If you are a serious blogger, blogging to make money online through various monetization methods, survival in blogging is a game of traffic. Only the blogs with good traffic will be noticeable for search engines and advertisers.
I am not a serious blogger. I don't blog to make money online. I blog out of my passion to write on various blogging tips and tricks I know.
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However, views my blog receives in a day or month plays vital role in my blogging passion. I don't know how far it can be true. But I take it as a basis to judge whether my blog is doing good or not.
My blog is doing quite fine as far as I know. On an average it receives at least 100 views. Sometimes it receives 5,000 plus views. But maximum visitors are from the USA, Australia and India.
So the views it receives appear quite encouraging for me as a person behind it. But don't think that it is receiving this much views simply out of writing post after post and not doing anything at the back. I am doing many on my part.
I am using various methods to harvest this views. If you also want to increase the number of views your blog receives like me, you may use the following methods to bring traffic. I am using them.
1. Facebook Groups
Facebook will be one of the main sources of blog traffics. You can also share in your Facebook wall. But only who are in your friend list will be able to see then. But if you share your posts in Facebook Group in which the objective of that group complies your contents, whole group members will read your blog. In Bhutan, we have following Facebook groups:
2. Facebook Page
Your blog can be treated separate entity. You can give its existence in Facebook by creating a Fan Page where people can subscribe, like or share things you have shared there. You can also add it as a likes box in gadget. We have shared how it can be done. Read this post for steps.
3. Google Communities
There are many communities in Google. You can browse them via your Google Plus Profile. Join in ones that are in line with your blog's contents and start sharing them to bring more traffic. I have also created a Google Plus Community. You too can join.
4. Pinterest
Pinterest is also one of the potential sources of traffic for a blog. You can also provide link to your blog and also pin the post images of your blog in one particular Board. People in Pinterest can click on your blog link and the possibility of getting new followers is high.
5. Instagram
You can also provide your blog's link in your Instagram profile. These days there are as many people in it as there are in Facebook. You can also share images from your blog with some statement on them giving hints of your blog's contents.
6. Google Product Forums
Google has as many forums as it has products. You can open blogger help forum and then start asking questions with your blog's link. You'll get answers and also answer questions other bloggers have. This will help to get visitors for your blog to see your workings of what you have given in answers.
7. Blog Commenting
This is the most sexiest source of traffic newbies can have. When you comment in other blogs, it's an indication that you also maintain a blog and an invitation them to visit to your blog. You also should reply to comments left in your blog posts. Readers hate non-responsive bloggers.
8. Twitter
You can also directly tweet the posts of your blog. You have to add twitter button in your blog. You can add tweets in sidebar as a blog's gadget so that readers can not only follow you in twitter but also in blog.
9. Guest Blogging
You can contribute articles in other blogs. This is called guest blogging. This is not something suggested for newbies unless you can write very good articles. If you can write good articles in some big blogs, you will get quite a lot of visitors and followers. But many pro bloggers won't suggest guest posts from a newbie. Better don't try this if you are new in blogging.
10. Blogging Challenges
There are quite a number of blogging challenges. One of the most popular I have come across is A-Z blogging in February of every year. Some conduct inspiring blog award nominations which is called tagged blogging. This also helps a lot to bringing more bloggers together.
11. Helping Newbies
We have heard the adage 'Giving is the start of receiving'. This applies to blogging too. When you help new bloggers, the possibility of following your blogs in return and also referring to his or her friends in times of facing problem is higher. So start helping people who don't know as much as you do.
12. Email Newsletter
Your blog should have email subscription form so that readers can subscribe your blog and then start receiving updates as emails in their inbox. You can also add some attractive popup email subscription form.
13. Blog Directories
There are many community blogs where numerous blogs will be listed country-wise or in some cases continent-wise. In Bhutan, Blog-yul is one such blog. I have listed my blog in Pick a Blogger. You can browse such blogs. There are thousands. Registration is free in many.
14. Offline Marketing
You can also do your blog marketing outside social media. You can attend bloggers gatherings, workshops, seminars and make your blog's business cards. They will make others feel tempted to see your blog and then if you have good and related contents, they will follow it.
15. Bloggers Interview
This is one of the methods that has proven very very successful for me. I have started a program IBB-Interview Bhutanese Bloggers. No post in that label has views lesser than 1K. It's just an advantage of human psychology. Who doesn't want to read an article something about him or her is talked? You too can start such interviews, which is easy.
Those methods have helped me harvest this-level views/traffic. If you also want to increase your blog's traffic too, you may use those methods. If you have some other methods that have helped you in improving your blog's traffic, please share with us. Sharing is loving.... :)
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