Does this sound familiar?
If yes, then read this guide on how to drive huge amounts of traffic to your blog.
When a blogger starts blogging, they see a lot of other successful bloggers doing certain things, talking about certain things, and perpetuating certain myths. They start to talk about high DAs, and how large amounts of traffic are achievable only by writing lots of quality posts.
1. Quality Posts and SEO.
Search engine optimization is single most source that can do wonder for
your blog traffic. ShoutMeLoud receives close to 1 million page views
every month and more than 84% of traffic comes from search engine.
- On page SEO: Basically optimizing content for target keyword.
- On site SEO: Optimizing overall blog for search engine. Yoast SEO is one simple WordPress plugin that take care of all the aspects of it.
With little learning and practice , it could become the biggest traffic driving source for you.
2. Convert visitors into subscribers:
This one technique can make a lot of difference in your blog traffic. Most of the newbie just focus on getting more traffic, but they don’t convert that traffic into subscribers.
Once you have worked on SEO and other techniques to drive traffic to your site, you should also convert them into subscribers. This helps you to send them updates and let them revisit your site. This way, you will always have new traffic + revisit traffic that slowly and steadily increases your traffic chart.
Wondering how to do that?
Well, there are few methods that you can use.
3. Quora:
Quora is a popular Q&A website, where you can answer users questions, and smartly add your blog/website links to drive more traffic. But, before you jump into Quora band-wagon, finding success on Quora is not easy.
In fact, Quora doesnot like self-promotion, and that’s why you have to follow techniques which work on Quora.
Worry not, as this Quora traffic guide will help you to drive traffic from one of the biggest Q&A forum of the planet.
4. Twitter:
On the other hand, it’s also not as tough as it looks.
But in order to do it right, you need to understand the importance of the word “social”. You need to understand why people do the things they do.
You also need to learn the art of driving traffic from Twitter. To get you started, here are a few things that you should do right away:
- Complete your Twitter profile by updating your bio, avatar & header image.
- Tweet on a regular basis (at least 6-7 times a day). I use Socialpilot to schedule my tweets in advance.
- Retweet related and interesting stuff from other bloggers. Use an analyzer tool to find trending topics.
- When sharing a blog post, make sure you share it with an image or better gifs/videos.
- Always use a hashtag (#) when posting a tweet.
5. Facebook:
Facebook has become one of my favorite tools for driving traffic. I have been successfully using it to drive high-quality traffic to my blog for many years.
Getting a Facebook fan page is the first step, and adding Facebook pixels.
Your Facebook fan page lets your readers connect with your brand on Facebook. You can also use it to engage with your readers.
But perhaps the most valuable thing about Facebook is the ability for your posts to go viral. When you post on Facebook, your readers will get notified & your traffic has the potential to skyrocket.
But unfortunately, Facebook traffic is not as organic as it used to be. The most important thing you need to take care of is engagement. If your audience is not engaging with likes, comments, or reshares, your organic post reach will go down.
6. Social Bookmarking Websites:
Social bookmarking websites like Reddit, Flipboard are effective ways to drive traffic to your website.
The hard part is making your posts popular on these sites. You need to understand how social bookmarking websites work and how to make the most out of them.
People love quality posts. Also, listified (Top 10, Top 25) posts are always popular.
Here are a few social bookmarking websites that I use often:
7. Buy Traffic:
A few years back buying traffic for the blog was not so effective. However, these days when blogging has become mainstream and most of us monetize our blog, more traffic meant more money.
One should also consider buying traffic from places like Facebook, Quora, Reddit, Google AdWords and other nativeAds programs that sells traffic. Personally, I’m a big fan of traffic from Facebook and using retargeted technique it’s cheaper to buy traffic.
WordPress users can use Pixel caffeine plugin to integrate Facebook pixels on their blog. This plugin also lets you categorize your traffic, which is super useful for retargeting.
Conclusion: How to Drive traffic to Your blog
Keeping a mix of easy wins and some long term strategy for SEO and techniques like email-marketing, Push notifications can help you drive sustainable traffic and become financially independent in the time to come.
At the end of the day, having good SEO and social media engagement will ultimately be what drives the most traffic to your website.
What do you think is the best way to drive traffic? Can you add more points to this list? Let me know in the comments below.