In this post, I’ll give you a variety of actions and tips that you can apply to your own blog. When you start blogging, your main focus is to generate great content that gets noticed. And that is what I would be telling you about today in this very lengthy and detailed post.
What are Page Views?
Page views are considered as the hits which your own page or blog will receive once visited by the users. More the visitors view your posts; more will be the increment in your page views. In fact, more page views means more traffic on your blog so you have to aim for more page views at all times.Effective Content
I know you’ve heard this a million times that “Content is King”.
It happens many times that new bloggers have found difficulty to pick the right topic to write about. For example, Me! That is why I used to have a single blog about a lot of topics, but now, I have multiple blogs 1 topic each.But, as time goes on and they start capitalizing on the subjects, gather some great content for their blog. Let me tell you what I id. First of all, I created my blog Genius - It's Good To Know. I thought that I would be able to write about everything all by myself. But I was wrong. I noticed that I was mainly writing stuff that told people how to blog. So, I thought that I would change it to Genius - Its Good To Blog. And as time went on the blog came on to be called . What happened to the rest of the topics? I divided them into a number of blogs.
So, if you want to be able to attract visitors, you should focus on that perfect and specific topic and work hard on it. Gather all resources and make sure that it is well researched.
Work Hard
However, if you’re thinking to start a blog – write 10 to 15 great articles first before you publish your blog. and make sure to have a time table for writing and publishing posts, and remember to stick by it, or first post a whole bunch of posts then follow it.When you start promoting, your blog readers will have something to see and will find something new to read.
Unfortunately, we don't usually have enough energy to do hard work ( rarely some of us do ) and without effective content we post our blogs and wait for the blog to become popular. If there’s no content to share – your blog WILL NOT be considered as a meaningful one. When you have over 50 good articles, your blog will start becoming popular and you’ll have some great audience and readers that will share your posts.
Visit sites like: Twitter, Yahoo Answers and read other blogs to see where people are having problems. Then start planning to write the articles that are related to their problems. Content that solves problems is always in DEMAND! Look at the number of self-help forums and blogs that are very successful, and truthfully, there are a lot of them.
Making a good improved blog content from the start is the best way to come into the limelight.
Contribution
How are your levels of contribution these days? Do you give more of yourself? Successful bloggers and business owners’ contribute a lot more and offer more value. As a blogger, you need to contribute a lot more too. Not only on your own bog, but, to try and earn a name for yourself, you should even publish on other popular websites. Other ways to contribute to your own blog are- Create videos.
- Host interviews with successful people.
- Create pod-casts.
- Create an e-Books and give away for free or sell it.
- Write guest posts on certain blogs.
- Provide a content-rich newsletter.
- Develop a series of tutorials that provide great value to the reader.
- Outstanding contribution provides credibility, high quality service and further opportunities. Blogging is a long-term process, so make sure you work hard and devote yourself a lot towards it.
Want me to tell you another thing. Try to do guest posts. That means that you would do free or paid posts on popular sites and give links to your own site. That would really help you in your SEO - Check out this guest post on this blog to learn a bit more.Want to do a guest post for this blog. Contact me from the contact form.
Community
Successful people value their communities. A community is where people share and contribute ideas, values, skills and beliefs. Businesses rely on their communities and networks to keep their business going. Serving your community is the most empowering way of becoming successful. The more value you add to your contribution and community – the stronger your blog will become. Just make sure that you actually listen to the needs of the community so they your blog will become more useful in their eyes. Ways to listen and to be a part of the community to again, add value to your work are-
- Create contact forms
- Keep publishing useful content from your blogs on public forums like Quora. (try to provide links to your own sites)
- Provide free services to people who need them
Focus on lowering your bounce rate
A low bounce rate is a sign of a good blog. If I bounce a ball against a wall you’ll notice that the ball doesn’t stay on the wall for long. The same principle is applied to your blog pages. If I click on your blog page and don’t click on anything else – I’ve bounced off your blog. In essence, your goal is to attain my interest. A good bounce is about 25%-30%.
If you do not make your posts interesting, then people would not even have a reason to stay. And as soon as they leave, without browsing any further, your bounce rate increases. So high bounce rates are bad. Make sure that you control your bounce rate.
Make it Comfortable
Make your home page like the front page of a magazine. Make it simple and yet effective. Include relevant things there and neglect the unnecessary part. You can also take the help of a magazine. Pick up a magazine and look at the front cover and see what grabs your attention? Apply the same concept on your home page as well. Moreover, you can use features like Facebook Like Button and Like Box on your homepage to bring more visitors to your website. Do not use unnecessary widgets or things that make people overlook your main content.Why should I stay on your blog?
The only thing I care about is: “If you can help me with my problems?” If you can help me with a problem I am more likely to stay. This is why the top bloggers succeed. Egos can destroy you if you’re a blogger. Focus on what’s important – the reader!Now after creating a meaningful blog post let’s focus on other parameter.
How to increase your pageviews
1 – Create “pillar content”
Pillar content is informative that attracts most of the readers. Pillars keep buildings from falling to the ground and the same principle applies to blogging. Pillar content should have all in and out information that’s packed full of useful hints and tips. Usually the pillar content is over 1000 words and has lots of great value. In addition, pillar content is referred as link worthy.
Content should be Seo Optimized.
You want to make your blog as resourceful. Your aim is to encourage your readers to visit frequently your posts.
Focus on developing a resource for your blog that has useful information and provides the reader with answers to their problems.
2 – Interlink your posts
Wikipedia, the Internet’s most popular encyclopedia uses internal links constantly and consistently. Good referencing is an excellent method of obtaining more page views.
When you create a new article, review your previous articles and find out what content is relevant. The beauty of Wikipedia is that it constantly interlinks information. If you’re trying to increase your search engine ranking for a certain article, try to interlink your content together.
Google loves natural linking. You have the distant advantage of interlinking of your posts together and using key phrases rich anchor text.
Remember to strike a balance when interlinking your posts. Avoid applying too many links in your article – otherwise your reader will become distracted from the other original article.
3- Create a list post of your best blog articles
This is an easy method to round up a variety of articles that you feel are relevant to your reader. List posts also provide opportunities for your readers to click through further on your blog. Plus this method allows you to showcase some of your classic posts. Feel that this method is too hard? Why not create a Table of Contents or Archive.
4- Use Clear and Professional Images
This is a very important part to keep your viewers intact. If you write continuously without any picture and anything, then your viewer might get frustrated and leave. If you add a few images, then you can make your viewer sit in front of their laptop screen for a bit longer.
5- Add a Sitemap
Usability is so important. You must install a sitemap plug-in. I suggest using the PS Auto Sitemap. It’s easy to install. You may have a monthly archive in your blog sidebar – it’s not user friendly – all it tells me how many articles you’ve created in a month. Blog readers are lazy. Help your blog readers out. You must be more concise.A sitemap is the index of your website. A good site map is displayed in logical order to make it easier for you. Google loves Sitemaps too. The search engines can crawl your content faster and it’s a win-win situation for everyone. Or you can add simple sitemaps to your blogger blog from here.
6- Use Relevant Categories
If you’re going to display links in the sidebar use categories, because it’s relevancy that your readers want. Don’t make the reader think! Thinking requires effort. Usability is crucial. A good blogger or web designer understands the importance of usability.
Relevant categories will provide clarity – not only for the readers but for you also. You must focus on making a streamline blog where articles can be linked. Categories are excellent for readers, because they can search for relevant criteria in one area.
7 – Give away something
To create a successful online presence we must contribute. Create something for free. Don’t even expect an email address back. You’re a new blogger and you’re unknown to the rest of the world. It’s going to take some time to come into the limelight. However, if you create an e-book for free and begin some heavy promotion, chances are you’ll become noticed, if the e-book is well written.
An e-Book doesn’t require any hardcore design skills. This can be easily created in Microsoft Word. No need to use Adobe InDesign. Creating a successful reputation takes time to build. Giving anyway some freebies is a great way to promote your blog and traffic. You can also add some links to get free things from your site. For that you should go to the Amazon Affiliate Program, who knows, you can really earn some cash this way too.
8 – Develop a series of articles
Just like a soap opera, each episode continues from the previous one and in proper sequence. Consider developing a variety of articles that become a series. If you’d made a 10,000 word article that could be ideally broken down into segments – break it down. A three or five part series will also give your readers an opportunity to subscribe to your RSS feed. Provide cliffhangers to your blog series articles and give your readers a reason to return.
9 – End with related articles
You’ve created an excellent post. You’ve engaged the reader and they’ve left a comment. You’ll always find that some readers want to know more about a certain subject. Help is at hand. Install the Yet Another Related Posts Plugin for WordPress – this handy plugin displays relevant links at the bottom of your article. Or if you are on blogger, then you can add the Zemanta Extension to your browser. But the best of them all is Addthis which allows you to create a whole lot of widgets for multiple sites, including like and share buttons, follow buttons, recommended content segments, and a lot of other things.
10 – Create an FAQ page
Every industry has its jargon and especially the Internet. Do you think your readers know what an RSS feed is? Create information that educates your readers. Plus interlink those jargon terms to a glossary.
Some readers won’t be familiar with terms like: PHP; conversion rate; bounce rate; SEO; Google PageRank or PPC. A glossary can be an easy method to educate your readers.
11 – Display your popular articles
There are a variety of methods of displaying popular articles. You can use an: image slider or you can display popular articles in your sidebar. However, you choose to focus on highlighting great information for your readers.
12- Get Posts Analytics, Reduce Bounce Rate
It happens sometimes, we could not able to analyze where our contents are lacking.
So to overcome this basic problem, firstly you should take a view on page views stats daily, Bounce Rate.
Bring on some creative changes in them like, adding certain useful bullet points, adding images, adding related post links etc.
No matter, if you make tweaks in your contents on daily basis according to your creativity.
It’s simple to define. Check out Bounce rate first, make tweaks in your contents and then check out your bounce rate. Repeat the cycle until you got least possible Bounce Rate.
13- Use excerpts
On your home page of your blog, avoid placing huge streams of text on your blog. You want readers to click further into your site. Remember your home page is like the front page of a magazine. Just add the words READ MORE at the end of the teaser an watch yourself get what you want.
'Catch The Eye'
- Use a readable Font
- Use a readable Size of text
- Get interesting and Original Content
- Get all the Facts
- Try to link to as many resources as possible
- Don't use a flashy layout
- Make sure the layout is big enough and you can read the content in it without any problem
- Add widgets
- Be ready to give time, effort and if required, money towards your site
- Don't overuse adds and widgets
- Use Original Content ( original content is highest in the search results )
- Add a summary or Sitemap to your site
- Add FAQ pages
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