[ 6.07.2009 | sumberide.com ]
Here are some ways you can use to improve the blog traffic.
Hosting Blog Directly on your Domain
Try as much as possible to host your blog on your primary site. This will attract more attention, trust and definitely translates into increased blog traffic.
Creating link Clusters within Blog
This involves creating group of links that point at a post or page in your blog to improve its search engine ranking. Edit couple of your posts and link them to posts already doing well on search engine ranking.
Write Topics that Attract Attention
Take your time to research on topics that you intend to write about. People will only visit your blog if they can find topics that are relevance to their lives. More people will subscribe to your blog once they find value of the information you are giving. Quality topics mean improved blog traffic.
Create Smart posts
Use more than text in your posts, Include more interactive elements like images, movie clips, graphs among others. Make sure to format text using bullet, indentations etc to make your posts more appealing. Avoid boring post format, and you will increase blog traffic.
Guest Bloggers
Invite well known people in your niche to write posts on their area of expertise. This will attract more visitors to your blog, especially those that subscribe to your guest’s school of thought. But maintain the rights to edit your guests’ work before posting.
Editing your posts
If your old posts have not been ranked for long period, consider editing them appropriately. For example by rephrasing them. Put more emphasis on titles and first paragraph.
Giving Great posts to prominent blogs
This is a way to create awareness about your brand. Write something great and donate to great blogger. This way the blogger gets more traffic and links, while you get exposure and publicity, and eventually more traffic to your blog.
by Sammy Mwangi
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
