How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
Increasing traffic to your blog is something that can be a challenge for lot of people. So how do you get traffic to your blog? Well, there are many ways. For one, you can pay for traffic. I’ve never done that, but many people do. But what about free traffic to your blog? You might feel like you have great content, and a nice looking blog, but you don’t have traffic. That is where the buzz factor kicks in.
There are many ways to generate traffic with creating buzz. Some people offer contests, some people create blog memes and others write posts on controversial topics. Along with the various buzz building tactics comes a reaction. A reaction is the result of blog buzz. The reactions are either negative or positive.
Depending on what kind of buzz tactic you use will warrant which kind of reaction you get. So the key to getting traffic is by creating a buzz. But, within that, it’s your goal to create a buzz that scores a positive reaction. Anything less, then you’ll create what I call, one hit wonder traffic, which are people who visit your blog and don’t like what they see and never will return again.
How Do You Create A Positive Buzz?
Here’s something that I say to myself when I’m writing content for my blog. Following this for the last few years helped me create some of my best articles. I call this SEMI.
- Stimulate. People want to stimulate their brains. Our brains are filled with thousands of pulsing receptors that need to be stimulated at all times.
- Entertain. People want to be entertained. Why else do we have The Comedy Channel and a million and one Blond Jokes?
- Motivate. People want to feel good. They want to be encouraged and supported. People want to be motivated and pushed towards achieving things.
- Inform. People want to be aware. We want to know whats going on, how did it happen, who was the cause of it, when did this happen and where do I go?
Now, in the process of creating a positive buzz, you should remember SEMI and ask yourself this, “Is my post going to stimulate, entertain, motivate or inform people?” If you can get a yes for all four questions, you then have yourself an excellent post.
The great thing is that it doesn’t matter what topic you have chosen for your blog, you do have an audience. The best way to reach out to your audience is to give them SEMI! Take what you have learned in this post and write one today that follows the basic rules of SEMI!
October 24th, 2009 at 8:55 pm
Good and Useful Article , sure the positive buzz is an important reason to get your Blog popular and have more followers
October 25th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Its really simple. create template for your blog, now put up some custom wrritten content with some clickable search terms relevant to your blog as “Content is the KING”, use some images to give your blog an interesting and nice look, but images should be relevant to your content. Do some link building just like you do for a website, and there you go, the more links you build the more visibility your blogs get, the more visible your blogs get the more increases its ranking and as rankings go up your traffic will also rise.Simple Formula.Isn't it?
October 26th, 2009 at 12:37 am
Excellent article explaining key to bring traffic on your blog is how to create positive buzz.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:25 am
Thanks, I am glad that you enjoyed reading the article.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:27 am
Sounds simple in theory, but execution is a little more difficult, plus there's a few other elements within.
November 4th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
the article doesnt really answer the question posed in the title — classic catchy title but nothing underneath it. pretty box, but empty! “SEMI” as you described it refers to an apparent engaging style of writing copy once people have already arrived at your blog but does provide any direction for getting them there in the first place.
how to increase traffic to your blog? 1) be an expert. in something. be able to back it up with education, experience and detailed expertise. 2) write often. new content generates traffic and visits all by itself. 3) allow easy participation in what youve written. comments, checking on comments, replying to replies keeps people coming back. 4) be a helpful and supportive part of an internet micro-community. get outside of your own blog once in awhile. plan on visiting other blogs and forums and communities of people looking for answers to their questions and answer them. write an article for someone else once in awhile (yes for free). have them write one for you too (of course you pay them something, that's simply professional). 5) advertise your blog. yes. everyone “pays” for traffic. its not a failure of any kind. its simply advertising. budget some amount every three months and do the same type of marketing you'd do for a product: mailers, magazine and newspaper, online. 6) provide an actual pay-for product or solution. even if nobody buys it, the product or solution for sale (and its price) legitimizes your expertise and your blog.
there you go. be fruitful. multiply.
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December 24th, 2010 at 5:01 pm
You wrote a very informative article, many thank and I hope that some tips will help me. Cheers