10 Tips to get More Visitors to Your Blog
What did you blog about today? Does the world know about it?
If not, here is a list of 10 tips to help spread the word about your blog and get you more visitors:
1. Share via Social Networks: Add your blog link in your profile details of various social networking accounts. If someone likes your profile they might be interested in checking out your blog as well. When you update something share it on your social networking platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Myspace, Linkedin. Be it a tweet, a wall post or an update, your link is sure to attract the attention of many.
2. Start a forum for bloggers: Forums are the most updated means of promoting blogs to a selective group. You can start a forum say ( bloggers.forums.com) and update it regularly with contents from your blog. Invite other bloggers to join the forum and leave their comments, ideas, tips and advices to make the blog better. It can be a great way to connect with the right people.
3. Update quality content for improving SEO: Google is always looking out for new content. When you add quality content on your blog regularly it becomes easy for Google to crawl it. Your blog thus shows in the Google search results and pulls traffic automatically.
4. Engage in conversation with various groups/communities: Blogging groups and communites help you to connect, share, engage with bloggers from your niche. There are various groups on Facebook, Google and Linkedin where you can connect with bloggers from different communities and get feedback.
5. Submit a Guest post: Contacting blogs/site that approves guest posts can help in promoting your blog. Write a unique guest post article containing quality content suitable for the particular site/blog. You can get a link back to your blog from such guest posting opportunities.
6. Cross comment on other blogs: Commenting on other blogs of your niche with a link back to your blog helps in improving your web presence. Publish comments that makes sense and attracts the attention of other bloggers on the site. It can help in increasing traffic to your site as the bloggers might be interesting in checking out your blog as well.
7. Enlist with Blogdirectories: Get your blog enlisted in popular Blogdirectories like Technorati, Blogfrog etc. Any user searching for blogs of your niche will come across your blog listed in the directory and will check that out.
8. Encourage reactions from readers: Reactions from your readers can actually help. Be it criticism, appreciation or just a feedback, any comment from your readers is sure to do the trick. Encourage their activity by actively responding to their comments. You can also invite reactions through RSS Subscribe Button, Bookmarks Button, Subscribe by email and other social button.
9. Attend Bloggers Meet/Seminars/Events: Events are the perfect way of promoting your blog through ‘word of mouth’. It can be highly effective and can help in gaining knowledge and prominent contacts.
10. Add your blog link in your Email Signature: Everytime you send a mail your connections are reminded of your blog. It is likely that many may feel like checking it out once in a while for new post. With new connections it is the safest way of promoting without any direct request.
Tags: blogging tips, blogs, community building, forums
Very informative Nabanita..for a lay person like me.
Great post Nabanita. Even though I’ve been running my blogs for over three years I am always looking to increase my traffic.
I have to make a plan on how to combine these 10 tips. I’ve been waiting for a long time to start playin with the Social Networks, but don’t know which ones to pick. I would use Digg and another one.
Will you please give me some ideas?
Great post. I didn’t know for 3 things from your list. Will try it and see the outcome.
Tnx!
I always forget to put my blog in my email signature. Thanks for the reminder.
For Florin – you can’t go wrong with Twitter,Facebook and LinkedIn.
Great tips, I think the most important one at the moment is going to be social media, Facebook and Twitter are a good way to share news/updates. Although in every industry it is not always easy to see where to start – so always making sure you have a plan or strategy to get you started, great article.
Hello there i actually like the fact that you named some social networking sites.i also liked the fact that you named everything possible to do to get more people to read you blogs.This was very helpful!!!
Thank you,
Suzanne
Great post Nabanita. Even though I’ve been running my blogs for over three years I am always looking to increase my traffic
I love blogging but my business has picked up so much that I don’t have time. I train reps, SEO, SMO, SEM, etc… Do you have any Ideas for a growing company? I could use them.
Do you think that adding CommentLuv to your blog is a good idea?
Thanks for the tips. I know most of these but it’s still good to touch base with different strategies to see which ones can be applied.
I was going to suggest subscribing options but you have said it in 8. So I will just say it again, because many people forget to do that. They find ways to get new visitors and forget that holding to the old visitors is also important and could increase your visits. For example it is awesome if you have a subscribe via email option. Over time subscribers will get more and more and they will most likely visit your site every time you post a new article
Need to start guest posting soon.
I certainly agree with this statement ” Cross comment on other blogs: Commenting on other blogs of your niche with a link back to your blog helps in improving your web presence.” because if you posted relevant and helpful insight on other blogs people will be interested of who you are and eventually visit your site. It is one of the great ways on driving quality backlinks.
Thanks for the great tips. Some i knew about, but some are completely new. Got to try them.