Sources of traffic and how to write blog that boost traffic?
Where does the traffic come from? Where my readers come from?
It's essential to know the sources of traffic. Then, you know where your effort should go to boost traffic to your blog.
The sources of traffic:
- Your blog itself
- Major search engines and Directory: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL,...
- External links
First
thing first. Whatever techniques or tips you hear about how to bring
traffic to your blog, don't get lost the foremost important thing: your
blog itself!
Your blog itself should be something people like to read and like to link.
People
are not waiting for you. They even don't know you. But they'll start
noticing you if your posts cater their interest and they'll spread your
blog to their friends. The quality of your blog is superior to any other
techniques such as search engine optimization (SEO). But it seems some
blogger apt to forget this yet the majorities are providing good blog.
This is common sense, right? Nothing new, huh?
OK, here are four tips how to make your blog attractive:
- Write
something controversial,topical, and pithy. And make your blog title
attractive but don't forget to include keyword in your title. The word
"keyword" will appear several times in rest of post, meaning it's just
important! You may want to read, Traffic to Blog:Keyword Research,
to know why keywords are important and how to find keywords that brings
traffic to your blog, if you haven't read. It also guides you how to
find topical keywords.
- Write as frequently as possible.
If
you just started new blog, write everyday. If your blog already have
decent traffic, just keep on writing as frequently as you can. Both
readers and search engines look for new information. You provide new
information and they will come.
- Write fresh content.
Don't
just copy from others. This not only troubles you in legal matter but
also makes your readers leave you. If you find less traffic comes to
your blog though you write every day, check whether you're posting fresh
content.
Fresh content doesn't mean that it should deal with
brand new item. It does mean that new point of view, additional point of
view, or even imitation of topic but filled with recreated content.
- Provide internal link within your blog.
If
you have related post to other post, link each other within your blog
content. This helps your reader find more information out of your blog,
stay with you longer and even come back to you again.
Furthermore,
it is one of SEO techniques. By doing inter link you can have more back
links, though they are less valuable than external inbound links. More
technically it can be used to improve the page rank of certain blog. For
example, suppose you have 5 related post, 4 have page rank 4 and the
other page rank 0. If you want to increase that page rank of 0, you link
all the other 4 posts to that post. It'll surely improve the page rank
of the lowest one. But be aware that when you link back the higher page
rank post may not keep the original page rank. So do it under your plan
and do it moderately. Don't abuse this technique because search engines
may consider you as a search engine spammer.
The bottom line is that moderate is always good.
In
the second bullet, I wrote "You provide new information and they will
come." Oops, it's WRONG! They don't come. They don't know whether you
provided new information at all. You have to let them know you wrote new
information. This is related to the topic that how to optimize your
post search engine friendly. If you want know more about this topic, you
may want to read Search engine optimization for bloggers.
About the Author
Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing research and
analysis. His current focus is blogging and home based affiliate
business as a work-at-home scheme. He is a founder of Blog Sites and running Hom Based Affiliate Business web site. |
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