blog and visit it.

If you know any other direct method, feel free to comment or write me down. Hope I helped someone. Cheers!

How to make your blog more visible and add traffic to it - PART 1

During last 10 years or so, people are advised that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for web browsers should be their main focus in order to get visitors for their website/blog. Although SEO optimization is commonly used as basic tool for your website, you should also take a look at other ways you can improve traffic and get more daily visitors. At the same time, there are many discussions on blogs and forums about SEO efficiency and usefulness. Because of that, first 3 suggestions are just part of optimization that need to be done on your website in order to attract new visitors.

1. Writing unique content

I guess you've heard about self-written content thousand times before, but it is a necessity. If you can offer valuable info or interesting fact, you are more likely to attract random visitor that visited your blog for the first time. Also, he will return to your blog with knowledge about your blog and searching for new interesting content for him. It doesn't matter how you come up with original content - it can be article based on your experience or research, homemade video presentation,  testimonials of other people etc.

If your blog doesn't offer qualities from content, no one will share you on social networks, neither come back again to check your website. Keep this on your mind.

2. Ease of use

Before you orientate on attracting visitors to your page, make sure it is user-friendly and easy to use for customer. There are a lot of add-ons you can install to improve your website, and here are some of them:

  - Search field. Add search field to your website. If visitor wants to find something he read about earlier, or just want to see if you offer info about something, search field is very useful on your blog.

  - RSS. Set your RSS feed on top of the page, where everyone can see it. It can be crucial for some users.

  - Loading page time.  Make sure that your blog opens in no more than few seconds. Visitors often lose patience with websites that take too long to open.

  - Analytics. It is very important that you set free Google Analytics on your website. With it you can find out which article is most visited, what your visitors want to read about, and how much visitors you have every day, hour or month. It could help you if you want to improve your blog themes, their content and adjust some themes to reader's interest.

3. Number of visits

How much daily visits you want on your blog? In order to get more visitors on your blog, you need to set a task how many visitors will satisfy your needs. Make precise range in order to achieve it and then set a new, higher bar.

If you are selling or presenting certain product or service, you should create a basic plan about your blog and make corrections to it as time goes by.

4. Writing comments on other blogs

This is most valuable and effective way to get instant visitors. You should find blogs with similar subjects or threads and write a comment, remark or useful tip. In this way, you will easily recommend your website/blog, by giving value in answers or comments you posted.

5. Become guest writer on other blogs

If you become guest blogger which occasionally writes something on other blogs, it could give your website more popularity and visitors. You should contact blog owner and subject you are interested in, discuss possibility of writing a post on his blog and attract new visitors to your blog. Make sure you are competent enough for theme you are writing about.

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