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Most of the bloggers find it difficult to attract healthy amount of visitors to their blog. It is important to understand that traffic to your blog will only increase if visitors find it useful. Very often newbie bloggers tries to capture the audience from Social network. It is not recommended. In fact, when you start running advertisements from Google Ad-sense, such traffic won’t earn you much penny. It is also important to know bit about search engine optimization (SEO). I understand that it is quite impossible to achieve this in first attempt but you will understand the ways of doing it as you go ahead. These 15 ways which I have pointed out in this article will help you to boot your blog traffic.

1.Strong SEO

You must take care of Search engine optimization (SEO) while writing articles. There are number of points to be careful about including keyword density and word count. An ideal word count for article should be more than 300. In fact articles with more than 500 words gets an upper edge. One of the other point is URL slug. Your article URL slug should contain keyword which you are targeting and shouldn’t be longer than 140 characters.

2.Facebook and other social networks

Facebook is one of the medium which increased my blog’s traffic significantly in initial phase. If you can produce appealing article then it will get popular on Facebook instantly via Facebook Likes and shares. There are number of other social networks and websites available to share your content. Who knows they might bring you more visitors than Facebook. You may try following networks.

Linkedin

Twitter

Pinterest

Buffer

Digg

Google Plus

3.Write unique content

Visitors are impressed by how you present your article. Article without any images may not find appealing. Similarly, including some links within articles will improve its quality. Your articles must be unique and should not be copied as it is from other websites. If Google finds copied content, it may impose penalty on your blog/website.

4.Write often

Updating your blog with unique content is important. It will keep your blog’s presence effective on search engines. Around 1 article in two days of interval should be enough provided it is to be high quality and SEO optimized. Remember, quality is more important and at the same time you must take care of quantity.

5.Submit blog to Search engine

Submitting your blog to search engine will notify them about your blog’s presence. One of the effective blog URL submissions can be carried out by submitting URL through Google Webmaster. One can also try submitting XML sitemaps to Yahoo and Bing.

6.Comments

One of the vital parts of blogging is commenting. It includes some of the basic stuff like how you interact with your blog readers and how you give them opportunity to share their content through plugings like CommentLuv. It is simply an awesome plugin which encourages your readers and other fellow bloggers to stop by your blog and comment on articles.

7.Tags

It might require bit of extra efforts in tagging your posts but it certainly has advantage. Tags are easily noticed by search engines and are ought to drive traffic more effectively. These tags would be helpful to your readers as well.

8.Analytics

Google Analytics is best way to learn about what’s happening on your blog. It will give most comprehensive report of your blog’s traffic. Recently brought live report will show you number of active visitors on your blog. It is also important to understand these reports as they will help you to evaluate your performance and set future goals.

9.In built linking

As you go on writing articles, remember to include your own blog’s links in your articles. It  is good practice and will help you to keep your readers engaged with the contents of your blog. External links to other blogs are also good.

10.Guest posting

Usually this method is helpful in increasing number of back-links and it requires honest efforts. Generally, good sites with higher PR and Alexa rank won’t accept your articles unless you produce high quality SEO optimized articles.

11.Blog design

Keeping your blog’s design minimal and user friendly will definitely get you upper edge. Readers are often annoyed by slow loading time and that might result in force close of your blog before opening it completely.

12.Interact with other blogs

Interacting with other blogs which have CommentLuv installed will improve your social connection. There is a possibility of getting some loyal readers by this method. If you are thinking of spamming other blogs with small comments then you won’t succeed. Good and reasonable comment are expected instead of little spammy ones.

13.Question and Answer sites

Your active participation in question and answer sites like Yahoo answers, Answers.com and stackexchange.com will get you targeted visitors in smaller amount. If by any chance question is popular, you will be lucky to get healthy traffic from them.

14.Email signature

Using a good email signature which defines your blog and personality will increase traffic to your blog. Don’t forget to include your blog’s URL and your position on blog in signature.

15.Advertising

If any of the above tips doesn’t works out, you still have an last option of getting into advertising. However I will only recommend this if you are 110% confident of what you are doing. If you are investing some bucks in advertising then you must think on how you will get them back. Some of the following Advertising networks are well-known.

Google Ad-sense
Adbrite
BuySellAds

I am quite sure that you won’t have to go for advertising if you are can take care of other things appropriately. Good luck!

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