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10 Ways To Get More Blog Traffic

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Get More Blog Traffic

Getting traffic is essential towards the success of any blog. You need people to see your blog in order to get more sales, more subscribers, and more visibility. For all new bloggers, getting traffic is a challenge. There are some blogs right now that have been around for a long time but still aren’t getting a lot of traffic. Some bloggers want to go from 100 visitors every day to 1,000 visitors every day and keep on growing. Regardless of where your blog stands, here are 10 ways to get more blog traffic.

  1. Post regularly and consistently. Writing 2 blog posts every day increased my traffic by 50%. Before that, I only wrote 1 blog post every day.
  2. Utilize SEO in your blogging strategy. There are a lot of things that you need to know about SEO. Here are two articles that will help you increase your blog’s SEO.
  3. Share your blog posts on your social networks. Your audience of followers won’t know about your blog until you tell them about it.
  4. Guest post on other blogs. Guest blogging will allow you to establish yourself as a quality writer. When people see you as a quality writer, they will visit your blog. In addition, writing the guest post gives your blog an extra backlink if you include it in the guest post or in your bio for the guest blog.
  5. Talk about your blog posts on YouTube. People will be able to see you and hear your voice as you describe your blog post. At the end of the video, you should promote your blog by telling others about it or having your blog’s URL on display.
  6. Answer questions on Yahoo! Answers And Wiki Answers. You can establish yourself as an expert of your niche, and you can add a link to your blog at the end of the answer.
  7. Use Help A Reporter Out. Help A Reporter Out (HARO) is one of the ways to get people to write about you. As more people write about you, you will get more backlinks and visibility.
  8. Have a product. You can use your product to promote your blog or have coupons that are exclusive to your visitors (which will encourage more people to join your blog). Having a product will also establish yourself as an expert.
  9. Include a link to your blog in your email signature. The people you email could be your friends, clients, or other people who you happen to know. They would be interested if you showed them your blog.
  10. Add social sharing buttons to your blog. This will allow your visitors to share your blog posts on their social networks, and this will result in an increase in traffic.

What are your tips for increasing traffic to a blog? Which of these tips was your favorite?

 

7 Successful Facebook Contest Ideas

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Contests are great ways to get more engagement on Facebook. In order to get the maximum engagement, your contest needs to be successful. There are numerous contests on Facebook, but only a few of them become successful. In order to have a successful Facebook contest, you need to come up with the right idea in order to get more engagement for your contest. Here are 7 different ideas that will allow you to make your Facebook contests successful:

  1. Ask your fans to like a post, and then one of the people who liked that post wins the prize.
  2. Ask your fans a question about your Facebook page, blog, book, or anything else you can think of. The first person who answers wins the prize.
  3. Make the prize be one of your products. Training courses are easy and free to create on Udemy. You can also give them to people for free with 100% coupons that are easy to create. If you are an author, you can have your signed book as the prize.
  4. Anyone who writes a post mentioning your Facebook Page gets a chance to win the prize. Give your fans an extra submission for each additional time they write a post about your Facebook Page.
  5. If your fans subscribe to your blog, give them two extra submissions to the giveaway. Everyone participating in a contest strives to increase the odds. By telling people to subscribe to your blog, your email list will grow. If you promote your Facebook Page on your blog, you will get even more engagement.
  6. Over deliver to your fans. Thank your fans for making the contest special by saying something like this, “I was only going to give one [Fill in the blank] away, but since a lot of people became a part of this contest, I am going to give three [Fill in the blank] instead!
  7. Tell people to stay tuned for more contests. Some of your fans may have just been there for the contest. By telling your fans to stay tuned, the people who came for the contest will continue to be your fans. By the time your new contest comes, the people who initially came to be a part of your first contest like what is on your Facebook Page.

Facebook contests will lead to more engagement, but in order to get the best results from your contest, you need to implement one or more of these ideas into your Facebook contest strategy.

 

Why Your Blog Posts Need Stronger Headlines

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The content of a blog post offers insight to the reader. People are constantly being reminded that content is king. The significance of quality content has been proven by a variety of blogs. The blogs you commonly visit are the ones with quality content. Having a lot of followers on social networks does help out, but the content of a blog post is the deciding factor of whether or not a blog is ordinary or extraordinary.

However, the headline of a blog post has the ability to glue visitors to your blog or find somewhere else to go. The headline is the make or break part of a blog post. A good headline will result in more visitors spending the time to read your content.

The best way to realize the importance of headlines for a blog is by thinking of the newspaper. Whether you read the New York Times or the Washington Post, chances are you don’t read all of the articles word by word in a newspaper. Instead of doing that, you skim through the newspaper and look for headlines that impress you. Once you find a good headline, you will read that article.

When people share blog posts on social media, some of them don’t read the content. Some people judge whether or not to share a blog post just by looking at the headline. If the headline is good, people will share your blog posts.

Now that you know the importance of writing better headlines for your blog posts, here’s how to make those headlines better. 

Getting Different Perspectives Will Lead To Better Answers

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I was happy to learn that my blog posts, Why Following Others On Twitter Is Critical Towards Success, was featured on the Entrepreneur Showdown Podcast. Listening to Joe and Dan talking about my blog post made me think about where I had started. Listening to the discussion also allowed me to see a new perspective.

Joe liked my method. However, Dan thought that this method led to spam. He made a reasonable argument that having 20,000 followers while following 20,000 people wasn’t good. He went on to say that some people follow you just to get a follow back. Basically, everyone was working together towards getting a higher number of followers but forgetting about each other.

This would lead to just a big number at the end. Although some of the followers would be good, some of the followers wouldn’t be able to pay attention since they would be following tens of thousands of people as well. Dan argued that the influence wouldn’t be there. It would just be that big number.

I pondered about Dan’s response for a while. I realized that a Klout Score would be able to tell how influential someone is on social media. I looked up the people who had their big followings while following a lot of people. Jeff Bullas follows over 150,000 people and has over 200,000 followers. Jeff has a Klout Score over 80 which means he is very influential on social media. I have a Klout Score over 60, and I have a similar follower to following ratio.

The Klout Score is a way to determine influence, and going by the Klout Score, this strategy works. When I implemented the strategy of following others, my Klout Score went up by 10 in a month!

Don’t have your question go silent and unanswered. By asking your question, you will provide a new perspective as Dan did during the Entrepreneur Showdown Podcast.

Here is a link to the actual podcast. Thank you Dan and Joe for talking about my blog post to your listeners.

 

How To Get People To Write About You

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There are some very popular blogs out there. If you could have someone on one of those blogs write a blog post about you, that would give you more traffic and visibility. Getting these popular blogs to write blog posts about you is not as challenging as it seems. These are the ways to get people to write about you:

  1. Have a remarkable story. This part is essential towards getting people to write about you. People need to know why you are special.
  2. Get out there. Comment on other people’s blogs, follow more people on your social networks, and thank the people who write about you.
  3. Use Help A Reporter Out. Help A Reporter Out (HARO) is where a lot of media outlets go in order to find certain people. The Huffington Post, Associated Press, NBC, ABC, Forbes, and Mashable are some of the media outlets that use HARO.
  4. Ask for an exchange. Some people will write about you if you write about them. I don’t do exchanges very often, but I am open to them.
  5. Use social media to get out there. Most of the people who have written about me saw my social networks first. Social media is a tool for building awareness for you, your blog, and products.

Get out there in a remarkable way, and people will write about you.

 

How To Embed Tweets On Your Blog

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Embed Tweets On Blog

Embedding tweets on your blog has many benefits. You can use embed tweets to emphasize a point you are trying to make, showcase one of your best tweets, and get a follower, retweet, or favorite right from your blog. Here is an example of tweets being embedded in a blog post.

There are many benefits that come as a result of embedding tweets on your blog. Before you get those benefits, you need to know how to embed tweets on your blog. Here’s how to do that.

  1. Get the tweet’s link. When a tweet gets sent out, the amount of time since it got sent out goes at the top right corner of the tweet. If a tweet was sent out 8 hours ago, you will see “8h” at the top right corner  of the tweet. If the tweet was sent out on May 29th, you will see “May 29” at the top right corner of the tweet.
  2. Copy the link. You can use a URL shortener that stores the tweet for future use, but in order to complete the process, you need the entire tweet’s URL.
  3. Paste the link in your blog post. The tweet will automatically be embedded to your blog. You can click the preview option just to make sure everything will appear the way it should.

Now that you know how to embed tweets, test it out on your blog. You may come across a tweet that would do a very good job at supporting your blog post.