Monday 15 October 2012

How to Get More People to Visit Your Blog

When you create a blog on the internet, there are often multiple reasons for it. Some want to release their frustration, some want to let people know about their way of thinking and some just want to do it for fun. Whatever the case, one of the strongest reasons for making a blog is that people want others to read their thoughts and ideas. A blog is dead unless and until it has a following. Building a following and asking people to visit your blog is an extremely tough task. To help you out though, we have listed down some basic ways to increase traffic to a blog.

Create a strong social media presence
The best and the cheapest way to increase traffic to your blog is to increase your social media presence on sites like Facebook and Twitter. Create official pages and ask your friends and families to follow the official page of your blog. You can also request them to invite their friends to join the page as well. If only 10% of friends of friends like your page, you have already created a strong following. Now whenever you post something new on your blog, share it on your official pages. This way, your followers will be notified and they will visit the blog if the topic interests them. If they comment, then it will be displayed on their feed and even more people might get the chance to learn about your blog.

Paid Campaigns
Although an easy way to get more people to visit the blog, this method is costly and not permanent. People will only visit your blog while the campaign is running and the minute your advertising campaign ends, the hits will drastically drop. If you think your content is good, go for these paid campaigns because at times even the blogs with good content need a onetime push of traffic to increase visits.

Viral Videos
This may sound stupid but in reality, video production acyually works very well. This is because it is not a onetime thing; a video stays online forever thanks to video streaming sites like YouTube, Vimeo and DailyMotion. Add a marquee text in your viral video with your blog link and paste the same link in the description. A number of people will visit the blog this way simply out of curiosity. Your friends and family can also share the video on their social media profiles to generate more visits for you.

These three ways are some of the easiest ways to increase traffic and should be tried by anyone hoping to make their blogs more popular.

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