a blog growth revolves around the amount of traffic it gets either on search engines, bookmarking sites or other means, let me make this clear an unread blog is as good as a dead blog there is something that gives breath to a blog, that thing is traffic because if you have lots of traffic coming into your blog you will be motivated to grow stronger.
most bloggers quit blogging within their first or second month of blogging
reasons why some new bloggers quit
low or no traffic at all
this is the most annoying part of blogging for newbies and even some pro bloggers after taking your time to write an article later on you will find out that no one is reading your article, surely you will be discouraged
ran out of posts
as a blogger updating your post and blog will be your main target, you need to update your blog with new post, some bloggers do run out of topics to write about this is the most common factor affecting bloggers
patient
if you have been following this blog you will find out that i always encourage my blog readers to be patient, patient is the key to making money both online and offline because the internet is just like any normal offline business and all we need is hard work to achieve success.
now let me focus on how you can drive traffic to an old or new blog because a blog without traffic is as good as a dead blog
how to drive traffic to a new or old blog
commenting on top blogs
you should comment on top blog in your
keyword or niche, this is a sure way to drive traffic to your blog
commenting on blogs that has both do follow and no follow links will
help in increasing your site value and traffic, write your
comments on top blogs in your niche at least you comment should be among
the first ten comments in order to drive in huge amount of traffic to
your blog.
social networking
promote your blog post in any active sites that has and receives lots of visitors e.g sites like twitter and facebook, i usually get lots of traffic from facebook daily from facebook and twitter so don't think social network is helpless in driving traffic,use the with time you will start generating good traffic form social network
keyword research
you should do a diligent keyword research, research deeply to know what people are searching for, choose a less competitive keyword
content
use an enticing title for your post, not only using enticing titles but you need to write nice,quality and informative contents because google was designed to reward blogs with great contents
focus
use your blog as a source of helping people, let it be seen as a source of adding improvement and great information's to the lives of your blog readers, focus in turning your blog into an informative guide for your readers.
track your success
use any software to track your success, by doing this you will know what worked and what didn't work for you there are lots of tools you can use to track the success of your blog e.g google analysis or statcounter and there are many more tracking tools for bloggers
respect and follow seo principles
write your articles in a well optimized way to drive in targeted traffic to your blog, get backlinks to your site by commenting on other blogs and writing guest post on other blogs or you can also check out 45 ways to drive traffic to your blog
images
use images related to the post you are writing for better ranking, some internet surfers usually use image search to search for what they are looking for in search engines that offers image search e.g google.com
paid promotion
you can pay to promote your blog either on facebook,google ad word or other paid promotion companies, promotion is also a great way to drive traffic and new readers to a new blog
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good tips up there , very useful
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