Best ways to drive more traffic to your blog

Blogs are a favourite element of the modern online world, and they can help people monetize their passion. Driving traffic to a blog has never been easy, cheap or quick. Some of the world’s most popular blogs follow tried and tested methods to drive traffic to their blogs.

Below are our top tips to drive more traffic;

1. Cut down load time

In this day and age everyone expects your blog/website to load within three seconds or less, otherwise the blog abandonment ratio will be high, and that isn’t favoured by search engines such as Google. So a fast loading website/blog will make sure that your site dwell time is considerable and that people readily visit your posts again and again.

2. Regular blogging is the key

If you want to be a successful blogger then you should make sure that you are always posting stuff for your target audience so that they can see regular posts. Once you start to create fresh content on a regular basis, you will eventually begin to build loyal readers on your blog – you will then have to be disciplined by bringing up new content every time. Publishing new blog content regularly will engage your followers when they come back to your blog looking for new stuff.

However, if you are someone who has a hard time maintaining consistency, then WordPress’ Editorial Calendar plugin can actually be your solution. The WordPress’ Editorial Calendar is a handy plugin tool that will help you schedule your next blog post and if need be, you can actually plan for the next week or month.

3. Internal linking

When users visit or land on a specific post of your blog, there is a possibility that the user will take away the information from that specific post and then leave. So make sure to incorporate internal links that point to other pages and content on your blog/website.

This will encourage users to follow those links and spend longer browsing your blog rather than leaving, and possibly boost page views, blog crawls and get indexed that will help improve your page rank.

Having featured posts on your blog’s homepage with a high number of page views and comments is a great way to promote existing content.  Also having related posts is another great way of encouraging internal linking on your blog, where your users can read content that is related to a specific topic.

4. Blog user experience

User-experience on a blog or any other online resource should always be the top priority of a website/blog owner because when your users scroll through your website pages, they should value the integrity of your resource available and want to read more.

We can help with building your blog awareness. If you need any further assistance, read more about the SEO services we offer at Digital Carrera.