Helping bloggers get their initial blog traffic. How to get visitor traffic to a blog.
When you start your first blog, it can be frustrating when you are blogging to what may seem like an invisible audience.
But it doesn't have to be this way. It's easy to get readers to your blog.
To start with, it's important to have some interesting posts for people to read. Also, have an author bio so that your readers can know something about you and see a photo of you.
When your first visitors arrive, you want to engage them with original posts that make them want to bookmark your blog to revisit to read more of your posts.
Your blog should have a clear focus on a particular topic (niche) that will attract readers interested in this topic and not random posts and ramblings.
Aim to give readers new information with your own take on the topic so they learn something new and will be keen to add their own thoughts in the comments.
So this is laying the foundation of content. Once a few posts have been published, it's time to get blog traffic.
Each time a blog post is published, your blog script should automatically ping RSS aggregator services. This alerts them to your new blog posts in the hope that a link to your RSS feed will be published on these external sites. RSS feeds are simply ways to allow other systems to grab a summary of your content for republishing.
Commenting on related blogs in your niche is a great way to get more blog traffic. People that read your comment may well check out your blog if they think it may add to the debate/conversation. So always try to add to the conversation rather than placing a meaningless spam-like comment.
As mentioned above, pinging helps to achieve this. But there are sites where you can submit your RSS feed URL to so that it is listed and found by more people and search engines.
Participating in social networks to recommend interesting blog posts is another powerful way to gain extra blog traffic.
Setting up your blog for good SEO is important. You can do this most easily by using the All-In-One SEO plugin. This ensures that your post titles and content is presented in the best way to search engines to achieve ranking. Mainly, the Title Tag and URL slug should include the keywords that are mentioned in the blog post.
And writing about topics that people are searching for helps too! By keeping your eye on News, trends, and problems people are having, you will always have ideas for what to write about.
Here are some more sites featuring blog traffic tutorials.