It is always difficult to get organic traffic to blog. Particularly, if the blog is a brand new one. It is a time consuming process and you have to adopt the best SEO strategies and techniques. You need to optimize your site in terms of performance and search engine friendliness. It will take time to get traffic to blog from search engines and other sources. Don’t expect more visitors as soon as you launch your blog or website. Keep adding quality articles and promoting them.
Before starting any SEM activity make sure that you have an optimized website or blog. You need to ensure that your blog or website doesn’t have many HTML or CSS errors. All these structural errors should be fixed before moving for blog promotion. The second important step is to optimize your blog in terms of speed and performance. The third step is to optimize the blog for search engines.Here is my list of top 25 ways to attract more traffic to your new blog. You can follow the links to learn more about the tips.
50 Ways to Attract Traffic to Your New Blog
- Write Quality articles that are useful to readers and not for search engines.
- Avoid duplicate contents. Respect copyright and never ever copy content from other sites or blogs.
- Use attractive theme for your blog that matches and reflects your blog’s niche.
- Ensure cross browser compatibility.
- Ensure Website Usability and Quality standards.
- Add mobile device/browser support to your blog.
- Submit your blog to all major search engines.
- Create XML sitemap and submit them to search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.
- Use HTML sitemaps and add them to your blog.
- Optimize your article Title using appropriate keywords.
- Use SEO friendly permalink structure.
- If you maintain multiple blogs link them.
- It is good to add Images to your posts and always use ALT tag for images.
- Request your reader’s feedback. Always acknowledge their comments.
- Create social media communities for your blog.
- Use Facebook to promote your blog like creating Facebook pages.
- Use Twitter to brand your blog and promote it.
- Use Google+ to promote your blog on Google+ sdcial service.
- Participate in Forums that is relevant to your blog’s niche.
- Comment on other blog articles that are related to your blog’s niche.
- Never indulge in comment spamming.
- Use ping services to ping search engine services.
- Setup RSS feed and use services like Feedburner to promote them.
- Submit RSS feeds to RSS search engines and directories.
- Provide an option to subscribe your blogs articles and encourage visitors to subscribe.
- Use social media widgets to encourage readers to join communities.
- Use your friend network to promote your blog by asking them to subscribe.
- Join blogging communities and blog directories.
- Ask experts to review your blog .
- Use social bookmarking services like Digg and Stumbleupon.
- Bookmark your contents on social bookmarking services.
- Provide social sharing widgets to your blog so that readers can share them if they are interested.
- Add Google +1 button, Facebook Like and Twitter retweet button to your blog.
- Add videos to your blog and create video sitemap if you have many and submit it to search engines.
- Add your blog in your email signature.
- Build quality backlinks.
- Try to get free.edu ,.gov backlinks.
- Try to get more DOFOLLOW backlinks.
- Create internal links in your articles.
- Fix broken links. Always provide useful 404 pages.
- Improve page views by implementing best practices.
- Use Google webmaster tools or Bing webmaster tools to get an insight about your blog.
- Do a keyword research before writing any article and effectively use them in your article.
- Use SEO tools to analyse your blog to verify SEO effectiveness.
- Use Google Analytics to analyse your blog traffic.
- Keep feeding the search engines by adding fresh and quality contents regularly.
- Provide blog search widget so that users can search and find more articles in your blog.
- Implement best practices to reduce high bounce rates.
- Guest posting on popular blogs helps you to get more referral traffic.
- Use services like YouTube to promote your videos. Create YouTube channel.
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