Have you ever noticed how blogging can help you boost more viewers and get traffic to your website for free? For the same, I started blogging a few months back with the several proven methods that you can follow to increase your website traffic. After being stuck with the same repeated question, on “how do I drive more traffic to the website?” I came up with a work plan that can surely benefit you to gain more users. First things first, there is no magic spell to cast for increasing the blog traffic fast; all you need is to execute a work plan. So, this tried and tested complete guide will help you with the tricks to increase blog traffic for your website. To work effectively, this guide is divided into two parts; Sections A and Section B as mentioned with a step-by-step process of finding the topic, creating content on same and promoting it to increase the traffic. Below are The Step By Step Guide to Increase Your Blog Traffic. #1: How to Find the Right Blog Topic? #2: Frame The Outline For Your Blog #3: The Key For Writing A Powerful Content #4: Resource Link Building Approach #5: Publish With The Help Of Social Media #6: Guest Posting Can Help You Grow #7: Share Your Blog With Email Newsletters SECTION A Research Topic and Create Content 1. How to Find the Right Blog Topic? First and the foremost thing, you need is to find out the topic which is in your forte. Selecting a topic is the most important step for your power page to gain more visitors. While selecting the topic, make sure that the topic you are going to select is accurate or relevant enough to get to know whether it can help you generate good traffic results. Let’s start with choosing a ‘Powerful Keyword’ that you are willing to write the blog post about on your website. Let us just assume that the area of your interest is cooking for instance. Various blogs are published on a daily basis online so finding and aiming at your interest, try and write an impact full page giving all the information to the user. Select a medium tail definite keyword in your interest area to find out the competitive blogs in the online market. Tip: To decide a keyword you can think from the users-end, based on how they search on Google to get the result of your niche and bring the spotlight on it. There are tools available to expand your research criteria, Google Keyword Planner is a tool that can help you find a more relevant keyword to what actual users are searching for online. This is the first and foremost choice. Ahrefs: Ahrefs will give you different areas to do research in and help you sort out the results to land on a final topic. Head over to Ahrefs tool. Click on ‘Keywords Explorer’ link on the top which will guide you to the keywords explorer screen. Add the keyword in the search box that you decided to get the results. Let’s add a simple topic like “how to cook” in the box and do the search; we can also select the country from which we want to see the results. Once you click on search, you will find the detailed insight of the keyword as shown below: The second step is that once the search is done, you will get is the Phrase Match option in the dialog box on the left-hand side as per screen. This option will give you more related results of your keyword which have higher rankings in your niche. After clicking on it, this option will give you several keyword results related to your entered keyword with scores of handy statistics. Let me explain it to you, how you can get the exact match for the topic you selected. First of all, select the terms or keywords that you like to use and you want to do the research concluding whether it is a good topic to write a blog or not. So, let’s just say you want to go for ‘how to cook jasmine rice’ from the full flooded list of topics. Next, you are willing to do is click on the ‘how to cook jasmine rice’ keyword as shown in the above screen capture. The next step will give you the complete result with a deep matrix of your search result including as the following: Keyword Difficulty: The keyword difficulty score gives you an estimated result on how comparative the top Google results are with your search keyword term and the average number is based on the referring domain they have on the website. Referring to the keyword difficulty of the search term, the ratings between 0 – 5 are considered to be nominal. But this is not the only case to decide the topic from. There are different other criteria that you can refer for great search terms also. Search Volume: This step gives you the average number of monthly searches on Google for your keyword that you searched. So, if the same person will search the same keyword multiple times the result will go up as well. The graph also provides a good view of your search query. You can also check when these keywords are searched the most so you can plan accordingly to publish the post. Global Search Volume: This step includes the breakdown of the searches by country, most monthly searches that are based on the keyword used to search for more country search listed down accordingly. This result also includes various things to compare, like which are the related terms that have the highest search volume, what is the keyword difficulty, cost per click, parent topic and much more. You can review all these things to confirm which topic you can select to write a blog. Moreover, SERP overview will give you the number of results with the websites which ranks the top for this particular term or keyword. With these results, you can compare and decide whether you are ready to go with the topic or not. Below are the few selection criteria of whether you choose “how to cook jasmine rice” as the final topic for writing or not: #1. Check the minimum to the maximum traffic of each result #2. Check for the backlinks and make sure these are all low number as highlighted in below screenshot #3. Check that minimum to maximum DR which has to be acquired You need to investigate in depth by checking all the results which appear. This is like traffic should be sufficient, having the low number of backlinks and compatible DR, then you can choose this topic to write a blog. The more research you do the better idea you get about selecting and finalizing the topic. So, here your topic is ready and you are good to go to write the content for your blog. Author’s Note: After selecting the topic, you can use some sounded word like Best, Great, Now, Tips, etc. to make the topic more powerful. For example, Best Way to Cook Rice, 10 Tips To Cook Rice, How to Cook Perfect Rice, etc. Anil Parmar Co-founder at GloryWebs 2. Frame the Outline for Your Blog The most common mistake I have found with the content flow is the lack of content planning and organizing. Majority of the website publishes the blogs because they think their competitors’ website is getting traffic with the blogs they publish. Yes, it might be the case but there are different strategies that make a blog powerful to generate the traffic. You can do research as well for the users in your niche regarding the issue they are having and accordingly plan to include those things in your content. If you are doing regular blog posting then create a roadmap for the whole year. Author’s Note: When we give it a thought about writing the content for a blog, there is always a question which arises like what are the things that make content more powerful and help generate more traffic. You can review how to write a blog post as writing requires a set of outline planned so to work fluently with your blog. Anil Parmar Co-founder at GloryWebs 3. The Key for Writing a Powerful Content What on the whole is the problem? If a problem arises, it essentially means you haven’t followed the good content writing strategies and aren’t spending much of money on marketing. After I did the research on blog posts, there are numerous things that are being missed or not followed because of which the blogs don’t get enough attention from the users. With this step, I will explain you which are the proven strategies that can help you write powerful content. 1. How Can You Write For Your Readers? The central part is writing and engaging your readers with the blog post. The headlines chosen for your blog should explain all the things that you are about and willing to share with your users. The images and image captions that you are using need to communicate with the readers. The sub-headline should be so written that it summarizes your key points. Use of bullet points improves the readers’ connection with the content (Write Short and Pointed Content). The most important information should be placed first, following a definite pattern. Keep your content conversational (Using the words “you” and “I” within your content). Asking questions throughout your blog post and answering them. Making sure everyone can understand your written content in the blog post. Keep your paragraphs short and to the point. You can use graphs to show the results. Make it easy for readers to share your content, have a sharing option for your readers. Avoid repetition. Sharing images or infographics will help more. It will be nice if we can give a chance to the users to share the images or the infographics. Useful Tip: As people will share the blog, more of the links we will get and can generate more traffic from there. Infographics will make your post more powerful, clean design of blog and use of pictures in it create an impact. 2. How to Create an Impactful Headline or Content? Most of the users are not going to read the full blog post in detail, so the headline and the content needs to be strong and powerful (Create Headlines for People and Write a Strong Headline). Also, doing in-depth research for content related to your topic can help you figure a more appealing title for your blog. Using the tools like Google’s Correlate for your topic can help you find the relevant topics to use in your powerful blog as shown in the images. With profound research, you can use the applicable keywords for your content to make it come up in the Google rankings. Fact: Researchers suggest that only 16% of people read web pages word-to-word. Most people just scan from top to bottom. Check out the various keywords related to your blog topic on the various tools and make it more convincing. Image Source: Google Correlate Search With the Google Keyword Planner tool enhance your search for more relevant keywords to use and get various ideas for your topic headline. Ahrefs, is also another to discover the related keywords to use in for your blog post content or headline. Also, with Google trends, you can find numerous ideas for your blog topic title and powerful keywords. Make use of the keywords naturally don’t put everything at once and make it crowded. Here is one of the examples the strong headline, with this user can easily identify what post is all about. Image Source: Favorite Family Recipes 3. How to Make Your Content Engaging to the User? Use the appropriate colors in the blog. If we are going to use colors in the blog and infographics we must need to understand the psychology of the different colors so used. Use of the perfect blend of colors can help you to connect with the readers of the blog. Image Source: color-wheel-pro Highlight the important part or words in your blog post Break the long headline into sub headline Use the nice bullet points Graphically creating an impact Use of proper white space Use the proper name of the pictures you are using in your blog post Whatever images you use in the blog post give it a proper name and don’t keep it like image1, banner1 etc. It should be related to the keyword and targeted audience on your blog. Summing up to the content and headlines, it is better to stick with a posting schedule and publish your article. Make your steps for your blog post count up in the public. SECTION B Tricks to Increase Blog Traffic Begin With The Tactics For Your Blog Content Keeping everything in your mind, you have created a great article which now needs to be seen by the users worldwide. Three of the main points for why the various tactics should be followed for your blog content are as follows To come up in the Google rankings To acquire and build backlinks from a quality source (i.e. high Domain Authority & Page Authority) To generate more traffic on your blog post 4. Resource Link Building Approach Listing Out the Relevant Blogs and Resource Pages For your blog content to come in the Google rankings, you need to search for the other relevant blogs for your topic. Using the search strings on Google can help you find the precise match for your article. For example, search for “how to cook rice blogs” given in the quotes which can help you find the exact search result for your content from where you can start outreaching. The results for the search will outnumber leaving you confused for which website to look forward. The answer is rather trouble-free! With the Ahrefs tool, check which website has high User Rating (UR) and Backlinks (BL) as shown in the example below. Finding Out the Resource Pages The simplest way to come across the resource pages is by searching for your keyword directly which at the end will give you the never-ending list as referred in the above example. A resource page is a page which helps you refer great resources on other websites. To help find the relevant resource pages for your blog, pair your desired keyword with search strings as given below best “keyword” blog posts best “keyword” articles intitle:best posts + keyword “keyword” + “resources” “keyword” + “helpful resources” “keyword” + “other resources” best “keyword” resources best “keyword” resources + current year “keyword” + “useful links” “keyword” + “helpful links” “keyword” + inurl:resources “keyword” + intitle:resources “keyword” + inurl:links “keyword” + intitle:links site:.gov + “resources” site:.edu Keyword + “resources” site:.edu Keyword + “links” Let’s just say we run down a search for best “cook rice” blog posts and the results you can see Tip to Follow: Copy the link of any blog that you want to opt from the search results and get the backlinks and power pages linked with it in Ahrefs. Searching for the Relevant Forums and Comments Provide some real example of some sections and answer it. You can search for a similar topic and check for the comments, you can select any comment and display that comment and give an answer to it. i. Go to Google ii. Search for similar topic blogs iii. Check the comments of several users iv. Take a screenshot of any comment for which we can give an answer in post v. Display that comment and give an answer to that comment Few search strings that can be very helpful are “keyword” forum “keyword” + board keyword” + “powered by bulletin” Using any of the search string will help you find the numerous question asked by the users which ultimately you can take up for your benefit. Another point to add-on is through active forums and commenting. Here is the point that how do forums and commenting works? For starters, post 5 – 10 comments on other users post relevant to your blog topic. This will help you gain more views on the forum community. Point to Remember: Not necessarily you will get everything on your doorstep, make an effort and find relevant questions that people are asking and posting on Reddit and Quora also. After which you can host the Reddit ask me anything and answer the questions on Quora. Be an active user of the forum community by frequently updating and commenting on the relevant questions with your topic. Then, focus on a few quickie posts with your account. It’s time for your blog to play a role in this with the two simple steps to highlight your blog post Start a new thread with the title of your blog post. Here, how your title thread should be: How to cook rice? Next, start a thread off with your article link within it. For example, Hey guys, I just published this article about cooking the perfect rice but wanted to share a short and sweet version here. Paste a summary of your article which will keen on the users to look for more and visit your site for the entire post. Last but not the least be active on the forum community to answer the questions that you will receive from the users to keep your thread lively. Strive Towards Broken Link Building Add other good resource links to your blogs as well. You can add other related blog links to your new blog which will help the user to find other useful things and also helps you to get more viewers on your old blogs. After the research work for various relevant blogs, now comes the step forward to gain backlinks. Ahrefs With the Ahrefs tool, you can search for the broken links for various websites. This is a very helpful tool to check the Broken Links and Domain Authority of the resource page you have selected for backlinks your blog with. Check My Links Another helpful tool to be used is Check My Links (Chrome Plugin) which can help you find the broken links that are the 404 error pages in the website to outreach where you can link your blog. Tip: Also, find the other linking pages to these 404 pages (outreach them too). Outreaching such broken links will help you garner more links for your blog. As portrayed in the example below you can see how this tool works for a limited time after which you can purchase the plan accordingly. With this broken links replacing your source link in it you can achieve up to 78% more traffic on your blog post. Reach Out to Roundup Link Building What roundup link building basically mean to a blogger? Roundup link building is the blog articles with nothing but the links for their various other articles provided by the bloggers. Roundup link building helps you gain more links to your power page to gain users attention. Though, the articles regarding the open links are put out that doesn’t mean that you have to tap your main focus on it. You can start by listing out the websites relevant to your topic. Listing out the relevant topics and websites will give you assorted list to carry on with. Few of the websites which do the roundup link building are as given below WEBSITE TOPIC FREQUENCY This Gal Cooks Food Weekly The Midnight Baker Food Weekly Hungry Harps Food Weekly These are essentially done weekly or monthly by various bloggers to a specific theme giving an opportunity to indulge in for other users blog articles. As the links are sorted out it is time to search for keywords which are presently there for roundup link building. Various search strings that can help you find such active articles are “link roundup” + “keyword” inurl:roundup + “keyword” intitle:roundup + “keyword” “keyword’ + “best articles of the week” Some of the words to try out are weekly roundup, monthly roundup, top posts, etc. Enhance your search for link roundups by providing a broader search term for your keyword. Because it might help you find the best articles for you. Also, you can remove the links which are just there for showcase and leads you nowhere. Limit the number of searches by using the ‘search tools’ in Google to display the latest links. Finding Email To Your Sorted Blog Websites List Now for the crucial fix, finding the contact email of the blog websites you sorted can be quite interesting. With the content written and after doing the long haul research for the various blog websites and links, it is time to find the contact email of the right person for the power page. This step can be huge and prove beneficial to you for outreaching the website links. Sending separate emails to all users will be a better option. Always prepare the email list of your subscribers which either you can get it from the website or the Facebook pages. Many a time, it is easy to find the information that you are seeking for but it can also prove you wrong if you don’t find the necessary information. With the various tools as listed below, you can minimize the effort for your website blog contact person. FindThatLead As seen in the broken link example now it is time to find the contact person for the resource page. With the help of FindThatLead tool, you can do a reliable search for the contact information of the person as shown below. Useful Tip: Also, for fast access to this tool you can download the FTL Chrome Extension which gives you the information instantly. BuzzStream Being free up to a certain limit, this tool does the job well and certainly lands you to the correct contact information. A handy BuzzStream Buzzmaker Chrome Extension is also available for this site with just a click away. Hunter From my perspective, this is the tool that should be used for a solid result. As soon as you enter the domain name it gives you the list of each and every email present in the database for the domain. Tip: Even after using the tools, if it all fails then just sit back and do a bit more research for the contact us or info tab provided on the website page. Also, you can search for the social links provided on the website page. Now, all that is done you can start sending the emails assorted with the various templates examples shown in the outreach process. This will increase the chances of getting more viewers coming on the page including a good chance for more sharing. In addition, don’t use any online tools to send emails to the users of the resource page; it will be of great use if you can send custom emails to the users as shown in the templates below. Author’s Note: Using the auto-generated tools will lessen your chance for an email to get seen by the user that comes from an online portal. Let’s just say take an example of yourself if you will see your inbox have a mail, what are the chances that you will have a look on it? There might be 10% out of 100% chances to open that email, correct? Anil Parmar Co-founder at GloryWebs The Long-Haul Outreach Process Finally, it is show time, at this moment that you have generated tons of contact email from several blog websites for your blog post the outreaching process comes in the scenario. Below here are few email templates which will help you for the outreach process. Personalizing the templates by your own can help you form a structure that works while contacting the person of the power page In this step, different templates used for the above different steps are made known accordingly, Template #1 Resource Link Building Outreach Subject: Your [Topic] Resource Page Hello [Name], I just came across your resource page for [Topic]. What a fantastic list of resources [Name of the content you liked]! I actually just published a post on “[your resource page]” at [URL] It might make a good fit for your page and provide a lot of value to your visitors. Either way, keep up the awesome work! Regards, [Your name] Template #2 Broken Link Building Outreach Subject: Problem with [site] Hi [Name], I was looking for some information on [Topic] this morning when I came across your webpage resource. Great stuff though! However, I did come across a few dead links. [BROKEN LINK URL 1 (TYPE OF ERROR + replacement URL if available)] [BROKEN LINK URL 1 (TYPE OF ERROR + replacement URL if available)] Also, I just published a piece of content about “[Topic]” [URL] It might make a nice addition to your page. Either way, I hope this helps you out and keep up the great work! Regards, [Your name] Template #3 Link Roundup Subject: Question about [Roundup name] Hi [Name], While I was searching for some info on [Topic] today I came across your [brief description about their roundup]. Great stuff! [Mention something that you discovered thanking their roundup]. Actually, I just published a post on [Topic] that I think you’d really enjoy. Let me know if you want to check it out. Regards, [Your name] Template #4 Follow Up Email Hi [Name], Hope this email finds you well. I just wanted to confirm if you have had a chance to look at my previous email. Keeping it short and simple, I’ll look forward to your views over it. Regards, [Your name] Respond To The Positive Outreach After sending tons of emails to the users of the power page, there comes a point when you will also start receiving positive responses for your email not necessarily they all will be free. Some responses might have the condition for the payback option. Now, it is time to respond to them back. Tip: Most important thing to consider here is that you get several opportunities to carry your work for guest blogging. Even though the email response you received was for a paid version but you can save time and go for guest blogging. This step gives you the advantage to gather the opportunity if there is a requirement for guest blogging (either paid or free) instead of backlinks on the power page. 5. Publish With the Help of Social Media Where to Approach For More User Engagements? With the new Global Digital statistics gathered by We Are Social and Hootsuite in 2018, there are around 3.196 billion Social Media users. With these statistics, you can surely target more viewers for your blog post if the social media platforms are used efficiently. Sharing posts on social media is one more great option to consider. As you know social media platforms are famous in all areas. But the question is which social media platforms can prove helpful to you? Facebook Instagram Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Social media sharing proves of assistance as it is easy to use. With social media outreach, you can either go for the organic method or the paid method. Create a page of yours and share the blog post on your If the results gathered doesn’t have a good deal while on the organic version, you can opt to boost your posts shared on the social media page of yours to harness more viewers. Join the number of groups in your niche. Share your created post into that group, share on all the available social platforms.This will really be helpful to get the focus of the users. You can also approach the Admin of the Groups to share your post in the group resulting if the admin will share the post it will give more impact to users. Most of the times, we share the post on the Social Media knowing that’s a great deal to the users. There are more chances to get your post in the limelight if you approach the admin of the different groups to share your article in their group. This will create a very different effect on users mind as the Admin of the group has posted the article. People will like to review the post that is posted by the admin. It might cost you a bit but it’s better to spend on this as there is a great chance of getting more traffic on your blog post. Also, there are various campaigns for different platforms which you can choose to opt for if needed. Likewise, Drive More Traffic Through Facebook (Paid Social Media) Facebook is the great social platform to get the great results as there are over 2 billion monthly active Facebook users and around 1.4 billion daily active users it means 70% of Facebook users log on daily. Knowing the average time spent on a Facebook visit is 20 minutes, it is best for any kind of business like small business owners, corporate marketing professional, social celebrity or brand. How you can opt for the paid version? Find out more, Continue and optimize with your page Create Ad’s based on your business goals Reach your audience (you can reach your audience at any levels) Their Interest and what they like What they buy online and offline Create high-quality Ads Select the best type of ad Write a Great post Set a Budget Track the campaign and change accordingly for the post Reach for LinkedIn Pulse With the help of LinkedIn Pulse you can grow more traffic for your blog. LinkedIn Pulse is an open medium for the bloggers to publish their blog post directly to LinkedIn’s audience. Publish your content on Pulse Grow your followers list Reach out to the massive audience with your content Reach out to the Pulse team to get featured Tip: One of the greatest advantages on publishing at Pulse is that you can actually tweet to the LinkedIn Pulse team to feature your blog post and get more viewers. If you have written compelling articles and it has views in large quantity then there are chances for your blog to get featured on the Pulse. What Are The Potential Timings To Focus On Your Audience For Social Media? While posting on social media you need to make sure you are publishing your posts during peak hours so that you get the most social engagement. You should develop a well-planned strategy to share your blog posts on the social media page of yours. There are a lot of things that you need to take care of which includes the foremost timings. Timings are a great deal if you want your users to hover around your blog post. As per the research, done by CoSchedule, you should know the key to time your post on social media. They have analyzed the best timings to post on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. As per the fact is known, 80% of the U.S population is in the central and Eastern Time zones. Best times to post on Facebook Best times days to post on Instagram Best times to post on Twitter Best times to post on Pinterest Best times to post on Linkedin Sharing the post multiple times on social platform also works best. If you will share again it will again get in the main frame of the users. Tip to Follow: Blog Posting per week will get more results, 2 blogs per week will be good and more than 2 will be the best. Follow the Social Media Outreach Social media outreach is a new way along with the email outreach to grab the attention of the viewers on your blog post. While the personalization of your social media pages is a must, it also creates a necessity to carry out the outreach when it comes to social media. With the advanced technology, social media sharing proves powerful for the resource pages. Go through the various connections (influencers, publishers, etc.) to build for your blog post which will help you generate more traffic. Social media outreaching can be quite interesting once you have the users who actually like your content and are willing to share it on their social media. Social media is just like email outreaching instead you send a personalized text to the users. If you want to engage users you need to first find out the pages with the relevant topic of yours. Then as an initial step towards mutual interest share, like or comment on their post which will make the user take interest in your article. Using social media tools like BuzzSumo can help you learn the total shares on various platforms. With the use of these tools, you can outreach the various power pages which are shared by the users around you. Influencers for the blog post are the leading and effective way to increase the traffic for your power page. Also, you can target on the influencers of the shares and contact them personally. Once you have the game your way then give heads up about your blog post with personalized text, before publishing the followed link on your page. Template #1 Social Media Outreach Subject: Quick question about [Site] Hi [Name], [Give them a brief about something personal that shows you actually are interested and have read their stuff online] Also, I noticed that you recently shared out an article about [Topic]: [Article title] Coincidence it is, I actually have a new article on [Topic] coming up. Let me know if you want a heads up when it comes out 🙂 Regards, [Your name] Now that you have sent the text personally they will contact you back and go through your stuff. Following which send a heads up text once your blog post is ready is to be shared with them. Template #2 Heads up Mail Hi [Name], URL [Politely ask them for feedback] Regards, [Your name] Tip: Asking for feedback doesn’t imply you have to ask them to share your link or post. Instead be subtle and give them heads up about your stuff. The user will automatically share your article once they have penned down their interest in it and you will grab the opportunity to have more viewers. Never forget to leave a thanking reply once your blog is shared & liked and continue to share more articles from other users to engage sharing. 6. Guest Posting Can Help You Grow While outreaching to various bloggers you will also receive a real deal for guest blogging. Apart from that if you are willing to do a guest post then you can follow the few simple steps as under Create Your Hit List First You need to find out the websites or blogs in your niche which can share your post on their websites for which Google is a great tool. Search for a broad keyword that someone would be used to find content about your site topic. You will get end number of list to target for. You can also search with the long tail and broad keywords that Google displays at the end of the page. Search with these words also to get more result and that you can make your list to target. Also, you need to search with the informational search strings which will bring the competitor’s results in front of you. “Author Name” + “guest post” –site:competitordomain.com “Keyword” “Author Name” + inurl:author Try with all kind of keywords and make a great list to target. Suppose you have entered the search string “food” “Deb Perelman” + inurl:author and the expected result you will get are as Hit the domain authority for that site. You can also find a number of online tools to check for the domain authority in which some of them are free and some are paid. Moz is one of the well-known tools. You can remove the sites which you don’t want to target from the list. Check for the Domain Authority of the list you get that will give you an idea how much of good links you will get from these websites. If you are selecting any blog to target then check for the number of comments, views, sharing which will help you to finalize your list to target. Open Ahrefs And Click On Site Explorer After making the list of targeted websites, follow the following steps to get the backlinks list to target. Assume that you want to explore for the startcooking.com site using Ahrefs. You will get backlinks option on the left sidebar as per the screenshot. After which you will get a number of website list from which search for the website getting backlinks. Please do analyses of all the backlinks there. Check for traffic Check for the Do-follow links from the filter Check for the domain Tip: If you are targeting on this make sure you need to prepare 100x better content from the old ones. Only then they will allow you to publish content on their website. Outreach To The Targeted List After completing the blog, we need to prepare a list to target the websites which will allow us to publish the blog on their websites. Option 1: Outreach Using Online Platform There are many online tools which you can use to outreach the people. Ninjaoutreach FindThatLead Above are the two good platforms to use and both of these are paid. This will help you to find emails to contact for outreach. You need to configure email to the account and then you can send email from your account using this online platform. They also provide a fast process for sending emails for outreach; you can send multiple emails with the same content and different name. Option 2: Outreach Using Gmail and Manually The second option is to send an email to the users manually with a Gmail account. And this will be a good option as we will be able to send email to the users one by one manually and can track them down. You can use mailtrack to track the email which will help you to keep a track of whether the client has read your email or not. The email we are going to send for outreach needs to be decent. Let me give you an example of a really bad email. There are many wrong things with this email as the approach is completely mistaken. Being short and concise doesn’t imply that you have to put the things directly on the face of the user as shown here. This email just has straight speech. Good Points to consider while outreaching You should recognize the expertise of the outreaching person You can ask for their feedback on your blog You should approach properly in the email 7. Share Your Blog With Email Newsletters Take one more step to reach the audience for your blog post. Blog sharing with email newsletters is also a well-planned approach for your organic searches and boosts the viewers for your blog post. All things being equal the email list for your subscribers will just keep growing which ultimately proves that email marketing would be a good choice. Also, accumulate your blog post to design an email newsletter that your subscribers will love to visit. This way you can share your blog post again with the users and increase the traffic. In the sample image by CoSchedule, you can see how effectively you can design the email newsletter template. Going With The Tool MailChimp is the tool that we highly recommend to use for the initial stage of blogging. This tool is most popular because of the major role played by the free trial subscriptions for 2000 Subscribers. It is easy to tackle with tons of handy templates to play around. With the various design templates, you can go with the best design that goes well for your blog post. For email marketing, this tool ranks the highest well known for its social integration and the customer services offered. Fact: The best use of this tool is that for small businesses it is ‘forever free’ giving you an option to subscribe to their not so costly plans for more features as your business grows. Contacting The Subscribers As you have made use of and decided to send your blog post email, frame how often you want these blog emails to reach the users. Directly after the blog has published If you are an everyday blogger, then this is not a worthy option for you. As the users have subscribed to your blog they do want any hassle of emails loading up in the middle of some important work. Weekly You can go with the weekly option if you publish more than once in a week for your blog post. Monthly Go with the monthly updates when you do the blog post once or twice a week. If you update regularly then this will be of no use to your blog post. Personalize Your Email Content For Your Blog Subscribers Choose a template and personalize it your way with minimal content in it. Personalizing your content will include the subject line, header text, headline, body content, and call-to-action. Keep the content to the point and carry a conversation with your users to engage more viewers on your blog post. It should be so designed that the users go through your regular blog post updates and share to their liking. The content on your guest blog can prove beneficial to the users, so once they find the email appealing with their needs you will grab more views. Start Tracking Your User Engagement As you start sending the emails to your users the next step you can sum up with is tracking the user engagement with your old metrics. Start a track record for your user engagement on your blog post. Check the likes, shares, and comments on your blog post based on how your users are looking forward to your content. The Final Verdict for Your Blog Post If Possible, Answer All The Comments After publishing the blog, people will be asking questions (if any) to you in the comment section; you need to reply to all those questions on time. Replying on time and giving answers to almost every comment or question will reflect the positive side of your blog. Remove Spam Comments With the two sides of a coin, you will receive comments or questions which might not be relevant to your blog post. So help yourself increase the blog traffic by deleting those spam-y comments or questions. Add More Keywords And Make Your Blog More Powerful After a few days from your published blog, you can start improving your blog post. You can start by adding more keywords in your blog post. Ahrefs provides a great feature to find relevant keywords, your competitors rank, and more. As explained before, you can imply the same procedure to add more keywords for upgrading your rankings. Over to You! Generating traffic on your website takes more than what it looks like. It is not an easy game play, you have to throttle down the step by step procedure and do the research as per the requirement for your website to rank high. But, if done so this guide can be beneficial to you in many ways from the first occurrence. The ultimatum is up to you to choose from!