Increase Blog Traffic: Expert Strategies [AI Edition]

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.

There are tools available to expand your research criteria,

Resource Link Building Approach

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.

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

Let’s just say we run down a search for best “cook rice” blog posts and the results you can see

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

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.

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

For example:

Hey guys, I just published this article about cooking the perfect rice but wanted to share a short and sweet version here.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Following which send a heads up text once your blog post is ready is to be shared with them.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are many online tools which you can use to outreach the people.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

You can go with the weekly option if you publish more than once in a week for your blog post.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.