Keep these strategies in mind and your blog traffic will grow well:
1. Be Strategic About Your Content: If you want to increase blog traffic, the best thing you can do is quite simply create better content. You have probably heard this before - the term “content is king” is thrown around more than a funnel at a frat party. But creating “better content” is not just about quality. It also means being more strategic with your content marketing efforts. The most successful content is the kind that meets a specific need. Think about your audience and what they love. Content these days almost always falls into one of two categories: cool and funny or useful and educational. Choose either and you are probably off to a good start. If you need ideas, check out Quora and see what questions are being asked that relate to your industry subject. Also try using Buzzsumo to see what others have written about in your field, then make something even better. Or use one of these eight handy blog topic generators. When it comes to content style, shoot for shocking statistics, beautiful infographics, and rich storytelling via video. Create stuff people want to link to and share. Evergreen content is the kind of content that can live forever on the web and that time will not make irrelevant. For example, a post about this year’s Oscar nominations will become useless in a few months’ time. A post about the greatest movie classics will continue to be relevant over the years, making it evergreen. As a blogger, you should always ensure that you’re creating irresistibly awesome headlines. Your headline is what gets visitors to your site and captures their interest. Some even suggest that your headline is more important than your actual post! If you have a great content piece hiding behind a shabby headline, it will die a quick death. Appearances are everything, and just as you would not show up to a wedding wearing your stay-home-sick clothes, you cannot rely on lacklustre headlines to promote your blog posts. Share your post multiple times with different headlines and see which style works best. Promotion needs to be a big part of your content strategy, so that your hard-earned blog posts drive that traffic you so desperately desire. One quick and easy way to start driving more traffic to your blog is to start collecting emails for a blog newsletter. Once you have captured those contacts, you can send them weekly or monthly emails featuring your best posts, bringing already familiar visitors right back to your website. Since these users are already comfortable with your blog, chances are they might explore a bit more on their next visit.
2. Do not Fear the Keywords: If you really want to drive big time traffic to your blog, keywords and SEO must be a part of your strategy. People get nervous these days when you suggest doing something in the name of SEO, but remember, search engine optimization is fine when done right. You get targeted traffic from Google, and users find the information and answers they are searching the web for. Long-tail keywords are search phrases composed of 3+ keywords. They are easier to target long-tail keywords (and cheaper when it comes to PPC) because there is less competition for these phrases. Targeting long-tail keywords is really your only chance of getting a top SERP spot in Google. For example, maybe you’d love to rank high in Google for “health food” because your business is a health food store. Well fat (or slim) chance of that happening – “health food” is a competitive term. However, if you focus instead on “health food meal plans” or “health food on a budget,” your chance of ranking for those longer keyword phrases is tremendously higher. How do you brainstorm these awesome long-tail keywords? Start with Google. Begin typing in a phrase and see what Google’s auto-complete suggestions are. Make note of the “eureka!” suggestions. Next, put a few of those terms into Google and scratch down some Google’s related search suggestions (you will find them towards the bottom of the page). Next, take all the long-tail phrases you have come up with and put them into the Google Keyword Planner. See which phrases drive the most traffic (also look at other keyword phrases Google suggests) and siphon out the ones with high search volume and low competition. Those are your gold nugget long-tails. Try to create content targeted around those keywords. There are some great WordPress plugins designed to help bloggers with SEO. They make it easy to set up your URL slugs correctly, help you craft perfect meta descriptions, setup sitemaps, and aid you in navigating other SEO technical bits that may not come naturally to bloggers.
Two favourites are:
1. Wordpress SEO by Yoast
2. All in One SEO Pack

3. Find Your Flock: Hunt Down Your Audience’s Nest: When it comes to promoting your blog, it is essential that you are strategic about where you spend your time. While it’s nice to establish your presence across a range of social networks, you’ll quickly burn out trying to excel with every social site. Dip your feet and see which social networks work best for you. Is your blog heavy on the visuals? You will probably want to set your sights on LinkedIn. Is your blog catered more towards nerd culture? Find the right subreddits and you could strike it big. If you are looking for seagulls, you go to the seashore. To drive blog traffic, you need to go to where your flock hangs out. Know where to find your bird of a feather. Understanding your audience is also key for building strong referral links from relevant websites. Find the forums and sites your target audience visits and get active. Engage in discussion and post links or blog comments when appropriate. This is big – you cannot come off as spams. You need to be a valuable member of the community who is sharing something of merit. If someone mentions needing advice about scheduling healthy meal plans for each week, go ahead and point them to your resource. If they are discussing their struggles in mastering the fine art of clowning, you can probably move along. Once you’ve discovered your key networks, make those your focal point. Neil Patel points out that Upworthy, in addition to utilizing curiosity-focused headlines and emotional content, also limits the number of social sharing buttons they have on a given page. The choice paradox shows that too many choices can overwhelm and stress users. While we may assume more choices are better, studies have shown that most individuals are happier with a few different options, rather than hundreds. Upworthy only has two share buttons Facebook and Twitter. Consider limiting your social sharing selection to the sites you get the most leverage out of. Sometimes getting what you want can be a simple as asking for it. A study by Social Bakers found that users who asked their followers to “RT” their posts on Twitter received 73.48 average retweets per tweet. Those who didn’t ask for retweets received just 2.09 retweets.
4. Optimize for Speed and Mobile: Your visitors are not going to wait around for your blog to load. If your page is not coming up fast enough, they will hit the back button and move on to the next Google listing (i.e. your competitor) before you can flip a flapjack. Google’s Page Speed Insights tool will give you your speed score, as well as tips on what you can do to give your site the kick in the pants it might need. In the same vein, modern users spend nearly 3 hours a day on their tablets or mobile phones. Going mobile is a no-brainer for bloggers. If you don’t think your current blog is up to snuff, consider checking out one of these fine WordPress plugins that help create a version of your blog that is optimized for mobile devices.
1. WPtouch Mobile Plugin
2. Jetpack by WordPress (there is a mobile theme option baked in)
5. Play Nice with the Other Kids: Good manners go a long way online. If you are looking to build blog traffic, you will want to establish good relationships with other bloggers in your niche. Sometimes you will even want to team up with your enemies, Game of Thrones style. Comment on other blogs and be active in various communities. Consider interviewing major industry loggers or including other bloggers in a “best of” post (for example, Top 10 Blogs Rocking Pinterest). Once you have a blogger cited or featured in one of your posts, tag them in a tweet to let them know. Chances are that blogger will retweet and share a post mentioning them, getting more shares and more traffic as a result. Linking to your own blog posts is great for SEO, but it is important to link to outside sources as well. This signals to Google that you are not a spammer and helps build positive relationship with the others blogs you are linking to. Establishing good relations also makes pitching guest posts a ton easier.
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