13 Killer Tips to Increase Your Blog Traffic

Most of the bloggers who just started their blogging career find it very hard to gettraffic to their website or blog in the initial stages. They will be eagerly searching to find the best ways to increase the traffic which in turn would result in getting increased earnings from that traffic. Those early days are the hardest in generating any website traffic and one should not lose their hope and need to put in more hard work for achieving better results.

Here I provide you with some of the best killer tips that will help you to improve your traffic stats with a little dedicated effort and applying some simple techniques. But before going into the details, one thing that you should remember always is that the real key to success anywhere is in how differently you do things from others. Just reading these ideas wont do any good for you. The more efficiently you put these ideas to action the more effective would be the increase to your site traffic. So, lets take a look at these13 killer tips to increase your traffic:

1. Write Quality Content Posts

The first and most important thing in generating website traffic would be to write unique posts full of rich quality content. Search engines give a higher priority to pages with unique content and helps your site to get listed in search engines very fast with some quality posts. Always try to write content with a great value to help you get long-term traffic. Choose the niche that you want to start off with and can try writing on posts like explaining how those things work.

2. Submit to Social Bookmarking Sites

Social Bookmarking sites are a great resource to generate traffic to your posts and to get backlinks which will strengthen your page ranking in the search results. Try to submit the post URLs to as many social bookmarking sites as possible having high Pageranks such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit to get more backlinks and a quick boost to your traffic. But dont try to spam these sites which will eventually result in getting you banned.

3. Write Eye-Catchy Post Titles

Always write posts with creative titles that are eye-catchy to your visitors. Having a good catchy title on the homepage will make your visitors to go to individual page of the post and make them read the full post thereby increasing your page views.

4. Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization is one of the best techniques that should be adopted by every blogger to get more organic traffic from search engines to your site. Try to include relevant search keywords in your content to get your post listed higher for those keywords in search results. Don't overload your posts with too many relevant keywords or completely irrelevant keywords which will create a negative effect on your site in search engines.

5. Comment on Other Blogs

One of the best ways to get back links and to drive more traffic is by commenting on other blogs. Develop the habit of commenting on other popular blogs relevant to your niche including your site URL in the comment. Most of the readers tend to check the comments section also and if they see some interesting comment they are likely to click on the link to visit the commentator's site. So, always try to deliver meaningful comments and don't try to spam with excessive links with no useful comments.

6. Use Images in Your Posts

When you illustrate any topic or article with nice images that can grab a user's attention, your readers will be more likely to view that content. Also having some good images will make your site look pretty and also helps in getting more visitors from Image Search. So, tagging your images with relevant SEO keywords can do a great favor in bringing image search traffic.

7. Use RSS Feed for Permanent Readers

Create a RSS feed for your site to make it easy for your regular readers to know better whenever new content is published in your site. As large amount of the readers will be newcomers and they may not visit your site again, having a RSS feed can be helpful in converting those newcomers to regular readers by subscribing to your site. The more RSS feed subscribers you get the more exposure your new article will get boosting your initial traffic.

8. Leave Trackbacks

A good tip to increase your traffic in the long run is to leave trackbacks to popular posts on other blogs to let them know that you linked to them which in turn would help in getting those post readers redirected towards your site from the link to your site provided in trackbacks section of that site.

9. Write Regularly

Develop the habit of posting atleast 3-5 times in a week. Also use the Ping services offered by Technorati and Feedburner to inform search engines whenever your blog is updated. The more often you update your blog with unique content the more is the possibility of getting your posts listed in search engines resulting in more traffic.

10. Make Your Site User Interactive

Respond to the comments and emails left by the users on your posts. People will love to visit those sites where the author is interactive with the readers. Try to make a positive response for every comment that you get on your site.

11. Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is like when write a guest article on any blog or site with a link to your blog or another blogger writing a guest article for your blog with a link to their site. Both of the methods helps in getting more exposure to your site as you will be reaching out to the other blogger's audience as well resulting in a boost to your traffic.

12 . Promote Outside Your Blog

Promotion to the site should never stop and communities like Facebook and Twitter are good places to get targeted audience. Build a good profile for your site and start sharing your thoughts in those communities with links to your site. Join relevant forums with good user participation and add your blog URL in the signature area to drive traffic from your participation in those forums.

13. Keep Improving your Blog

The day you stop improving your site is the day you will see your visitors start declining. Always try to improve your blog like the changes to template, adding new user polls, making archives of the popular posts and publishing them at regular intervals. You can try anything to make your visitors busy and to create a feel in them to visit your site again.

Bottom line: And the bottom line would be to show a little bit of dedication and love towards your site to develop a solid base of readers to your content. As I said above, a site with a good interactive and responsive user base will definitely get more exposure for its content driving in more traffic to the site.

I am open to any suggestions from the readers and sharing your thoughts or tips that worked for you in the comments section would be helpful for other readers as well in getting more traffic.