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10 Powerful Tips on How to Improve Your Blog Traffic and Advertising Earnings
It doesn’t take an overwhelming amount of experience to make money online - especially through blogging. If you have a general grasp of concepts and ideas floating around on the internet then you should be fairly well off, even as a complete beginner (or a seasoned webmaster). If you want to aim for drastic improvement and a massive rush of traffic, keep reading.
Personally, I have built over seven successful websites, a few for larger companies/corporations and a few personal ventures – about half and half. My personal startups I was more passionate about and those are the websites that you really cling to and are proud of. Starting your own blog is rewarding and improving it step by step is a rewarding process.
Always remember, be proud of what you do, love it. If you aren’t engulfed by the topic then chances are that your motivation will gradually decline. Don’t let this happen! Stick to something you know and always keep expanding your knowledge. The more you know, the better your content.
1. Your blog needs to be visually appealing. Kick clutter to the curb.
The best blogs are easy to read and minimalistic. This is the first major downfall of every blog. Keep it clean! Don’t put too many ads all over the place and don’t overdo the design. Too many ads can seem like a desperate beg for help, be smart about it! Integrate the ad’s in to seamlessly work with your design.
If your blog strains the eyes, people will not want to come back to read anything else. Use a color scheme (anywhere from 2-4 colors [for help on this, visit Color Schemer) and make sure there is enough spacing around everything. Believe me if your blog is a breeze to read, people will come back to enjoy it more often than not.
2. Don’t go overboard with ad’s if you are just starting out.
If your blog is new (less than 1-2 months old) try to stick it out until you get a decent reader base before integrating ads. You will be able to gauge people’s responses to the website first and get some loyal readers. After you have established some kind of reader base then you can begin to slowly integrate ads.
If you have too many ads, people will get turned off and annoyed, that’s the complete opposite of our goals.
3. Work, edit, and re-work your content.
Content is king as they say. That statement is definitely true. Make sure what you are writing is relevant and interesting to read. Why hang out at a website if there’s nothing worth reading? Have someone edit your articles, take a day or two after its posted and re-read it to see if you can improve anything.
Lightning Tip: Make sure to implement as many relevant keywords as possible to direct search engine traffic.
4. Don’t slack, post new stories/articles often.
I covered this a little before, but it’s worth mentioning again. Write at least 2-3 times per week. It shouldn’t take long. Hell you could talk about a cool new website you found for two paragraphs, that’s better than nothing.
Updating lets your users know that you are still there, it adds new content and gives them a reason to return to your blog
Lightning Tip: The more you post, the more Google picks up your articles (along with other crawlers), this will in the long-run drive thousands of extra users a month to your site if not more.
5. Submit to Social Bookmarking websites.
This is a big one. When I first started out, almost 50% of my traffic came from Digg and Reddit (my two personal favorites). I made 3-4 front pages (popular posts) and traffic exploded. I remember at one point I was struggling to get 500 unique visitors a day, then an article hit a Digg/Reddit front page and my server crashed because I netted almost 60,000 people in one night.
Always submit noteworthy articles, chances are you might get at least 1-2 front page stories per month (if not more!).
6. Network yourself; find other blogs in your niche.
Find other blogs like yours and connect with the authors. E-mail them, post in-depth replies on their articles, most blog owners are extremely nice people and will be willing to help you! Offer to exchange links and such; this will help your community grow, even if by a small margin. Remember, every reader counts. As long as you have at least one reader, you are making an impact.
7. Link your website wherever you can without spamming. (Email, Forums)
Another important topic that is often overlooked. If you are a member of a forum, add it to your signature. Email? Add it as a signature to that too! Wherever you can link without being too pushy, do it. In the long run those extra pageviews will count.
8. Host your blog on your own domain.
No one likes having name.blogspot.com. Buy a domain! These days you can get one anywhere from $3-$5 per month and in no time your ads should easily cover these costs. Get your own domain and be unique.
9. Write compelling titles - capture the reader in the first line.
The title and first three sentences of a post can make or break the post. Capture the reader’s attention off the bat, make them keep reading. Boring, cookie cutter introductions are everywhere, stand out.
10. Don’t give up.
Motivation is key and is also the backbone to building a successful blog (or building anything for that matter). Remember it’s not a quarter mile sprint, it’s a marathon. Take your time, review yourself and your blog and make gradual improvements. Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Lightning Tip: Get a friend or colleague to review your website, give you opinions on how to make it better. Be open to constructive criticism.
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pm)
Nice post.
But…
5. how did you get the front page? I think I have some quality post on my blog, but I haven’t had the luck of going to digg’s frontpage. I had 400 readers once because of a good stumble (StumbleUpon), but I don’t see how can I get a frontpage in Digg.
I’m still struggling between 20 and 40 readers per day.
Feel free to read my blog and stumble/digg/reddit the post you think are interesting.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:51 pm)
@Maurizio
Thanks for the comment. I just took a look at your website. You have to remember, it takes time for people to pick up on posts. Not every post is a front-pager. My first blog didn’t hit any frontpages until I was about two months in.
Your website looks good, I would focus on making a post about something popular and in relation to business. People are looking for the next hottest thing. Make catchy titles that will grab the readers attention.
Let me know if there is anything else I can help you with. I can definitely give you advice on improving your website design. Click ‘contact’ on the top menu and shoot me an e-mail and we can talk.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:24 am)
It looks like you got something going here. I like the catchy phrases and headlines that you use. The tips are good pointers as well. Good luck and I hope you have great blogging success. I might have to let you take me under you wing so that I can learn a few things from your blog. I will probably be reading here a lot.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:37 pm)
Great advice! I will definitely be putting some of this to use.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:54 pm)
Sometimes great content is its own reward. One of my articles on investing got linked to by the Wall Street Journal Online as a resource. I didn’t do anything differently than I normally do in promotion. Write solid articles and good things happen.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 3:56 pm)
Thanks for visiting my blog, Leonid. I really appreciate your nice comment and I’m glad it brought
me to your impressive blog!
I like what you’re doing and I can use a lot of the
advice you give…I’ll surely be back.
Fran
PS. I just saw your ‘Next Article’ item - what a great
idea, I’m definitely going to do that!
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 8:08 pm)
Hey, good tips on improving blog traffic, very strange that we posted blog traffic tips on the same day… Very nice design…
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 7:42 pm)
10. Don’t give up. That is the hard one. I think most give up way too soon.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:42 pm)
You’re site looks very established for only being up for a couple weeks.
I would recommend to anyone out there starting out to take the time to find a design for their website that they are happy with. My blog is relatively new as well and I already changed the template once. Not such a fun thing to do (and changed from Blogger to Wordpress).
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:12 pm)
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:31 am)
Great tips. I wish that more bloggers would pay attention to 1 and 2. I came across today one that has to be among the worse. It was wall-to-wall ads. I couldn’t easily spot the content among the ads. It was a site I won’t be visiting again, except by accident!
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:05 am)
Great tips and thanks for the comment on Blogging Fingers… getting on Digg page 1 is easier said than done…
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 11:59 pm)
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 11:40 am)
nice job with the tips!
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 2:22 pm)
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:16 pm)
First off, great post! Thanks for the info. About a week ago, we added an “AddThis” button to the bottom of each of our dating articles which makes it REALLY easy to add our posts to a number of social bookmarking sites from one central spot. Since I put it on, our traffic has increased significantly. Most of our traffic these days is from Reddit, Digg and Slashdot, and the AddThis button has links to each of them (as well as about 15 more). Hope this helps!
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:24 pm)
Excellent tips as usual.
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:33 pm)
Nice tips… Ill apply them
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:45 pm)
I’m going to refer to this list everyday. This is a well thought out, insightful list for all bloggers to follow.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:50 pm)
The fact that I’m posting this comment is proof that even being dugg once will substantially increase your traffic..
I’ll implement some of these tips and see how it affects my site.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm)
Hosting + domain need not cost $3-$5 per month.
I’m paying $8 per year for a domain, several pennies per day for web hosting, and I use Google’s email hosting on my domain for free. The result is that I pay less than $2 per month.
The trick is to use pay-only-for-what-you-use web hosting, which is perfect for bloggers. I happen to like NearlyFreeSpeech.net, but that’s just my preference.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:05 pm)
Great article! Just wrote about your post on my blog. Thanks!
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:39 pm)
Tim, I happen to be using NFS as well (as you can see from my temporary subdomain) and enjoy it just as much as you do. It’s worth every penny. (Pun intended).
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 7:00 am)
Hi Leonid, great tips. I definitely think the one about having your own domain name is a must. Since domain names and hosting is pretty cheap nowadays, there’s really no excuse for people NOT to have their own names!
Best,
Paul Hancox
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 7:51 am)
Number 4 “post new stories/articles often” is my biggest challenge. My first article, 10 Steps to Knowing Your Competition, contained many promises of future posts that would elaborate my techniques. Alas, still undone; must get to it.
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:36 pm)
Hello - very well written article. Just started my own blog and picked up some good points here, plus a new Social bookmarking site Reddit. Will test out your tips and hope to get to the frontpage of a Social Bookmark site one day
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:43 pm)
Re-read tip #8. Consider how you would feel if you woke up one morning and happy fingers at G had deleted your blogspot account… It happened to me
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 1:30 am)
@GMAN, that is really shocking and tragic. It must have been terrible. Why was the account deleted?
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 4:49 am)
I always love to read articles on improving traffic on blogs, and most of them work. these tps are not only good but remarkable as for as my little experince says; particularly the social book marking, content editing, compelling titles..
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 4:38 pm)
That was an interesting piece. I haven’t used many social bookmarkings but this got me motivated to try them out.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:34 pm)
These are great points. This is almost the 10 commandments of blogging and should be written in stone and displayed in a museum.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 2:56 am)
Adding email to my signature? I’ve not thought about that before. Thanks for pointing that out.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 4:03 pm)
Koka, I agree with everything except the museum part! You know the internet changes daily, so these rules are good for now until something or someone comes out with new procedures.
Good post though, 10 commandments, cool!
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 11:47 am)
your point number 6 is good, but most of the blogger only exchange link with those blog who have same ranking with them…
giving a link for low ranking seen like hard for them…this is what i experience
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 11:00 pm)
Thanks for the great tips! I knew about digg- but did not know about reddit.com thanks!!!
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 9:32 am)
Thanks for these tips. Most of them I have learned along the process of building up my 3 blogs. But they are all still in need of improvement and am still continuing to learn during the process. Yup I learned my lesson with blogger.com. But I have benefited from it still.
Hope you have more tips coming. Thanks and more power.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 3:43 am)
I would add, read as many “How To Increase Your Blog Traffic” articles as possible. To this end, I bookmark nearly every such article myself.
I must of read at least 100 plus so far.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm)
Absolutely wonderful tips !
I 100% agree with ur tips and if applied consistently, no one can stop the traffic explosion
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 12:18 am)
I have run my blog Voice Of Dingchao for several months. I will stick to it as you said above. I think I will successful one day. Thank you for your share.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 7:33 am)
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 2:30 pm)
Thank you so much for your very important information. All this blogging is new for me and I just need the instructions on how to make it work for me.
Your tips and tools are very important and if possible, I would like to write a blog and include your site so beginners like me have some direction.
Thanks,
Aingealicia
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 5:25 am)
Very interesting. Thanks for the information…
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:13 pm)
thats it, dude
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 9:56 pm)
I prefer to maintain the content quality to get more traficc and profit. Anyway, I think point 10 is the most important key…Don’t give up to try and learn something new.
(On Jul 25th, 2007 at 4:53 am)
Loved your point about a compelling headline. That’s the mistake many bloggers and writers seem to forget, you have to get the user to click on the link first, before getting them to read your story.