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How to increase traffic on your blog

April 7, 2009 by Denise

Now you have started your blog and are excited about the topics you are going to discuss. You want to increase the number of visitors and responses to your blog.

Here are a few tips that will help to increase your readership:

Content and postings – make regular postings – at least once per week.
Review your stats – the blog software includes a basic statistics on visitors to your blog. However there is not a great level of detail. I would recommend also adding some other statistics counter. I use www.statcounter.com — you can get more details on where the visitors come from, what their path is, if they are first time or repeat visitors. Your stats over time will show you which topics generated the most interest and continue to bring you visitors. Experiment with different titles and topics until you see a pattern of interest.
Add “tags” and “categories” to your postings. The tags are the most effective indexing words – and you should use tags that are words in your postings – as well as additional tags that you think people will be posting on.
Add a link to your blog in your email signature, your facebook page, your linked in profile, your website, your twitter profile, your email newsletter, your online articles, and any other online profiles that you may have.
Spend some time seeing how you can post in one place and have it appear via RSS feeds and widgets on the different locations. This way you will end up doing less work – always a good thing
Read and comment on OTHER blogs and social networks. – and be sure that you are showing your blog in your signature. Your participation brings people from their blog over to your blog for more information

These are just some of the ways that you can increase your blog readership. Send me your favorite methods for increasing your blog traffic and we will all grow. Fill in the comment form to reply.

Posted in blogging, tracking, wordpress | Tagged "increasing visitors", blog, blogging, statistics, tracking | 12 Comments

12 Responses

on April 29, 2009 at 7:08 pm | Reply Sam | Real Online Money Making Strategies

You can try article marketing and forum marketing
- on April 29, 2009 at 7:52 pm | Reply Denise
  
  Yes – these are 2 very good suggestions. I like ezinearticles.com — do you have other suggestions?
  
  Thanks
  Denise
on June 13, 2009 at 6:14 am | Reply Reginald from Ceramic Canvas

Great suggestions.

As a new blogger and budding photographer, I will definitely try a few of them and let you know how it works out.

Thanks.
on July 9, 2009 at 11:44 pm | Reply Dan

Hi guys,

You might be interested in this then:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoT9VYgq3So

Best,

Dan
on July 14, 2009 at 8:15 am | Reply Blake Castetter

Link trading with other blogs…
on July 14, 2009 at 8:17 am | Reply Blake Castetter

Also- – adding Sharethis options on each blog post are a great way to virally spread your posts via social media and bookmarking sites!
on July 17, 2009 at 9:44 pm | Reply Thomas

thanks man, these are some great guidelines.
on August 3, 2009 at 5:50 pm | Reply shadow_20

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on August 4, 2009 at 10:25 pm | Reply Tania Aslam

I would like to add few more tips

1) add your blog in Search Engines Like Google. When People will search on Google your page will appear as search result.

2) give valuable comments on most popular blogs (like I am posting my comments here). Readers of that blog would love to know about you and your blog and that will ultimately increase traffic on your blog.

I am searching more and more on this topic and preparing a presentation on it. Will share it soon on my own blog.
on September 10, 2009 at 11:49 pm | Reply Kathleen Dalseno

Thanks for the tips!
on October 7, 2009 at 10:50 pm | Reply Priya

Thanks for great guidelines and tips…
on October 16, 2009 at 4:46 pm | Reply Anarasi

This is great advice. I have also tried other methods like answering questions on yahoo answers to help people while building links.