How to Get Traffic on Your Blog!
Traffic, is something for which every blogger is dying for. Every blogger ultimately looks for same thing – traffic. Read on this blog to know about how to get traffic on your blog.
Don’t you want to get thousands of visitors on your blog?
I do, and I am sure you too.
Do you know the ways through which you can get traffic to your blog or website?
Honestly, I will say yes, you do all know about the ways how you can get traffic to your blog or website. But, still it might be possible that you were either missing something, or not doing it properly, that is the reason why you were lacking somewhere in achieving your target.
To be very frank, I too did some mistakes in my blogging journey, we all do some mistakes in our life, after all we are human beings and we are bound to do mistakes. But then the real winners are those who learn lessons from those mistakes and try not to repeat them in future.
I too tried learning lessons from my mistakes which I did in the past and still suffering because of those and this is the reason why I always wanted to share those things which can benefit and helps others.
So as I already said that you all know most of the things about how to get traffic or visitors to your blog or website, but still I want to summarize them in my own way. And here are those:
Ideally traffic from search engines is the best way to get traffic on your website or blog. Do you know why?
If you don’t know the reasons, then don’t worry about it, I will let you know the reasons.
One of the main reasons why we bloggers like traffic from search engines is that since they were looking for the same things, hence they are the targeted audience you were looking for. What can be more rewarding than getting targeted traffic to your website?
Another reasons why the world loves traffic from search engines, is that it is free and huge. You can get it without doing any expenses, unless you are hiring an SEO like me to do the optimization for your website or blog, and it will ever increasing only. In normal cases it should not fall badly, unless you do something big mistake or blackhat things.
But then, getting love from search engines is difficult than getting love from the girl whom you were chasing since last few years. Coming up on the page one of Google or any other search engine is not something that can happen in a day or within a month too. It needs time and continuous efforts.
Mind the fact that the moment you planned to launch any website or blog, SEO needs the attention from the same day. The moment you are thinking about the domain name for your future venture, you are already doing the SEO of your new website.
The moment you are preparing content for your new website, you are doing the SEO of your website.
As far as SEO is concerned I already do share some SEO tips on a regular basis, and I guess the blog post on top 10 SEO tips and tricks for your blogs in 2014 will be an added advantage for you. Please do read the same and share whatever you think about it in the form of comments.
Uses of social sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. are increasing in our daily life. You cannot expect a blog or website without having its presence on these social sites now.
If your blog or website has no presence on sites like FB, Twitter, Google+, etc. then you are actually missing a great proportion of traffic which might come from those sites.
Honestly these days search engines are also giving too much emphasis on social signals of your site. So your presence and activities on these sites will also have the influence on bringing traffic to your website through search engines. This being yet another reasons why you cannot ignore these social sites.
Those who don’t have presence on these sites should at least need to have a twitter account, a Facebook page for their blog and a Google+ page for their blog. You also need a Google account for creating this Google+ page, and you can establish your authorship with the same account as well. Those who don’t know about what Google Authorship is and how to do it can also check my blog post on how to get Google Authorship?
Please mind it that you will start getting traffic from these sites only if your content are of good quality and you have so many fans and followers on those sites. Which again is not going to possible overnight, you need to invest lots of time and efforts on these sites.
After all you can think about paid traffics, if you do have the budget, and don’t want to invest your time and efforts on above two options. It is quite simple, as you can advertize to get traffic on your site.
You can simply invest money on Facebook ads, or Google Adwords, or LinkedIn direct ads, Yahoo or Bing ads, etc. and start getting traffic instantly.
The more you have the capability to invest the more will be the number of visitors to your website or blog.
Obviously if you do have a blog on your website, or you are running a pure blog only, you might also consider blogger community sites like IndiBlogger, to attract traffic towards your blog. Obviously traffic from these community sites will be all webmasters only, who will definitely understand the efforts which you put on your blog, so traffic from such community sites will give you the best satisfaction for your hard work.
Try to give whatever best you can give to those communities and start getting traffic to your blog from there.
Though many blog owners prefer email marketing as yet another way to attract traffic, though I am not a big supporter of the same. Some bloggers consider it as one of the best and free methods to get regular traffic, but then my opinion about it is a bit different and I don’t prefer using them. Although if you subscribe to I News India you will start getting a regular update of the posts which I will update over here. Thus you can get the notification about new updates over here.
Meanwhile, please do update me with your opinion or comments about this blog post of mine. I will be waiting for your comments on this blog post of mine.
Very useful tips. Great support.I have been reading your blog and i like it so much that i have actully book marked for reading it completely on the all posts.
Thanks for the information
Thanks a lot BrPrakash. I am really delighted that you liked it. Thanks for sharing your comment with us 🙂
Creating a blog or website is quite easy but the traffic or visitors is a great problem and this article may prove very helpful.
Thank you Sampat Kumari jee 🙂
Very useful tips Alok. I will probably talk to you about my blogs and how to optimise them. You seem to know what you’re talking about and I could do with some serious advice. Cheers
Thank you so much Kalpanaa, you are most welcome for any query, doubt or anything…. 🙂
Nice and informative , traffic from search engines is not so my type
Hey Datta, thanks for your comment on my blog. I am glad that you liked it, but really did not get you with “traffic from search engines is not so my type”. After all anyone can get traffic from search engines. You just need to give a bit of efforts. 🙂
Very informative article Alok
Thanks you so much Bindu 🙂
Thanks for sharing this useful tips !
You are most welcome and thanks a lot Mahesh 🙂
Thank you Mr Vats for writing such a important topic. Your topic help me to get an idea how to increase traffic.
Thanks a lot again
So nice of you Sarmista. I am really glad and delighted that my blog post helped you to understand these things. Thank you for your comments and visit 🙂
Nice one Alok :).. I am still struggling with the search engines, hopefully they will pick up with time.. I agree, chasing a girl and getting a response is a lot easier than the search engine love 😀 😀 ..
Social sites and guest blogging have worked well though, trying to push in the twitter and quora front for more..
Ha ha Vinay, some girls are really impossible to get any response, they need to be chased for a long-long time 🙂 🙂 Google is that girl only. Buddy try to be a handsome guy, in front of Google, else she won’t love you. I know you are a good guy, I mean your blog, but then if Google is not giving her love to you, it simply means that she is not liking you at all.
Best of luck for all your efforts. 🙂 and yes try to do something unique which can bring you in the eyes of the girl whom you are chasing, I mean Google.
Congratulations and Thanks for the valuable tips.
Thank you Skaria M 🙂
As usual, wonderfully shared, Alok! 🙂
Another tip- Have catchy & useful titles like the one in this Post! That’s a major traffic-puller! 😛
Yes Anita, thank you for pointing such an useful tips and thanks for liking the post and its title as well 🙂
According to me Social Media is the best and instant way to get more traffic to your website or blog.Nice Tips @ Alok
Thank you Minakshi for sharing your opinion with us. For me it is the search engine, but then you can’t ignore any of the above mediums.
No doubt,organic traffic is the best and free source to get visitors to your blog among all the sources along with paid traffic. But it needs consistent effort,however Social media,forum posting and blog commenting are also the sources of great traffic.
thanks for the tips.
Thanks a lot Rafaqat I am glad that you liked it 🙂
Hi Alok,
Your tips are good. I think you should include this too: “Blog commenting”
BTW that is the what I’m trying right now 🙂 Blog commenting can induce traffic (I think 🙂
Thanks a lot Suvin, blog commenting is obviously a good way to bring traffic, I could also have included that, but then if you cannot do it properly, ultimately you will lose all the traffics. No hard feelings about you, but the way you did it made me suspicious about your intention, as you shared a link hidden by bit.ly something which can surely tell the webmaster that something is hidden behind the link and hence forced me to remove it.
So the basics of blog commenting is that it should not be suspicious, and hence can damage the reputation of your website too.
I hope you can understand what I wanted to convey through it. Thank you so much for the appreciation and comment over here 🙂
I was going to type full url. But when I started to type, the autocomplete brought up the shortened link and I entered it! I will try to avoid this mistake 🙂 Thanks for pointing out!
No issues Suvin 🙂
Search engine traffic and social referrals are the best way to get traffic to a website. In fact the unique and high quality content can benefit you with the both.
Yes Sasidhar, you are absolutely right 🙂 Search and Social traffic means a lot these days. Honestly, unique, informative and high quality posts on your site matters a lot these days. Thank you so much Sasidhar for sharing your comment over here 🙂
Well written…
We completely agree with your tips. They do work. 🙂
Thank you so much Configcrazy, but I don’t know why don’t you uses your real name over here?
its the third post i m reading on your blog , great shares
Thank you so much dear. Thanks that you liked different posts of my site.
Hi,
Alok Vats,
Honestly while reading your blog iam really felling so happy cause, easy to understand! Yes, we can get traffic many ways in our blog. Organic traffic so much important to get more profit from blog and for this content plays vital role. i wrote a blog post about ” How To Get 1000+ traffic on blog daily” and got awesome readers response, I think it is a power of content!
However, keep it up bro. Eager to know more from your blog!
Thanks.
Really Nice tip. Guest Blogging can also be an option for traffic.
Hello Alok,
Its a nice article. Blogging communities are better than paid traffic. Thanks for this informative piece.
Hi Alok , Am Regularly follow you , Great article written by and thanks for sharing such as Important and Special thanks for this post
Thank you so much Mahaveer 🙂
This is an interesting article to read. Any blogger willing to acquire traffic should read this article. Your Avtar is quite nice. Don’t change it. I identify you with the avtar. It looks like ‘Shathrugnan Sinha’ (joking).
Amazing to hear the comparison with the great “Shathrugnan Sinha”, many people says that I look alike Rajnikant.
Wow…so helpful ! Thank you for sharing on how to get huge traffic..
Thanks.. 🙂
Thanks a lot Sakshi, am delighted that you liked it 🙂
Hi Alok ji,
These are very important points from the POV of a blogger.And essential too.
But I think you have left out few points.
1: The trend to increase pageviews & SEO is to get backlinks isn’t it? Surprised to see that it was not here.
2: Also, Speed of Page loads. People tend to back out from pages that load slow. Considering that you are a WordPress User, it is shocking to see the omission of CDN servers like Cloudflare.
If you want to look/refer about this you can check this link:
techbuzzin.com/blog/2016/05/18/speed-up-your-blog-enhance-page-speeds/
Valid point Arjun, although as far as backlinks are concerned, in my opinion, it is not required, as if you ask me then I would say no one should give any effort in developing backlinks, instead they should try to earn it from others, and it can be possible with the great quality content on the site.
Second thing, will surely look for the link which you shared over here. Speed is truly a considerable thing.
Thank you so much for the great post. I’ll implement it on my sites
Thanks Karan 🙂