Checklist For Blog Traffic
Do you want blog traffic? Here is a no-nonsense, checklist, briefly describing the most important things you need to finally get that blog traffic you deserve and have worked so hard for. Check off the following list one by one to make sure you’ve incorporated each of the items on your blog.
Do you solve your reader’s problems?
Take all the questions readers have ever asked you on your blog. Make a list of them. Write blog posts to address all of these questions in detail and publish them on your blog. If one reader had this question for you, then it stands to reason others do too. You can also check out questions readers have on other blogs in your niche and address these in blog posts. You’ll have endless ideas for good, quality and helpful blog posts.
Have you researched your niche completely?
There’s an easy way to research your niche. Look on the search engines and Alexa.com to see what competitors in your niche are doing. What are they writing about? Where are they getting traffic from? Which of their posts are gaining more comments and views? Once you’ve researched your competitors in your niche, you’ll know what your readers are looking for and what’s doing well on higher, more popular blogs in your niche.
Have you done your SEO?
We used to think that content was king until we learned about an emperor called Search Engine Optimization. No matter how fine your writing is, or how great your content is, you won’t get traffic unless you’ve dealt with SEO on your site properly. Give your site the chance to be found.
Are you posting regularly?
You don’t need to post every day. In fact a friend of mine has just upped her posts on her blog and found that she gets fewer comments and reader-interaction than before. This is because most people read more than one blog. If your subscribers know they’re going to read an article from you twice a week, then they can comfortably read other blogs and sign into yours twice a week. A post each day is far too much for them to keep up with – in my opinion. If you’re posting once a week, all your traffic and comments are concentrated on one post.
Having said this, you have to pick a posting routine and stick with it. You shouldn’t skip a post just because you’re busy. All blog platforms allow you to schedule posts. If you know you’ll be busy for 2 weeks, you can write all your posts and still schedule them to go out when they’re supposed to – when your readers expect them to. Regular posting also ensures that the search engines keep crawling your site and new links.
Are you guest posting?
I don’t think that guest posting is the end-all of getting traffic. I think that guest posting can take some really valuable service away from your regular visitors. However, I can’t write this article without mentioning guest posting as one of the main ways to get traffic for your blog.
| Author Bio This is a guest post by Osho Garg who writes for http://www.speedyloan.com, a site that has more details on quick loans. |
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