Written on April 13th, 2008 at 12:04 am by Darren Rowse
10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less
This is a guest post on improving blog traffic from Courtney Tuttle. Courtney writes about marketing online at Court’s Internet Marketing School.
1. Create link clusters within your blog
A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.
2. Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts
By watching your stats, you can often identify posts that get search traffic from a keyword, even though the keyword isn’t listed in the HTML title of the post. By editing your posts’ HTML titles to add the keywords they cover, you can strengthen the rankings and therefore the traffic that the post generates. You can easily make a difference with this method in less than 20 minutes. This method combines very well with #1.
3. Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook
You can never ever have too many friends on SU and Facebook. Inviting existing readers to find you on these services with a post should take less than 20 minutes.
4. Save your best posts for the best times of the week
Writing a home-run post on a Saturday afternoon will probably happen from time to time. However, does your blog have good traffic on Saturdays? Analyzing your blog’s stats to determine when it naturally has the most traffic can get more eyes on a great post, which will translate to more social votes and more links. If you have created the post of your life, wait for a good day to publish – it will cost you about 1 minute on a later date to put it up.
5. Edit your post one more time
How can you improve your title? How can you improve your first paragraph? Small details in your post, especially in the beginning of your post, can make an enormous difference in its ability to draw social traffic and links. You can definitely improve your title, first paragraph, formatting, and grammar within 30 minutes.
6. Stop writing about yourself. Start solving problems
Surfers become readers when a blog provides something that is wanted. A casual visitor may read your blog because they find training, answers to problems, entertainment, or something else they want. This more than likely will mean that they won’t want to read about you, your girlfriend, your cats, your kids, or your catastrophes (unless you have a personal blog that your friends read). Discontinuing the off-topic posts will help you to develop more repeat traffic and takes exactly 0 minutes to implement.
7. Subscribe to the feeds of your industry’s major players
That way, you won’t miss important news releases. When news breaks in your industry, there will be a lot of extra traffic searching for information on the event. Adding your thoughts will almost always generate extra traffic. Subscribing to the feeds of your industry’s top sites should take no more than 15 minutes.
8. Give a great post to a prominent blog
Let’s say that you took the time to write something great. Donating your post to a great blogger can help you to create a win-win. The great blogger gets a great piece of content that will bring him social traffic and links and you can create exposure for your name and brand. Emailing your post to a great blogger or blog takes less than 10 minutes.
9. Go to the store
Look at magazines. Pay special attention to the types of titles that are used on the covers. Write down the most interesting titles and think about what makes them interesting. In order to generate buzz around a post, a great title is an absolute necessity. More on this topic here: The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration. You should be able to find some good title ideas in about 30 minutes.
10. Answer your email and comment questions
Nothing will show a reader that you care more than answering an question (even if you have already answered that question 100 times on your site). Why do people read your blog? Because you solve their problems. Why will they come back again and again to your blog? Because you solve their problems. Answering a person’s email or comment question should take less than 5 minutes.
136 Responses to “10 Ways to Improve Blog Traffic in 30 Minutes or Less” - Add Yours
FreePSDLogo
April 13th, 2008 12:14 am
I have been playing with video for a bit and its a lot of fun and its bringing a lot of traffic to my site, social media also works great for traffic.
Effigy
April 13th, 2008 12:18 am
Really great tips. #4 is especially smart, even if it’s sometimes hard to resist hitting that ‘publish’ button asap when you’ve knocked out something you’re proud of. I have this problem, except with me it’s wanting to push everything out at odd hours of the day (night) rather than low trafficked days of the week. I blame insomnia. Must. Save. To. Draft….. Thanks, Darren.
Troy Duncan
April 13th, 2008 12:41 am
Thanks for the post. I’m going to implement #1 and create internal link clusters. External link clusters are awesome, but I never tried to implement link clustering within my site.
bugsy
April 13th, 2008 12:47 am
My favorite point is #9… “Go to the store”
This is great advice. But even in addition to magazines there is much inspiration to be found. Personally, the moment of finding that inspiration is one of the absolutely best parts of blogging.
I suggest the cereal isle at the super market! They know how to pitch something to kids in very few words. And I think all the bold colors in a super market is inspiring.
Hmmm… I think I’ll head to the book store today, then maybe the chocolate store, then pick up a new CD, and I’ll have everything I need to pump out a few blog entries for the day.
Scott Sweeney
April 13th, 2008 12:50 am
I agree. I think keeping good logs of your traffic and releasing great posts to correspond with that is a great way to make sure that article gets viewed, and not buried!
Great guest post!
Michael | University Scholar
April 13th, 2008 1:01 am
I believe these are some of the best tips that you have given in past few weeks. So simple, but things we over look are don’t spend the time to do.
soultravelers3
April 13th, 2008 1:03 am
Thanks Darren and Courtney!
I am new to all of this, so enjoy these kinds of posts. I am still confused about the key word element for my unique niche, so would love to see more on that area for noobs.
Unlike many here, I am not looking to get rich and I am already retired, but I do spend a lot of time on our blog so looking to make it better. There is so much to learn!
Frugal Dad
April 13th, 2008 1:10 am
These are some excellent tips! I’ve been trying to pay more attention to the text I am linking to reference past posts. Up to this point I was rather haphazardly highlighting some text and linking back – now I understand the benefit of anchor text. Thanks for putting these together.
NEM
April 13th, 2008 1:12 am
UHM…Great post.Thanks Darren
JEMi @ InMyHeels.com
April 13th, 2008 1:15 am
:-)
Courtney, this is a very valuable post
THANK YOU
Faina Sechzer
April 13th, 2008 1:48 am
Great suggestions. It’s sometimes difficult not to publish on the weekend (slow days), because that’s when I have more time and write better content. Also, in the narrow niche, non-monetized blog, catchy/creative titles don’t work as well. The boring “Princeton NJ real estate….” does better:)
SpaceAgeSage
April 13th, 2008 1:51 am
I am new to blogging, and it always amazes me that for all the bells and whistles you can add to a blog, it still comes down to connectivity, common sense, good writing, and leaving your readers with something they can take away and use. Thanks for outlining it the way you did in this guest post.
Norman
April 13th, 2008 1:52 am
Link clusters is a great tip! I just used this tip in my blog. Other tips are very useful too such as posting the best post at the best time of the week. Some similar tip includes dig your best post at the best time of the day.
Simona Rusnakova
April 13th, 2008 2:10 am
Yes, and just to add in relation to HTML title tags that it’s not only for Google or other search engines, but also for humans, as they will read it and decide themselves whether they click to your website or not – based on the .
So make sure you optimise it well also from this point of view. Maybe this article could help – How to Captivate Buyers in 5 Words: http://www.3r.ie/resources/marketing_articles/captivate_buyers_in_5_words.htm
Enjoy!
Paul
April 13th, 2008 2:11 am
hi, can somebody explain the ‘anchor text’ bit again? I’m new to this.
Eban Crawford
April 13th, 2008 2:38 am
Great list, but to me, #6 is the stand out suggestion. As I look at others in the blogging world that I respect, and get great reader numbers, this seems to be a rule they embrace.
Whether it be in review form, giving kudos, showing link love, solving a problem or educating a reader, the bloggers that project out instead of in are usually more popular and engaging.
Cheers,
Eban
Astrobird
April 13th, 2008 3:34 am
Great post! I think it is very smart to improve upon posts if you think of a better way to say something.
Howard
April 13th, 2008 3:41 am
While it’s not something you can just do off the cuff, talking about your blog to people seems to help – not just commenting on blogs but talking to people when you see them. Because the site I run doesn’t generate revenue through ads but through sales at events, it’s important for me to build up a loyal readership, which means trying to get word of mouth advertising, which is slow.
It’s fun reading the posts here, even though it feels like the majority don’t apply to my site (however much I wish they did!).
Keep the tips coming, thank you!
suresh
April 13th, 2008 3:42 am
Very nice post and up to the point that what author wish to say is well planned.
Yes not only developing the content and putting it in the proper format,providing social media book marking facility will definitely gives a uplift to the traffic.
Blogthority
April 13th, 2008 3:44 am
I didn’t do the math but these suggestions add up to WAY more than 30 minutes!!
Exciting title though.
mr.eims
April 13th, 2008 3:54 am
I aldeady doing some of those,
but others, realy are great information.thx,
Luis Gross
April 13th, 2008 4:01 am
Hey I’m surprised I actually implemented most of these already, I’m more ahead than I thought lols ;) Great Post Darren!
Daw Web Hosting Blog
April 13th, 2008 4:04 am
Hi Darren,
I lke # 8 “Go to the Store”! it is something that brings bloggers closer to real journalism.
Libor Fikr
April 13th, 2008 4:04 am
Great post!
Joseph Ratliff
April 13th, 2008 4:05 am
Darren,
Answering your email, go figure. :)
Quit talking about yourself and solve problems…that is one many bloggers miss.
Here is one that could add to this thread…
Attend a seminar, and bring business cards with your blog’s address on them, and actually talk about your blog a little in appropriate conversation.
Joseph Ratliff
Author of The Profitable Business Edge 2
P.S. Oh yeah, mention that you actually write a blog when you can…don’t just expect your audience to find it in the search engines, after all we are people. :)
Peter Cooper
April 13th, 2008 4:09 am
If you’re using Wordpress, never fear on publishing when you shouldn’t! If you set your post’s date to some time in the future, that’s when it’ll be published! So if you’re writing on Saturday but want it to go up at 4pm on Monday, just set that as the time, and publish it and forget. This is a great way to queue up content for when you go on vacation too.
Debt Free Revolution
April 13th, 2008 4:44 am
Tip #4 has to be the toughest one on this list! If I write something I am proud of, I just want to hit “publish” immediately LOL
Anil Gupta
April 13th, 2008 4:44 am
I as well created a big list of traffic building tips for a blog at http://www.scopeformoney.com/2008/04/10/26-ways-to-bring-traffic-to-your-website/
Jim Legington
April 13th, 2008 5:12 am
That’s a great list and I’m glad to add that kind of content
to my Del.icio.us/UpperRoom and again be blessed ProBlogger-Darren. Yes, that’s sure to be help to many.
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Boris
April 13th, 2008 5:30 am
@ Peter Cooper: thanks for the tip, I never knew it would publish it at the time you set it to automatically.
This post is great, I’ve never thought about #4 especially. I’ll definitely be following at least that tip from now on :)
Mike King
April 13th, 2008 5:43 am
Great tips, especially “stop talking about yourself”. I’ve got one more simple one many blogger’s forget.
How about providing additional references and links to other’s sites when discussing some topic found there. Its a great way to draw their attention and some additional traffic.
Michael
April 13th, 2008 6:00 am
That first tip is amazing, I’ve never thought of doing something like that. The rest of them are great too but I thought I would point out the best one.
Kevin @ Change Your Tree
April 13th, 2008 6:13 am
These are really great tips. It’s not often you come across content that ACTUALLY helps you rather than beating around the bush.
Thanks for this!
Alex Cristache
April 13th, 2008 6:37 am
In an post publishes 2 days ago, I wrote that something similar to your no. 6 is one of the ways for a blogger to keep me away from reading his posts. It’s always nice to find people online, people that you can relate to, but then again, that’s why we have Facebook, Hi5, MySpace. I’m reading blogs to find information, articles of interest, not daily ramblings about vacations, training dogs and stuff like that.
If you pick a niche, than act professional and stick to it!
Thanks and congratulations Courtney for a great post!
Franca Richard
April 13th, 2008 6:52 am
I know now, thanks for the really useful tips and I will try to use them now!
Simple Mom
April 13th, 2008 6:53 am
All great tips! Sticking to your blog’s topic is especially good. I oftentimes wade through personal anecdotes in my niche (mom blogging), and it can be tiresome sometimes.
I’ve never thought of #1. Really great idea! Thanks for sharing.
The Internet Apprentice
April 13th, 2008 6:54 am
This was a great post. I thought the link clusters was an interesting idea. I’m not really concerned with writing for search engines at this point, but it’s something I’ll have to consider in the future. I also liked the idea on solving problems. I think it’s something we all know, but it’s good to be reminded about that, now and again.
- Dave
Kevin
April 13th, 2008 7:03 am
#1 is really a good idea. #7 is something that depends on your pagerank (especially for Google search). For #8, it may take less than 10 minutes to email your great post to prominent blog, however it may take more than a month for a blogger of prominent blog to read his/her mail box and sometime email will be categorized as a spam mail, however this is not a bad idea nor good for a blogger to be negative thinker. Overall this is a nice article.
Blogger
April 13th, 2008 7:44 am
I didn’t know about the clusters things. Thanks a lot!
Like your short and informative article.
CindyS
April 13th, 2008 7:52 am
I have been surprised at the amount of search engine traffic I get but I would love to have more. I am going to try rewriting some of my titles and dropping in text anchors and clusters. Thanks for the tips!
Pentad
April 13th, 2008 8:57 am
Nice to see thoughts and ideas I have been contemplating on how to improve, confirmed by someone that has the experience, and know-how. Thanks!
Robert
April 13th, 2008 9:12 am
I’ve always know about the internal linking. I always thought it was just a way to increase traffic flow within your blog. And maybe ever share the pagerank between your posts. I NEVER thought that it would actually increase my ranking in Google. WOW.
I’m gonna spend allot more time on that.
And I know need to start working on the other things.
:) Thanx again Darren.
Kathie Thomas, A Clayton's Secretary
April 13th, 2008 9:12 am
Great ideas. I’ve been doing the link clusters for awhile but didn’t know there was a name for them. Re stumbleupon and facebook – would having them linked on my blog be useful too or only draw attention to that in posts?
Torley
April 13th, 2008 9:23 am
I appreciate how concise and clean this article is, including the time estimates needed to implement each of the ways! I’m going to try some of them out that I haven’t really made a conscious effort about before.
While I agree with the overall sentiment of #10, I disagree with heading in a direction of answering the same question 100 times — not only does it waste your time from more eclecti questions, it makes your readers (certain individual personalities more than others) lazy. Instead, I recommend growing a FAQ over time and updating it to include hot new Q&A, and regularly pointing readers to it so they can get the benefits.
rick
April 13th, 2008 9:34 am
Great post. I recently started a new project and have been looking for ways to generate steadily increasing traffic. I feel the concept has wide appeal, but am seeking ways to jump start my rankings. I have just completed tip#2, and am anxious to see the results. Prior experience confirms tip#6 is dead on.
Alejandro Reyes
April 13th, 2008 9:46 am
Awesome ideas Darren! Definitely going to implement most if not all them when the time arrives.
I like the idea of donating a good post to another blog. The Law of Reciprocity definitely kicks in!
Paula Mooney
April 13th, 2008 11:26 am
Excellent list, Darren.
Helpful.
Think I may incorporate these traffic-getting tips soon into a guest post.
Thanks,
Paula
giftcardblogger
April 13th, 2008 11:50 am
One of your best posts in a while. These are practical tips and I feel like once implemented, i can begin to see results soon. thanks!
Misti Sandefur
April 13th, 2008 11:56 am
Great tips, Courtney! Another way to draw traffic to your blog is by participating in forums, message boards and groups related to your blog’s niche. Don’t spam them. Instead, share advice and answer questions posted by others. Include the link to your blog in your signature. :)
You’re advice has been stumbled. ;)
Bash Bosh
April 13th, 2008 12:01 pm
Absolutely great tips… thank you for sharing this with us!
The Masked Millionaire
April 13th, 2008 12:22 pm
Gotta bookmark this one…good advice!
Aaron from Webspear
April 13th, 2008 3:02 pm
Just a comment on point number 5.
I believe excerpts are very useful in drawing social traffic. When you submit your post to social networking sites, write a special excerpt for it. Do not put the post heading as the description of your article. An excerpt gives a quick overview of your article that grabs the reader’s attention.
Aaron from Webspear
April 13th, 2008 3:15 pm
It’s Aaron again …
Forgot to thank Courtney for the great tips, great post! keep up the good work.
It is very useful for part time bloggers like me looking for quick ways to improve our blogs.
Darren, thanks for posting this guest post.
Dating Webmaster
April 13th, 2008 3:24 pm
Very nice tips. Some of them are just brilliant)
Son Nguyen
April 13th, 2008 3:30 pm
These are great tips for general communications as well. Thanks for sharing and reminding since so many of us just simply miss the points.
nextz77
April 13th, 2008 4:31 pm
1. Create link clusters within your blog
I missed this part,I knew there are something to do with our our keyword ranking and my best post search engine ranking version ..lol
Killer Pickle
April 13th, 2008 4:45 pm
My of my traffic comes from MySpace. I will spend about two hours a day just request new friends and those people will often look at my blog.
Killer Pickle
April 13th, 2008 4:45 pm
My of my traffic comes from MySpace. I will spend about two hours a day just requesting new friends and those people will often look at my blog.
kusum
April 13th, 2008 5:06 pm
outstanding tips which have worked for me personally
BeyondRandom
April 13th, 2008 6:02 pm
Great Tips! I’m going to have to use a few of these.
Another Great Side Tip Is To Leave Comments On Other Blogs! I Have Noticed That Alot Of My Traffic Comes From Comments That I Have Left On Other Peoples Blogs.
Ashley B
April 13th, 2008 6:11 pm
Interestingly, we actually have the blog http://www.stupidbusinessideas.com/ and we will be trying to employ some of your not so stupid ideas in the immediate future. Nice one, thank you!!
Boris H
April 13th, 2008 6:31 pm
great article. I plan to listen to all you said :)
elektroseyir
April 13th, 2008 6:51 pm
changing headers and keywords for old posts working.
facecow
April 13th, 2008 8:16 pm
What about updating your posts uploading new media content?
Renaissance PR
April 13th, 2008 8:56 pm
Excellent information.
mr.eims
April 13th, 2008 10:34 pm
Well.. feel a bit awkward for no 8..hehe..
need a lot of writing skills to write to make another blogger to accept our post.?
Y not write for our blog instead if its a good article..?
Birmingham PC Repair
April 13th, 2008 11:19 pm
Very informative. Not only book marked, ive printed this out
Chris
April 14th, 2008 12:50 am
It sounds so easy–and it is, I suppose, if you pause and think and consider. It’s on my list of things to do. Thanks for posting!
Jroland
April 14th, 2008 1:41 am
Awesome tips!
Another Great Side Tip Is add your blog and posts on the first dictionary of web content. (http://www.dictionaryofwebcontent.com)
More traffic.
Thanks Darren
Farfield
April 14th, 2008 2:18 am
This really is useful information for me as a starting blogger. Court’s Internet Marketing School seems like a good place to hang out for a while too. I’m not shure I get the ‘link cluster’ thing but I’ll have a look at it later on!
Nantucket Art
April 14th, 2008 2:47 am
Great post – thanks !!
Anne
April 14th, 2008 3:24 am
Super points, Darren. I’m still trying to figure out how to get more from Stumble….it sends me the highest amount of traffic.
Bobby Gabriel
April 14th, 2008 3:33 am
very interesting tips. than you.
BawldGuy Talking
April 14th, 2008 4:38 am
Plain English, to the point, common sense advise, that will now force me to alter this weeks schedule. Thanks so much. Folks in my industry are in need of this kind of straight shooting advice. Thanks
Dream Dictionary
April 14th, 2008 5:26 am
Thanks for the great post. I will try #1!
Graham
April 14th, 2008 5:47 am
Good information.
At Home with Kim Vallee
April 14th, 2008 5:56 am
I follow some of these tips and they works great. Your post reminded me of others that I should use more often. Number 2 is simple and it can make a huge difference.
About #4 you are right. But I try to enhance my traffic on slower days. So at least once a month, I write about a great topic and submit it to high traffic community sites that work great for my niche. It is a way to boost a slower traffic day. Typically, a topnotch topic posted on the weekend on the right community will bring good traffic until Monday.
Erik Soderblom
April 14th, 2008 8:08 am
Hi’
Great tips, but you know…
With a language as small as Danish, I tell you, that you English writing people, you have it way to easy :-)
Does any off you have any good examples of bi-language personal websites ?
So far I’m only writing in Danish, but maybe some regular English postings could be good for traffic ???
Jens P. Berget
April 14th, 2008 9:18 am
I usually spend about 20 minutes a day at my favorite discussion forums, and during that time, I am involved in the discussions and I get ideas for new blog posts.
I think it’s important to connect with people at discussion forums, and use your signature to drive traffic to your blog. I get some good traffic every single day from discussion forums, and it doesn’t take me more than 20 minutes.
Gyutae Park
April 14th, 2008 12:10 pm
To an extent, I would have to disagree with point #6. Sure people want solutions to their problems, but blogs by nature are very personal and conversational. A relationship is developed between the blogger and reader over time and it’s necessary to talk about what you’re doing to make that connection even stronger.
Sure blogs that go too deeply into personal matters don’t really generate a huge readership. However, there’s still a place for personal matters even on a value-packed informational blog.
Noir Striker
April 14th, 2008 8:49 pm
I believe that point # 6 may be a source of blog hits as well depending on the subject and how it was handled by the blogger.
Because experience is still the best teacher and having a personal approach towards a topic that has been dissected oh so professionally adds to the flavor and sheds new light to it.
Based on my experience, though I’m not that main stream, the blogs having funny, and very personal takes on topics like tv shows and politics are the ones with more comments and hits.
Again, I guess it’s how you handle a topic that gives it value. I always like reading personal experiences.
Pumpkin
April 14th, 2008 10:59 pm
About nubmer 6:
I am not sure Dooce.com would be as popular as she is if she followed that one. Haven’t you read about all the blogger’s selling books because there are so many readers following their lives. Another blog that is growing fast is thepioneerwoman.com. She only blogs about her life and not problems. She opens a window up to readers into her life on a ranch. She is fun to read and takes great pictures.
There are many big mommy blogs out there. The readers go there to read about the kids and see the pictures. And, yes, to hear about how the mommy bloggers overcomes problems as a parents, but it isn’t as much about problems as it is about good writing and building relationships with their readers.
I think it all comes back to writing well. Taking the time to write posts that are of high quality no mater what it is about.
I have found that my traffic grows when I follow that one rule. Each time I become a lazy blogger which is more than I care to admit, my traffic reflects it.
I blog about my life and my children as well as other things that interest me and I think will interest my readers. My readers WANT to hear about my kids and how they are adapting to life in a new country and being bilingual. My readers want me to post photos of our weekend trips to large cities in Switzerland.
I think there are are blogs where you have to talk about your life even if it is as simple as what you ate for dinner with a good photo. A good example is an expat blog like mine. My readers are interested in finding out what is different in Switzerland all the way down to the food I eat.
My readers are coming to my blog to peak into my life as an expat in another country. It is a mini vacation for them. So, my job is to make sure they enjoy that mini vacation. ;)
I really have to disagree with you on this one. I don’t think all blogs are sucessful for the same reasons. I think that personal bloggers do need to write about themselves, but they need to do it very well. However, I do agree that blogs like Problogger will need to stay away from personal posts about themselves.
Illyani
April 15th, 2008 5:39 pm
Great post. It’s interesting to get to know the promotion method for blogs. Thanks.
Malte Landwehr
April 15th, 2008 5:48 pm
Great work! In my experience Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are the best days to publish your content. At least if you have a lot of readers who visit your blog from work.
HL Web Hosting
April 15th, 2008 8:31 pm
Great post! Enjoyed it thoroughly.
Slick Willy
April 16th, 2008 12:32 am
I really like number 6 as well, cause I tell people way too often how it can be done easily.
we have to solve our own problems daily, so we can adapt our own solutions to assist others. it actually seems so obvious to me, but the complaints I hear about content creation keep rolling in
i found countless blogs by searching for highly specific technical problems, and vice versa
and contrary to @pumpkin’s belief, great writing seems to be going out the window to me. people dont seem to be reading anymore, and its no wonder considering the available interactivity.
get to the point, present it in an easily digestible manner, and do not bore us with large blocks of copy
Charlie Anzman
April 16th, 2008 2:24 am
Darren – Your point 4 is bigger than most people think! Nice list.
Federal Watch
April 16th, 2008 9:29 am
Thanks for the great tips Darren..^^ they are really helpful..I will always remember them and try them out as well..^^
Geoserv
April 16th, 2008 1:02 pm
STUMBLED!
I will definitely be using these tips.
VOTED for you at:
http://www.newsdots.com/blogging/10-ways-to-improve-blog-traffic-in-30-minutes-or-less/
new entrepreneur
April 16th, 2008 8:37 pm
as usual,
very very useful post again darren
Gurji
April 17th, 2008 12:46 am
Number 10 is the killer for me and its easy to see why in a site like yours.
I know people regularly circle for the first comments on a post, but you regularly answer informative questions and posts.
Loving the 46577 subscribers – thats a real testament of the community this blog helps to build.
#2 can also be crucial, especially for heavily trafficked posts and keywords – can be difference from 800 backlinks to getting lost in the crowd
Fan of blogging and Problogger,
Gurji.
HelpAlways
April 17th, 2008 3:13 am
hi I often visit your pages …thanks for the info
Since a long time am observing people wanting directions on how to earn from the net. There are avid hunters of sites and there are those that really are lost and don’t know where and how to begin with.
I often collect info and share it via my blog…
thanks
Wade Balsdon
April 17th, 2008 8:40 pm
Cool tips thanks a ton.
D.A.T.
April 18th, 2008 4:07 am
thank for this article ive beentrying to increase traffic to my new design resources blog and this should help. Good work!
Jenna
April 18th, 2008 4:11 am
I thoroughly enjoyed reading this post! That is a wonderful list of tips that you have put together. #3 is a great suggestion!
Thanks for sharing!
Taylor
April 18th, 2008 9:47 am
Great article! I found it nice that I was already doing some of the listed things!
James Mann
April 22nd, 2008 10:24 pm
Darren I enjoy this guest post. Court is usually right on.
I have seen all these great pieces of advice here and there and of course in my mind I would tell myself ‘I’m going to get to that’ but things tend to get put on the back bench for later.
Maybe this time I will stay focused enough to get these started.
thanks
Michael Aulia
April 25th, 2008 12:26 am
Great tips as always!
Aylwin
April 25th, 2008 12:59 pm
Wonderful! Was wondering how to move up search engine rankings especially when generic terms in my industry are used. Very enlightening! Thank you!
Bill McIntosh
April 26th, 2008 8:51 am
Thanks for the tips. I like number 10. I think it’s very important to keep in communication with those who take interest in your site or blogs!
vishnu
May 9th, 2008 5:01 pm
hi you have given great tips. some of the tips i am following right now. i will improve with these tips
thank you
vishnu
Chetan
May 14th, 2008 5:53 am
Nice article Darren. But I think you forgot on main thing and that is contextual link exchanging. That can not only increase the traffic to your blog but also your ranking.
Read my article on Contextual Link Exchange at http://blogoninja.blogspot.com
Saurer
June 15th, 2008 12:57 pm
very impressive tips, i will try this approch with my sourcing sem expert blog,will get back with how it goes
Sportoracle
June 19th, 2008 4:04 pm
I have really tried to pull away from the online journal side of blogging but sometimes I have nothing else to write about. Recently I have written about things I have found interesting on the internet so that visitors will have a list of posts with things that they can do that is entertaining.
I would like to have a continuous vlog but I don’t have enough to video to make interesting videos….
hoping to learn more!
Ryan McLean
July 17th, 2008 2:10 am
Great tips
Most of these tips I will implement onto my financial blog today :)
Derek Honeywell
July 18th, 2008 4:18 pm
Hey, this is a great article. I have recently joined a Network Marketing Company and I have had 47 new pre-enrollees in 1 week, and I was strickly using Craigslist.com and nothing else. I just recently started using Myspace.com to start building more relationships. So I figured if I could find articles like this I could generate more leads and prospects.
Derek Honeywell
http://www.ResidualWireless.com
Dante
October 16th, 2008 2:11 am
Nice tips there, I got my blog on Google in two weeks and have a daily traffic of 1000. My blog adhere to one or two of the tips at the top but mainly I used one kind of method. Check out my blog and see how you also can get your blog on Google in two weeks.
http://www.dantemoneynet.blogspot.com
Cheers mates, happy blogging.
Ray The Money Man
November 15th, 2008 11:39 pm
Great post Darren. I have improved my traffic dramatically by linking to other post within my blog on your advice.
CeKay
November 23rd, 2008 8:23 am
Can you tell me what host problogger use ?
Dubai Web Design
November 24th, 2008 4:44 pm
This is a great list, that will not only help drive traffic to your site, but help you maintain it. I think interacting with you readers if one of the best ways to keep people coming back again and again, it shows them that you really care.
I’ve seen many of the others scattered across other blogs, but that one is new to me. And I also think its a great tip – sometimes the best inspiration will come when out with friends or family, away from your computer.
Shaun
December 12th, 2008 5:01 am
Hadn’t thought of using an RSS feed to stay up to date on my blog topic. Thanks.
Current News around the world
December 13th, 2008 8:47 pm
i take this point of yours: Create link clusters within your blog, very good, please do keep me update more on using word press techniques, right now i am doing this trick of yours using seo smart links plugins and create hell lot of link clusters taking down each note with specific keywords relating them to my certain news articles. hope this works well at the end.
thank you once for the awesome sharing. looking forward to it
Abdul Wahab
December 17th, 2008 12:13 am
Thanks for the nice tips. I’m sure that all the advice will create traffic but is it true that we can do it in just 30 minutes. I look into it though. Thanks again.
Matthew
December 19th, 2008 7:00 pm
Very nice tips! I’ll have to try to employ some of those keyword related tips to get some better targetted search engine traffic.
rjjrdq
January 12th, 2009 12:29 pm
Those sound like good ideas, but they’re generic. They don’t work for everybody. There must be another way to drive traffic.
Sam With Traffic Is King
January 25th, 2009 11:37 pm
I have done number #9 numerous times with Video and it works! The best place to go for compelling headlines is the grocery store cash register. If you look at the magazine titles there they have to be so compelling for you to pick them up because your right there with your wallet wide open. I grab these titles and re-optimize them for my headlines for video. Defintely a good idea.
Number # 1 and #2 are great! Going to implement that this week.
Mark
January 28th, 2009 1:58 am
Great advice , the question on how to quickly boost blog traffic definitely come up a lot in my line of work. I especially liked #6, way to think outside of the box!
john
February 5th, 2009 8:16 am
Great tips! I have been putting them to work, so we will see how it goes. I have a blog on how to get more blog traffic its kind of geared toward the average blogger and not seasoned pro’s
Thaifrau
February 8th, 2009 1:31 am
I suggest the cereal isle at the super market! They know how to pitch something to kids in very few words. And I think all the bold colors in a super market is inspiring.
mechape
February 21st, 2009 12:22 am
Nice summaring, can you explain more about giving a title to posts ?
And why it is so important ?
Robert
February 21st, 2009 3:23 am
I’ve read this many times but never really took the time to implement some of these things. I’ve gone ahead and did the first two.
Already by blog (http://www.iambored.co.za) has gotten more hits from search engines. About double actually. And it really did not take me long to do.
Affiliate Marketing Secret
March 3rd, 2009 1:18 am
Thanks for the tips.
I had always thought that you where getting penalise for editing your previous post since you will ping it again.
Great post keep them coming :)
All the best,
Cedric Aubry
James
March 4th, 2009 9:34 pm
Excellent tips. Adding new life to classic blog posts does help.
Mohit
April 10th, 2009 1:02 am
In my opinion Interlinking the post is one of the best way to rank up.
Thanks for the tips
-Mohit
Tom Mc Carrick
April 15th, 2009 8:13 pm
Another good way is, have your headline left-justified on your homepage. If it’s in the center, it mat be ignored more often than not.
Tom
Tom Mc Carrick
April 15th, 2009 8:13 pm
Another good way is, have your headline left-justified on your homepage. If it’s in the center, it mat be ignored more often than not.
Tom
Neha Kapoor
April 19th, 2009 7:37 am
Fantastic Advice.especially #1. Thank you for the post.
ExtremeArtwork
April 29th, 2009 7:56 pm
Nice article, point 5 is quite valueable.
It’s hard to not press that publish button right away, but reviewing a post again makes it that much better.
Jason Ortiz
May 23rd, 2009 2:29 am
The three points that were most helpful to me were points 5, 6, and 7! Point 5 helped me realize how much my own writing needed editing so that people could understand what I am trying to convey. Point 6 has also crossed my mind. People want solutions to their problems. As a Network marketer, I would dedicate my time to solve their problems. That goes for all marketers. Point 7 is excellent for getting ideas for the next great article idea. Point 7 is something I learned from Ed Dale on content creation!
EnergyChina
May 23rd, 2009 10:55 pm
good articles.
But Create link clusters within your blog? I think this method is complex.
Casper Christensen
May 26th, 2009 7:18 pm
Great ideas, Always looking for new ways to improve my blog (and the traffic). It’s amazing how many small and easy things you can do to make some noticable changes!
Anne
May 27th, 2009 4:00 am
Thanks so much! Just what I need when I feel my enthusiasm lagging — quick, easy things I can do to help my blog.
papi
June 3rd, 2009 1:46 am
11. build links from external site. even one link per day will do great difference within a few months.
Kim Dion
June 4th, 2009 6:37 am
those tips are great and I will have to try them on my blog. I have been looking for ways to improve my traffic on my blog. I have to buy that book.
You are right I about the money making abilities of most blog site on the internet today.
Regards,
Kim Dion
fresher
June 13th, 2009 6:18 am
Some worthy ideas.Though 1 and 10 are great mentions.
Not John Chow
June 24th, 2009 4:33 am
I am always looking for new ways to get traffic!
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