It's easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. Over the years, we've grown the Moz blog to nearly a million visits each month and helped lots of other blogs, too. I launched a personal blog late last year and was amazed to see how quickly it gained thousands of visits to each post. There's an art to increasing a blog's traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we've observed.
NOTE: This post replaces a popular one I wrote on the same topic in 2007 (and updated again in 2012). This post is intended to be useful to all forms of bloggers - independent folks, those seeking to monetize, and marketing professionals working an in-house blog from tiny startups to huge companies. Not all of the tactics will work for everyone, but at least some of these should be applicable and useful.
#1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share
When strategizing about who you're writing for, consider that audience's ability to help spread the word. Some readers will naturally be more or less active in evangelizing the work you do, but particular communities, topics, writing styles and content types regularly play better than others on the web. For example, great infographics that strike a chord ( like this one), beautiful videos that tell a story (like this one) and remarkable collections of facts that challenge common assumptions (like this one) are all targeted at audiences likely to share (geeks with facial hair, those interested in weight loss and those with political thoughts about macroeconomics respectively).
If you can identify groups that have high concentrations of the blue and orange circles in the diagram above, you dramatically improve the chances of reaching larger audiences and growing your traffic numbers. Targeting blog content at less-share-likely groups may not be a terrible decision (particularly if that's where you passion or your target audience lies), but it will decrease the propensity for your blog's work to spread like wildfire across the web.
#2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers
Advertisers on Madison Avenue have spent billions researching and determining where consumers with various characteristics gather and what they spend their time doing so they can better target their messages. They do it because reaching a group of 65+ year old women with commercials for extreme sports equipment is known to be a waste of money, while reaching an 18-30 year old male demographic that attends rock-climbing gyms is likely to have a much higher ROI.
Thankfully, you don't need to spend a dime to figure out where a large portion of your audience can be found on the web. In fact, you probably already know a few blogs, forums, websites and social media communities where discussions and content are being posted on your topic (and if you don't a Google search will take you much of the way). From that list, you can do some easy expansion using a web-based tool like Google's Display Planner:
Once you've determined the communities where your soon-to-be-readers gather, you can start participating. Create an account, read what others have written and don't jump in the conversation until you've got a good feel for what's appropriate and what's not. I've written a post here about rules for comment marketing, and all of them apply. Be a good web citizen and you'll be rewarded with traffic, trust and fans. Link-drop, spam or troll and you'll get a quick boot, or worse, a reputation as a blogger no one wants to associate with.
#3 - Make Your Blog's Content SEO-Friendly
Search engines are a massive opportunity for traffic, yet many bloggers ignore this channel for a variety of reasons that usually have more to do with fear and misunderstanding than true problems. As I've written before, " SEO, when done right, should never interfere with great writing." In 2014, Google will see over 6 billion daily searches from around the world, and that number is only growing:
Taking advantage of this massive traffic opportunity is of tremendous value to bloggers, who often find that much of the business side of blogging, from inquiries for advertising to guest posting opportunities to press and discovery by major media entities comes via search.
SEO for blogs is both simple and easy to set up, particularly if you're using an SEO-friendly platform like Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla. For more information on how to execute on great SEO for blogs, check out the following resources:
- Blogger's Guide to SEO (from SEOBook)
- The Beginner's Guide to SEO (from Moz)
- Wordpress Blog SEO Tutorial (from Yoast)
- SEO for Travel Bloggers (but applicable to nearly any type of blog - from Moz)
Don't let bad press or poor experiences with spammers (spam is not SEO) taint the amazing power and valuable contributions SEO can make to your blog's traffic and overall success. 20% of the effort and tactics to make your content optimized for search engines will yield 80% of the value possible; embrace it and thousands of visitors seeking exactly what you've posted will be the reward.
#4 - Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections
Twitter has 271 million active users every month. Facebook has over 1 billion active users. Google+ has over 300 million. LinkedIn is over 300 million. Together, these networks are attracting vast amounts of time and interest from Internet users around the world, and those that participate on these services fit into the "content distributors" description above, meaning they're likely to help spread the word about your blog.
Leveraging these networks to attract traffic requires patience, study, attention to changes by the social sites and consideration in what content to share and how to do it. My advice is to use the following process:
- If you haven't already, register a personal account and a brand account at each of the following - Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn (those links will take you directly to the registration pages for brand pages). For example, my friend Dharmesh has a personal account for Twitter and a brand account for OnStartups (one of his blog projects). He also maintains brand pages on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+.
- Fill out each of those profiles to the fullest possible extent - use photos, write compelling descriptions and make each one as useful and credible as possible. Research shows that profiles with more information have a significant correlation with more successful accounts (and there's a lot of common sense here, too, given that spammy profiles frequently feature little to no profile work).
- Connect with users on those sites with whom you already share a personal or professional relationships, and start following industry luminaries, influencers and connectors. Services like FollowerWonk and CircleCount can be incredible for this:
- Start sharing content - your own blog posts, those of peers in your industry who've impressed you and anything that you feel has a chance to go "viral" and earn sharing from others.
- Interact with the community - use hash tags, searches and those you follow to find interesting conversations and content and jump in! Social networks are amazing environment for building a brand, familiarizing yourself with a topic and the people around it, and earning the trust of others through high quality, authentic participation and sharing
If you consistently employ a strategy of participation, share great stuff and make a positive, memorable impression on those who see your interactions on these sites, your followers and fans will grow and your ability to drive traffic back to your blog by sharing content will be tremendous. For many bloggers, social media is the single largest source of traffic, particularly in the early months after launch, when SEO is a less consistent driver.
#5 - Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results
At the very least, I'd recommend most bloggers install Google Analytics (which is free), and watch to see where visits originate, which sources drive quality traffic and what others might be saying about you and your content when they link over. If you want to get more advanced, check out this post on 18 Steps to Successful Metrics and Marketing.
Here's a screenshot from the analytics of my wife's travel blog, the Everywhereist:
As you can see, there's all sorts of great insights to be gleaned by looking at where visits originate, analyzing how they were earned and trying to repeat the successes, focus on the high quality and high traffic sources and put less effort into marketing paths that may not be effective. In this example, it's pretty clear that Facebook and Twitter are both excellent channels. StumbleUpon sends a lot of traffic, but they don't stay very long (averaging only 36 seconds vs. the general average of 4 minutes!).
Employing analytics is critical to knowing where you're succeeding, and where you have more opportunity. Don't ignore it, or you'll be doomed to never learn from mistakes or execute on potential.
#6 - Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing)
If you're someone who can produce graphics, take photos, illustrate or even just create funny doodles in MS Paint, you should leverage that talent on your blog. By uploading and hosting images (or using a third-party service like Flickr or Niice to embed your images with licensing requirements on that site), you create another traffic source for yourself via Image Search, and often massively improve the engagement and enjoyment of your visitors.
When using images, I highly recommend creating a way for others to use them on their own sites legally and with permission, but in such a way that benefits you as the content creator. For example, you could have a consistent notice under your images indicating that re-using is fine, but that those who do should link back to this post. You can also post that as a sidebar link, include it in your terms of use, or note it however you think will get the most adoption.
Some people will use your images without linking back, which sucks. However, you can find them by employing the Image Search function of "similar images," shown below:
Clicking the "similar" link on any given image will show you other images that Google thinks look alike, which can often uncover new sources of traffic. Just reach out and ask if you can get a link, nicely. Much of the time, you'll not only get your link, but make a valuable contact or new friend, too!
#7 - Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts
Not surprisingly, a big part of showing up in search engines is targeting the terms and phrases your audience are actually typing into a search engine. It's hard to know what these words will be unless you do some research, and luckily, there's a free tool from Google to help called the AdWords Keyword Planner.
Type some words at the top, hit search and AdWords will show you phrases that match the intent and/or terms you've employed. There's lots to play around with here, but watch out in particular for the keyword filters, keyword options, and include/exclude features:
When you choose "exact match" AdWords will show you only the quantity of searches estimated for that precise phrase. If you use broad match, they'll include any search phrases that use related/similar words in a pattern they think could have overlap with your keyword intent (which can get pretty darn broad). "Phrase match" will give you only those phrases that include the word or words in your search - still fairly wide-ranging, but between "exact" and "broad."
I also use and recommend Keyword Explorer, our all-in-one keyword research tool:
When you're writing a blog post, keyword research is best utilized for the title and headline of the post. For example, if I wanted to write a post here on Moz about how to generate good ideas for bloggers, I might craft something that uses the phrase "blog post ideas" or "blogging ideas" near the front of my title and headline, as in "Blog Post Ideas for When You're Truly Stuck," or "Blogging Ideas that Will Help You Clear Writer's Block."
Optimizing a post to target a specific keyword isn't nearly as hard as it sounds. 80% of the value comes from merely using the phrase effectively in the title of the blog post, and writing high quality content about the subject. If you're interested in more, read Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization.
#8 - Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others
The web was not made for static, text-only content! Readers appreciate links, as do other bloggers, site owners and even search engines. When you reference your own material in-context and in a way that's not manipulative (watch out for over-optimizing by linking to a category, post or page every time a phrase is used - this is almost certainly discounted by search engines and looks terrible to those who want to read your posts), you potentially draw visitors to your other content AND give search engines a nice signal about those previous posts.
Perhaps even more valuable is referencing the content of others. The biblical expression "give and ye shall receive," perfectly applies on the web. Other site owners will often receive Google Alerts (or, if they're using Moz, they might get Fresh Alerts :-) ) or look through their incoming referrers (as I showed above in tip #5) to see who's talking about them and what they're saying. Linking out is a direct line to earning links, social mentions, friendly emails and new relationships with those you reference. In its early days, this tactic was one of the best ways we earned recognition and traffic with the Moz blog and the power continues to this day.
#9 - Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon
The major social networking sites aren't alone in their power to send traffic to a blog. Social community sites like Reddit (which now receives more than 2 billion! with a "B"! views each month), StumbleUpon, Pinterest, Tumblr, Care2 (for nonprofits and causes), GoodReads (books), Ravelry (knitting), Newsvine (news/politics) and many, many more (Wikipedia maintains a decent, though not comprehensive list here).
Each of these sites have different rules, formats and ways of participating and sharing content. As with participation in blog or forum communities described above in tactic #2, you need to add value to these communities to see value back. Simply drive-by spamming or leaving your link won't get you very far, and could even cause a backlash. Instead, learn the ropes, engage authentically and you'll find that fans, links and traffic can develop.
These communities are also excellent sources of inspiration for posts on your blog. By observing what performs well and earns recognition, you can tailor your content to meet those guidelines and reap the rewards in visits and awareness. My top recommendation for most bloggers is to at least check whether there's an appropriate subreddit in which you should be participating. Subreddits and their search function can help with that.
#10 - Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others)
When you're first starting out, it can be tough to convince other bloggers to allow you to post on their sites OR have an audience large enough to inspire others to want to contribute to your site. This is when friends and professional connections are critical. When you don't have a compelling marketing message, leverage your relationships - find the folks who know you, like you and trust you and ask those who have blog to let you take a shot at authoring something, then ask them to return the favor.
Guest blogging is a fantastic way to spread your brand to new folks who've never seen your work before, and it can be useful in earning early links and references back to your site, which will drive direct traffic and help your search rankings (diverse, external links are a key part of how search engines rank sites and pages). Several recommendations for those who engage in guest blogging:
- Find sites that have a relevant audience - it sucks to pour your time into writing a post, only to see it fizzle because the readers weren't interested. Spend a bit more time researching the posts that succeed on your target site, the makeup of the audience, what types of comments they leave and you'll earn a much higher return with each post.
- Don't be discouraged if you ask and get a "no" or a "no response." As your profile grows in your niche, you'll have more opportunities, requests and an easier time getting a "yes," so don't take early rejections too hard and watch out - in many marketing practices, persistence pays, but pestering a blogger to write for them is not one of these (and may get your email address permanently banned from their inbox).
- When pitching your guest post make it as easy as possible for the other party. When requesting to post, have a phenomenal piece of writing all set to publish that's never been shared before and give them the ability to read it. These requests get far more "yes" replies than asking for the chance to write with no evidence of what you'll contribute. At the very least, make an outline and write a title + snippet.
- Likewise, when requesting a contribution, especially from someone with a significant industry profile, asking for a very specific piece of writing is much easier than getting them to write an entire piece from scratch of their own design. You should also present statistics that highlight the value of posting on your site - traffic data, social followers, RSS subscribers, etc. can all be very persuasie to a skeptical writer.
Be aware that Google's recently cracked down on guest blog posts and guest blog tools that focus exclusively on attracting links. While links can be a nice byproduct of a relevant, useful, and high quality contribution to another site, it can look very fishy to Google if all your links are coming from guest contributions that appear to have little relevance and low quality. Moz's Jen Lopez wrote an excellent summation of the new rules for guest posting here.
Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ are also great places to find guest blogging opportunities. In particular, check out the profiles of those you're connected with to see if they run blogs of their own that might be a good fit. Google's Blog Search function and services like BuzzSumo or Fresh Web Explorer are also solid tools for discovery.
#11 - Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site
The power of beautiful, usable, professional design can't be overstated. When readers look at a blog, the first thing they judge is how it "feels" from a design and UX perspective. Sites that use default templates or have horrifying, 1990's design will receive less trust, a lower time-on-page, fewer pages per visit and a lower likelihood of being shared. Those that feature stunning design that clearly indicates quality work will experience the reverse - and reap amazing benefits.
These threads -
1, 2, 3 and 4 - feature some remarkable blog designs for inspiration
If you're looking for a designer to help upgrade the quality of your blog, there's a few resources I recommend:
- Dribbble - great for finding high quality professional designers
- Forrst - another excellent design profile community
- Behance - featuring galleries from a wide range of visual professionals
- Sortfolio - an awesome tool to ID designers by region, skill and budget
- 99 Designs - a controversial site that provides designs on spec via contests (I have mixed feelings on this one, but many people find it useful, particularly for budget-conscious projects)
This is one area where budgeting a couple thousand dollars (if you can afford it) or even a few hundred (if you're low on cash) can make a big difference in the traffic, sharing and viral-impact of every post you write.
#12 - Interact on Other Blogs' Comments
As bloggers, we see a lot of comments. Many are spam, only a few add real value, and even fewer are truly fascinating and remarkable. If you can be in this final category consistently, in ways that make a blogger sit up and think "man, I wish that person commented here more often!" you can achieve great things for your own site's visibility through participation in the comments of other blogs.
Combine the tools presented in #10 (particularly FWE) and #4 (especially FollowerWonk) for discovery. The feed subscriber counts in Google Reader can be particularly helpful for identifying good blogs for participation. Then apply the principles covered in this post on comment marketing.
Do be conscious of the name you use when commenting and the URL(s) you point back to. Consistency matters, particularly on naming, and linking to internal pages or using a name that's clearly made for keyword-spamming rather than true conversation will kill your efforts before they begin.
#13 - Participate in Q+A Sites
Every day, thousands of people ask questions on the web. Popular services like Yahoo! Answers, Answers.com, Quora, StackExchange, Formspring and more serve those hungry for information whose web searches couldn't track down the responses they needed.
The best strategy I've seen for engaging on Q+A sites isn't to answer every question that comes along, but rather, to strategically provide high value to a Q+A community by engaging in those places where:
- The question quality is high, and responses thus far have been thin
- The question receives high visibility (either by ranking well for search queries, being featured on the site or getting social traffic/referrals). Most of the Q+A sites will show some stats around the traffic of a question
- The question is something you can answer in a way that provides remarkable value to anyone who's curious and drops by
I also find great value in answering a few questions in-depth by producing an actual blog post to tackle them, then linking back. This is also a way I personally find blog post topics - if people are interested in the answer on a Q+A site, chances are good that lots of folks would want to read it on my blog, too!
Just be authentic in your answer, particularly if you're linking. If you'd like to see some examples, I answer a lot of questions at Quora, frequently include relevant links, but am rarely accused of spamming or link dropping because it's clearly about providing relevant value, not just getting a link for SEO (links on most user-contributed sites are "nofollow" anyway, meaning they shouldn't pass search-engine value). There's a dangerous line to walk here, but if you do so with tact and candor, you can earn a great audience from your participation.
#14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!)
If someone drops by your site, has a good experience and thinks "I should come back here and check this out again when they have more posts," chances are pretty high (I'd estimate 90%+) that you'll never see them again. That sucks! It shouldn't be the case, but we have busy lives and the Internet's filled with animated gifs of cats.
In order to pull back some of these would-be fans, I highly recommend creating an RSS feed using Feedburner and putting visible buttons on the sidebar, top or bottom of your blog posts encouraging those who enjoy your content to sign up (either via feed, or via email, both of which are popular options).
If you're using Wordpress, there's some easy plugins for this, too.
Once you've set things up, visit every few weeks and check on your subscribers - are they clicking on posts? If so, which ones? Learning what plays well for those who subscribe to your content can help make you a better blogger, and earn more visits from RSS, too.
#15 - Attend and Host Events
Despite the immense power of the web to connect us all regardless of geography, in-person meetings are still remarkably useful for bloggers seeking to grow their traffic and influence. The people you meet and connect with in real-world settings are far more likely to naturally lead to discussions about your blog and ways you can help each other. This yields guest posts, links, tweets, shares, blogroll inclusion and general business development like nothing else.
I'm a big advocate of Lanyrd, an event directory service that connects with your social networks to see who among your contacts will be at which events in which geographies. This can be phenomenally useful for identifying which meetups, conferences or gatherings are worth attending (and who you can carpool with).
The founder of Lanyrd also contributed this great answer on Quora about other search engines/directories for events (which makes me like them even more).
#16 - Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog
As a blogger, you're likely to be sending a lot of email out to others who use the web and have the power to help spread your work. Make sure you're not ignoring email as a channel, one-to-one though it may be. When given an opportunity in a conversation that's relevant, feel free to bring up your blog, a specific post or a topic you've written about. I find myself using blogging as a way to scalably answer questions - if I receive the same question many times, I'll try to make a blog post that answers it so I can simply link to that in the future.
I also like to use my email signature to promote the content I share online. If I was really sharp, I'd do link tracking using a service like Bit.ly so I could see how many clicks email footers really earn. I suspect it's not high, but it's also not 0.
#17 - Survey Your Readers
Web surveys are easy to run and often produce high engagement and great topics for conversation. If there's a subject or discussion that's particularly contested, or where you suspect showing the distribution of beliefs, usage or opinions can be revealing, check out a tool like SurveyMonkey (they have a small free version) or PollDaddy. Google Docs also offers a survey tool that's totally free, but not yet great in my view.
#18 - Add Value to a Popular Conversation
Numerous niches in the blogosphere have a few "big sites" where key issues arise, get discussed and spawn conversations on other blogs and sites. Getting into the fray can be a great way to present your point-of-view, earn attention from those interested in the discussion and potentially get links and traffic from the industry leaders as part of the process.
You can see me trying this out with Fred Wilson's AVC blog last year (an incredibly popular and well-respected blog in the VC world). Fred wrote a post about Marketing that I disagreed with strongly and publicly and a day later, he wrote a follow-up where he included a graphic I made AND a link to my post.
If you're seeking sources to find these "popular conversations," Alltop, Topsy, Techmeme (in the tech world) and their sister sites MediaGazer, Memeorandum and WeSmirch, as well as PopURLs can all be useful.
#19 - Aggregate the Best of Your Niche
Bloggers, publishers and site owners of every variety in the web world love and hate to be compared and ranked against one another. It incites endless intrigue, discussion, methodology arguments and competitive behavior - but, it's amazing for earning attention. When a blogger publishes a list of "the best X" or "the top X" in their field, most everyone who's ranked highly praises the list, shares it and links to it. Here's an example from the world of marketing itself:
That's a screenshot of the AdAge Power 150, a list that's been maintained for years in the marketing world and receives an endless amount of discussion by those listed (and not listed). For example, why is SEOmoz's Twitter score only a "13" when we have so many more followers, interactions and retweets than many of those with higher scores? Who knows. But I know it's good for AdAge. :-)
Now, obviously, I would encourage anyone building something like this to be as transparent, accurate and authentic as possible. A high quality resource that lists a "best and brightest" in your niche - be they blogs, Twitter accounts, Facebook pages, individual posts, people, conferences or whatever else you can think to rank - is an excellent piece of content for earning traffic and becoming a known quantity in your field.
Oh, and once you do produce it - make sure to let those featured know they've been listed. Tweeting at them with a link is a good way to do this, but if you have email addresses, by all means, reach out. It can often be the start of a great relationship!
#20 - Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog
Many of you likely have profiles on services like YouTube, Slideshare, Yahoo!, DeviantArt and dozens of other social and Web 1.0 sites. You might be uploading content to Flickr, to Facebook, to Picasa or even something more esoteric like Prezi. Whatever you're producing on the web and wherever you're doing it, tie it back to your blog.
Including your blog's link on your actual profile pages is among the most obvious, but it's also incredibly valuable. On any service where interaction takes place, those interested in who you are and what you have to share will follow those links, and if they lead back to your blog, they become opportunities for capturing a loyal visitor or earning a share (or both!). But don't just do this with profiles - do it with content, too! If you've created a video for YouTube, make your blog's URL appear at the start or end of the video. Include it in the description of the video and on the uploading profile's page. If you're sharing photos on any of the dozens of photo services, use a watermark or even just some text with your domain name so interested users can find you.
If you're having trouble finding and updating all those old profiles (or figuring out where you might want to create/share some new ones), KnowEm is a great tool for discovering your own profiles (by searching for your name or pseudonyms you've used) and claiming profiles on sites you may not yet have participated in.
I'd also strongly recommend leveraging Google's relatively new protocol for rel=author. AJ Kohn wrote a great post on how to set it up here, and Yoast has another good one on building it into Wordpress sites. The benefit for bloggers who do build large enough audiences to gain Google's trust is earning your profile photo next to all the content you author - a powerful markup advantage that likely drives extra clicks from the search results and creates great, memorable branding, too.
#21 - Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers (and Nab 'em!)
If other blogs in your niche have earned references from sites around the web, there's a decent chance that they'll link to you as well. Conducting competitive link research can also show you what content from your competition has performed well and the strategies they may be using to market their work. To uncover these links, you'll need to use some tools.
Open Site Explorer is my favorite, but I'm biased (it's made by Moz). However, it is free to use - if you create a registered account here, you can get unlimited use of the tool showing up to 1,000 links per page or site in perpetuity.
There are other good tools for link research as well, including Majestic, Ahrefs and, I've heard that in the near-future, SearchMetrics.
Finding a link is great, but it's through the exhaustive research of looking through dozens or hundreds that you can identify patterns and strategies. You're also likely to find a lot of guest blogging opportunities and other chances for outreach. If you maintain a great persona and brand in your niche, your ability to earn these will rise dramatically.
Bonus #22 - Be Consistent and Don't Give Up
If there's one piece of advice I wish I could share with every blogger, it's this:
The above image comes from Everywhereist's analytics. Geraldine could have given up 18 months into her daily blogging. After all, she was putting in 3-5 hours each day writing content, taking photos, visiting sites, coming up with topics, trying to guest blog and grow her Twitter followers and never doing any SEO (don't ask, it's a running joke between us). And then, almost two years after her blog began, and more than 500 posts in, things finally got going. She got some nice guest blogging gigs, had some posts of hers go "hot" in the social sphere, earned mentions on some bigger sites, then got really big press from Time's Best Blogs of 2011.
I'd guess there's hundreds of new bloggers on the web each day who have all the opportunity Geraldine had, but after months (maybe only weeks) of slogging away, they give up.
When I started the Moz blog in 2004, I had some advantages (mostly a good deal of marketing and SEO knowledge), but it was nearly 2 years before the blog could be called anything like a success. Earning traffic isn't rocket science, but it does take time, perseverance and consistency. Don't give up. Stick to your schedule. Remember that everyone has a few posts that suck, and it's only by writing and publishing those sucky posts that you get into the habit necessary to eventually transform your blog into something remarkable.
Good luck and good blogging from all of us at Moz!
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Rand this is epic! Thanks for staying up all night to write it too, that is dedication :)
I really like point number 18 about adding value to conversations, and find that starting a debate on industry problems can be a serious traffic driver. Better still if you can spot something in the industry that is wrong which no one is talking about and focus on it, then it's a great way to get traffic and a ton of links as other places continue the debate.
It's all about finding the elephant in the room and shouting "LOOK EVERYONE!"
Every industry has one:
Online has SOPA
eBook publishers are fighting against spam
Food industries are fighting against rising costs
Technology industries face distribution challenges
Financial industries face... well what don't they face
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Being the shining blog that fights for a common cause in your niche is a great tactic and even boring niches have some problems they can talk about. It's a great way to ... HEY IS THAT AN ELEPHANT?
Just wanted to add from Mike's comment and say thanks for staying up all night to write this post. Now go and get some rest :P
Just skimmed this post, what a fab read! Will go back and cover the entire thing at lunch. Thanks Rand. Longest and most detailed post of the year goes to...?
Seriously, I am confused after reading the post.. I am bookmarking this post to my Home PC.. Worth Read!
I'm not only bookmarked this post. I saved it via Chrome plugin called "Clearly". Usually I save everything decent content to MS Word with help of this plugin.
I just came across with this post and found it very informative. In fact my all queries got answered in your post. Good work!
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That's a useful post and a great to-do list for most of us! Thanks for featuring MyBlogGuest.com!
The last tip is the most important: patience. Success never comes fast. If you are ready to work hard and to work for a long time, you are sure to succeed!
It's definently because you can see the end in sight and can picture the success of having a popular SEO blog. Patience is a great discipline in driving your motivation.
This is an awesome list. I'd love to see a 2013 version : )
The Bonus point #22 is much more heavier than any of the other posts that you have in the blog post. All points are amazing and worth appreciation but without staying consistent none of them is useful. You really are amazing when it comes to SEO guidance... Add me to list of those impressed by Rand Fishkin... ;)
Quick tip - When you share content from your site, be smart about it. Use the su.pr URL shortener so when people click on the links, they see the StumbleUpon version of the page (S.U. is the #1 driver of traffic across all social sites). When they see this, they're much more likelie to thumb it up, which means more free traffic for you!
The most important two things about this post is engagement and consistancy. Without the two there's no drive to keep the blog going. Taking a step back it's important to set the blogs objectives, goals & KPI's so that it can be easier to assign your content target audience.
Thanks for the post Rand!
Hi Rand, Some great tips, I do them all but reading the list makes me think I need to pick up my game and enhance several of the list.
Another thing I want to add to the list is to make posts which spark debate, people will promote the post on itself.
Another thing with the guest blog posts a cool thing not many people do is try and find forums which have sections for articles which some times post them on the home page of the forum, build up reputation on the forum and then do a guest forum post another way to gather traffic.
Regards, James Norquay
Amazing job, Rand.
By the way, let me link to the previous version of this post (https://www.seomoz.org/blog/21-tactics-to-increase-blog-traffic) because it still have gems also in the comments.
I'd like to make you note how since 2006 Rand was warmly suggesting us to "Build a Brand" with our blogs, which is surely even more important right now.
If I may, I would add a 22th point, as I have not seen it reflected here: build a content strategy plan and schedule.
This is extremely important and, for businesses blog, you can also plan with anticipations some topic (i.e.: industry events related post before the events themselves, as could be "Waiting the CES 2013, rediscover what heppen last year"...).
In the content strategy plan take into account the prior keyword search you have done, and those topic macro-categories you have discovered thanks to it, make them your blog categories. And, after that, schedule in order to have always a minimum of two/three new post per months for any category.
This last tip of mine is obviously related to the "schedule" hot topic, something about I, Mike IPullRank King, John Dohertyf and others were talking about on Twitter yesterday. Personally, in the case of my blog (not of my clients) I post quite rarely: honestly I've not the time... but also I feel that it could be more dangerous than useful for me to write just for writing adding noise to the blogosphere. Instead I prefer to post something when I really know I can add something of value.
What I mean with that? I mean to suggest you to not write everyday because you have to, but to do it when you really have something worth. Or, as an alternative (which I usually do with clients, but considering to apply to my blog too), to start thinking in:
That way you can maintain a regular publication schedule and "feed" your readers and inbound marketing actions.
The older version of the article redirects here, but the cached version is still available at this point. It's worth a look to see how much richer, more valuable and better formatted today's advice is compared to the 2006 version.
My first comment on SEOMOZ. I have been reading seomoz for more than 6 months but never thought of becoming a member and participating in discussions. Now finally I am here.
As far as this post is concerned, It is excellent as always by Rand.
Great post! I am going to create a better email signature right now! I can't believe I hadn't included social media / blog links in there before, so ovious!
Adding authoriship to blogs is crucial. I did this a few months ago and am starting to see my smiling mug shot in googles results now. Fun for bragging and for more clickthroughs too. I appreciate this list, there is always something more to learn and implement.
So in other words, you mean you have to be a full time blogger? :)
Excellant post!
If I may add my own tip for tip #16
Increase your blog readers by adding your updating latest blog post using the free RSS Email App - https://apps.wisestamp.com/emailapps/rss-2/
Wordpress bloggers can also use the Wordpress Email App
- https://apps.wisestamp.com/emailapps/wordpress/
Josh @WiseStamp
Thanks a lot for this post. Great advice. I'm hoping to put this to good use to get my blog TickTickVroom.Blogspot.com up and running. Wish me luck!!!
Probably the best article I've read so far this year. I love how every time I read an SEOMoz article, I find a new resource I can use to add to my marketing mix. Great stuff guys.
Excellent article, I clicked onto it looking for info on Flickr's impacts on SEO. I use their Creative Commons search tool all of the time to look for images for posts, but I was hesitant to open my own photos up for public use. Knowing now that there is a way to search to find photos that were not linked reassures me somewhat, and it seems the added exposure is worth the risk of some going uncredited. Thanks for this, and all of the other useful info!
So much to digest! I am adding this to my Pinerest board so I can refer back to it time and again. I will patiencly await your next update, thanks! (five years is not that long...zzzzz) Hey, by the way SEOmoz looks like a really cool site.
One tip for getting guest post published on your site that has worked well for me is to find similar blogs in your niche that have published guest posts and ask those authors if they would be interested in writing a guest post for you. Usually they are very receptive to this because they have been looking for guest post opportunities.
I love this post!! I'm all set up with MyBlogGuest now!
Long post but worth the read.
i bookmarked it, will be applying tips to my blogs.
thanks for this very helpful post
I would like to add to this list:
Post your blog on your hometown Patch, if you have one. Patch's Local Voices section is a free way for you to increase your local exposure. You have to follow the Patch guidelines (namely no overt solicitation of business, and the content should be of potential interest to readers...you can't be completely self serving!) Well written blogs can be linked back to your existing site to help drive more traffic to your site.
One local blogger reported hundreds of more eyeballs on her page after her first three posts (over a two week period) and dozens more subscribers. It definitely can help draw attention to your business, especially if you are going for a local market.
If you aren't sure if you have a Patch near you, visit patch.com to find out. It is free to post and you retain the rights to your contact. A true win-win if you ask me!
Rebecca A.
Great write up for both the beginner blogger to advanced blogger. 21 great points that often are over looked or not focused upon when blogging. I often use the following line when meeting asking if SEO is important "What good is a website if no one visits?" The same could be said about a blog post. "What good is a blog post if it does not receive any views?"
SEOMoz has always helped me to improve my websites ranking by suggesting new tricks and strategies everytime. I liked this article too and the comparison of analytics data and the email signatures were good enough to understand links imporatance I am following these ways for My Web Design Blog https://sachinkalambe.com
WOW . . Great job Rand, these all can help anyone bloggers to maximize their blog traffic. But blogging needs time and unque interesting writing to create compelling content for the users to get excited about your shared stuff!
Hi,
I to had my new blog https://howtomakemoneyonlineforfreenow.blogspot.in/
can u help me out with how to increase traffic in this.
Post Panda, Authorship announcements and Google + Your World this post has never had more value. Leave it unread at your peril!There's a piece to add around using more tools to find the very best authorities for that content through outreach (and use of form letters as in Mike Kings Moz post from last year to improve conversion and uptake) but its pretty exhaustive and brilliantly captured. Thanks Rand.
#15 b) update your old posts with new ideas
It's likely why you saved it for last, but that last one is the toughest tip to apply. :P
I've been crankin' away at my blog for over a year now and it still hasn't taken off like I'd like it to. I love blogging about SEO/SMM, so I'm not going to be giving up on it anytime soon, but it still makes it hard to produce consistently.
Thanks for the post/encouragement, Rand. :)
Are you still doing it? Would love to know if you managed to do the seemingly impossible!
#22 is my favorite. Blog long enough to see the results. Awesome post, Rand!
Probably one of the most well thought and extensive list of tactics I've read in while. Definitely a good read and will be applying this to my blog strategy!
I like #15. It's great to keep writing and publishing content, but it's vital you get out there and meet people, spread the word about what you're doing. People like people, not just blog posts. It also provides a great opportunity to bounce ideas off people and get feedback face-to-face, rather than replying on comments or emails that can often be misinterpreted.
PS. How come so many people leave a comment despite not even reading the whole post? Come on bloggers, we need readers not just writers!
Excellent post - its definitely a very tedious process and it does take forever. I'm probably using about 20% of those techniques promoting FoxMetrics at https://foxmetrics.com but it seems I do have a long way to go. The Moz Crowd is forever the best with these awesome posts.
I found guest posts really helpful as you stated including one way links but the key problem is; Dwelling in a market that already has great content, its hard to write unique content, you mostly see pretty much the same things but with different titles that are SEO optimized and sometimes different content but boils down to the same thing.
The king of all blockaids is schedule/time/resources, I believe all of these tips are known, however, executing them takes a lifetime or an army - therefore, what I truly need is a tool that does it or most of it in a clean way.
that is the essence of it,to read it takes for ever and to implement upto infinity with an army.we are not running a blog industry.better have tools to do it!
Rand,
I think you have created a great example today on how to increase not only new, but return blog traffic. Revisiting and updating outdated content and republishing it is a great way to get existing users to come back to your site. I wasnt around Moz in 2007 when the first version of this post was published. If I was and remembered that content It would have been one more reason for me to check this post out.
Thanks for putting all of this information together! This is the best information I have been able to find online about driving traffic to your site! Excellent work! I will definitely implement your recommendations.
Excellent Article! I have followed some of your advice and not only did I see a really big boost in traffic, i have found several blogs that welcome guest bloggers.Thank you for your advise.
Thanks for this post. I'm relatively new to blogging and the advice that's been presented here has helped me significantly in promoting the wise dollar. Thanks Again!
Real ideas that I will definitely incorporate on my home page! It's funny how common sense this sounds once you wrote about it! Thanks for sharing! But hey! I have a tool that will definitely help you in tracking traffics and stuffs, very useful tool indeed! you can try the tool at
https://colibritool.com/ or directly use the tool here https://colibritool.com/seo-software .
This is the best post for reading about increasing your traffic, and that's why its at the top of Google.
Let's look at a few simple reasons why the content is getting it to the top.l It has a great title, with a number displayed prominently. You find a lot of trash when you're looking around on the internet, and a large number tends to attract traffic. You know you'll get a lot of key points, in this case 21 of them, and you can work your own content around those key points.
l All 21 points are formatted well, and each contains a wonderful graphic. They range from large graphs to actual website screenshots. These are great for those visual learners out there, and it makes scanning the content easy and fast.
l Analytics are shown and discussed, with arrows pointing to what’s being talked about. Again, this makes things so much simpler.
l The article is on one page, not 21 pages that I have to click through. By doing that you might be getting more page views, and perhaps more advertising opportunities. I think it’s a bad tactic, however. I hate waiting to transfer between all of those pages, and I’ll usually go somewhere else pretty quickly, unless the content is good. Remember, if you’ve got great content, you can do just about anything.
l There’s a huge comment section on this page, and you can learn a lot by just reading those. Don't forget that you can learn so much from quality comments. And don't forget that by leaving a quality comment, you can direct traffic back to your own site.
Good article! well written. I especially like #22- Be consistent, Don't give up! :)
This is by far the best post I have seen for newbies on the blog horizon. The depth of the content and specific examples makes it achievable.
Very good tips. The be consistent tip is one in a million.
Great tips! I like #1 and #22 the most. #1 is great for getting quick and targeted traffic, the other though, well, it's always relevant ;)
Thank you! I just started my blog Shopforia Declassified and while I've had a small, but steady increase in traffic, I really want to see my blog do really really well!
I've followed some of your advice and not only did I see a really big boost in traffic, I've found several blogs that welcome guest bloggers!
Thank you!
Content is King, and a well structured website with easy to find information is key to building a great website, although it helps to use Google Adwords, I have also been using www.boostasite.com to increase my traffic, it is free and many of your readers may like it!
This guide is exactly what I have been looking for to help me with my new blog. Great information, thank you very much Rand!
Thanks for the excellent post. I've been building my blog over the past year and a half and it's steadily improved. Lately it's been tuning things up one step at a time by reading comprehensive posts like this one (I do think this is the most comprehensive I've seen though) that have helped me plant more seeds for success. A ton of great tips, ESPECIALLY the last one.
I think it's easy for bloggers to either give up or slow down on their content, and that's what calcifies things more than anything else. Thanks again for the info and motivation!
James Moore
This is a fantastic post which will help any website out with their traffic. In fact, I was given some motivation to put together a simple version of this article for my personal brand. Maybe check it out?
https://mediainfiltration.com/2013/02/25/10-tips-to-generate-more-traffic/
Regards,Steven Johnson - President & Founder of Media Infiltration
"Remember that everyone has a few posts that suck, and it's only by writing and publishing those sucky posts that you get into the habit necessary to eventually transform your blog into something remarkable."
That right there is hands down the best advice I've read here. Really, I have given up on other websites right before a huge surge and had stopped writing / building links and suffered a momentum drop because of it. So true.
I really enjoyed this post! It was informative, well detailed and I didn’t get the sudden urge to off myself which is what I usually feel when I read anything involving business. That being said, turning my blog into a lucrative endeavor seems so overwhelming. I’m new to all this and I’m wondering which is best to concentrate on at first? Or is it ideal to do all these suggestions all at once? I hope you’ll say no to the second question ;).
I actually co-wrote an article on running a web business and how difficult it is, considering your point about 'Not Giving Up' this may be handy for a few folks - https://meebal.com/the-truth-behind-running-a-web-business/
Brilliant post. Thanks for sharing! I hope that this will help my website to grow ;)
Thank you for the great and detailed post. I have just started blogging and all these tips are super useful. I just need to keep working on my blog and try not to give up:-)
Do you think to sending email the ones who are not subscriber is a good tactic?
I have been to my favorite libraries (Amazon and Barnes and Noble) to get books on blogging and how to get my business blog noticed (a frustrating chore!). Your article has told me so much more than the several books I have read.
I just redid my site in Joomla and no one is finding my blog https://webscapedevelopers.com/blog
Hopefully your tips will help. Thanks for the valuable info!
this is exactly what we do at https://www.bloodpressuremagazine.com/ and it works. It just a small normal blood pressure magazine where we accept guest posts, answers to emails and comments, and it allow us you get lot of social activity on blood pressure site.
Awesome tips...Thanks for this..:)
I really appreciate to you!
Good Info i make my blog using wordpress Themes but not much traffic your idea will make my traffic boost .. thanks for Such a nice article...
Very much agreed on the final point. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've wanted to give up on my blogs. (I actually have, a couple times. Rough business, this.) All the SEO in the world won't do you any good if you aren't willing to stick it out through the initial rough patches.
Good article, good advice. Keep on writing.
Some very good information here! We would love for you to share this and other spam free un-misleading content on szSocial blogging social network https://szsocial.com thanks : )
Great post, especially interested in points 1 and 22. Have just book marked this.
Scott.
hi i would like to add one more point over here :- Getting involved in forums and comment sections is a good way of making online friends. You may then have them look at your blog and maybe even link to it. If you are lucky, then they may spread the word via social media too, thereby increasing your traffic numbers.
Great post! Thanks for sharing this. I just started my travel blog and getting into SEO now. It's a really interesting area of expertise. I like the way you describe the different tactics in your post. I will certainly apply a lot of them. I signed up and I will keep following your website! Cheers Bastiaan
Just like #9 and #13. There is a site called BeaconWatch: https://www.beaconwatch.com/ Here you can submit answers to questions that no one has asked. That means you can provide solutions to problems of your choice, so you can write about really anything and if people like your content they will follow to your blog which is shown along with your answers
I truly enjoyed reading this article. What I got most out of it is that persistance is the key along with good content. Pushing in all directions is also a must. Persistant pushing will break through walls that seem impossible to get over. Thanks again for a great read!
One should do all that but don't go to sleep and wake up in the morning expecting your blog to be in the first page of Google. it takes a lot more effort than that.
Great post, Thanks for sharing some great information on blogging. Definitely sharing this with our clients "scared" of blogging.
Check out our Blog too! https://blog.chooseimpulse.com
A very informative and timeless article. blogs are even more important now with the Fresh Content
excellent job guys,,,so much of useful informations right here ,,, keep it up :)
Great post randfish. I am really new to blogging, as in literally a baby. I created my blog 3 weeks ago! I am not looking to make any money from blogging. All I want is to express myself and write and share thoughts and opinions with like minded people by commenting on modern life and the odd movie review. But the crazy world of social media and the blogosphere is just mind blowing! Your tips, however, are really useful and a great reference for me.
I have to say though, that (like the comment above) my favourite one was #22. Just when my brain was a little frazzled, seeing (and I mean actually visually seeing) your wife's success with her Everywhereist blog is so encouraging! If you've got something to say all you want is for people to hear it and join in the conversation and there's so many of us out there waiting to connect. It's really inspiring.
I'm going to check out the Everywhereist blog now :-)
Fantastic post! So much to learn from and refer back to here. I recently wrote a post about what to do with each post as you publish it (https://www.nathanbweller.com/increase-blog-traffic/) but this post is excellent in that it's more about general blog development. Bookmarked.
Absolutely right, if we these tactics our blog traffic will definitely increase.
This is great! Thanks to Tad for posting this. Didn't even know mini-reddit niches were a thing! Duh! Thanks :)
Thaks SEOMOZ !!!
I find this seo blog very useful and wish it will reach on more heights in this vertical.
Almost a year later, and still pretty poignant. Awesome!
Love the invaluable blog traffic tips. Increased exposure should lead to more clients if the content keeps their attention and drives a behavior (which doesn't include leaving the site!).
Great article for blogger who are seeking quality information.
great post rand. Especially liked the email sig part
Amazing article!!! very inspiring... I also have my blog site and it really takes time to make it successful. In my case, I use Stick Strategy Secrets to make everything in smooth flow.
Great advice, especially Bonus#22. This is my second time at creating a blog. I am definitely going to stick with it, even though I have some friends who think that it is a waste of time having a blog. I know that it takes time for blogs to grow and acquire great traffic, but I'm sticking with it this time and definitely using some of the advice above. Thanks.
I have been working on building my blog for 3 years now and since I have decent readerhsip now, I am thinking of inviting guest posts. However, I have been wary of duplicate content as I think most guest bloggers will try to reuse the content they write on other sites too as it is a time consuming task. How big of a problem this really is? Should I worry about it? It will be good to hear from others.
Great, great, great post. Very useful info that I'll start taking into consideration today!
Excellent post and I am looking forward to apply these to my blog.
Thanks Rand Fishkin.
I just found a new website similar to twiends, but you can also get retweets and build your
twitter network based on your geographic location, industry, and interests. Everything is based on Klout score, so you are getting followers and getting retweeted by people with high klout scores and strong social authority. This has been a free tool I have been using for my clients for the last week or so. I hope that helps. Brandon
Here is a video that explains it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Ws7O46pes
Wetweet doesn't work for me, also - a bunch of similar alternatives simply don't work. What's up with that? There are so many of them and they just don't work. For now I'm using https://socialacorn.com/ - it's doing all sorts of tricks for me, but it's not very popular. Any similar sites?
Hey Rand another amazing post. We have developed and grown our blog a ton since we started on here a few months back and it's growing rapidly. This post has a ton of info. Looking forward to implementing a few of the points listed! Thx.
Great SEO strategy tips, with search engine optimization is always a fight for Ranking and Traffic!
Love the great article and I've used a variety of these methods to gain traffic to my websites. Many of them definitely work, although everyone will not have the same type of success. One place I like to use to amass traffic to my website is https://increasetraffic.co, because they send actual real visitors to your site cheaply. I think you get like 10,000 visits a month for 10 bucks, which is like a happy meal and a few cup cakes these days. I have been following your blog for sometime and I most certainly will keep this information bookmarked. I have been reading this blog for so long I figured it was actually time to let you know I exist and leave a comment... lol
The best post on blogging advice which I have ever read. Most precise and informative. Thank you Randfish. Keep up the good work!
Interesting tips for increase blog traffic, i have a blog pr2 and i want to grow in my business with my website, thanks for share this valuable information, and congratulations for your blog and product all are awesome
Wow! This is such a high value post on incresing blog traffic that I've been searching for. By the way, I am still in the process of building up my traffic and attracting my followers that could be from either the internet marketing, pickup arts or even personal growth niches.
Any tip on how I should best go about finding the right direction when searching for the right followers stretched among three different niches.
Many thanks!
Bruno Babic
Great post, really i love it...
This is such a helpful post. Wish I would have seen it three years ago. Thanks for taking the time to share it and educate people like me. Have a great week.
I love #22. Sometimes SEO companies say once you start blogging you will get all this traffic and grow your rankings, and with expectations like that it's hard after 8 months or so to keep blogging with minimal results. But I went back to SEOmoz's first posts and sure enough there were only 1 or 2 pageviews... Now look at this post alone with over 3000 tweets and hundreds of likes, comments and thumbs ups!
A great article with lots of good tips. Here's the first thing I'm doing:
My stories: https://stories-oddmind.blogspot.com/
My friends: https://mynormalfriends.blogspot.ca/
Thanks for the update. Even after all the updates on google, this is sound advice. I just took your advice about social media.
Regarding point (7), I would suggest using the headline analyzer from the "Advanced Marketing institute".
Google it, it is a very useful and free tool to get good headlines.
I noticed you wrote that people could feel free to re-post the content with a mention or link. I recently had a large directory type website take a dozen or so pages of content from my website and put it on a dozen or so pages on their website (along with content from other businesses) with a mention of my business (but not a link back to the pages that the content came from).
On one hand it is good in that it promotes my business on a very high traffic website, and there is a page on their website that has a link to my website (that was already there as a paid listing before the content was posted by them), but I am concerned about duplicate content. Will this hurt my search engine ranking for the content on those pages? I have been working very hard to get good search engine ranking, and some of those pages on my website are on the first page of Google for the relevant keywords, others are not.
Thanks in advance for any info you can give me on this.
brilliant read lots for me to think about, hard to break through in New Zealand almost as many food bloggers now as there are people in the country! As per your last point though, it's a case of just keeping going
I just got done reading this article and this can be so useful for most new businesses wanting to learn how to improve their Google rankings. This gives a clear conception on SEO. If you're among the quarter of people who don't know what SEO is or understand how it can help you, you should really read this article!
Thanks a lot. I found Ahrefs valuable (did not know the company exists)
This is GREAT stuff. So far my biggest challenge has been using analytics to effectively track blog traffic and comments. Got to find out where they're coming from. I'm pretty much using this as a step-by-step to help promote a blog I'm running for a client. Thanks!
Indeed, You shared the tremendous information about blog traffic but sometime we applied all techniques therefore, traffic doesn't drive in blog so, what are problems behind that if traffic doesn't come inside blog?
Very imformative,doesnt't waffle and gives very useful imformatio for someone wanting to build a truelly suuccessful blog.Thakyou for your help.
This is great, thanks!
I'm sold. I'll be checking into your site more often. Its great to see that there are so many more things that I can do in order to attract more viewers. I have experimented with Reddit for my site for about a month and I believe that it has been a great success so far. After most of my posts, I have seen a small increase in the number of direct visits that I get. Nothing great but its progress.
this information is very good and very helpful. this is similar to what we are trying to do at https://increasetraffictomyblog.com and on https://jwcey.com where we are building free blogs for motivated bloggers... wow, keep up the good work fellas
This is a fantastic post, which I've referred back to over and over. It's perfect to share with both newbies and seasoned bloggers alike, to help them understand how to get the most from their blogging efforts.
It introduces and gives an overview of so many key concepts and techniques, opening the door for further research and learning about how to use and apply them.
Nice job!
Sure, should be consistent and do not give up, create fresh content to attract visitors.
Such good advice. I'm more likely to stay on a site when the design is good, and social media is a great tool as well.
-Ashley
What an awesome post? The strategies given here is very true and easy ways to achieve high targeted traffic. Social Media is one of the important tool to get more traffic to the blog. I will surely follow this tactics and get good traffic to my blog. Thanks for share.
its very usefull.thanks a lot
i'm using keywordtool.io and keywordshitter.com to get long tail keyword
I have just started a blog after writing a book on branding and its pretty hard going. I am averaging 10 views per day and it seems like I am posting to a giant black hole. I have made the commitment to blog everyday but I found it really encouraging to see that other people experienced the same thing. Thanks!
good article sir, i'll try this tutorials in my blog thanks for sharing
here is my websites https://sertsesli.com/en can you check ?
Hi Randy,
Before someone can prepare an article like this, there must have been a level of understanding that has been attained; undaunted and formidable. I must appreciate what you have such knowledge, not only that, I also appreciate your efforts in reaching out to people with what you know. This written piece has been one of the best I've ever come across.
I'm also a blog owner, with the passion of enlightening the world about the top ten of all the things on the planet (unending mission). It has been difficult for me in improving the traffic of my blog over the past 5 months since its inception, but this piece sets a path for me to follow. I'm most grateful. We'll meet at the top!
Thanks once again.
Founder: www.toptenthingz.com
Great article, no matter its age - still relevant.
It never occurred to me to do keyword research when writing new content. Gotta try it out in the future. :D
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Social media is the biggest thing on the internet, its the biggest traffic source! https://crazynewsreport.com/2015/12/22/increaseblogtraffic/
thanks, I really learnt a lot, I have been running my blog hashabih.blogspot.com for some months now and I am beginning to get fed up because of traffic issue, I even thought of deleting the blog but thanks for the words of encouragement though, Ama Kip Up.
Wow, thanks for the great tips. I finally got around to starting my own personal blog and I know it's going to be tough to build traffic but just gotta keep at it. I am running my website TCA and I will use your valuable 21 tactics.
This is awesome Rand! I loved every bit of this post. Even though this post was written way back in 2012, it had everything, which I find apt in the present day. It's always great to read content pieces from you. They really make me feel I've read something worthy.
I've been reading a few articles on how to drive traffic to my blog and this is extremely helpful. I especially like the final tip about not giving up- there does seem to be a high attrition rate for new bloggers and I'm feeling like I might be among them. Your post has given me new energy and resolve and I'll be implementing quite a few of these strategies. Thanks!!
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I needed to read something like this!
Thank you so much!
Wow. As a new blogger, I hadn't even thought of half of these. And I am glad you mentioned the types of comments you tend to receive, as I have had nothing but spam links for plumbing websites! I can't wait to explore this list in more depth. Thanks for sharing your hard-earned wisdom! ~ Sarah
Thanks for the helpful info. I've heard most of this before but need to focus on just a few so I can make it a reachable goal. Appreciate it.
Hey there, I really enjoyed all the tips you offered. I must admit I been having quite a hard time generating traffic to my websites.
Now my concern over here is how can you handle that all? How do you find enough time in a day to go to Twitter, stumbleupon, forums, blog commenting, Q&A etc?
Yet, I have to write on a daily basis for several of my websites. I guess for someone who starting also they don't want to waste money paying someone to do all those task.
So could you please offer some advice in how one can make social media and develop their website's content without going mad?
Okay, it seems that I am a little bit late but this contant is just awesome! I am following your recomandation step by step and it really helps. Espacially cause I am a newbe. Thanks a lot Rand!
Hi,
The traffic is very important for any blog/website. Being a new bloggers, they need to understand the optimization methods to give a quality to a readers and as well as a search spiders.
This article is well written, and piece of a quality for the new comers. Never indulge in any black hat activities to gain short term benefits.
Thanks
sunil k
How participating in Q&A sites like Yahoo! Answers, Answers.com, or Quora would increase my blog traffic, especially that links on most those sites are "nofollow" anyway,they don't pass search-engine value?
I want to ask that should i add blog on my website or should i use blogger, tumblr, wordpress platform to get more visitor to my blog.
Loved this one.I searched on google ,this post appeared.I was Looking for this. Very informative and I like your writing style.
{why is SEOmoz's Twitter score only a "13" when we have so many more followers, interactions and retweets than many of those with higher scores? Who knows. But I know it's good for AdAge. :-) Now, obviously, I would encourage anyone building something like this to be as transparent, accurate and authentic as possible. }
Thanks Rand for mentioning Adage, that's why probably that list don't exist anymore :)
also thank you for encouraging quality and authentic services, I would like to take this opportunity and share BalanceSEO a new plateform for passionate writers and content marketers.
Hi Kelly,
Just wanted to let you know that this post from 2012! This means that some of the information in the article may be out-of-date. And additionally, we've rebranded from SEOmoz to Moz since this post so things have changed on Twitter, such as us tweeting as @Moz. :)
Thanks
Thanks Erica, I am big fan of MOZ services and the branding, the contents and the knowledge base, I am happy that people like Rand are giving their valuable time and support to the digital industry and making the internet a better place. We are following @Moz and tweeting as @Balance_SEO. ;)
Excellent article and info-graphic. Here from i have gotten some helpful info about social marketing. Thanks a lot for sharing with us.
Hello,
I love this piece of work, I am actually building my blog and your tips will help me a lot. Produce more of this and my journey will be smoother than I thought.
Thank you!!!
Rand, i'm Brazilian entrepreneur and i loved it this content about traffic.
I believe who the topic #10 and #22 give to us the best results currently.
Really, its an effective post for the new blogger like me. I believe it will help me a lot to increase traffic for my new blog. :)
Thanks for your professional advice.
Cool staff! Don't forget social sharing for website promotion!
Just found this article on google and it still holds up about blogging today. Thank you.
I am very keen on improving the ranking of my website thanks for the information
Epic Post! Yes, social media networks are the best platform for the drive more traffic. With more followers and effective graphically content on social media is the best way to generate more traffic on blog.
Informative post...but I think this should be updated for 2016
Good to know these tactics! Not sure if you guys have heard about Boost.re? This is actually a very great platform to promote my blog.
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Great article. Getting laser-targeted traffic is definitely something to die for and not that difficult to get. In fact I just discovered how to rank on top of Google. It’s not about keywords, internal links, meta tags, backlinks, guest blogging, social media or site maps
Thanks for your tips! I love your ideas. Right now, I am doing high quality content and social media promotion. And it brings great traffic to my website. Social media is good way to get your traffic from, by utilizing it uses and not overdoing it. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!
Very good post.
Thanks for this Rand. I believe strongly that your bonus point (#22) might be the most important. Because even perfect execution of these tactics will still need time to mature and become successful.
In this world of instant gratification, where it is all about getting followers today and RTs on our content, the concept of needing to make it through the first 6 to 18 months is a bit foreign to the modern blogger. This year I just launched a new blog and even with years of blogging experience I find myself pulling my hair out watching the slow trickle that is my new blog's traffic. Luckily I know (and get reminded by fantastic articles such as yours) that if I stick at it I will break the barrier eventually.
Amazing post, thanks for sharing Rand!
Dowgs
Wow!! awesome list of blog traffic methods, many of them remind me of the ones that can also be found at: https://wmsmarketingtools.blogspot.com/ Anyways, thanks for posting your list.
Thanks for sharing about all the magical steps for increasing blog traffic and I am already implemented few of these on my blog and there is a tremendous increase in my blog traffic.
Nice work there MOZ you are the man!
Hey Rand,
Thanks for your wonderful tips. I will surely try to do what you have mentioned.
Your Post is very good :)
I'm new here just registered to your blog. Best ever explanation read it all the way down but it worth a lot for me. Hope my new blog can attract more traffic like yours..
Although I like whole article but I like the most is your last point that don't give up because success never comesfast. It takes time..
I was looking for this article, because my blog so the traffic is very low for an additional reference to improve my blog visitors, awaited his latest article
Thanks for these tips to getting more traffic. I also picked up something from reading your post, writing one with short paragraphs will also make people want to read your posts.
Those tips actually do work. But people still need to know how crucial paid advertising is, or free blogging privileges on sites like seomoz and increasetraffictomyblog.com. Let’s face it, the internet is wrapped up and even with the best seo, you have to spend money or write high quality content. It is what it is.
Love this will definitely be trying this.
Actually I have applied these methods but not really very effective, community building traffic from potential but I have not really applied effectively, Who can give me a few tips not?
Thanks for taking out your time in writing a very comprehensive guide for blogger, am new to the whole thing, and am about to quit, because the stat is not just encouraging (I would stop looking at it for a while), this post is not just inspirational, it's motivational too. You gave me insights into how the whole thing works, and also a reason not to quite. I'll just keep upping my game and hopefully mine won't take two years before getting there. Thanks again.
Thanks Rand for all such innovative stuff .It will help a lot for a beginner like me.I started searching for an awesome post and i have found one....
Great help man thank you!
Sticking with it would be very difficult for me thats the bit i am going to struggle with it.
Thank you so much for such a great post. Blogging and general web-site building is just a hobby for me but once in a while I have managed to create a site that really seems to drive the visitors. I have been mainly relied on keywords, social media and links.
Not onloy do you have some excellent ideas, and great links to further reading, but you also have a really natural writing style that is easy to read and engages the reader. That is, in itself, an excellent way of growing visitors!
I've enjoyed my first visit and will definitely be back again.
Thanks
Mark
Enjoyed reading about your techniques for increased traffic and the alternative benefits of site growth.
Thaks SEOMOZ
Tips for traffic generation according to my experience as a blogger:
1. Connection to Google search engine.
2. Making the content entertaining – including funny videos, pictures, illustrations, jokes etc. The web site should seem to be made for entertainment.
3. Visual aids.
4. Videos.
5. Favicons used as a logo
6. Posting information in social web sites like Yahoo answers, Facebook forums etc. or other websites related to yours.
7. Techniques of contrast, perspective and colors for the design appropriate to the meaning of the subjects. You do not have to be an artist in order to be able to use their effects in general. Contrasts create a realistic impression and any perspective promises a future. Hot colours from red to yellow are attractive and giving a welcome to the visitors, but also give an impression of restlessness. Green is “the perfect” color – it expresses positive emotions like stillness, hope… Opposite colors like yellow and purple, green and red or blue and orange give meaning of difference. When colors are similar (like yellow, orange, pink, red) they give meaning of diversity. These three general techniques of contrast, perspective and colours can combine in many different ways in order to correspond to the texts. The combination between these techniques and the meaning creates a strong harmony.
8. “Frequently asked questions” section.
9. “Contact us” section.
Web sites for traffic generation like the mentioned above could help much more, but these tips are the first steps. Web sites for traffic generation which offer diferent ways are better than these that offer one way to earn visitors.
Such a huge resource for increasing more traffic.
great post, can you please check my website www.budgetmart.co.za and tell me what is wrong with my website. I am not getting enough traffic. i used to get 100 visitors now all of sudden they have dropped to 10.
Very Nice and informative post, great ideas! Lots of great content!
My being here, few years after publishing, means something. It means, that good content is always actual,and useful. I would only add a point: create a content strategy and schedule it.
In the content strategy you should have keyword research and topics, or categories. Thanks to that you can schedule in order to have always a minimum of two/three new post per months for any category.
The fact that I am having heart palpitations as I am reading this shows that I have a lot to learn. I have the content and the passion, but I feel like I am trying to teach myself a whole new field of study here! Thanks so much for this helpful guide. I am bookmarking this & will go through step by step as I build my blog (probably over the next 2 years!). Hopefully by then this won't feel like a foreign language to me.
Hi Rand, this post is one of the most complete I have found on how to get more traffic on your blog, it seems to cover everything. Thanks for sharing it. I will share it very soon in a new article I'm creating for a blog. Thanks again. [link removed]
hi, I like your this blog very much. But few years ago when i was fighting to published my blog I contacted Mr. Manoj of .net who gave me some relevent ideas like you discussed. I appreciate your writeing style also great work...
This is the most informational post I have read so far. You have outgoing links to help me out and most of them I have never even heard of! Thank you so very much!! I am rolling in information and ideas
Such a nice post. this is truly amazing to find such a piece of information that too free of cost.i have a blog https://www.blogntips.com and would try to drive traffic using the method
thanks very much for explain to improve traffic blog, but im still not understand how to do for step by step above, my site verval nrg padamu negeri, please tell me whats about my site, a site guide for help.
Great article. Must admit sticking with it always turns out for the better. So many companies come to me for help and the biggest problem they face is that they give up a month before they're about to take off!
Appreciate it!
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I heard of this "SEO" a few times yet, but i didn't thought, that it is so important for having much traffic.
I think i am going to buy a book about it or something like this. Or i am going to ask an SEO-Agency. Dont know.
But i really need some more traffic for my website i builded a few weeks ago with https://www.hosting.co.uk/ucloud . I was so excited, that i have a real website in the internet now.
I like this article
This is an amazing post! I have slowly been working through the steps (because I'm actually applying them, so it takes a bit of time), and have been amazed. (I discovered Reddit...Apparently I've been out of the loop).
Anyway, thank you very much for sharing your knowledge,
Jennie
I think the last para is most important for blog success " Be regular & be patient".....Thanks nice article
I am on blogger and have written and published there quite a number of informational and affiliate blogs, but visiting their data capsule, I'm so surprised to know that many are empty, meaning nobody has paid them a visit. That's the very reason why I made a search online to look for someone or articles about this matter. I found several answers and after reading this one, I decided this one fits for my my purpose so I've this bookmarked for use from time to time.
On my way to post this comment, I encountered way down a very long, long line of commenters, people who have expressed reactions about this blog. I said to myself these people have same or similar concern with me. But 2 issues almost prevented me from taking advantage of this article, first; the comments were most dated 4 or 3 years ago and the least was 2 years ago, second; I was made to register and verify my email. I pause for a golden second and finally decided to avail the substance of this blog, hoping I can derive some pinches of benefits to invite people to visit my blogs. Good day to everyone and to those who came and posted ahead of me.
I think Bonus #22 is most important for all newbie and struggling bloggers.
Majestic seo's office is right next to the company im interning at lol
Bookmarked! Thanks for the links to the relevant google tools :) I always have trouble trying to find them.
The graph is also an encouragement to all bloggers out there, don't give up. I experienced a spike with a successful post recently, and it revived my interest for blogging once again. Just need a "big break"!
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Hi there! Please keep your comments (and the links in them) relevant to what the author talked about. This isn't the right place to promote your own site in a way that doesn't add value to the post. Thanks! =)
Very good ideas for someone starting off their blog, and it always the best to stick with it for one year or more as it takes a lot of time to get traffic. I'm gonna incorporate all this for my website https://www.biotechpicklist.com/ thanks for the advice it will help!
Interesting article! I wrote an article myself on tips how to increase traffic, how to write the perfect blog article and more!
Not just boring bla bla, but actual screenshots and data from an article where I applied these techniques and increased my traffic with a whopping 2,805.26% and 3,282.76% new users.
Sounds too good to be true? Nope, it's just logical blogging and (free) advertising.
Go check it out at https://www.currelis.com/how-to-bring-more-traffic-blog-website.html
I'm sure it will be helpful to anyone, especially when you're checking your Google Analytics daily just to find little to no increase or improvement.
Thanks for sharing this useful information. Really helpful in getting traffic and increasing page views.
Really glad I read this post. I've got a habit of throwing in the towel when things don't kick off straight away, personal habit of mine, but this post has inspired me to stick at it, write about what I love, and hopefully the hard work will pay off :)
Thanks Rand! I was one of those people who gave up too early on my blogs but you've inspired to continue my current blog. Thanks for the great info!
After 2.5 years of consistent (quality content) blogging, and barely any traffic, I am about to call it a day... but I am going to follow these tips for the next 4 months and see if I get a marked increase in my traffic.
I appreciate the well thought out tips, but I especially like the fact the many of them do not require you to have an insanely large social media following to follow-through. There is nothing more irritating than seeing non-stop Catch-22s that require you to have a large audience in order to get your content seen.
Thanks for putting the time into this...
Jeff Mueller aka The Mighty Jerd
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WOW--TMI here to digest in one sitting. Requires saving and referring to and will do that. Gratified, however, to see I'm already doing a number of these listed items!
I love your post. Great content. I love the keyword search point. The only thing is I'm not a huge fan of reddit as a means of generating traffic to a blog. They do not like self promotion. Even if you create a balance of your stuff and other peoples.
I just read half of this post and noticed that I have previously implemented several of these suggestions into my website. However, I am such a beginner on this topic that I have a question and hope somebody can help me out with it. The theme I uploaded to my wordpress blog has a link already installed in it for the 'RSS FEED.' From what I understand, the 'RSS FEED' is basically a way for visitors to subscribe to receive any updates posted to your website. How do I know if it is set up properly or not?
Also, I find this post to be MORE than helpful! You definitely did a terrific job on it and I love all of the details you added. Every other blog I tend to read on this subject is much too generalized.
Thanks for the great work and in advance for any help.
If anybody can help me to better understand the 'RSS FEED' topic, please e-mail me at [email protected]. I will respond back promptly to any suggestions.
Great post. Thank you so much for the information!
Dude, sounds like a plan to me :)) thanks great post (human not robot)
Thank you, I also made a blog but it is dificult for me to get traffic. The blog is called justboring.webs.com and I would appreciate it if you would watch it.
I allready would like to thank you al :)
Probably the best i have read in this topic. bookmark it for further reading and applying step by step. thanks a ton and looking forward for more of your experience.
Thanks for the great post. I hadn't heard of Followerwonk. I have used FindPeopleonPlus but have found that alot of the profiles don't have much activity so don't "follow" back.
Great post. Thank you for share this information!
Hey Rand, this is a pretty awesome post. You reminded me that I really need to get on some of these things thave been just sitting on the table. If only there was the time!
Excellent post. All the points mentioned are very important but I feel, the type of content is the most important. All other depends on what you write or how you write. So quality of content / style of representing is also very crucial to attract traffic. A well researched, unique and informative article is a must to start with these 22 points. Thank you for coming up with such brilliant article.
Good refresher on the basics. The bonus tactis is also important. Consistency is rewarded.
this has been so helpful with my new blog lotus-revolt.blogspot.com. Thank you!!!!
A major point that is the one on do not give up. Many months can go by with little increase in readership and then all of a sudden there is a surge. Have not tried the guest blogging yet but may soon do so
Great Job with the post Rand. I love points #2 and #22. Also, I think #10 will be especially useful for people who have a tough time finding guest blogs.
Sharing and re-posting of posts is a great way to share word about a good post and giving people an option to use liscensed images and getting links back from them is an excellent way to increase and diversify any link profile.
Thanks for the useful post Rand. We will definitely be using quite a few of these ideas!
Great tips, I'm sure our team will be able to implement several of these ideas. Thanks.
as you mentioned on this post, I tried to create an account on Quora, but I was failed. It told me that I need to have an invitation. Could you send an invitation to me?
An awesome blog post! Read the whole thing and I hope that I can use most of the tactics described...Especially the 22. tactic :)
Great article. I just updated my email signatue ;-) In addition to the 22 tips I would suggest to keep an eye on usability and UX. This helps to keep your new visitors and convert them to loyal readers! Use tools like https://clickmap.ch/en/ to optimize your blog (or webpage).
Hello; when I started reading this post, i fully expected to be horrified by how poorly i was doing. I was pleasantly surprised that I was already following many of your suggestions. The section on guest blogging was helpful as well as inspiring. It gave me something new to focus on. Many of the links mentioned will make following the suggestions much easier. And I'm most thankful for you reminding us not to give up. I have many good friends in my life who do that for me, but you can't imagine how much that bit of encouragement will help keep someone taking that next step until their blog catches on. thanks again, max
Guest blogging is someting that I guess fears some people. There are plenty of questions about SEO and the benefits of writting for others that there are still not well known by the community.
When peole lose this fear, everything will go better, but now I think it would be necessary to explain a bit more about good and bad things in this field, so, thank you for comment this tips!
Very nice post, though I think definitely not for the beginner as it is slightly overwhelming. Some great tools there that I didn't know about and will have to take a look at later today.
useful methot
This is a monster article that any tortoise can use to stay ahead of the hare!
Complete awesomeness in this post!
This single post comes as close to a complete online marketing plan as any thing I've read online in a very long time. Strategy, tactics, benefits, how to & granular details on how to get it right.
Spectacular contribution and much appreciated.
Hi their, Mr.Expert. A Detailed and very informative post. I am new to blogging so I have loving and hating relationship with it all day long. Just trying to stick with last piece of advice that you shared but its not that easy for a beginner to write something and then just keep waiting for readers, so will be benefiting from your words.
I have been to HubPages recently and loved the way whole community help each other let everyone to grow, are their more platforms like HubPages where there is strong sense of community?
Dear Rand~
Thanks so much for writing all this out. Imost certainly will be sharing this to all my email lists. It takes time and dedication to get a good following and I think the best part of this post was the example of Everywhereisit's Google Analytics. This particular example is "classic blogging 101."
We've always encouraged our Web Design Clients to blog; it's simply good business. Thanks again, and it's always a pleasure to read your stuff.
Cheers guys,
Z
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thank your tips, very important for increase traffic...
https://tokodesignbagus.blogspot.com/
Great article on seo. I am running Loksewa Exam and ICT Blogging. After looking at this article I can make these sites SE Friendly.
Thank you for sharing
Very good article.
I really like it that you included so much of good and useful links in it :)
Great work.
I really enjoyed and got information about real blogging. I have started a blog https://chillpie.com a few days back and anxiously looking for increasing traffic on my blog.
Fantastic Read! Found some new tools and lol at the Most bloggers stop here.. its true!
these are veryhelpful tactics to remind be be onlinetrack :) ... although I was busy with exams but now will try to follow these guidlines to make my blog ..to get more traffic
Amazing Post and Great knowledge share.... i read the entire content and hopefully will implement these strategies fully on my blog :)
To kick of with one of the trick that you mentioned about sharing and posting about your blog So here it goes :)
My Blog url is www.arealmirage.blogspot.com
Guys please visit it and share your suggestions on the blog that I have created.
Thanks
Happy Blogging :)
I always learn something new when I come here, looking at photos and videos too, but I never have said thanks. Finally take the time now to say thank you and keep up the awesome work!
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Thanks
Informative and thorough assessment,
Learnt a few new things.
About Tip #6: Google now has the reverse image search feature at their image search pages (https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi) this makes an amazing tool to search for sites that uses your image but are not giving backlink to your site. So, Creative Commons images with Attribution Copyright can actually be the new trend in Link Building.
That's a great tip, thanks!
Absolutely superb! Great article, lots of information, everything a blogger should know!
Thanks Rand. I finally got the chance to read through this post last night and this morning. We will certainly be adopting most of the tips you have covered. I'm especially excited about utilising Reddit. We have some great posts in our blog but we are still in the early stages of building up a following through Twitter and Facebook so we don't get many views. I think Reddit could definately help increase traffic numbers. Fingers crossed
After the all 21 tactics, the plus point no 22 is the most important, i think. "Don't Give Up" ever and you will defenitly be succesfull in your task.
Atul Sharma
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Wow so much great information I'm glad I came back. I missed this priceless information
i just looked over this real fast and so far it looks like a lot of good information. I'm going to read over it more when i get a minute. i've already seen a few things i'd like to try on my site. Thanks for the info!
technoobie
www.technoobie.com
Great words and excellent read (skimming will give you an idea also). My favorite: "Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers". Also I found that adding infographics or meaningful images that tell a story increased our blog traffic by 30%
wow, these 21 tactics can help us more how we can learn to increase our Blog Traffic !
Great post Rand
I recommend reading the post from start to finish. I like the idea of meeting people in person. As has been pointed out earlier, 'people like people'
Excellent post Rand - I am starting my own blog in the next couple of weeks - just creating it at the moment and I will be following the advice in this article closely. Best lesson I have taken from it is stick at it and you will get there in the end - perseverance is key! Thanks :)
Great tips. Thanks!
Wow - talk about comprehensive. This pretty much says it all. Outstanding post, Rand.
Louis Gudema
Vice President of Business Development
Overdrive Interactive
Wow, thanks for the great tips. I finally got around to starting my own personal blog and I know it's going to be tough to build traffic but just gotta keep at it.
This is a really terrific post, Rand. Agreed that #22 is something every blogger needs to hear.
I think it's way too easy to go through your first year or even second year of blogging, see you're only getting a few dozen or few hundred hits a day and pack it in. You have to hang in.
Really comprehensive SEO endeavors which I think the best for my standard. It's a must-read for bloggers and online workers as well.
Great update and this is where SEO is at right now. These thoughts are certainly going through all of our minds at the moment so its great to see it all listed.
Full of useful information. Nice post!
Fantastic post and, itself, a great representation of #8. You've linked off to so much supporting 3rd party content I could easily spend an entire day bouncing back-and-forth between this post and the ones you've l inked to.
All great tips, especially integrating SEO and keyword research into each post. In order for a post to be valuable and generate traffic long term it needs to be optimized. This includes the title, body content, and a customized URL that includes keywords. This will continue to drive traffic to the blog into the future, and beyond a few days when it is heavily promoted.
Wow! This article is totally awesome. I appreciate the time and the efforts of SEOMOZ. I am new to SEO and I open to learn everything I can to make me a SEO guru. If you have any more suggestions, please send me something [email protected]
Excellent read and fab update. Best is the bonus advice #22. :-)
#22 definitely is the best one! But the great effect will be while combine all of that tips together ;)
Missed this back in 2007 when it was first published, thanks for updating it, Rand!
To add to the tips for leveraging social to drive traffic, I've found Topsy and Twiends to be very valuable in finding brand interactions, conversations within your niche, and potential outreach prospects. Well worth a look if you are finding yourself frustrated at trying to get all you need out of manual searches.
Just speed-read this and have marked for greater digestion - great post, will undoubtedly earn many links, tweets and shares as it should...
... which will increase traffic to this blog
Bazinga
Amazing tips Rand.
Ideas.
Lots of them.
I have noticed that we get some incredible traffic for series of blog posts and the posts which answer really specific questions. I know this wasn't about content planning but honesty believe that making a schedule and focusing in on a topic of the month is a great way to break budding bloggers into the habit of posting regularly with focussed material.
I also really like Mike's tip above about voicing concerns over shared problems your industry has.
Great post by a Wizard of Moz...It is really awesome to see this kind of phenomenal and Rand have just written the tweet about this exhaustive post. This will ended up with the best post for all bloggers including me.
21 steps are crucial and all points are need to execute for getting the better performance for our blogs. I like the bonus point and it is crtical for sure because at the intial level some bloggers are might be frustrated and they give up but as Rand says if you steady & focusing on your blogs then definitely no one can stops you. I just learning so much from this Mozers community and thanks for the lovely post Rand...:)
Thanks Rand. Just skimmed through the post. Loads of great advice, which I'll digest over the coming days.
Thanks Rand for this wonderful post, full of ideas. This will not only benefit webmasters like me but also help website and blog owners if these things are applied correctly... As many times I have seen that people read and apply without understanding the entire concept behind each thing...
This is really great post, Rand. Just in time, I've just run my new blog. and I really appreciate your time for writing this post
Great update and great resources, thanks for sharing!
I run a travel blog myself and since I put a lot of effort into enticing photography I get decent traffic via Google Images and Flickr. So far so good.
But sometimes a good photograph (with good referral traffic) gets copied by some other site and suddenly the traffic from Google Images for that particular photograph goes to the other site instead of my blog. The traffic gets hijacked!
Google sometimes seems to give other sites more value for a given search term than the original photographer's page. That seems unfair.
I posted the photograph and the according traffic chart on my blog travelmemo.com. With Google Plus Your World things seem to slightly have improved, but some spammy hotel page still gets the bulk of my photograph's traffic. Microsoft's Bing is still linking to my own photograph.
I feel that Google Images has some homework to do regarding images SEO.
Awesome post Rand! Lot's of great info to digest!
Awesome read Rand.
I feel we have a 'top posts of 2012' candiate in our midst!
There's something that makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside when I read a well-structured, "list-style" article like this. Good work and tips for a prosperous 2012. :-)
Thank you Rand, this is certainly one of the most valuable posts. I have stopped blogging for few months due to some platform and traffic issues, and your article just appeared before me... . Great tips from beginning till end. Lots of suggestions for me to start blogging once again.
@Sudeep
great read, can i repost on my blog? www.blog.resumebear.com
This is the best article I have ever read on how to improve blog traffic. It teaches everything one needs to be aware of. I highly recommend this!
Great Update!
I especially love #10 & #22 ...We have found excellent results from Guest Blogging and referencing back to old post of ours... The NEVER GIVE UP & Be Consistent, can be challenging at times, but has paid off big for us now and in the past. Though definitely was a hard lesson learned back in the day.
Thanks for the great, valuable info!
Hello,
You provide some really great, detailed information here. We agree that sharing your posts are one of the best ways to make connections. Its also one of the best ways of getting your voice out there. Within small businesses especially, the use of sharing infromation is useful. All the aspects you have covered is essential information for any business in general. Thanks for posting this!
Excellent and informative tips on increasing blog traffic, thank you Rand ! why you haven't make the links open in a new browser window/tab, :), ofcorse you got a reason, we are intrigued to know.
Timely article as am working on releasing my personal blog very soon. I think the tip on guest posting is very important as it opens so many new doors in terms of building good relationships online. Keep it up!
@JeffreyRomano
Very helpful tips. Thanks a ton!
Great post, an excellent summary on a to do list! I couldn't agree more with point 22, I’ve been through this a few times so I can confirm its truth.
Nice....Very valuable points, epically point 22 about consistency. Many give up, not just bloggers, but even in business due to not seeing ROI straight away. If they ride the storm, they will get to the other side and start to get some real momentum going within their blogs and business.
Wow. Just skimmed through once and have to say, when Rand posts, I always walk away with stuff I never knew. When I read #2 and realized I had 19 (20?) more to go, I knew it would be a keeper.
Thanks for always stepping up to bat a homerun, Rand.
Smart post - I really wish I had the skills or creativity to come up with and design the kind of cool infographics sites such as SEOMoz do! Must work on this area this year!
Great post! I'm starting a blog soon so this is perfect timing. I've read several other articles regarding success in blogging and I have to say that many of them repeat themselves. I find that this article has the highest number of unique ideas that I've seen.
Thanks!
I am very thankful to the whole SEOmoz team for sharing so valuable information. I have learned a lot which I never came across through any other resource.Thanks !
Re: #14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!)
Building a list of interested subscribers is a huge part of increasing traffic to your blog
If you're a newbie, here's a step by step tutorial on how to properly setup & manage your RSS using Google's free Feedburner service
A Tip for #1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share
You can search by topic on Klout.com and sort by content / influential user. From that you can create lists of the influential users (in Klout). Then when you need to distribute a piece of high quality link bait and get it in front of your content distributor you open the list, ctrl click down all the twitter/fb accounts (to open in new tabs), then send a personal message to each individual with your content.
Make sure your content is worth sharing and that you're actually phrasing it in terms that are useful for their followers/fans. (otherwise you're goign to come off ungeniune and spammy) In all fairness to, you'd want to develop relationships with the most influential rainmakers, ask them up front if there is anything you can do to help them out. Most of the time just asking is enough to impress them and develop a good rapport.
Nothing new here... same stuff you read everywhere... This stuff is easy to say, but hard to make work.
Great post. Candid and informative. This will serve a tool in my reference library!
Great post Rand!
I was thinking to quit where the most bloggers does but reading this post I got really inspired. I hope I will make my blog more reputable in the coming times.
Thanks again!
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Got through reading this last night!!! Great post and very Helpful! i Just recently started my website Guidegamers.com but have been having trouble even getting 1 or 2 occasional visitors. This post has opened my eyes to to the work I must do in order to promote my site and not Spam the world with advertising. Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge!
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Brilliant advice. Thanks so much. Going to follow your advice diligently!
Rand, you said that seomoz wasn't a success for about 2 years. What were the ups and downs of getting to that point where you could sit back and watch what you built turn into your definition of a success? What were your traffic numbers like at first?
Thanks,
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Great post - Thank you.
As a relative newbie to the world of SEO this will help me a lot.
I am currently using 'Myblogguest' and getting great results. Are there any other similar sites that you would recommend?
Thank you so much for this post. I've been trying to get my blog going for a couple months now, but to no avail. Can't wait to get going on all these tips, thanks again and wish me luck!
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Is it better to write long posts (Like this one) for better SEO? Sometimes, the length of the article might be a deterant, and people won't read it.
I've created a very simple guide to SEO, which takes minimal attention span, but is not as in depth as this post. Check it out here: https://blog.blainelight.com/2012/02/how-to-enhance-your-websites-seo-to-get.html
Great post, thank you so much for the information! Finding good topics to write about and even writing compelling blog posts are not the end of the line as I thought they would be; so I was left wondering where the hordes of readers were. The time you took to address the many different ideas on how to increase traffic not only give me some great ideas but leave me with inspiration that simply writing the blog post isn't enough. Thank you for your efforts and what a great read and resource.
Great post! Reading this gave me my second wind. great tips here KUDOS!
Replying to comments is best way to increase traffic. Everyone thinks replying is waste of time. But its wrong. Some readers comment on your posts. indirectly they help to increase your SERP results. they may contain some keywords which helps to show your result in Google
Brilliant article - I've just launched my own personal blog in the last month or so. Yes, I realise that things will be a little slow for a while, but I'm going to stick with it (point 22).
This list at least gives me something to focus on, if I get most of these basics right my blog should be a success.
Great
Thanks a lot for the tactis, especially for #22. Desperate in growing my blog which I have been writing for 1.5 years and still have less than 4,000 uniques monthly, I was looking for "traffic increase tips" and found your post. Frankly, I was thinking to give up and not "waste" my time for the blog any more... I was thinking, may be there is not enough audience in my niche, or may be the topics or my articles are not compelling enough... Now I know - I should be patient and not give up. Thanks a lot!
I had just launched my mobile app product online last May 27 and had a few downloads. I created social media accounts for Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Youtube (for the video demos), and blogspot (I haven't created Wordpress and don't have my own domain for the product yet but I am planning to have them in the future). After a while the downloads ceased. I post content on my blogspot and researched a bit on using tools like hootsuite, twitterfeed so that I can somehow automate spreading my posts on my blog to my social media contents. I have received a few followers in Twitter. I am moving on to making Screencast now instead of recording my smartphone itself while doing video demos. My blogspot stats show some views probably I had 20 views for a few days on the recent content I made. My app's free version received a few more downloads for a few days.After my little journey on marketing my app (I really don't have any marketing skills since I am a software developer but I have always been fascinated and interested in doing marketing) I realized after reading this post that my efforst and the little journey I had is very little and just the beginning. The detailed approach of this blog really made me realize and opened my eyes to the things I still need to do to succeed in my marketing efforts. This blog made me inspired again to continue my marketing efforts. It was put up in such a detailed yet catchy and interesting way that gave me new zest in doing my marketing after an initial so-so results of my efforts. I realized there is so much more effort I have to give to marketing my product but this blog post gave me a very clear path and direction to take on my marketing journey. Thank you very much for this wonderful post. I salute you and you will always be an inspiration to me in my marketing journey.
I just bookmarked this post as well. I'm suprised how many ideas you covered that I haven't seen/tried yet. I am excited to see if I get returns on some of these tips, thanks for the helpful advice!
Very useful post. i really like all points and most of the links are very useful. ll try to follow all ur future posts.
thanks
Briliant Search Engiene Optimization marketing tips for newbies and pro bloggers also
This is an absolute trove of relevant, current marketing tips. Thank you.
Brilliant article, I've just launched a new site and will start blogging in a few days.
Looks like I've got a few sleepless night ahead.
Great SEO strategy tips, with search engine optimization is always a fight for Ranking and Traffic! Greetings from Munich / Germany
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This is so useful! I just started an illustration blog to show off my work, and I'm trying to spread the word as much as I can. Thanks a lot.
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Rand,
As always an informative and interesting article. Just wondering though, if we look closely at point 22 then we shouldn't use SEO at all?!
I see blogging for profit as setting up a fruit stall in a busy city;
1. Find a product people want to buy
2. Put the stand somewhere easily found by passers by
3. Stay in that spot so past users can find you time and again
4. try new products, but slowly at first!
5. Make the stand look pretty, but stay functional
6. Advertise - but remember word of mouth beats all!
nice post, thanks very much
a very useful article....I have a query though....can my blog traffic decrease with the increase in traffic through RSS feed ?
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I will definitely save this and read it over and over again.
You merged 21 points wonderfully but #22 is above of all...
SEO is seriously a game of Patience!
Wonderful Read!
This is an excellent article! I am new to blogging and this information is very helpful. It shines a lot of light on the world of trying to drive traffic to my site.
An overall nice post.ll I will imply these methods and will post the results soon.
Thanks
I had to register and leave a comment here because your article really helped me. I am a beginner blogger and you have really motivated me to go on. However discouraged I might be I'll keep in mind your tips :). Kisses and hugs :).
Great article I didnt know about all those methods.. your right you shoul keep track of your analytics.. for better traffic.
I was very high on the MyBlogGuest idea when I first started with them, but ultimately I found it was not as effective as working directly with trustworthy blogs.
The biggest issues I have run into at MyBlogGuest have been articles not getting published at all, or being greatly altered by an unscrupulous publisher. It's a real headache to have 10-15 bids on an article, accept one, and then wait 1-2 weeks only to find that the publisher never followed through. Then you have to start over and begin accepting bids again.
Last week I received an alert at MBG that one of my articles had been altered. I checked into it and found that the publisher added a ton of links to the article, all going to his own websites. That destroys the value of my one link, and it makes the article (with my name on it) look incredibly spammy. Now there is a poor looking article on the web which mentions my company - not what I intended.
Finding good blogs to work with requires a lot of leg work at the beginning, but once you find them it is quite easy thereafter. MyBlogGuest really didn't add value for me like I had expected. I think you are better off working directly with high quality blogs that pass solid link value and are trustworthy.
The best value of MyBlogGuest might be in finding a few new publishers to work with, and then working with them directly.
Great article I didnt know about all those methods.. your right you shoul keep track of your analytics.. for better traffic
Hey thanks so much for this post i really appreciate it
Thanks for the article, with a new blog I am trying to learn the ropes of SEO and this de-mystifies some of the things which I really need to know. Hopefully your guide will help me reach the masses
Great Content, hope in the future you bring out more information concerning SEO.
I have been working on my blog on and off since 2007 i believe. I just recently got seriouse... I hope tip # 22 is true. I keep trying I am not sure what is really working or not but I am going to follow these tips and see.
Thanks a lot for great post. Really very informative and awesome post about SEO.
Thank you very much for sharing great post.
Thanks for sharing these tips. I will apply these to my blogs.
As I'm about to create a blog on my company website this is really great info to have. thanks a lot!
Thank you very much for sharing this great info.
Thanks, very much for a Great post. It is so informative. I will be implementing your suggestions right away. George Katsoudas emaile the link for it and I will be sure to thank hime as well. Really excellent...
Some great information here, thanks. As usual George has pointed me in the right direction.
Amazing tactics, all 21 tactics are just fabulous, All Thanks to Rand.
Now i won't give up...
Thanks Rand...another page of notes...we will be busy this weekend....again!! :-)
Thanks for sharing this great information, but can some one help the me on how to use the SEOMOZ tool which is referred above
How awesome, i was nothing to say, thank you for your work!
I really enjoyed reading this article, i just started up my own blog and was searching for tips on how to get the traffic flowing, this post certainly was among the best i have reaed in the last few days, thanks a lot for sharing!
Great post Moz. I really enjoyed reading your 21 tips and the 22nd is the one that really hit home. You are right about the importance of consistency. Blogs, like any other business or venture, take time to get going. I've had my ups and downs with my blog but am in it for the long haul. So thanks for reminding us to be persistant! The first 21 tips did have a lot of good information and I will continue to work on those techniques as well. Best of luck!
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I love this post I'm new to the world of blogging and site traffic and this is just so useful to know.
Thanks ever so much
Pete.
thanks for this article
Excellent post- a lot of very good tips which will definitely be referred back to as we start to develop our company blog and for my own personal blog too. Think you hit the nail on the head too by saying 'never give up' - it is a long process but evidently it pays off in the end!
Feeling so cool after reading this and specially after seeing your that anylystic visitor graph really if we work hard surelly one day we will get sucess.. hope to do work on my blog by ur above gudiance.
Thanks for all the traffic generation tips. I'm going to try implementing a few here and there until the list is complete. I especially liked the bit on guest blogging and I think that shall be a good place to start. Will let you know how it works.
Awesome tips. Will definitely be trying out the various techniques you've outlined. Cheers and many thanks!
Great traffic + Awesome content = Success. This comprehensive blog post makes a great checklist for bloggers and could easily be sold as an ebook! Thanks Rand, you do great work!
Great post! I wish I had found it sooner. I'm going to definitely bookmark it and refer back to it. This whole blog is great, I can't wait to start reading through all the good stuff here.
Thank you. This is a very informative and helpful article. I know I will be processing it over time. Appreciate the information!
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Hey i want to know Sharing new blog or new blog posts on diffrernt social media and bookmarking sites is good or bad. Bad means is it considered spamming according to google algorithms..? i started a new blog and i am working hard. I want to share blog posts on Google+ profile and page, facebook profile and page, Chime, Reddit, Digg, and all of the Top social sites, but i just want to know is it good for serps boost ups. I read that Sharing on diffrent sites will increase the indexing time of new blog posts. But i am still worried and want to know is it good or bad according to search engines to get a lot of link back to our sites through lot of diffrent social networking sites.
Wow, Great long post.
Thanks for the information. That is really really detailed for what I need the most now.
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I was googling around tonight and happened upon this great blog post. I appreciate the wealth of invaluable, understandable, and great methods to apply to improving ones blog or website provided within this post. I started working on several different website/blog ventures about six months ago. At times it can be very discouraging and overwhelming. I have even felt like folding up shop and burning the tent. I had read all 21 points, the thoughts and ideas were bouncing around in my head like the basketballs during tonights March Madness games. I reached the overtime bonus round with point 22 and smiled. Thanks for the great tips and the encouragement to keep pressing forward!
A very informative and timeless article. blogs are even more important now with the Fresh Content Google update!
Fantastic blog. Very useful tips - very practical too. You know your stuff too - this blog has a very good SEO.
Google+ would be something new to add. Its relatively new and most people are experimenting, so there's more oppertunity to tap in followers than using facebook likebox or twitter follow.
For wordpress bloggers, google+ badge plugins are plenty - https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gplus-badge/
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Just read a few first sentences, it appears to be a very useful post - I'll get back to it tonight :) Cheers Rand
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Rand, thank you! I am new to blogging and (in addition to posting of course), this is like like a checklist of 21 things I need to continuously review and implement to get traffic! Bookmarked and cheers!
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