How to Improve your Blog’s Traffic

BY Ben Lang Sep. 27, 2009 38 Comments

In this post I will explain how I drive traffic to my site. The list includes 10 ways to boost traffic on your site. I will also show what my blog has achieved in September and what my goals are for October.

How do I drive traffic to my site? 10 tips on how to boost your traffic:

Twitter

Social media is a must these days. As you build up your follower count you gain marketing power. When you have thousands of followers and you tweet something that includes your blog in it, believe me many people will see it and hopefully click on it.

Business Cards

Design a creative business card that includes your blog.

Guest Posts

Guest posts will always stir up your blog. Find people who write content that is similar to yours and ask them if they are interested in writing for you.

Facebook

Through Facebook you can create groups, fan pages and share links.

Search engines

Don’t forget to always work on your SEO so that people searching for what you have to offer can find you.
If you use WordPress download the “All in One SEO Pack.”

Direct traffic

Word of mouth also helps sometimes, many people after hearing of your blog will check it out.

Commenting on other blogs

Another way to drive traffic to your site is by commenting on other blogs. Most blogs leave you the option of including your URL so if you leave an interesting comment many people may click on your link. I tend to comment a lot on blogs such as: www.wayneliew.com, www.successcircuit.com, www.teenentrepreneurblog.com, www.mashable.com, www.nuwavpublishing.com, www.clintonskakun.com, www.createwithnate.com, www.sendatweet.com.

Exchanging links

Many young bloggers who aren’t pulling in a huge profit are usually willing to exchange links or even ads. If you want to spread your link try contacting other young bloggers.

Youngentrepreneur.com forum

This forum is the place for young entrepreneurs. If you have a question, tip or even want a free website review you can ask here. As long as you include your link in your post or signature people will click on it all the time.

Email list

A great way to get recurring visits is by using an email list. I use www.mailchimp.com, it’s a great way to collect people’s emails and inform them when something big is happening on your blog.

September achievements:

  • Improved my Alexa traffic rank from 2,000,000 to 680,000.
  • Reached 12 comments on one single post.
  • Reached 8 retweets on one single post.
  • Reached a peak of 79 visits in one day
  • Reached a peak of 57 unique visitors in one day
  • Average time on site: 3:23
  • Percent of new visitors: 62.92%
  • Average page views: 1.84

October goals:

  • Improve my Alexa traffic rank to 500,000 or less.
  • Reach over 25 comments on any blog post.
  • Have more than 20 retweets on any post.

If you help me out in any way, whether by subscribing to my feed, retweeting a post, commenting or visiting my site more often, I would appreciate it so much. Everyone who has been doing so until now is amazing!

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38 Responses to “How to Improve your Blog’s Traffic”

  1. benmaxime Reply Sep. 27, 2009 at 2:33 pm

    If you have any questions, comments or feedback please feel free!

  2. Roger Reply Sep. 27, 2009 at 3:22 pm

    Great post! I think that in order to make a blog a more valuable piece of real estate, one must creat stickiness. Social media provides opportunity for bloggers. Thanks for the post.

  3. Clinton Skakun Reply Sep. 27, 2009 at 4:24 pm

    If you have business or personal cards you can put your blog on it as well as a form of direct marketing.

    Great post, you have some great ideas! I'm going to take a look at some of those other blogs you posted, they look interesting.

    Cheers
    Clinton

  4. @RockyBiz Reply Sep. 27, 2009 at 5:40 pm

    Thank you for helping the rest us with these informative strategies. Glad to see it is already working for Ben-Lang.com. I've perused several other related blogs, but save for Mashable I think I've learned the most about creating a successful blog from http://www.Ben-Lang.com. Keep up the stellar work!

    Unique visitors as well as site hits are important, but most people forget to track and mention any updates for metrics like Alexa Rankings. You have also made smart use of retweeting, RSS and building an e-mail list.

    Most importantly though has been your accessibility and "get-things-done attitude,", by reaching out to other young entrepreneurs and helping them with consulting, answering questions with patience and publishing great content on your blog. I can say I learned this from personal experience.

  5. Shonika Proctor Reply Sep. 29, 2009 at 8:21 pm

    You are doing an awesome job, Ben! May need some consulting work for my blog, hah! ;-)

    @teenbizcoach

  6. Jennifer Reply Oct. 09, 2009 at 9:59 pm

    Thanks for posting this. You think you can take a look at my blog and see what is going on please?? I am desperately trying to get more views and clicks. My blog is http://sfiaffiliateprogramsuccess.blogspot.com. ANY VISITORS ARE WELCOME TO TAKE A LOOK AT MY PRODUCTS AND BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

  7. @KidCriticUSA Reply Oct. 12, 2009 at 1:38 am

    Great article and tips..Thanks so much for your help!

  8. Rajesh Kanuri Reply Nov. 18, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    your posts were informative.. u got a follower added to your blog..

  9. Rick Castellini Reply Nov. 21, 2009 at 2:54 pm

    Some solid advice in your article. I’m wondering, however, how the Alexa rating works…based on your traffic stats, the rating doesn’t make sense to me. I average around 1000 visits per day and rank almost twice higher than you on Alexa. Do you know what the scoop is? Thanks and keep up the good work.

    • Ben Lang Reply Nov. 21, 2009 at 3:28 pm

      Hi,
      The Alexa is way off, it calculates based on the amount of visitors coming with the Alexa Toolbar, so a site averaging 1000 non “techish” visitors could have an Alexa much higher than a tech blog averaging 50 visits a day…

  10. crazy blogger Reply Nov. 22, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    By Commenting on other related blogs of the same niche we can get good backlinks and some nice traffic

  11. TechChunks Reply Nov. 22, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    I find Twitter to be particularly useful. I use my 2 twitter a/c (personal and professional) to publicize my new posts and drive in some cool traffic.

    P.S. Those 2 accounts have over 32,000 followers (and growing) ;)

  12. naz Reply Dec. 06, 2009 at 11:09 am

    nice post lang, at 16 years old, you’re impressive already. keep it up!
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  13. Tom Horton @ StartOutOnline Reply Dec. 13, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    Hi there, I don’t usually comment much on blogs
    but I love the post and wanted to tell you.

    Keep up the good work

    Tom Horton

  14. Jawaad Ahmad Khan Reply Dec. 26, 2009 at 9:55 pm

    I don’t know if you’re into automatic posting to facebook and twitter (when you post something new), but I find that su.pr is very helpful (as it also incorporates StumbleUpon). Now, it has automatic tweeting and facebook-linking to your RSS feed. (I used to use twitterfeed, but this is an upgrade I think).
    Jawaad Ahmad Khan´s last blog post: V2 – “Changes” My ComLuv Profile

  15. Marikxon Manurung Reply Dec. 28, 2009 at 1:38 pm

    Well, I must admit that the tips from you are very good. How do you know this trick? seriously I was going to do after reading your article. You’re very young and have so much knowledge, it seems I need to learn from you Ben lol. keep going Ben, thanks for sharing this stuff.

    Marikxon Manurung
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    • Ben Lang Reply Dec. 28, 2009 at 7:31 pm

      It’s just from experience, after posting this article a while ago I could definitely add a lot onto it (hmm maybe I should do a second version, what do you think?)
      Thanks so much, if you need any help or would like to chat just let me know.

  16. Marikxon Manurung Reply Dec. 28, 2009 at 9:18 pm

    Hey, thank you very much for your offer of help. I have a problem with my blog visitors trafiic, people say about SEO techniques but I do not know about that, can you give some tips to get traffic from these seo techniques, maybe you want to write some articles about it. Thanks for your help, I really appreciate it.
    Marikxon Manurung´s last blog post: Round Hot Tubs My ComLuv Profile

  17. marc augustine Reply Dec. 30, 2009 at 1:44 pm

    Thanks a lot Ben
    what helped me the most is the list of blogs that you listed to post on
    i always knew that posting on blogs help with traffic
    but i did not know about a few of these quality blogs
    thanx
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  18. marc augustine Reply Dec. 30, 2009 at 7:03 pm

    Yes
    i will send you a reply soon

    marc
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