How to Grow Your Blog Traffic by 20,000 Visitors a Month

Around eight months ago, I started a new blog in the marketing realm. When I first started out, my traffic was flat.

But around four months ago, I figured out a process that has allowed me to grow my traffic consistently—a process I could replicate. I am now at a point where I am adding about 20,000 new visitors each month.

Best of all, I’ve been doing it without spending a dollar on marketing.

The tactics I’ve been using will work for anyone. They work so well that the results I’m experiencing with my nutrition blog are even better, which is crazy since I don’t have a brand in that space and I don’t have many assets I can leverage to help it grow. (I’ll be updating you in a week on my journey to $100,000 monthly income).

So, how did I achieve those results, and how can you gain similar ones? 

Collect emails

I’ve mentioned this in the past, but chances are you still aren’t collecting emails from your blog. Other than search traffic, it’s the most consistent form of traffic you can get.

Just look at NeilPatel.com. Here is the email traffic I’ve received over the last 30 days:

That’s not too bad, considering my list size is currently at 3,612.

So, how do you collect emails? The simplest ways are through page takeovers, interstitials, sliders, and bars. The beautiful news is you don’t have to be technical to use any of those features…you can just use Hello Bar, which is free.

In addition to using Hello Bar, you should consider using Thrive Leads, which allows you to offer bonus content.

For example, if I wrote a blog post on 11 marketing tips that will double your traffic, the bonus content could be two extra tips that weren’t mentioned in my post. In order for you to receive that bonus content, you would have to give me your email address.

Sure, this type of email collection takes a bit of time, but it will account for 50% of the emails you collect.

Once you have a list, every time you write, email to your list subscribers letting them know about your latest post. Here is the email template I use:

Subject: Title of your blog post

Hey,

I just wanted to share with you the latest [Insert your blog name – and make this a link to your post] blog post. Let me know what you think.

[Insert the title of your blog post – and make this a link to your blog post]

[Insert the first paragraph from your blog post]

[Insert the second paragraph from your blog post] Click to continue [make the “click to continue a link]

Thanks.
[Insert your name].

P.S. [Add a promotional message here]

Just in case the template is confusing, here is an example of a recent email I sent out, based on this template:

Hey,

I just wanted to share with you the latest Quick Sprout blog post. Let me know what you think.

Why You Need a Social Media Calendar and How to Create One

You’ve heard of social media calendars before, but do you know what they are and how to use one?

Chances are you don’t. And that’s okay… I didn’t either when I entered the realm of social media marketing. But once I learned about it and how to use it, it change how I marketed my businesses on the social web. [click to continue]

Thanks,
Neil.

P.S. If you want to see how I can help you grow your traffic and revenue, go here.

Write extremely detailed content

The average blog post on my NeilPatel.com blog ranges from 4,000 words on the low end to 8,000 words on the high end.

I know what you are thinking: that’s a lot of text. And it is.

On top of that, each post contains tons of screenshots and images. If you don’t have time to add images, you can always pay someone to do it—like I do.

But just look at my search traffic for the last eight months:

• September – 2,017 visitors
• October – 3,952 visitors
• November – 4,087 visitors
• December – 5,572 visitors
• January – 9,029 visitors
• February – 13,783 visitors (only 28 days in this month)
• March – 20,543 visitors
• April – 24,540 visitors (projected)

How have I been able to increase my search traffic on a consistent basis? Is it link building?

Nope!

It’s purely by writing extremely detailed content. This allows me to get ranked for thousands of long tail keywords that aren’t competitive.

If you are going to write content, consider writing extremely detailed content. Write something so detailed that people wouldn’t dare to copy you—that’s when you’ll know you have done a good job.

Building a fan base

Fan base? I know what you are thinking: why would anyone want to be your fan, right?

Well, you need to stop thinking that way. Everyone has fans.

How do you build a loyal following? You can start by trying to help everyone out. I know I’ve mentioned this in the past, but are you actually responding to each and every comment you receive on your blog?

Probably not…

And when your readers email you, are you taking the time to email them back? You should care about your readers and do whatever is in your power to help them out. And they will keep coming back.

Just look at Randy, who comments on every single NeilPatel.com blog post:

He continually comes back because I truly care to help him. And sometimes he helps me out by pointing out things I wasn’t familiar with.

Strike partnerships

Business development may not sound sexy, but it works well. There are already people in your space with whom you can potentially work because they are not your direct competitors.

For example, I just struck a deal with Cyberchimps, who provide WordPress themes. Some of their themes are paid, while others are free.

Together, we will be offering more marketing-friendly themes—not just from a code perspective but also from a design perspective. It will take six months for this deal to fully go live, but once it does, it will help me generate more traffic.

This partnership will allow them to attach “marketed by Neil Patel” links to the bottom of each of their themes. To ensure that I don’t get penalized by Google, the links will be “no-followed,” but they still should drive good referral traffic.

How did I get this deal? And, more importantly, how can you get a similar deal? Well, I emailed around 30 people in the space telling them that I have an idea that will help them grow their businesses faster.

Some people responded, while others didn’t. I got on the phone with those who responded and pitched my idea to them. I broke down how it would separate them from other theme providers, and I even explained the benefit to me.

Once I had all the conversations and a few people said yes, I decided with whom I wanted to work.

Write more often

I used to publish blog posts on NeilPatel.com once a week. Over time, I ramped it up to twice a week.

Here is my monthly traffic when I was posting once a week:

And here is the traffic after I started posting twice a week:

As you can see, the more frequently you post, the more search traffic you will receive, assuming your content is high in quality. My goal is to ramp up my personal blog to three posts a week as that will help me hit the 100,000 monthly visitor mark really fast. The only issue is finding the time…

Conclusion

Growing your blog traffic doesn’t have to be rocket science. Follow the steps above, and you too will be able to get more traffic.

Sure, your growth rate may not be as rapid as mine (as I am able to leverage my name to get certain deals done), but still—you should see more traffic.

If you had to pick just one thing to follow, consider writing long, detail content. What I learned by blogging on NeilPatel.com is that content that’s between 4,000 and 8,000 words does extremely well in search engines.

How else can you grow your blog traffic?

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57 Ways to Boost Your Blog Traffic

Using effective tactics that boost your blog traffic is the first step in achieving a variety of goals.

Those objectives could include, selling products and services, building brand awareness, position yourself as a thought leader or to connect and network. 

Whatever the goals are, traffic provides the visibility to engage and sell.

Website visitors is where it all starts. No traffic…nothing happens.

In the past bloggers only had one big tactic.

Building an email list.

This is still important despite the allure of social media with all its hype and bluster, real and imagined.  Social media since arriving on the scene has offered bloggers two core and very important capabilities that were not part of the web landscape until social media turned up.

1. Multiple platforms and networks to re-publish and share their content on. You can now discover a blogger and their content because it is published to Facebook or their video is on YouTube
2. Crowd sourced marketing as people share bloggers articles with a couple of clicks on Facebook and Twitter. No longer is the post hidden in the email silo where sharing is restricted to passing an email on.

So if you have just launched a blog or you’re struggling to grow your traffic, what are some of the tactics that the top bloggers use to get attention, bring readers back and become part of your loyal tribe of readers?

Tips to boost your blog traffic

Some of these tactics are more effective and direct than others but collectively implemented can create long lasting and organic growth path for your blog.

1. Build a large following on Twitter
2. Automate the sharing of content on Twitter. (you cannot scale if you don’t do this)
3. Link to your blog on Twitter in your profile
4. Increase your likes on Facebook
5. Link to your blog on Facebook
6. Share your post (including links to it) on Facebook
7. Build an email subscriber list from day one
8. Host a webinar (you can capture many emails when you run a webinar)
9. Create and publish great content
10. Make it easy for people to share your content with a Twitter retweet button
11. Ensure you have a LinkedIn sharing button (there are over 230 million users there)
12. Include a Google+ sharing button even if you don’t use it very much (over half a billion people there!)
13. Facebook sharing button is a must
14. Make it easy for people to share your content with a Pinterest sharing button
15. Provide an incentive for people to subscribe to your blog by offering a free ebook in exchange for their email address and name
16. Place the email subscriber box in a prominent position (top right or even in the top banner)
17. Include multiple locations for people to subscribe
18. Include an RSS feed option
19. Link to your blog from your YouTube videos and channel 
20. Make your blog easy to read (this will keep them loyal and bring them back)
21. Write the best headlines you possibly can
22. Guest blog on larger blogs in your industry
23. Comment on other bloggers articles
24. Reply to comments on your blog posts
25. Interview the influential bloggers in your niche and category
26. Obtain testimonials from influencers in your industry who have a strong social media presence
27.  Ensure your blog can be easily read on mobile devices
28. Optimise for search engines by using an SEO plugin such as WordPress SEO (Also known as Yoast)
29. Write sub-titles with keywords in posts to help your SEO
30. Improve your blogs search engine friendly content by including key words in images
31. Publish new articles regularly (at least once a week)
32. Write long form content that will be a resource for readers (they will link and bookmark it for future reference)
33. Place a Facebook ad that drives traffic to your blog (could be an offer of free premium content)
34. Advertise on Twitter with “Promoted Accounts”
35. Provide links to archives on your blog
36. List your most popular posts (this is a default WordPress feature)
37. Use an SEO friendly online publishing platform like…”WordPress”
38. Use a simple design that profiles your content and highlights your focus
39. Include “prominent” social media sharing buttons placed at the top of your articles (floating buttons are good too)
40. Have your top social media channels displayed in a prominent position so people can easily follow you
41. Share other top bloggers content on Twitter and let them know you have shared with an @topblogger mention
42. Copy and emulate the strategies of top bloggers
43. Write a great introduction that is compelling and draws readers in
44. Engage with your readers so that they want to come back and become loyal fans
45. Write a blog post that highlights the best bloggers in your industry
46. As you build credibility display your awards, wins and social proof in a prominent position
47. Link to your blog in your email signature
48. Join Facebook groups and participate
49. Create a Google+ hangout for a hot topic in your industry and promote it
50. Participate in LinkedIn groups
51. Create some controversy that attracts attention
52. Submit your top posts to Reddit
53. Publish articles on Stumbleupon
54. Make yourself available to speak
55. Have a business card for your blog
56. Take photos with Instagram (over 130 million registered users there) and share them on Facebook and Twitter
57. Include multimedia in your articles to broaden your blogs reach. Videos, infographics, podcasts and Slideshare presentations are sometimes preferred over learning in a text format.

Overwhelmed?

So you are now overwhelmed and fifty seven items to add to your blogging “to do” list may seem like a tad too much to implement. It has most probably crossed your mind that this is a big mountain to climb. You may even be considering forgetting blogging and taking up drinking.

How can you have enough time to have a life and blog without losing your mind?

Here are the top tips that will make the biggest difference that you should not ignore to get you started.

6 “must do” tactics to accelerate your blog traffic

There are many tactics that you can pursue but some have more value than others. If there were six that should be on your “must do” do list then here they are.

1. Build an email list

Do this from day one by offering a free ebook or premium content that readers can only get by entering their name and email.

2. Grow a targeted Twitter following

Twitter is the best platform to build a focused list of followers. It’s simplicity and unfiltered stream ensures your tweets with your content linked and embedded will provide visible attention.

3. Increase your Facebook likes

Facebook cannot be ignored and ensuring you have a large group that have liked your page can be one of your top two social networks that will drive significant traffic.

4. Build your blog and content for search engines

Search engines are the biggest traffic source for my blog. This will not happen from day one as it will take time to get Google’s attention. Don’t ignore doing this from day one as it requires persistence and will take time.

Start today.

5. Create and publish awesome content

This may not be obvious to some but if you create contagious content that solves people problems and adds value to their lives you will collect fanatical fans. They will link to your blog and they will share it.

Write, create and publish the best liquid content you can. This will then flow across the web and build brand awareness.

6. Include prominent social media sharing buttons

You have written, produced and published content that rocks. But if you make it hard for people to share on the social web then it will still be great but invisible.

Make it prominent and easy to share with a couple of clicks.

What about you?

What tactics have you used to increase your blog traffic? Are there any tips that you have discovered in this post that you could implement today?

What is the one best tip that you have discovered that worked for you recently?

Look forward to hearing your stories and insights in the comments below.

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7 Rules to Increase Your Website Traffic By 100,000

Lets Increase Your Website Traffic Now!

No matter what you think you know about blogging and website support, there is always room for improvement, right? After all, you always wish you can increase your website traffic. If you aren’t already following these 7 simple rules, take a gander and give a lot of consideration to following them. They’ve worked for many successful bloggers, including me, and they’ll work for you, too!

Rule #1: Mood is Everything

Setting the right mood for your article is crucial to a successful blog post. If your reader can tell that the information you are giving them will be credible or useful based on the mood of your blog article, you’ll have a more successful blog post. For example, opening a blog post with the promise that you can help a retailer multiply their sales is much more compelling than one that simply opens with telling them you hope their last big sale was profitable.

Rule #2: Data is Everything Else
To build credibility and establish yourself as an expert, you use data. Whether it’s your own data or someone else’s, if it supports what you are promising or saying, it helps you build the case for what you say. It’s the difference between sound advice backed up by experience and research versus something that was just made up on the spot.

Rule #3: The Hook Brings You Back
The average person’s attention span is a mere 8 seconds. That means you have to snag more of your reader’s attention quickly, like using your headlines. Your headlines are your hooks, and they need to be designed to drag people kicking and screaming, if necessary, into reading what you have to say. Your headline should do the following:
• Stick to 6 words or less, with less than 65 characters
• Use interesting adjectives
• Integrate negative words (these tap into your reader’s insecurity)
• Be personalized
• Use numbers and data

Rule #4: Show Some Love
If you love your readers enough to do just about anything to keep them happy, they’ll reward you with staying with your blog for a long time and support. They’ll comment on your content, share it with the world, and tell everyone they know just how great you are.

Rule #5: Put Your Heart Into It
Don’t just blog about any old thing you can think of. Blog about something that you truly care about, something you can really put your heart into. This will help you write consistently and keep up the momentum that draws readers to your blog. Nothing is worse than a blogger who only blogs once a month out of necessity, instead of out of love. Write about what you love, and that love will help you write more (and get more readers.)

Rule #6: Make a List, and Check It Twice
Collecting emails is essential to successful blogging. This is so true that some blogs out there rely on email for up to 28% of the total traffic to the blog. If you’re blogging, make sure you offer something to entice people to give you their email address, like an eBook or an online course of some sort. That way, you can utilize your email marketing to its fullest potential, pulling in the traffic and ad revenues that you want and need.

Rule #7: Keep it simple, silly!
This rule refers to your vocabulary. Maybe you know the longest words in the dictionary, but most of your readers probably don’t. What’s more, when you use those long words, they feel like you’re talking down to them. Don’t talk down to your readers, or you’ll lose them! Instead, use simple, down-to-earth language that everyone can relate to.

Follow these simple rules, and you’ll find your blog is more successful and, at the same time, easier for you to manage. Lastly, it will increase your website traffic. It helped me get over my first 100k and multiple clients I serve. What other rules do you live by when you are blogging? Comment below with any rules or questions! 

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14 Tips To Increase Traffic To Your Blog Using Facebook

Do you have a blog? Are you giving your best efforts to create the quality articles? Even you write the good articles, without readers, you are just a failed marketer. So make sure you use some good ways to drive traffic to your blog, it is essential.

Everyone know that Facebook is a great opportunity to drive traffic to website.

Below are 14 effective methods to drive traffic to your website using Facebook.

1. Make Your Images Big

I already conducted some experiments that are the comparisons between the posts that include images and posts with no photos, the result is if you insert images into the post, you get around 120% more engagement.

And remember to use full sized images while you post or update on Facebook. To assess your success, you should use Facebook Insights with your blog site metrics with full sized images. Most of time, try to use the best ways to generate the most blog traffic.

Upload the images directly to Facebook to get the full sized images.

Example:

My tips:

• If you want to have cleaner posting, use a shortened link such as a bit.ly and link to your blog post in your text.
• Upload an eye-catching, appealing images to attract people to click to your website. Use some methods to analyze the success of those images, such as check your Facebook or blog site metrics.
• Find the best working posts and repeat them.
• If you want to keep your text cleaner, use a shortened link in your full sized image posts.

2. Use The Short Updates

On Facebook, using the short and witty updates will generate the most engagement with click throughs. You need to use a lots of short text everytime, to drive traffic to your blog article. My experience here is using the sentence that has under 140 characters.

And you should know that there are many people who use Facebook on smartphone, that’s why keep in mind that if you create any text, make it short, clear and attracting.

Tips for Making Short Facebook Updates:

• Do not make any Facebook updates over 140 characters.
• Try to make some teaser of your website by writing out 4 or 5 short sentences to describle your articles.
• Keep your mobile readers in mind.

3. Post Quality Content

First of all, you need to use any content that is related to your audience, then your Fans will like and share that content. If you can increase the engagement, your edge rank will be scored, as well as your friends will see this content.

4. Ask Questions

Using questions is one way to attract your Facebook fans and generate clicks to your Facebook.
And remember to use the short, witty and intriguing question, do not forget to keep those questions related back to your blog article.

There are many ways to ask the question, such as trivia, fill-in-the-blank, personal views, etc.

Tips for Asking Questions:

• Of course, make the short questions, easy to read and link to your Fan Page.
• Use the curiosity-invoking questions to attract users to get clicking or commenting actions.
• Use various questions types.

5. Use a Short Quote From Your Blog

Tell your Fans what your website about, the taste of your articles. Quotes are most used on Facebook to share contents. If one Fan shares your update, he/she will try to click through to your website.

Make a concise quote from your article, you can use the personalized photo.

Tips for Using Quotes:

• Select the clearly summarizes quote.
• Use the invoke controversy quote.
• Personalize your quote by inserting your photos.

6. Skip the Link

Some people post the text with the link of the website because they want users to click through to their blog. But this is a not good idea, delete the link in your text before you post it, unless you are posting a full sized image. Try to make your update clean.
Before

After:

How to skip the Link:

• Keep updating your Facebook.
• If you use full sized image, you can use actual link.
• Do not insert your article link with the text while posting.

7. Make How-To Blog Articles

On Facebook, people do not just want to search for products or services, they want to find something that enhances their life. So your mission is trying to post the tips and tricks to enrich the lives to help people to catch up with their friends.

So every time you make a how-to article, or write a lifestyle, share them to Facebook Page, you will have a lot of viewers, as traffic.

8. Host Contests on Your Blog

Try to publish an interactive content as much as possible, like the contests. And promote them to Facebook Page.
Your Fans need to captivate with you, and numerous organizations indulge this by facilitating Facebook challenges. Switch up your showcasing system to drive more perspectives to site.

Host challenges on your site, as well. Make your challenges more shareable to posting about it on Facebook.

9. Use ‘Weekly Wrap Up’

Every weeken, try to create a blog post from the best articles you made in week and share it on Facebook. Following this method, you will provide your Fans the chance to see blog artiacles. This is a good way to attract users, get the visitors, increase traffic, get more click throughs.

Your “Weekly Wrap Up” must look good, with images inserted. Using images and photos will make your Facebook update look pretty.

10. Embed Short Video

This is the most popular and effective way that many webmaster use. In addition of using creative images, you should make the short video to bring the essence of your blog articleto your readers. Then just embed that video to your Facebook Page.

Using video to promote your website through Facebook is a smart way that you should follow. Why? Because everyone will be got attracting from one video, they can get a really taste of your article. If your video is enough enticing, your post will get more visitors with click through to your website.

If you are not good in English, or you have never tried to create a Video, or you are afraid of creating a video, talking English front of people, you can use paid services, such as Fiverr.

11. Share Blog Content Of Other People

While it may appear strange, imparting other individuals’ substance is really a splendid procedure in driving more movement to your website webpage.

Online networking is about imparting. In this way, impart website content from industry pioneers, your Fans, and other legitimate sources. Utilization articles that are significant to your business sector, and that identify with your business as well.

This methodology makes your business look all the more ready to impart (and consequently pick up complementary Fan imparts), your clients will admire your enlightening substance (which can pick up client dependability), and the organizations you’ve imparted will be more prone to impart your substance to their Fans as well (which can bring new activity to your online journal).

12. Use Blog Tab

The Blog Tab of Facebook brings you another valuable that is fairly simple to share content and attract people to click on your website link.

How to add blog tab?

Using an app to add a Blog Tab on Facebook is an easiest way, for example: NetworkedBlogs. This site will help you to register your blog, add a tab, then your articles will streamed automatically to your tab page, it is a wonderful way to SEO and get clicks from users, isn’t it?

13. Promoting

There are many ways to promote your Page on Facebook, try to use any of following:

• Promote to Fans
• Promote to Website Visitors
• Promote to Specific Website Visitors
• Promoting to Other Groups

14. Use Facebook Ads

Not everyone can get success from what they want, not everyone can get much traffic by using Facebook. If you have learned all of thing, you have tried many ways to increase traffic from Facebook to your website, but you see no success, it’s time to think again, it’s time to use Facebook ads.

Facebook ads is a premium service, you need to pay to advertise your website link. Facebook ads will boost your reach to targeted audiences in just few simple steps. This is very effective way to drive traffic directly to your website.

You can utilize what Facebook used to call elevated presents on focus on your website redesigns to Fans and their companions. You can utilize more focused on Facebook advertisements to achieve Facebookers with your specialty demographics and hobbies.

If you know how to use Facebook Ads wisely, you do not have to pay much for this service, try to choose the pay-per-click option, you only need to pay if people click to your website. Facebook Ads helps you to target to specific and interested people, so your ads will get clicked by exact niche.

How to maximize user engagement?

Below is an inforgraphic to show you how you can maximize user engagement and breaks down what you need to do to get more Facebook traffic.

Conclusion

On Facebook, you do not have to spend money to buy ads to increase traffic to your website.
In this inforgraphic, you can use the available data to increase your Facebook traffic on your own.

On the image above, you can see the fastest growing blog is Upworthy, because they only focused to share the content that their users wanted by analyzing Facebook’s data.

Thanks for reading my article. If you have any question, please leave a comment.

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