How to Get More Website Traffic: 29 Steps

How to Get More Website Traffic: 29 Steps

How to get traffic to your blog is a big issue.

All bloggers want that their articles reach more people and to be known in search engines. It's essential for the life of a blog because without readers the blogs die.

There is no point having the best articles in the world if nobody read your blog or web site.

No matter if your blog is new or you has been writing during a year on it, all bloggers should look for ways to generate more traffic.

Steps

1. Write unique quality content. Write quality content with interesting information and choose well the keywords. To build a great blog, the most important thing is to provide the information that your readers want to read And do it well. Even google webmaster guides talk about it. If you take time to think about useful content, people will talk about it and they will link your posts in their websites and blogs. Help readers to solve their problems.

2. Write often. The more posts you write more often they will find your blog in the search engines. Search engines prefer sites that are updated frequently. Don't stay 2 weeks without publishing. If you have time, update your blog once a day. If not, at least update it once or twice per week.

3. Use a good domain name. A domain name like www.mynameisjohnsmith.com is long and hard to remember. Choose a short name, easy to remember and related to the topic of your blog.

4. Use relevant keywords. If you want that you blog appears in the search engines, you have to know what words people searh. There are free tools like Google Keywords that will help you with this. Search with this tool, words related to your blog and use the ideas that Google Keywords give you. Use them in your post bodies, links and post titles!

5. Write good titles. It's that simple. Write interesting post titles and you will call the attention. Look at the titles of other sites and apply it to your blog.

6. Work with the search engines. Every day the search engines make improvements to give bad rankings to sites of poor quality. So it's very important to write quality and useful content. Doing this, they will link to your posts. Here you got some tips that you should known:

• Find the appropriate keywords related to you blog and use them in the tittle posts, articles, footers, links, meta tags... and do it in Bold or Italic.
• Use keyword in the file names, for example: keyword1.html.
• Use synonyms.
• It's better textlinks that graphic links.
• Put your links in other blogs or forums.

7. Submit your blog to search engines. All the search engines and directories have a section to send them your blog link. They will add your blog to their search system. You can start with the main search engines and directories like Google, Bing, Yahoo!, and Dmoz.

8. Write for other blogs. Find blogs that accept third-party articles and add a link to your blog on them. Spread your writing on the Internet to be known.

9. Put links and keywords in your online profiles. If you have a profile in Linkedin or Facebook, Tweeter, Myspace... you can put the link of your blog in them and also the keywords.

10. Publish a tutorial in several parts. If you are an expert on some topic or you know how to do something, then you can publish a tutorial in different parts. In this way your readers will return to read the next parts of it.

11. Promote your blog in forums. Find some forums of your niche and put links in to your signatures and if it's allowed, put links in to the posts bodies. Be active in the forums and write interesting comments.

12. Subscribe to email discussion lists. Subscribe to some email discussion lists and contribute with your articles including links to your blog.

13. Find other bloggers. Make friendship with other bloggers, exchange links with them and write comments in their blogs. Doing this it's very probable that their readers will also visit your blog.

14. Use RSS. Provide to your readers an easy reading of your blog giving them an RSS subscription. Thank to this, they can read your blog with their RSS software or receive the latest news in their email. You can do it with Feedburner for example.

15. Make podcasts. You can attract new audience with podcasts. Many people prefer to listen rather than read so record to yourself reading and explaining your best posts or make new content.

16. Follow hot topics. Subscribe to feeds of your own niche and when you read hot news, interesting things, scandalous or shocking stuff, go to be the first to write a post about it. You can watch TV or listen to the radio to know what is the topic that it's on the top.

17. Use analytics. Use analytics systems like Google Analytics to see where your traffic comes, which pages or posts they visit more and which words they use in search engines to find your blog or website. Knowing that you can improve your blog writing articles that more people like to read and use better keywords.

18. Add a forum. The forums can give you many returning visitors to your blog but you have to moderate it the 7 days of the week. This can be much work. The most effective way is to add one to a site that is already popular.

19. Write an ebook. You can write a ebook just combining posts of your blog and ask to websites authors if they can give it free to their readers. Search in Google for "ebook directory" or "ebook directories" and put your your ebook in all the sites that you can!

20. Make link bait. Link bait is quality or controversial content in your blog that other bloggers will link in their blogs voluntarily. Write that kind of articles and websites will love your blog. Search in Google for "link bait" to see examples.

21. Be an expert. If you are an expert in a topic, write about it! Be an expert it's harder than work in a small and anonymous blog but if you becomes an authority in your field, the traffic will come alone and people will link to you without ask them. People will want to interview you and that will give you more publicity. Put your Photo in your blog and write a few words about you. Doing this, people will recognize you.

22. Use Yahoo Answers. In Yahoo! Answers people offer free answers to other users that need help with something. Find questions about the niche of your blog and answer them putting a link to your blog or your post related to the question. It's easy and it will give you extra traffic.

23. Comment in other blogs. Search for big blogs of your same niche and comment in their posts. Make useful comments. Writing something like "Good article!" just to put the link of your blog doesn't say good things about you.

24. Create sticky content. Sticky content makes to a user come back to your site. This method is used to build a community of regular visitors. Forums, chats, games and news are examples of contents of this type. Find items that could be attractive to your readers and deploy it on your site. You will see how returning visitors will come back every day.

25. Social network. Sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace recive millions of visits each month. You must be present in the social networks. So, don't wait more, make a profile on Facebook and Twitter now! Build a big community of friends with the same niche that yours and start to promote your articles. Post your articles in your wall and send messages to your friends talking about the interesting post that you have already wrote.

26. Buy ads in newsletters. You can buy ads in newsletters with thousands of readers but you need to capture the reader's attention. A generic ad will not work.

27. Put a link in your email signature. It's something that many people forget and it is very important to do. You try many ways to get traffic, and for some of these ways, you need your email address. With time you will have many contacts and send and read several emails every day. Add your signature to the bottom of your emails so people can know who sent the email and can view your blog or website.

28. Set a goal. Take the goal of doubling the traffic of your website or blog. Get 2 months or however long you want and work each week on a way to generate traffic.

29. You can create a youtube account and podcasts to advertise your blogs.