How to Attract Traffic to Your Blog: The Eternal Question
How to Attract Traffic to Your Blog: The Eternal Question
There really is no question about it, blogging is a learning process for all involved.
With every post, I strive to drive more traffic to the site, capture readers, and up the number of subscribers.
What works, what doesn’t?
From trial and error, here is what I am quickly discovering in regards to successfully bringing in readers:
- This might seem obvious, but blog about what’s interesting, you are not necessarily trying to be the first one to break the news, but simply writing in an engaging manner.
- Blog about articles that are ahead of the curve: your goal is to blog about a problem that people will be looking for answers to.
- Add a unique twist to your blog: query top bloggers, ask questions, add the “so what?” factor to your blog.
The next step is to actually encompass all these main aspects in every blog you post.
I try, but every blogger knows that it is challenging.
It’s also extremely important to have a keen sense of what’s newsworthy, and (if you’re lucky) having some sort of access to an inside source about the latest buzz.
I have attempted to establish where writing sources fall for interest blogging:
- pre-curve:
topics that have begun to be mentioned on Twitter, Digg, Technorati
publications such as Forbes, Top 40 Lists
conferences, real time responses about topics
- peak of curve:
hot topics on Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo Buzz
Google Zeitgeist’s top searches
- post-curve:
topics people are no longer interested in tweeting, facebooking about
“old news”
Finding the topics that readers will search for is nothing short of an art.
Another important aspect of blogging in general: link-backs. While in my experience I can not say that this will surely act as a traffic-generator, you are still recognizing that what you are blogging about came from another source, and then crediting them.
I am more than open to suggestions as well, if there are other key aspects to a successful blog I would love to hear YOUR feedback.
As the reader, your opinion is the more important because if you are not interested, who will be?
