How To Increase Blog Traffic

How To Increase Blog Traffic?

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Almost in every seminar and workshop there is always the question how to blog visited by many people, or bagaiamana ways to improve traffic blog? This is a very fundamental question for all bloggers, especially bloggers who want to make their blogs as a field for money through the internet.

Getting traffic then upgrade it to the amount that we target is not a simple matter for those who just started blogs. It takes hard work and really get to like 100 visits in one day. Once 100 is reached and then make higher targets accompanied by efforts to achieve it.

There are 4 steps that can be done deserhana to get and increase traffic to your blog. Read and do all these simple steps seriously. Spend a few hours in the day to do this step.

Step 1: Creating a Competitive Articles (other terms: Killer Article)

Start winning 1 article once a week. Do minimal research to find out what articles are and will be busy looking for more people. For example, I once wrote an article about the Quick Count Deteksi.Info blog well before elections held. On the day the election article is indexed with good on the first page of Google. The result of my blog to get thousands of visits from people who are looking for articles about Quick Count through Google!

Excellent article not only will attract traffic at the time it was published, but will continue to bring traffic to our blog. So to make it necessary sincerity in finding what will roughly searched a lot of people crowded in the future. Stay out of writing what is now in full swing will be discussed because it is usually inferior to a similar article written earlier by another blogger. The sooner the better! ;)

Here are ideas that can be used as seed articles:

1. Write a tutorial on how to do something complete and detailed. Suppose you make a good blog template, then write an article about how to create an attractive blog templates.
2. Providing solution of the problems discussed in full swing, but customized to the theme of your blog. For example when this election fuss DPT problem, then try to offer solutions how to overcome them.
3. Providing in-depth analysis about the things that people only superficially discussed. Example of JK opportunity to win the Presidential Election 2009 yesterday. People only see a big chance that JK just because her appearance when the presidential debates, then try to write articles that review and analyze in depth what it would be a victory JK capital.

So when visitors find your blog through search engines, then they will stunned and immediately to bookmark on their computer. On another day they would return visit to your blog. This is called repetitive visits ™ or multiple visits.

Step 2: Develop Network (Network)

Building a network is extremely important, especially for those who just made the blog. Spend a few minutes each day to build a network with bloggers, bloggers who have existed before you. This will allow you to quickly known in the world of blogs and the Internet. Perform the following steps are:

1. Visiting and commenting on other people's blogs. In the world of blogs is to visit each other's habits and commented to each other. This will be the first step in building the network.
2. Provides links (trackbacks) to an article on another blog. By providing trackback the blog owner and patrons will recognize you and in the future could be your partner.
3. Interact with other bloggers through online networks such as YM, Plurk, Twitter and Facebook.
4. Registration and active in community bloggers.

But it should be noted that your goal is to build a network, not merely to introduce your blogs. So there should be 2-way communication so that sustainable results are better.

Step 3: Conducting the Campaign

In the world of marketing campaigns is compulsory. Without the promotion of people will not know our products and services that are not likely to happen purchases. Likewise with the blog, you have to do promotion so that your blog is known and visited by many people. Even better if your blog included in the list of bookmarks or feed reader them.

When you published an excellent article then do the following promotions:

1. To tell your friends in your network by publishing a link to your article via IM, twitter, plurk or facebook
2. Submitting articles to social bookmarking sites like Lintas Berita (Indonesian) or Digg (overseas).
3. Write a summary of the article in the forums and provide a link to read your blog fully.

If there is time (and money) to do SEO or Search Engine Optimization, submit articles to free classifieds ads or a guest blogger on another blog.

Step 4: Update your blog regularly

This is sometimes forgotten by the beginner bloggers. They hope to have many visits but never or rarely to update or write new articles. Just as you can not live by eating meat without drinking water, then your blog can not live on seed alone article, still require regular articles but often.

At least you used to write 2 articles per week. More often is better. If I can every day to write 1 article. What if kehabisa ideas? Just do it this way:

1. Giving opinions about the news in the media, or may also give an opinion about the article on another blog (do not forget to trackback)
2. Provide information to your readers mild
3. Write a question that could provoke discussion of your blog readers
4. Write about something useful if your blog readers
5. Telling your hobby or your activity that day

The more articles the more the collection of your keywords and the greater the opportunity for indexed by search engines such as Google and the greater the chance of getting more traffic.