TRICS FOR BLOGGER INCREASE TRAFFICS

10 Quickie Tips and Tricks To Massively Increase Your Blog Traffic

Blogging is not hard, keeping up is.

You can write anything, it’s your blog but when it comes to traffic, the ball moves to your audience’s court.

If you want your blog to be flooded with traffic, you need to get into action now.

Here are some of the best actionable tips and tricks to drive huge traffic to your blog.

If you think writing awesome content alone is important to get readers glued, let me tell you, your content will be called “awesome” only when people read it and that is why this post on how to get those people to read your blog is crucial. So read mindfully.

When it comes to increasing blog traffic there are millions of creative ways to increase blog traffic. And I am here to show you some sure shot methods to get the ball rolling. At the end of each point, I will point out some awesome actionable tips which will help you double or triple your traffic.

1) Let Alexa bring you traffic:

We all bloggers are well aware of Alexa. Alexa ranking is measured by people who visited your site, but with alexa toolbar installed in their browser. If you want to improve your alexa ranking I have a detailed post on it.

I am not here asking you to improve alexa but saying you to perform a site query of your site on alexa. For this, go tohttp://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/http://www.bloggertipstricks.com , where you replace my domain with yours.

On opening the page, you will find the top queries that send organic traffic to your blog. Usually, these are the ones not clearly defined by Google analytics.

It’s your turn now, go and write the posts in a more detailed way and optimize them with the best on-page and off-page SEO.

Actionable tips:

1) Perform a site analysis on Alexa.

2) Optimize your posts or write completely new ones around the keywords you are ranking for.

2) Write evergreen posts:

Moz describes evergreen content as the ones that have continued and evergreen success. Most evergreen posts are based on long-term topics which generate decent traffic throughout the years for several years after publishing.

Evergreen lists posts are the ones that usually have higher ranks in the SERPs. For writing evergreen posts, I would suggest you to use the following techniques.

1. Go to Reddit: Type your keyword in the search box; go to a sub-reddit if there is one. Check the threads to get keyword ideas from queries people have been consistently asking. Go write a post on it.
2. Write list posts on commonly used tools in your niche. If you are a flower blogger, write about top 50 flower species that grow year round. If you are a movie blogger, write about [N] movies that are based on sci-fi thriller, where N is any number.

My lists posts mentioned below give me organic traffic all the year round.

1. 8 Free Google Keyword Rank Checker Tools
2. 9 Free Backlink Checker Tools To Check Competitors Backlinks
3. 9 Free Plagiarism Checker Tools
4. 6 Best Proofreading Tools To Get Error Free Articles
5. 10 Online Grammar Checker Tools For Error-Free Writing

3) Publish the hell out of your blog posts: When we are talking about evergreen posts, our promotional strategies should also be evergreen. You should promote your evergreen posts almost every month. If you are like me too busy, then follow my time-saving trick:

Sign up to hootsuite and then schedule all your posts in advance. This feature will help you to save all your efforts while promotion of your blog posts will be on automation.

Actionable tips:

1. Go and search for keyword groups people are querying almost every day.
2. Write well defined and meaty list posts on them.
3. Automate your promotion by using hootsuite.

3) Do guest blogging:

Did you know ace bloggers like Jon Morrow were guest bloggers long before they had a blog for themselves? Yes, guest blogging has always worked for them. If they could use guest blogging to create a buzz around a non-existent blog and then launched their blogs with a bang, why not you.

Caution: I am not saying you to indulge in spammy link building through guest blogging, but I am saying you can always do it legitimately in order to make it work.

Actionable tips:

1. Look for guest post opportunity on high authority blogs on similar niche as yours.
2. Use these Guest blogging tips for higher exposure
3. Even if they don’t allow you link, it will help you build an authority and people will Google your name to get to your blog.

4) Target long tail keywords:

Long tail keywords are the keyword phrases consisting of 3 or more words and generally tend to have low competition. It is, therefore, easy to rank your pages built around long tail keywords. Rankings are directly proportional to the traffic.

When you target on a keyword like “apartments in Los Angeles”, you will get search result of at least 201 million pages, while if you perform a search for “2 bedroom apartments for rent in los Angeles under $800” your competitor number will shrink to a noticeable 2 million. This difference matters a lot in getting a search ranking.

Read these posts to get started:

• How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google?
• Keyword Difficulty Analysis – Learn How to find Perfect Keywords!
• How to Find Long-Tail Keywords: 9 Ways to Discover Long-Tail Terms

Actionable tips:

1. Go to Google auto-suggest to get long tail keyword ideas or use Tools likeLongTailPro
2. Use those keywords in the search box to filter further similar keywords.
3. Rinse and repeat.
4. Write a blog post on everything that a reader looking for that query would expect from you.

5) Cover trending topics:

Sometimes a mixture of trending topics along with evergreen posts can bring a hell lot of traffic to your blog. Write about topics that have affected your industry conventions.

Actionable tips:

1. You can go to slideshare and find out all the awesome and trending presentations. Then you can pick a few of them and create an awesome post on each topic. As it is already so popular, you are going to get loads of traffic.
2. You can also use Google trends, to find what topics are in demand over the year. And craft a popular post out of it.
3. Go to Pinterest, type the keyword of the niche you blog in, get through the most pinned post. Convert it into a blog post.
4. Subscribe to your industry blogs, through your feed reader or through their newsletter; write a topic they are already getting loads of responses.
5. Publish different types of content on your blog to drive more traffic.

6) Use Quora, not for asking questions but for answering them:

We all use quora, to ask questions, silly and funny ones and serious ones too. Okay, we also answer a few questions. We can use quora not only as an inspiration to remove off writer’s block, but also to drive free and quality traffic to our website.

Search for your related posts and find questions related to it. At the end or in the middle of the answer you can include a link of yours. I would say try to provide full value to the answer within quora itself and keep the link as a bonus for more information. This will increase your credibility and you can surely get a dedicated source of traffic for your blog.

Actionable tips:

1. Read The Marketer’s Guide to Quora by Kristi Hines
2. Use quora as a source for high-quality traffic.
3. You will have less competitors there so do not spam yourself.

7) Hack social media benefits:

I am not saying you to hack a Facebook account, so keep calm. You should use social media to drive referral traffic to your blogs.  I would say, you should perform a test on three or four or five social networks and find out what works for you. And then concentrate only on top three.

Post on social channels, get connected with clients, and conduct competitions for fans (you don’t need to give away huge cash, a small custom image with the fans name will do). In other words, increase engagement.

Actionable tips:

1. Be active on social media.
2. Bifurcate your posting strategy with posts of yours, posts of other blogs, and some facts and figures within your niche.

8) Steal your competitor’s audience:

Your competitors are great people and they should not be looked down. If they have an audience higher than yours, you should not hesitate to learn their strategies. I would say make an analysis of your competitor’s traffic through SEMRush.

Through SEMRush you can know what posts and keywords they are ranking for. Once you know that, apply Brian Dean’s skyscraper technique and write more awesome content on that keyword. You are sure to get traffic.

You can also steal traffic from other popular competitors and like I said, with respect. All you have to do is be regular on their blogs and comment on their posts. As they are in your niche, you should attract the readers on their blog.

How do I do that with just commenting?

The answer is, write meaningful and relatable comments. No matter if it becomes lengthy. In fact, length matters a lot as if you have commented earlier you will find readers who have to pass your comment to write theirs. If your comment is meaty and unique the readers will visit your blog either through the commentluv link or your name.

See image to understand.

Actionable tips:

1. Do a competitor analysis.
2. Write better and in-depth posts around keywords your competitors are already ranking for.
3. Comment and provide value to other blogs.

9) Do social bookmarking:

Social bookmarking has never gone off trends. You can bookmark your posts on blogging communities and other communities related to your niche. Just sign up for their services and use them as social networks. You can utilize social bookmarking for traffic boosts to your site.

Most converting social bookmarking sites have karma score and you should earn them by showing activities there. I am not saying to invest all your time but you can invest at least an hour per week or hire a VA for this.

Most popular social bookmarking services include:

• BlogEngage – Engage with like-minded bloggers
• Dosplash – connect with other bloggers
• Kingged – Get traffic and networking right.
• Bizsugar – connect with industry leaders
• Viralcontentbuzz – Get influencers to promote your content.

Actionable tips:

1. Join blogging communities.
2. Bookmark your recent posts.
3. Promote posts shared by other people there.

10) Start an email list ASAP

An email list is a must have for every blog. Most people don’t have one when they start but let me tell you these people repent the most. Neil Patel says he is happy to invest even $1500 per year on email expenses. You don’t need to do as much but can always use free services like MailChimp or small expense basedGetResponse for email marketing. (Check other best email marketing tools here.)

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How to create affiliate from your Blogger

How To Create Your Own Affiliate Blog by Arnautweb

Ready to learn how to make your own affiliate blog?

(FYI: This post is chapter 2 of the mega-guide "5 Ways To Create A Profitable Affiliate Site")

Blogs monetized through affiliate sales are another very common business model.

They take a lot more work than some of the other models but the rewards can be worth it considering  just how much some bloggers make as you'll find out below.

I evaluate how to create your own successful blog below....

Content

1. How To Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog
2. Pro's of Affiliate Blogs
3. Con's of Affiliate Marketing Blogs
4. How These Sites Deliver Value
5. Examples of Successful Affiliate Blogs
6. How You Can Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog
7. What You'll Need To Get Started
8. Affiliate Blog Summary
9. Go to chapter 3: How To Create Your Own Niche Comparison Site >>>

How To Create Your Own Profitable Affiliate Blog

So we all know what a blog is. You're reading one. Read how to make an epic blog here.

Blogs that make money through affiliate marketing do so by promoting products in their posts and / or through their email list.

Some choose not to promote on the blog at all and keep it exclusively to email whilst others choose never to send any email promotions to subscribers and keep it on the blog.

(P.S. If you'd like to download a free list of 101 expensive affiliate niches click here or the image below)

Both models have their merits.

Typically the ones that see real success with this model are the bloggers who are open, honest, upfront about the fact they receive commissions and who deliver incredible value in every post.

They don't write fake reviews of products or say 'XYZ' is great simply for the sake of promoting in.

HOT TIP: The most successful affiliate blogs are open, honest and provide incredible content packed with value.

They show what they are promoting in action, write in-depth reviews, create case studies, provide actionable content that their visitors can see results from and in turn their visitors reward them by clicking on their links and buying.

So essentially they stand behind what they promote and more often than not have used the product themselves.

Through their great content and over the top value their visitors begin to trust and develop a relationship with them and you're much more likely to buy from someone like that than a random internet stranger.

Aside from content that promotes something the bulk of your content is likely to be pure value that your visitor can use that doesn't promote anything.

Pro's of Affiliate Blogs

• Great way to build up trust and a good reputation which is the easiest way to promote affiliate products.
• Allows you to easily build an email list that you can use to further grow your business by sending traffic back to your site and promote to.
• Through actionable content, case studies, and reviews you can make affiliate commissions with relative ease.
• Blogs are easy to draw traffic to – you'll pick up Google traffic, referrals from other bloggers, mentions on forums, social media shares and so on assuming your content is good.

Con's of Affiliate Marketing Blogs

• Takes time to build your reputation for being a trusted marketer with high quality content.
• 80% of your content likely promotes nothing so you put in a lot of work into writing and creating new posts that don't directly create income – though do help with your credibility, traffic and building your email list.
• Not a fast way to make money in most cases as you'll have to build up your content and traffic levels before you see significant results.

How These Sites Deliver Value

By creating some of the best content in the niche on the subjects that your audience want to know about.

Through solving their problems and giving them actionable content they can use to improve themselves or their situation.

Being upfront, honest, open and always over delivering.

Never putting out content that half hearted or designed simply to promote a product.

Only promoting products which they truly believe in.

HOT TIP: Solve your audiences problems whether it makes you a commission or not and they will buy anything you recommend.

Examples of Successful Affiliate Blogs

Matthew Woodward at matthewwoodward.co.uk

Earning over $14,000 p/m just from affiliate sales.

Matt's blog is an incredible example of an 'affiliate blog' done properly.

High quality content, in-depth tutorials, how to articles, video guides, honesty, openness, trust – it's EXACTLY how it needs to be done.

In less than 2 years he's built up a solid reputation of a blogger you can trust for advice and in return people are HAPPY to click on his affiliate links.

Adding, Editing, Removing Affiliates

Adding a new affiliate

To manually add a new affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click New Affiliate.

Fill out at least the Name of the new affiliate, you can leave the rest empty or provide the Username if the affiliate already has a user account. You can also add a user account later if desired. If you provide a Username the email associated to the user account will be used as the affiliate’s email.

The From date will be set to the current date automatically, leave it empty unless you would like to enable the affiliate at a certain date.

Click Save to create the new affiliate.

Editing an affiliate

To edit an existing affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click the Edit icon, here you can modify the email address, the user name or the validation dates.

The same basic options apply when a new affiliate is added.

The option “Edit username” allows you access to edit the user information.

You can now define affiliates attributes.

Removing affiliates

To remove an affiliate go to Affiliates > Manage Affiliates and click the Remove icon for the desired affiliate. Confirm your decision by clicking Remove.

Note that you have removed albert7 as an affiliate of your affiliate program database.

In this case, the same user cannot register again.

If you also need to remove him as a user, go to your WordPress Users menu and click the Delete button.

If you simply want to invalidate an affiliate so that the affiliate will not be credited with referrals anymore, you can set the appropriate Until date by editing the affiliate. This will retain information displayed for that affiliate and the affiliate will still appear in the affiliate listing when the Include inoperative affiliates filter option is checked.

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Bootstrap for beginner

Bootsrsp for beginner by ARNAUTWEB

Programming with HTML5 and CSS3 technologies have dramatically improved the landscape in web development. These technologies have certainly presented better ways to develop intriguing websites with unique interfaces.

HTML5 and CSS3 offer incredible functionalities that certainly empowered developers to generate worthwhile websites while encompassing ongoing web trends. Whether you want to integrate an exclusive graphic design in the interface or any other enticing media element like animation, these markup languages allow you to accomplish the task with a flair. Moreover, all the major browsers also support them and ensure a seamless execution of websites developed with these languages. This is not it.

We all are aware of the rapidly increasing demand of a mobile-optimized website. This growing demand has substantially made the responsive designs gain a great momentum. A responsive web design approach not only allows one to efficiently deal with the proliferation of mobiles, but also ensures a miraculous performance of websites on both desktops and mobile devices. Since, CSS3 media queries buttress responsive design, no wonder why more and more people are considering HTML5 and CSS3 to develop a responsive website.

This guide will reveal a step by step process for building a responsive blog by using HTML5 and CSS3. The tutorial has been written while assuming that its readers possess basic knowledge about both the technologies.

Let’s begin.

1. Create a basic HTML file

The HTML5 embraces simple and easily understandable doctype. Moreover, it also eradicates the usage of self-closing tags, and introduced several new elements, including <menu>, <video> and <audio>, to name a few. It eventually saves a lot of web development time and efforts.

Here is the complete code that you need to include in your HTML file.

Code Snippet of HTML file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
 <head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
 <title>Responsive Blogs Using HTML5 and CSS3</title>
  <meta name="description" content="">
  <meta name="author" content="">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0">
  <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico">
  <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/apple-touch-icon.png">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" />
 </head>
 <body>
    <div id="wrapper">
        <header id="header">
            <h1>This is a Responsive Blogs Using HTML5 and CSS3</h1>
            <nav class="navigation">
                <ul>
                    <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Services</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Blog</a></li>
                    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                </ul>
            </nav>
        </header>
        <div id="content" class="clearfix">
            <section id="left-sidebar">
                <p>Left Sidebar Content Goes Here</p>
            </section>
             
            <section id="right">
                <p>Right Side Content Goes Here</p>
            </section>
        </div>
         
        <footer>
            <p>Some copyright and legal notices gere. May be use the © symbol a bit.</p>
        </footer>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

2. Working on various sections of Page

In the above mentioned code snippet, I have included five HTML tags that can help you define your web page. The entire page is wrapped via a div tag, and the wrapper ID will wrap on the complete website.

Broadly, there are three different sections on a page, including header, content div and the footer. They have been defined in the code by their respective tags. The ‘nav’ tag has been also used to define the navigation elements. Through the section tag, the content section and sidebar are defined. In order to make them float, CSS style needs to be considered.

3. Styling via CSS3

To enhance the basic layout created via the HTML in step 1 and create a refined look and feel, CSS3 can be used for styling in a required way. Here I have worked on CSS to create pretty effects.

• Code Snippet to create ‘navigation link hover’ effect:

#wrapper{
 width:1024px; 
 margin:0 auto;
}
#header h1{
 text-align: center;
}
 nav.navigation {
    display: block;
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}
nav.navigation  ul {
    list-style: none;
    font-size: 14px; 
    text-align: center;
}
nav.navigation  ul li {
    display: inline-block;
}
nav.navigation  ul li a {
    display: block;
    float: left;
    padding: 3px 6px;
    color: #575c7d;
    font-size:22px;
    text-decoration: none;
    font-weight: bold;
}
nav.navigation  ul li a:hover {
    background: #ccc;
    color: #fff;
    -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
    -moz-border-radius: 3px;
    border-radius: 3px;
    padding: 3px 6px;
    margin: 0;
    text-decoration: none;
}

By including chink of code in your CSS document, you can create some cool and neat navigation link hover effect.

• Code Snippet to create ‘clearfix styles’ effect:

/* page Content */
#content {
display: block;
clear: both;
margin-bottom: 20px;
min-height: 500px;
}

#left-sidebar {
width: 35%;
float: left;
margin: 0 15px;
background: #ccc; 
min-height: 500px; 
text-align: center;
}
#right {
float: right;
width: 62%;
background: #efefef; 
text-align: center;
min-height: 500px;
}
footer{text-align: center;}
/* clearfix */
.clearfix:after {
content: “.”;
display: block;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
line-height: 0;
height: 0;
}
.clearfix {
display: inline-block;
}

html[xmlns] .clearfix {
display: block;
}
* html .clearfix {
height: 1%;
}

The clearfix styles can ensure a standard-compliant blog. The aforementioned code includes #left-sidebar and #right elements that represent the respective side of the section to the page. The div#content container consists the clearfix class. This will help float the web content in an optimal way while cleaning up the additional space.

4. Creating a Responsive Blog using HTML5 and CSS3

For creating a responsive blog, one can use the attributes of the targeted device. However, there is a better solution that can be used by implementing a CSS framework like the Bootstrap.

Bootstrap offers a brilliant way to create a responsive blog that can run efficiently on various screen sizes.

Code Snippet of Responsive Blog using HTML5 and CSS3:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
</head>

<body>
<div class="container">

<div class="jumbotron">

<header>
  <h1>Welcome to My Blog </h1>
  <p>Check the responsive blog page!</p>
</div>

<div class="row">
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <h3>First Blog Post</h3>
    <p>Blog Content Goes Here</p>
  </div>
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <h3>Second Blog Post</h3>
    <p>Blog Content Goes Here</p>
  </div>
  <div class="col-md-4">
    <h3>Third Blog Post</h3>
    <p>Blog Content Goes Here</p>
  </div>
</div>
<footer id="footer">
<p>copyright text </p>
 </footer>
 </div>

</div>
</body>
</html>

To ensure that your blog can be easily accessed from various devices, the viewport meta tag can be used. This meta tag basically defines the way your blog will be represented on a device.

In the above code,

• width is set equal to the device-width.
• Initial scale is set to 1. This will help embrace the touch-zooming effect on the blog.

This is a complete guide to create a responsive blog while using HTML5 and CSS3 technologies. Go through the steps thoroughly. There are several amazing effects that you can add in your blog via CSS3. I have included a few of them. I hope this will help you create a requisite responsive web design with an intriguing interface with a breeze.

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