I received an email yesterday from “The Bet” asking how to increase traffic to a blog. When I started this blog, I started out like everybody else with blog traffic. I was happy when traffic to my blog was 25 visitors.
How I increased Traffic to my Blog: Patience
Patience. You need to build up blog posts before you can expect to get a lot of traffic. ClickforNick.com has over 1000 posts built up over the course of the last 8 months. It was after about 5 months that I hit my first 1000 visitors in one day. Since then, everything took off, bringing me 6000 visitors per day.
How I increase Traffic to my Blog: Blog Titles
Titles are very important for the search engine. When I write titles, I try to imagine what people are search for. For instance, take the case of Franco’s 2nd blog post. He titled it “Poker isn’t that Gambling?” What he should have wrote is, “Poker Gambling: Gambling in Poker”. I would have started the first sentence out as: Here is why poker is gambling. When gambling in poker…
When someone searches for “Poker Gambling” in Google, Google’s search engine is going to find Francos blog and pick up the following:
“Poker Gambling: Gambling in Poker” – Here is why poker is gambling. When gambling in poker…
Search Engine Results are Critical
When starting out a new blog, good search engine results are critical. Unless you have money to spend on advertising, this is going to be the best way to increase traffic to your blog. We can’t simply write whatever we want. Rather, your posts need to be written in such a way that you use the keywords you used in your title all through out your entire post. Repetition is key. Repeat your keywords over and over.
Feedburner: Gain loyal users
The last recommendation I have for increasing traffic to your blog is signing up for feedburner. This builds a community and loyalty to your blog. Once the majority of your blog traffic comes from visitors visiting constantly and from other websites linking directly to your blog, you can start to write posts however you want, since you won’t be as reliant on search engines. But, before you have a constant visitors, make Google your best friend.
Have a question? Pop me an email: nick at Click for Nick dot Com
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