This post is for the new blogger, so if you are experienced and got your blogging mojo, this post doesn’t help you. It is meant more for the blogger who is starting and wants to get more visits. Because in the end, no matter how great your content is, it’s all about the traffic, yes?
If you are a blogger that had the right content and the right design, but don’t have the visits, listen up: just try to focus on getting 100 hits a day. If you do that, you would pretty much get 30,000 hits a year. Would you like that?
So how do you go from this,
to this?
Here are 10 ways:
1. Choose a clear topic for your blog and focus on that. This is so important. Take what you know or what you love and write about it. Stay on topic. Always.
2. Write 3-4 times a week. In a couple of months, you will have 30-40 posts and you will be consistent about it. You will have discipline.
3. Connect with other bloggers who write about your topic. Reach out to these bloggers. Tell them you are just starting. What advice could they give you? You’d be surprised, more often than not, you will get advice.
4. Share posts with each other. Ask your new friends to help you shout our your blogs in return for your shouting out their blogs. Use Twitter DMs and Facebook messages to ask privately. Believe me, people on both networks (especially Twitter) are very willing to help. You just need to ask.
5. Comment, comment, and comment You HAVE to comment on other blogs. Not only does it increase your visibility, you run a greater chance that people will like what you say and click on your link. Be honest and sincere, and don’t get spammy.
6. Reply, reply, and reply. When people comment on your blog, always respond to them and always let them know.
7. Have guests blog on your site. Invite good bloggers to post on your site as a guest. They will bring in readers for you.
8. Invite people to share their stories with you. Open your blog to other people’s stories. Let them own your blog. Your blog is your blog, but in the end, it is content that is being read by someone else.
9. Stay current and stay active. The moment you get an idea for a blog, just do a quick draft post. You can always go back to it later.
10. Repeat steps 1-9 over and over and over again. Keep doing what you are doing and do it again. When you complete the cycle, go back and start again. Getting into this habit will keep you consistent and relevant.
And PS, don’t worry about the people who aren’t reading you, worry about the people who are! When you do that, you will create your own happy traffic jam.
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Great list, Franky! And oh so true…
That is why I love #fridayflash. It is the perfect example of a community that is helping each other out.
Good stuff – as good a tutorial as a new blogger will find. Not sure if you mean 100 page views or unique visitors – huge difference 🙂 One of your qualifiers is “if you had the right content” and I love that since there are some blogs so uniquely niche that large traffic numbers may not be possible.
Thanks for the comments, Tim. I was thinking of unique visitors, so it is a good point you make.
First, I am so happy you’re back and participating online! I missed you!
The only thing I’d tweak is that I’ve recently begun advising new bloggers to not post multiple times a week (though that certainly is the goal), but to post consistently. So if they’re only going to blog once a week, it has to be on the same day at the same time. Then they can add additional posts from there. Be consistent.
Other than that, I agree wholeheartedly with these!
That is a good point, my friend. I was approaching it from the fact that you need a few months to build content and a library of posts so that when you start sharing there is more to read there.
Thanks for the handy advice! I’m a newbie, as of this week! It’s all very addictive though! 🙂
Sweet! Enjoy!
Great little article!!
Thank you!
Thank you for this post. As a new blogger this is helpful. I’m always trying to find ways to drive traffic as I’m only a month old. It’s a lot of hard work! I appreciate the tips!
You are welcome. Good luck!
Really great post.
Thanks you for reading it!
nice and simple, think i can do that thanks for the advice 🙂
Great! Good luck!
This is a really great, concise post, thanks! I’m doing most of the stuff here, but I guess I need to go out and link with more bloggers – my circle’s quite tight at the moment.
Nice, yeah, just a little extra connection and commenting and you can get more visits.
Really nice post and it will help me to grow on internet. I was in a search of how to make my blogs popular and these points will surely help me out to reach my goal!
I am new to blogging and so in a learning phase. I will definitely follow your tips.
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cool!!!!
Wow, I’m glad I found this post. Like most of the people here, i’m just starting out and feel a little lost. Still trying to get to grips with using wordpress! Thank you so much for the advice though. I can keep referring to it on a regular basis.
All the best
You’re welcome. Good luck!
This is interesting. I manage to get 50 to 60 hits on regular days and around 150 on the days I post. My blog’s about 2 months old. What do you think? How is it?