The internet gives everybody a voice so it can be difficult to stand out in such a saturated community. Here’s our top 5 ways to improve online traffic to your site that take just a little more effort than what you’re probably already doing.
Submit to Stumble Upon
Although this sounds a little inefficient, it works. When signing up with the site users have to select categories of interests. This insures that the people that will see your posts, if you submit them, have interest in it and can potentially become avid followers.
Provide Links to Past Posts
This leads us to our next point: including links to your past posts that are relevant. Getting people to visit your site is just the start. You want them to continue to visit your site and a way to achieve this is to include links to your previous posts. This creates interests in more of your past site. This can help you link build and increase your placement in search results.
Answer Questions
Answer Questions on Yahoo Answers, Quora, and other similar sites. This helps you get noticed by people with similar interests or that are looking for information you potentially provide on your blog.
Guest Blog on Other Relevant Blogs
This plays into the same idea as answering questions. Putting your name out there on an established site will help in establishing yourself an expert in your field. If people like what you post they’ll follow you to your site in order to keep reading what you have to say. This can work as a two way street also. You can also have guest bloggers on your site in order to draw some of their followers to you as well as allowing them to gain some followers for their site.
Respond to Comments
Nobody likes to be ignored; the online community is no different. Replying to their comments can help build a relationship with them and keep them coming back for more.
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