How to maximize your blog traffic

This is a guest post by Dapinder Singh.

How to maximize blog trafficBlog traffic is a serious and very popular matter in the field of blogging. If you want to become a successful blogger then you must have a great blog with lots of traffic. But getting huge amount of traffic to your blog is not an easy task. These days there are millions of blogs related to every niche are available on the internet so it is extremely difficult to survive between these blogs and get good traffic. In this post I will explain you the 5  extremely powerful methods for getting good traffic to your blog in a small amount of time.


Social media

Social networking sites are very important source of internet traffic. Try to increase your fans and followers especially on popular social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Pinterest.   If  you have large number of  followers and you are active, then you can easily drive good amount of traffic to your blog from them. Share your blog posts on these social networking websites to gain traffic benefit.

Important tips regarding social media:

  • Submit content to your social networks manually. Do not use any softwares for submitting the content. This will increase your engagement with your social connections.
  • Use Share buttons on your blog so that your blog visitors can directly share content from your blog to their social networks. This will give you huge traffic bonus.
  • Always remain active on your social networks. Set up  events on your social networks so that your followers enjoy your presence.
  • Respond to the queries and comments of your followers or fans on your social networks.


Guest Posting

Guest posting is also very powerful way of  increasing your blog traffic in a short period of time. You must publish guest posts on well established blogs of similar niche.  Another benefit of guest posting is that your blog will also get one or two do-follow backlinks which results in increasing Google page rank of your blog. Guest posting will give you lots of exposure and helps increasing your social networking followers as well.

Important tips regarding guest posting:

  • Only publish guest posts on good blogs. Do not waste your time on small blogs. because a single guest post on well established blog will give you more traffic and exposure than 5 guest posts on small blogs.
  • You must publish your guest posts on the blogs of similar niche. This will send targeted traffic to your blog.
  • Publish at least two guest posts per week.
  • Only publish original article which are written by you from scratch.


Add some widgets on your blog

Not all widgets drive traffic to your blog but there are some specific widgets (like share buttons, facebook like box, twiiter follower button) which helps in driving traffic to your blog directly or indirectly.

What are those widgets and how these widgets drive traffic to your blog ?

  • Post Share buttons – While reading your blog posts visitors can share your  posts to their own social networks and if anybody among their friends likes your  post then they also share that post to their own social network. In this way they start a chain reaction of sharing the posts and it results increasing your blog traffic.
  • Facebook like box – By using facebook like box your blog visitor can like your facebook fanpage page from your blog without leaving your blog. In this way this widget helps in increasing your facebook fans. These fans will help you gaining traffic in future when you publish new posts to your blog and your fan page.
  • Twitter follower button – Twitter follower button helps in increasing your twitter followers directly from your blog. More the twitter followers your have more traffic you will receive.
  • Google+ badge – Google plus network is another good source of traffic. Adding a Google+ badge to your blog helps in increasing your Google+ followers.
  • Email subscription widget – Email subscription widget helps in increasing  readership of your blog through email. As the number of your subscribers increases it will increase your overall blog traffic.
  • Popular posts – Popular posts widget attracts your blog visitors towards your most popular topics. In this way it helps in increasing pageviews and the average time spent on your blog.


Posting Frequency

One last but not least tip for increasing traffic is high posting frequency. You must publish posts daily or at least with the gap of one day between posting. This will increase indexing rate of your blog. Search engines spiders will start crawling your blog at much faster rates and your latest posts will appear fast in search results.

Remember my words if you follow these tips then your blog is going to rock in blogosphere. You will see huge changes in traffic graph of your blog.

About the author
Dapinder is the owner of WindroidClub where he writes about blogging, make money online, blogger guides, widgets and templates customization. Catch him on Google+.

25 comments to "How to maximize your blog traffic"

soumya May 6, 2013 at 7:26 PM    

I like the post because now a days social networking sites are Making bigger part for increasing any website ranking or traffic.

Anonymous,  May 7, 2013 at 12:02 AM    

Yes, you are right without social networking promotion it is very hard to get good traffic. Social networks provides major part of overall traffic to blog/website.

Widget For Blogger May 7, 2013 at 3:13 AM    

social media and guest posting is the best way to maximize blog traffic along with making backlinks with your anchor text also helps to increase blog traffic.thanks for sharing.

HYIP Blog May 7, 2013 at 4:13 AM    

I agree with all your points, and I am wondering why you refuse to include Search Engine Optimization to get organic traffic.
Social media rocks now because I know guy who enjoy good traffic just from one facebook page with large followers.
Personally, I am enjoying some traffic from Stumble Upon.
Thanks for sharing this tips and I kind of lack guest posting passion.

Anonymous,  May 7, 2013 at 12:16 PM    

I agree that SEO is very important for getting organic traffic to your blog/website but the reason of not including SEO in this post is that I want to give more stress on Social media.
I have seen many blogs on the internet they just publish the posts and do not use the power of social media connections that`s why they will never achieve their required goals. so I have mainly written this post to motivate bloggers towards social media interaction.

Mohan Singh May 7, 2013 at 1:36 PM    

Really nice tips for seo

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Anonymous,  May 7, 2013 at 4:21 PM    

@ mohan & naveen

Thanks, your welcome......

Arham Sukardi May 7, 2013 at 5:03 PM    

Thanks for sharing this posts master, I want to try the tips

Frank Cern May 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM    

I think posting frequently is more important than a lot of people think.

Anonymous,  May 8, 2013 at 12:08 AM    

@ Frank Cern
Yes, you are right posting frequently plays very important role in blogging. It helps in increasing organic traffic and also improves alexa rank.

Yaso May 9, 2013 at 4:25 PM    

yes, social media is best way to increase the blog traffic,

Armeo May 9, 2013 at 5:57 PM    

thanks it is helpful 4 all bloggers :-) TechHits.Net

Scisso Hans May 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM    

You're right not to use automated programs to submit anything. You should always manually update social media platforms.

Yaso May 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM    

thanks for sharing, i like your posts...social media always beeen great way to get more traffic to site,
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Adeniyi Samuel May 12, 2013 at 8:23 PM    

Thumbs Up! your tips are on point! Regards from the trueinternetworld blog

Get Traffic to Your Blog May 17, 2013 at 4:55 PM    

I like that because this is the best way to get more traffic on blog.

Unknown May 19, 2013 at 1:52 AM    

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GameGuideDog May 20, 2013 at 1:50 AM    

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Feeling Love Quotes May 22, 2013 at 2:32 PM    

Yes, Its really very interesting post to can you make blog traffic...

Thanks

Affordable SEO May 23, 2013 at 12:18 AM    

The social media is a great tool for traffic and SEO in general. If done properly, the potential to increase traffic can be huge. I think the strategies that you mentioned above are very effective strategies.

Yaso June 1, 2013 at 1:08 PM    

Its really very interesting post Dapinder,

Dr Sujon Paul June 2, 2013 at 3:19 AM    

It is a great pleasure to know these tricks in this website. Thank you so much.
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Priyanka Singh June 17, 2013 at 1:04 PM    

Nice Post Dapinder But I have One Question please help me In the web there are many social network site and if we active on daily basis on it , this is very time consuming process how to mange it please replay soon

Anonymous,  June 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM    

Hello priyanka, You do not need to active on all social networking websites just focus on facebook, twitter, google+ and stumble upon. Because these websites provide major part of the social traffic to most of the blogs or websites. so just give stress on these main social networks.

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