21 Strategies to Increase Blog Traffic (Updated 2012) | SEOmoz
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It’s easy to build a blog, but hard to build a successful blog with significant traffic. There’s an art to increasing a blog’s traffic, and given that we seem to have stumbled on some of that knowledge, I felt it compulsory to give back by sharing what we’ve observed. Here is just the full list: 1 - Target Your Content to an Audience Likely to Share; 2 - Participate in the Communities Where Your Audience Already Gathers; 3 - Make Your Blog’s Content SEO-Friendly; 4 - Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share Your Posts & Find New Connections; 5 - Install Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results; 6 - Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations (with link-back licensing); 7 - Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts; 8 - Frequently Reference Your Own Posts and Those of Others; 9 - Participate in Social Sharing Communities Like Reddit + StumbleUpon; 10 - Guest Blog (and Accept the Guest Posts of Others); 11 - Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site; 12 - Interact on Other Blogs’ Comments; 13 - Participate in Q+A Sites; 14 - Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!); 15 - Attend and Host Events; 16 - Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog; 17 - Survey Your Readers; 18 - Add Value to a Popular Conversation; 19 - Aggregate the Best of Your Niche; 20 - Connect Your Web Profiles and Content to Your Blog; 21 - Uncover the Links of Your Fellow Bloggers (and Nab ‘em!); Bonus #22 - Be Consistent and Don’t Give Up! [read full great article http://j.mp/AhWVAM]
Curated by Giuseppe Mauriello
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