8 SUREFIRE STRATEGIES TO GROW YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC

Do you run a blog and searching for ways in which you could use to drive an insane amount of traffic to your blog thereby increasing your income? If this is what you want then you should read this article to the end as I highlight how you can make these possible.

One of the things that come to my mind almost every day when I get up from my bed is “How can I grow my blog traffic”.

Let’s face it there is the question that runs through the minds of every blogger most especially new bloggers.

The main goal of every blog should first be to write content that its readers would find valuable and in turn make money through different means but that won’t be possible without having a reasonable amount of traffic.

The revenue gotten from your blog is solely determined by the amount of traffic you are able to drive to your blog.

Now the question is what are you going to do to attract more traffic to your blog?

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A lot of people believe is focusing solely on SEO to drive traffic to their blog while some others prefer to use social media as a strategy for growing their blog traffic and they both work fantastic.

Believe me, it can be really tiresome when you think of the work that needs to be put in to get your contents out there so people can start visiting your blog.

This particular blog is new with not more than 10 content and it really has not been easy to drive traffic to it. But the thing is the more I keep searching for solutions and applying them the more the blog traffic keeps increasing.

All the traffic strategy that I will be sharing with you today is something I have learnt and tried and is helping me grow my blog rapidly.

The sad truth about blogging I have learnt so far is that it takes time and consistency for you to be able to grow your blog.

If you are just starting out, I suggest you focus on creating and publishing quality contents and if you are able to get your first 100 visitors you should focus on making those 100 visitors keep coming back to your blog before you think of getting more traffic.

The one thing I know for sure is that there are specific traffic for every niche so not all traffic is meant for you.

You have to also figure out where your niche traffic hangout and target them.

If you run a blog on how to lose weight and you looking for traffic in a place where people are searching for information on how to make money online trust me you never going to get any traffic. 

The more targeted traffic you are able to drive to your blog will determine the income you get from your blog.

It is estimated that there are over 400 million blogs that are active across all the different niches and the possibility of seeing hundreds of thousands of blogs that are related to your niche is high.

Don’t let that discourage you, all you need to ask yourself is how you can look for a way to make your blog stand out from the rest so as to be able to get the most traffic in your niche.

Here are 8 strategies you can start using today to grow your blog traffic

Write Quality Content

The old saying that content is king is still applicable today.

The reason is that when someone visits your blog expecting to find a solution to whatever problem they have and not find anything useful, they will leave and never come back.

Sometimes, it is not about the number of traffic that comes to your blog that really but how long they are able to stay on your blog.

This is really important if you want Google to consider ranking your high to get those free traffic.

Imagine you have written a high-quality content and someone visits your blog and find that content helpful, what do you think they would do? Chance of them sharing your content with the rest of their friends is high which in turn will increase your blog traffic.

For you to be able to write quality content for your blog, I advise that you do a proper research on any topic you have chosen to write about and make sure you cover it to the smallest detail.

Use The Right Grammars In Your Content

We all know that no one is perfect when it comes to writing in English but whenever you writing a content online that has the capacity to be seen by thousands of people you want to make sure that your grammars are current and your mistakes such as misspellings are brought to a minimal.

Imagine visiting a blog post and you start noticing errors like misspellings from the beginning of the post till like the middle what would you do? Chances are you will skip to another blog to get the information you need.

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When I write content for my blog and since I know that the chances of me making mistakes are high, after writing my content I have to proofread it both manually and using some tools. Though you might still find some mistakes but it won’t be very obvious.

There are tools you can use and one that I use and recommend to everyone is grammarly. This tool helps identify misspellings in articles and provides the right spellings.  

Use Attractive Images/Headlines

How many of you have ever bought something online and when it gets delivered to you, you then find that is was not exactly what you were hoping for? Do let me know in the comment section.

The image of the product you saw online was the main reason why you bought it in the first place and this also works for blogging.

Since the Stone Age what man sees has always been one of the driving force that has made them take any action.

Since this is like the first thing people see before reading your quality content, you want to make sure that it is as attractive as possible.

The internet has made it easy for us to get different images that can be used in our contents from Google, unsplash, and so on.

The one thing I have found out when it comes to images that really works is using images or backgrounds with text on it.

Sites like canva.com can be used to add text on images for your blog post.

Optimize Your Content

SEO is one of the best ways to get an insane amount of traffic to your blog without you spending a dime.

This is made possible by different search engines ranking your contents high when someone searches for a keyword related to your topic.

Now “keyword” is the main focus when you want to make your contents SEO friendly.

I know most of you already know what that is but let me just stress it again.

If you are into the health niche and let say you wrote content on how to lose weight in eight days, your focus keyword would be “lose weight” so when someone searches for how to lose weight Google will scan through the various blog post on that keyword and probably rank yours higher which will, in turn, drive traffic to your blog.

The keywords you want to rank for should be inserted in your title, image alt, description and in your contents.

When it comes to SEO, you can’t just start putting the keyword in every sentient of your content just to rank for it, Google will flag your blog.

 For my SEO, I use the Yoast SEO plugin for wordpress to get my SEO right.

Employ Other Sources

It is good as a blogger you consistently write contents for your blog but you are also given the opportunity to leverage other sources to get your contents out there.

This other sources include Video and Podcast.

Video

With the number of time people spend in watching videos on YouTube and other social media platforms, it is safe to say that video is gradually taken over.

This is not to say blogging will die anytime soon but you can add videos to drive traffic to your blog.

Videos has the capacity to drive traffic to your blog thereby increasing sales and ads revenues.

With a website like YouTube which is the second largest search engine in the world, you can use the platform to drive traffic to your blog and also turn it into another source of income stream for your business.

Podcast

Since majority of people are always on the move and may not have time to go through a blog post or watch a video you can leverage podcasting.

This involves you creating your contents in an audio format so people can listen to you while they drive or perform other activities as they go along their day to day activities.

You can choose any of them to grow your blog traffic.

One of my secret mentor pat Flynn who runs smartpassiveincome.com uses both methods and is driving an insane amount of traffic to his blog.

Use Social Media And Forums

Social media is one of those places on the internet you find lots of people hanging out all day and use can drive traffic from there.

One of the advantages of going social is that you can drive traffic to your blog without spending a dime.

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When it comes to using social media as a blogger, there is one thing I need to let you know which is you don’t have to be on every social media website.

If you decide to participate in every social media platform out there you will not have time to write your contents and do other things.

All you have to do is focus on the ones you know your traffic hangs out.

Forums are also a great place you can drive traffic to your blog as that is where most people go to ask questions and you can briefly answer their questions while you add a link to your content if you have written on that topic or something similar.

Build Your Email List

This is one of the surest ways of keeping up with both old and new customers.

When anyone signs up for your newsletter, you can be rest assured that they are interested in whatever you have to offer.

There are lots of sites out there that you can use to start collecting emails on your blog and most allow you to collect up to 2,000 emails for free.  

Use Paid Ads

It does not hurt to once in a while use paid advertisement to boost your traffic.

Getting organic traffic through SEO and social media takes time but with the use of paid advertising, you can start getting visitors to your blog in no time.

The good thing about paid advertising is that you don’t have to break your bank to get it done, with as low as $5 you can run ads on Facebook.

Using the Google ads program and other social media advertisement website you can start driving traffic to your blog.

When using social media, you will have to first figure which social media platform those interested in your niche hang out so you can start targeting them with paid advertisement.

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