It’s super easy to start a blog of your own. However, driving organic traffic to the website is another story altogether. There are many marketing hacks to drive traffic to your blog, and this is precisely why sometimes, it can get confusing as to which techniques would work for you.
If you have a blog that isn’t doing so well in terms of traffic, worry not, for you have landed in the right place.
Here are 30 tips on how you can double the blog traffic in
2021
1. Invest time in SEO and optimize your blog for search engines.
Make use of keyword research tools to pick relevant keywords, and use them on your website to optimize it for search engines like Google and Bing.
2. Try to write longer blog posts
Long-form posts generate more traffic than shorter posts, so try to write posts that are at least 1000 words in length.
3. Submit your website for indexing to search engines like Google and Yahoo.
4. Try to write listicles and how-to posts as these posts generally do very well in terms of traffic.
Think of common problems your audience faces and write about the solutions to those problems.
5. Divide your content into catchy headlines, subheadings, and bullet lists.
This makes your content reader-friendly and intriguing to read. Blocks of text jumbled up together look tedious to read.
6. Write posts about trending and evergreen topics in your niche.
7. Stress on using long-tail keywords.
It is important to use a mix of shorter and longer keywords. Longer keywords help increase domain authority and rank higher in search results.
8. Interlink your blog posts.
Include links to other relevant blog posts as interlinking helps to rank on search engines.
9. Include social share buttons at the top or bottom of your posts.
10. Add click-to-tweets
Things to do to Double Blog Traffic
11. Use Pinterest to drive blog traffic.
Pinterest is still the number one way to promote your blog. Pin your blog posts and products multiple times a week, and pin all the images within a blog post, as this increases your chances of your pins going viral.
12. Make use of Tailwind.
If you don’t want to use Tailwind, you can always use Pinterest and schedule directly. They have implemented many new features for both options.
13. Join Facebook groups and interact with other bloggers
Search for relevant Facebook groups within your niche and promote your blog posts there. However, remember that shamelessly promoting your posts in groups just won’t work. You have to interact with other posts and members in the groups, comment on their posts and build a network.
14. Participate in guest posting for others
Guest posting allows you to reach a broader audience with your blog. Have other bloggers guest post on your site, and write guest posts for other blogs to cross-promote your content to their audience as well as yours.
15. Build your email list
Focus on building a strong email list. Send out mailers once every week, and engage with your email subscribers. Give them sneak peeks of exclusive content and products, and build strong relationships with your audience.
16. Post regularly, but pay attention to quality over quantity
It is not imperative for you to post daily, but it is important to post consistently. You can post only twice a week instead of posting daily, but make your content the king, and stick to your schedule of posting twice a week.
17. Streamline your website to make it user-friendly and super-fast to load.
18. Host contests and giveaways
Only those which are relevant to your account and followers will help grow and cultivate the community you want. Don’t overexert yourself here on the wrong audience or products.
19. Invest time in YouTube marketing
This goes for any and all video marketing as video is a great way to get
20. Master Instagram marketing
If your audience is on Instagram, it’s best to learn it. If not, no need to sweat it!
21. Use Twitter to market your blog posts
Twitter is another great way to market your blog posts. Write a catchy text, include a good image and the link to your blog post, and click the Tweet button.
22. Invest in influencer marketing
Influencers are other bloggers within your niche with high domain authority and reach. Reach out to influencers for collaborations and ask them to post about your website and products on their social media sites.
23. Engage in forums like Quora, Reddit, and Yahoo Answers.
24. Reach out to affiliates.
25. Advertise via digital ads.
26. Partner up with other bloggers and brands.
27. Partner with local businesses
This helps not only build your local following, but it also helps the local business, and we all know how bad local businesses could use the support these days.
28. Invest in a good theme for your blog website.
29. Use pictures and GIFs in your blog posts.
30. Promote your blog in LinkedIn groups.
That’s all from my side. Hope these tips help you to skyrocket your blog’s traffic. Have any suggestions or ideas? Feel free to drop them in the comments below.
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