One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the
fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past
100 or so daily page views. Those early days are indeed the hardest,
because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving
results. If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that
will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000
daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your
are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.
Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two
hours and a half every day.
First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day):
Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles. Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If
that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that
you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work. If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing
more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a
huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design
blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources
for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:
create a giant list of resources,
write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially
When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy
crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even
mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and
friends know about it.”
Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day):
Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting
started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be
split among:
commenting on other blogs in your niche,
linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.
Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t
approach people just because you think they can help to promote your
blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think
the two of you could grow together.
Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day):
The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles.
Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can.
Examples include:
letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.
If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization,
social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole.
Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook
and guest blogging.
Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day):
Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by
killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish
routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you
could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from
Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:
a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers
While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring
new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity
in your content and keep your readers engaged...!
Social Media Networks always been a great
way to drive traffic to your Blog , but do you know you can get even
more traffic form Pinterest in Comparison to top Social Networks. Let me
guess, you heard about Pinterest , but you haven’t tried it yet
,everyone is talking about using it for marketing and getting tons of
traffic and, you just don’t see it. Ok so let me enlighten you more
about this awesome Social Network in this post.
How to Use Pinterest To Drive Viral Traffic:
Driving viral traffic from Pinterest is very Easy you just have to Follow some steps Below .
1. Populate Boards With Your Interest:
Pinterest
is like every other social networks, you have to make your personal
brand, and to make it happen decide what topics you're most interested
in, and then dedicate yourself to those spaces.I have seen People love
to follow rich, full Boards than sparsely populated Boards.So I will
recommend that you have to dedicate your Boards to a super specific
niche, to get more viral traffic form Pinterest.
2. Use the Browser Extension:
Pinterest
offers a Pin It Button, just Drag and drop it onto your Bookmarks
bar.So, every time you come across with a great article or any kind of
great image, click "Pin It," choose an image (left), attach a
description and add the Pin to one of your Boards. You can also add Pint
It button to your Blog ,which allow readers to pin the article on
Pinterest easily.
3. Connect to Social:
When
you create your Pinterest account, you can choose to connect your
Twitter and Facebook accounts,along with your personal website. Not only
do the account widgets appear below your profile bio, but you can also
choose to share your Pins across the networks, or to embed them onto
your website.
Caution :
Don’t allow Pinterest to invite your Facebook Friends because it will
spam your friends Inbox with a lot of Pinterest news and invites.some of
your friends may not like it.
4. Add Contributors:
You
have the choice to add contributors to your Board by editing a selected
Board and then adding a Pinterest account. Keep in mind, however,that
you have to be following at least one of the user's Boards before adding
them as a contributor.(For e.g you can add your site Admins and Friends
as Contributors ).Adding Contributor to a board allows users to add
pins to that specific board.
5. Repeat Pins Or Repin:
Repining
is one of the most interesting and useful way to get more traffic form
Pinterest .the best way to get more eyes on your profile is to add new
Pins as often as possible. Fresh content is guaranteed to get more
original Pins. So you have to share most useful and Fresh content most
likely same as your Blog Post.
6. Find Pinners: Pinners
are the users who are going to repin your pins and share with others
,it will increase your chances to get more hits.To find Pinners with
similar taste and interests, seek out the users behind your favorite
pins. Then look at the users that Pinner follows. Another way to find
interesting Pins or Pinners is by going to the Popular category to
discover trending Pins.
7. Follow A Board Or Follow All:
Pinterest
provides every user ability to follow a Pinner's specific boards,
instead of anyone’s entire content output. It’s quite a bit of a
challenge for you to prepare a great board which everyone love to
Follow.
8. Use Pinterest Button On Your Blog:
Pinterest offers several buttons which you can use on your Blog. Adding button will allow every user to Follow you directly from your Blog.
Managing
another Social media profile can be a pain, but you can’t deny the
referred traffic from the Pinterest. Do you already Use Pinterest ? Have
any Pinterest tutorials you would like to share? Feel free to link them
below with your Comments !
