December 2018 - I was getting 5–10 users every day visiting my website. I thought it would be awesome if I can get 100 visitors every day.
April 2019 - More wish was granted, but I was not very happy. Getting 100 users per day was only getting me 0.2 USD per day as Adsense earning. I thought, 1000 visitors per day would be mind-blowing.
October 2019 - I joined 100+ Facebook groups, made 5 different profiles, and started posting my blog link extensively wherever I can. I also joined Pinterest, twitter, and started spending 1–2 hours promoting my blog. I started getting 1000 visitors per day, but my average CPC went down and I was not even making 1 USD per day as Adsense earning.
(I did something very different during this time, I will tell you this later in my answer (Tip Number - 7), what is that different thing I did)
April 2020 - I started getting 5000 visitors per day. The best thing was 95–98% of them were organic traffic. I stopped promoting my blog links on Facebook because they blocked my account.
October 2020 - I am now getting more than 10,000 visitors per day. Almost all my traffic is organic, meaning I do not spend time promoting my blog, rather I spend that time in writing quality content.
WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF TRAFFIC
As I have mentioned above, there are two major types of traffic.
1 - Organic Traffic
This is the best way to get traffic. It is the natural way, where you do not force people to visit your blog but they come to your blog through search engines.
2 - Paid Traffic
In this method, you actually attract people through paid ads.
7 GOLDEN WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC - FAAAST
Below are the top 10 ways, that has helped me to increase my blog traffic from zero to 10,000 + visitors per day.
1 - Trending Topics
It is very important that you write what people search on the internet. You can use the google autofill to find out what people search for
Google Autofill
Also, make use of Google Trends that gives you a hot topic that is getting viral day today. Initially, there are not too many blogs on these topics, and if you write a post on them in an earlier phase, it would be easy to rank
Google Trend
2 - Promote On Social Media
Social media can make you a hero in one day. One of my friends was preparing for IAS for 3–4 years, he was not very intelligent and not that smart too. He started making youtube videos. He made 10–15 videos, no one watched it, I mean all the videos have less than 100 views.
Then one day, he made a video on India-China, that time this was a hot topic. His video on Indo-China got viral, he now has more than 2 lakh subscribers. And astonishingly, he looks so smart now and sounds intelligent on his video.
So social media can make you a hero, provided if you write quality content and on hot trending topics.
3 - Start Collecting Email As Early As Possible
This is one of the most common mistakes, new blogger does. Even, the expert blogger, Neil Patel admits not to collect emails of his blog visitors in the early phases of his blogging career.
If you are planning to do blogging for the long term, then you should start building your audience. You can put a nice pop and use lead magnet trick. In this you can give a bribe for people in exchange of their email - ebook, audio, offer etc.
4 - Improve Page Loading Time
Optimizing your page loading time is an excellent way to increase your traffic. In this fast world, Customers Are Won or Lost in One Second.
Studies show that 40 percent of shoppers abandon a website that takes more than three seconds to load.
You can use Google Page Speed Insight to find ways to improve your page loading time.
5 - Build Linking
Connecting your internal pages and also including outbound link helps in ranking higher in google.
Apart from this, you should also value these two points
- write quality and in-depth content
- your post shall bring value to your readers
6 - Guest Posting
You can do two things - include guest post on your website and also write guest post in other blogs.
This way, you will connect with more bloggers and this will make you more popular among your community. More popularity means, more people visiting your blogs.
7 - SEO Auditing Of Your Blog
This was the most turned around factor which has brought me where I am now, in terms of blog earning, daily traffic, and site ranking.
- 10,000 visitors per day
- 50,000 INR per month earning
- Global Ranking - 180,938
After getting frustrated from getting blocked on Facebook, trying to promote my blogs, and not getting enough organic traffic, I happen to come across a post on the importance of the site audit. So I decided to give it a try to SEMrush tool to audit my site.
I found out that there are thousands of errors and warnings.
I worked on all the errors and warnings and solved them one by one. It took days, weeks and months to actually accomplish this task. I agree that it was not easy, I was working day and night but the result were not shown quick.
It took a month for the hard work to appear. My organic traffic almost increased 10 times. During this, I got to know a lot of new things.
- choosing low Kd keywords
- targeting long-tail keywords
- using competitor tool to get backlink details
- keyword suggestion and keyword phrase was very handy too
- restructuring my blog posts
- giving more importance to linking (inbound and outbound)
I would certainly encourage you to audit your website using this site audit tool
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