This is one of the most biggest concern among bloggers.You start a blog,write a post,but there are no people reading it.You can find topics about traffic in any forums you join.There are ways that we can do to promote our blogs like submitting it to blog directories,joining blogging community,use social networking sites to promote it to other members,join forums,comment on other blogs and a lot of different ways that we can think of just to get people to our blogs.But still,even if they do come,that is the only time they came.
Maybe we are getting the wrong kind of traffic?Maybe there is something wrong with our blogs?Lets see,do we forget about this 3 major ingredient which can help our blog,not in getting sudden rush of traffic,but a more targeted traffic,that will eventually become our loyal readers.What are the 3 ingredients?
Maybe we are getting the wrong kind of traffic?Maybe there is something wrong with our blogs?Lets see,do we forget about this 3 major ingredient which can help our blog,not in getting sudden rush of traffic,but a more targeted traffic,that will eventually become our loyal readers.What are the 3 ingredients?
- Content - Well,blogs are about content and content as they say are king.Would people come to your blog again if you don't have anything that can interest them?They want to read something,gain new information,learn new things,being told stories they never heard of before,knowing things they never come across ever in their life,seeing new products that they never thought exist.If people want to see ads,they can find it without effort,its everywhere.But unique,fresh quality content are hard to find and once they found it,they will keep coming for more.Some will say it is difficult to come out with good content,if other people can do it,why can't you?Read other blogs within or outside your niche,look at how they write their content,why theirs have a lot of people subscribing to it.If they can do it,so can you.
- Promoting - Some bloggers will go all out to create one killer content,submit it to Digg,Reddit or Stumbleupon and get a blast of traffic,but it won't last long.They will leave as fast as they came,just to see what the fuss is about,but if you constantly,regularly update your blog with good quality content,mixing well all the SEO things into each and every post,you will see the increase in your traffic,it will take time,but this are targeted traffic,people who come to your blog because they know you have something that they want,because they do a search about your blog keywords.
- Tracking - I believe this is one thing that most bloggers,especially new ones are still unfamiliar with.The most simple tools to use are Google Analytic.You will know how many visitors you have,where they came from,how they get to your blog,if through search from which keywords,which article get the most view,what is your bounce rate,the higher your bounce rate means they only open your first page and leave.With all this stats available to you,you can use it to further enhance your blog.You know what kind of articles the readers like,you know which keywords normally bring people to your blog.Giving what people want will help increase traffic to your blog.
Now that we know the 3 important ingredients,it is time to put it into practice and hopefully we will see an increase to our traffic in not a very long time.After we achieve this,is there anything else to do?There sure is,don't be easily satisfied.We can always optimized our effort.If we can create good content,optimize our knowledge to make a better or even great content.If we manage to get good amount of traffic through SEO,optimize it by making it better or do other things that can help add more traffic.Join conference,network with other bloggers,create a group among bloggers in your niche.
As I've said a number of times before,blogging is a learning process.If we are willing to learn and put to practice what we have learnt,learning from mistakes we made,we always have a better and bigger chance of being a successful blogger.
As I've said a number of times before,blogging is a learning process.If we are willing to learn and put to practice what we have learnt,learning from mistakes we made,we always have a better and bigger chance of being a successful blogger.
I found your write up very educative, it reminded me of sitting for lecture, I am new just started from 2nd June 08, have posted about 19 write ups, ur welcome to see them and read them , not for ur comments but for ur guidance, I have subscribed on your site -Feedburner-
will u mind if i mail u for guidance.
Thanks:- Prakash Deshmukh.
http://prakash-deshmukh.blogspot.com