Publishing a blog and waiting for Visitors is really frustrating. Sharing your post with your friends and family don't even help for long as they may open your blog and read once or twice but ant gonna read one after another turning your blogs into ghost town.
Why does it happened so?
Publishing your content and sitting idle is not a great way to build your blog audience. According to some sources around 95% of new blogs fail in a month or two. Out of which 75% failed due to lack of readership. Bringing your blog post to readers is an art and one has to be fully committed to take full advantages of that.
I am not a professional but from my 3 years of experience in blogging i can tell you some major tactics that work for me well. Two years back i was just same as you struggling to get even 30 page views daily and was about to shut down blog, actually many a times i was compelled to do so but with my mistakes i learn what i did wrong and how to overcome my problems and make my blog more and more user friendly and how to connect to audience.
Why you should listen to me?
Why does it happened so?
Publishing your content and sitting idle is not a great way to build your blog audience. According to some sources around 95% of new blogs fail in a month or two. Out of which 75% failed due to lack of readership. Bringing your blog post to readers is an art and one has to be fully committed to take full advantages of that.
I am not a professional but from my 3 years of experience in blogging i can tell you some major tactics that work for me well. Two years back i was just same as you struggling to get even 30 page views daily and was about to shut down blog, actually many a times i was compelled to do so but with my mistakes i learn what i did wrong and how to overcome my problems and make my blog more and more user friendly and how to connect to audience.
Why you should listen to me?
- I Am not an professional.
- I am just 3 years old in the field of blogging.
- I don't know how to produce interesting content.
- I don't know any website or trick to bring back visitors to my page.
- I don't know any professional long time blogger to get help from.
Yet now i am in a happy win win situation thanks to the lessons learned from my previous mistakes. Today i get a handsome sum of visitors on one of my blog and working on different blogs all together making steady progress. Believe me what have worked for me will also work for you.
In this Article i am going to tell top 11 effective ways to promote a blog for free. how to build your new blog into a tending story and how to make post viral so easy forcing peoples to like comment and share your posts:
1.Make your post unique.
What ever you are writing or whichever topic you have picking to write on, may be used some where on the Internet god knows how many times with different blogger like you struggling to make a presence on the world wide web. Making post like junk wont help you out unless you paid for your own promotion which is not a good option to do so.
People are in love with post which are new, unique and add value to them and have some experience to know from others. So creating a unique content is a must. But what is this unique content? Anything which is written differently than previously or written in a nice way on new topic in minimum 1000 words are commonly called as unique post.
Your unique content should be interesting and should connect to your reader solving there each and every question. This will force the viewer psychologically to read with more interest and corelate the information with anything similar he/she had heard or read before, Making him to like comment and share your post on different social networking platforms.
2.Publish more posts.
This is one of the most ignored yet most effective way of getting more page views in a positive way. According to a research by Hubpost it has been found that if you post 16+ posts per month then you will receive 6% more visitors on your blog than one posting 5-7 posts per month.
Just by using this method I been able to generate more and more daily page views from 300+ page to 1000 page views daily in just a week. No matter how new you are or how much is your social presence, posting more and more article will always bring you more and more genuine page audience.
3.Produce Longer contents.
Research have proved that major search engines like that of Google and bing prefer longer article or content in their search result in their Top 10 results which generates the most of the traffic from these search engines.
Writing longer articles also makes you look quite committed to the subject and serious and people will believe in you as you know well enough to teach them all that they want. Longer articles generates large amount of keywords even without search engine optimization and effective use of keywords on your blog bringing your posts more prone to be showed in top 20 in search results bringing you a high Alexa ranking.
A research by buzzsumo Which regularly monitor and analyze large sum of articles and posts trending online shows that, articles having more than 3000+ words get twice the likes and shares than those with 500+ words.
4.Link to Similar influential blogs
You may not think it to be a good idea to give a link in your blog to someone else website/post/blog as it will steal your visitors. But search engines like Google and bing give you more importance if you provide back-links to similar contents, influential posts and sometimes the source if you are copying from somewhere (Always take permission before copying someone post as it is a offense under DMCA).
There is also a high chance that the refereed person will provide back links to your posts bringing high tariff to your blog. Just be sure to inform them on their social media profiles you have linked them.
5.Answer questions with your blog post in Forum.
People always have one or another trouble and they usually ask for help here and there, on INTERNET a place for providing and asking such help is called as forum. There are various popular forum available where you can target your audience based upon the type of your blog content answering there queries along with providing back link of your related post as addition information source.
One of the most popular forum these days is Quora. You can generate much more easy traffic to your blog just by using this platform. Give valuable information to their questions and always encourage them to know more and never forget to provide a back link.
One of the most popular forum these days is Quora. You can generate much more easy traffic to your blog just by using this platform. Give valuable information to their questions and always encourage them to know more and never forget to provide a back link.
6.Allowing quick notifications on your blog.
Providing notifications facilities on your blog is always a great way to make visitors aware of new posts and also to bring more visitors per post. Some people find notifications annoying but it is something no one can ignore.
There are third party websites like SendPulse which provide notification solutions for your own blog with free easy to install methods. Once your readers allow to the notification they will start to get notified at every new post.
7.Using Social networking efficiently
There are third party websites like SendPulse which provide notification solutions for your own blog with free easy to install methods. Once your readers allow to the notification they will start to get notified at every new post.
7.Using Social networking efficiently
Using social networking is an efficient way of getting the post out of your blog to the public. Platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram can be very useful in driving lots and lots of trafic back to your blog.
Just by posting on social networking sites won't gonna help. You should learn how to use it more efficiently in the interest of your own.
Just by posting on social networking sites won't gonna help. You should learn how to use it more efficiently in the interest of your own.
Twitter: In twitter you can use proper hastags and right timing with your tweet to drive the trafic or use the simple way of finding person already discussing and interested on concerned topic, Ask them to read your article, mention them in tweets as people love to be mentioned by somebody and it will really help you pull them toward your blog.
Facebook: Search for groups concerned with your blog topics and share your content with them on a regular basis. If you get a chance interact with the moderator of these group to ask pin your posts. Always reply to any comment on your post and ask them to share if they like.
You can also post your blog content on popular facebook pages as a visitor post. This will brings your total daily visitors by 30%, It is my own experience and if you are more lucky than me maybe you will get more.
You can also post your blog content on popular facebook pages as a visitor post. This will brings your total daily visitors by 30%, It is my own experience and if you are more lucky than me maybe you will get more.
Pinterest: If your blog is full of great graphical images you can go for sharing them on pinterest under different relevant categories.
8.Guest posting.
8.Guest posting.
Putting post on others blog through guest blogging is getting more and more popular these days. You can use this opportunity to bring back some of there loyal viewers to your own blog through guest blogging on popular blogs.
Contact the editor of the target blog and ask them to provide back links to your posts on your guest post this will help you to perform well in search results. Then through unique interesting post you can force them out to follow your blog.
Search for similar blogs through search engines read their previous comments and reply them with better suggestion and answer providing back link to your post. This will increase your total weekly traffic by 4% if you do it effectively.
The link may not be a “do follow” but you’ll be presenting your blog to an audience who is already reading the kind of content you offer. So you will build a kind of relationship with the readers offering them to visit your blog at least once.
10. Search engine optimization.
Search engines are a major source of traffic and if you know the way to manipulate search results to show your posts and blog high in search results will bring you all but joy. The all you have to do is to use right keywords on your blog through keywords optimization.
You can also provide sitemap to Google webmaster tool for better search results. Providing robot.txt file also make search engine prefer you in search results.
Never miss chance to get search traffic through images as it can also bring you much needed visitors just by doing nothing but providing alt text for your images so that Google search results could find them.
11.Ask to share.
Asking someone close to you like your family and friends is also one of a good way to increase traffic on your blog as unlike others they might take interest in what you write and also share and like for your help.
But you should not consider to use this strategy for long as people loose interests in sharing and liking your post sooner or later no matter how close they are.
Conclusion
There are various tactics to improve page views of your blog, getting promoted as mentioned above. All you need to use them with at most precision and interest as described to get the best results.
Wish you all a Good Luck!
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