In this article I am going to share some ideas about increasing your blog or website traffic. One of the most common complaints that I noted and hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their daily blogs page views to 100 or more. But in fact the early days are really the hardest and difficult. In those early days you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.
If you are also a blogger or have your own website and don't have sufficient daily traffic and you are also in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, this strategy can also be used even if you are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
You will need to make sure to read the 4 steps as I have provided for you, and to spend the two hours and a half every day. If you have more time available you can expand your time spent on each of the four steps proportionally. And after reading and understanding these four steps you will be able to increase your daily blog or website traffic to more than 1,000 page views. These steps are given below, read it carefully and enjoy highly blog traffic and also increase your daily earnings.
First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)
Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles, also called link baits, pillar articles and so on.
Keep in mind that your goal and objective is to release one killer article every week. If think that it is not possible aim for you, therefore, release it after every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work. By doing so your visitors will wait for your article and they will visit your blog every day.
If you don't have any idea about the term, therefore, keep in mind that a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value and information to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:
- create a giant list of resources,
- write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
- find the common problems and also give answers in your articles,
- find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
- write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially
When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”
Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)
For the second step, as I think, networking is very essential and useful, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:
- You will need to give comments on other blogs in your niche,
- linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
- Interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.
Keep in mind and remember it that your goal is to build genuine relationships, therefore, don’t approach people merely for a reason that you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.
Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)
In the third step, the first activity here is about the promotion of your killer articles. You will need to promote your killer articles. Here is the idea that how will you be able to promote your articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. I have given the following examples in this regards:
- letting the people in your network know about it, and don’t beg for a link though,
- letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
- getting some friends to submit the article to social book marking sites,
- getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
- Posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.
If still you have some time left, you need tospend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.
Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)
As we believe that a man does not live by bread or water alone. Same is the case with a blog, and therefore, a blog also can't live by killer articles alone. Therefore, a blogger is always required to publish a killer article per day, or per week or after every fifteen days. But they will need to publish the normal posts on routine basis. Normal posts are those posts that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Friday and normal posts from Saturday through Friday. Here I also have provided some useful ideas for normal posts:
- a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
- a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
- a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
- a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers
I think that killers articles are very essential and useful to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard. Similarly normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged. They will read your blog article on daily basis, and as a result your blog traffic will increase.