8 Blogging Tips Might Boost Your Traffic
Want to create a blog but still don’t know about how to make your blog gains many visitors? Are you not feeling alright when your blog you have designed and maintained every days, but almost no one glances into? Of course it matters a lot for people who have a full time job writing articles or even for a digital marketer.
Visitors are customers for content creator and article blog writer. I assumed you now that Customer is King, so are visitors. Even though your blog visitors don’t make money directly for you, at least from there you might get your own networks, collaborations and other social opportunities. This is why you need to understand how your visitors need and how you serve your visitors on your blog.
The following 8 blogging tips are expected to make you more enthusiastic in managing your blog so that every day you’ll become more optimistic about getting traffic or visits to your blog, especially to whom really make blogs a livelihood, both primary and side job.
Care about headings and first paragraph
Keep in mind that visitors are looking for articles that match their desire to read. If they want to know how rainbows are emerged, they will search for these keywords. The first thing visitors see when they get results from Google is the title of the article. Remember, it’s not about nature, it is for the rainbow itself. So, consider to explicate the title.
This is important for you to create a unique blog title that could attract the attention of readers. You have to make sure that with that title you write, people have bigger opportunities to visit your blog. You can take the blog title from the conclusion of your whole article.
Specify the title of your blog, make sure the first paragraph and subheading contain the purpose of what you write because that’s what attracts potential visitors to choose articles they want to read from Google. For example, if you talk about traveling, what kind of traveling? Where to? Just tips or storytelling? Summarize it all in your first paragraph, and make it all into a sentence which later becomes the title of your blog.
Think of “ease of access”
I’m pretty sure you want the readers feeling homey at your blog. But how to? Jsut make it easy for them. Well yes, but how to make your blog easier to reader? You can use fonts that are easy to read, not too small and not too big, use medium or regular font weight that not too bold or not too light. Don’t use a background that is close to the text color because it will be difficult to read.
Then you can offer your blog visitors with related articles in the bottom of the article after the visitor has finished reading. You can make the categories and menus visible to the reader, or you can use the tag feature for every articles so that readers can easily move from one of your articles to the other similar interconnected articles (bouncing).
And it is a plus if you include night mode in your blog, especially for readers who don’t want to see bright colors, for example at night when the lights in the room are all turned off.
Grammar and length matter
Sometimes you might not realize that many of your blog articles can make visitors lazy to read it. Wow, how can that be?
It could be that, there are still many of you write articles that are still in messy structure of words and sentences, so many typos flooding your content (a little typo does not matter), writing so many slangs and acronyms, and/or writing articles that are so short, less than 300 words.
It’s not that articles cannot be less than 300 words, it’s just that visitors sometimes expect something more detailed from a complex writing. So if it’s not intended for articles that are just a short humor or such, try to write even up to 500 words or more. Search engines will also trust the website with the optimal article length.
Mix with ‘out of the box’ content
There is no harm writing something outside your blog scope even though your blog theme is about fitness, law, or even programming, you could occasionally insert contents that are categorized outside the main theme but still related to it. For example, adding contents about humor, horror stories, or helpful tips almost never fail to attract visitors. People usually like articles that are preceded by numbers.
For example, if your blog is about psychology, you may occasionally create special articles that contain psychological humor, or horror stories related to psychology. This makes your blog more dynamic and having more things that visitors can stay on your blog longer.
Set your blog with cozy design
Make your blog that makes visitors like being in their ‘second home’. Choose comfortable colors which eyes friendly that not too strong. Maybe like pastel colors or soft gradients that spoil the eye. You can search for ideas of how to choose a right color for your blog on the internet or use blog templates that you think are cool in the eyes. So your blog isn’t just plain white or plain black if you don’t your blog to be an extreme minimalist website.
Don’t forget, even though I suggest to choose colors that eye friendly, you still have to keep them with your blog theme. It’s absolutely not funny if there is a blog about men’s fitness but the color of the theme is light pink, or a blog about horror stories but the color choice is bright blue.
If necessary, add decorations that are supportive but not too much so that they don’t distract readers while they’re reading your content, maybe like borders, or circles, or small transparent images. But if you can’t think anything what decoration should you apply into your blog, it’s better not to try and keep the design clean so that the reader is more focused on your writing.
Communicate with readers
As stated at the beginning of the article that the reader is a customer. Greet them warmly, respond to their comments. If necessary provide a special form that readers can complain about your blog design. Perhaps not all readers are friendly, but it is mandatory to keep your manner against them. Remember, other readers may see your ethics that will determine whether they will visit your website again or not.
Then, why not to add the email subscription feature? Maybe from any readers, there will be loyal visitors who always wait your newest posts. Telling them about it via email subscription is more likely to add traffic than those who only rely on search engines.
Always optimize your blog
You certainly don’t want to visit a blog full of large images and make the website very heavy to load. So are the readers. They don’t want their internet quota drained by just opening your website.
Optimization, that’s the key. Reduce large photos and image background, compress them, and remove any unnecessary animations. They are making your website slower than a running snail. For personal blogs, the size should not exceed 1-2MB. You can check your website size on GTMetrix.
Keep writing as a passion
This is the last, the common, and the most important part. Always keep the intensity of your posts. Don’t push yourself too much, but at least in a week there are about 3 new articles from your blog if you have lots of free time. Readers and search engines will be very happy with the blog that having an active author.
And then, write with your passion. Never write because of money even though writing is your main job. Just. never. ever. Please write from your heartstrings because readers love unique writing which is different from the others even though your blog theme has already been on the internet everywhere. Note that you sometimes may post by copying another article with providing its source, but still you must keep your unique identity in writing.
Well, happy blogging then. 🙂