Blog traffic is essential when you’re trying to get one up and running, and it’s not always as easy as it seems at first. Fortunately, consistency and persistence will get you far in the blogging world, and so will a little luck and intuition. Keep that in mind as you read the following three tips that should help your blog skyrocket.
Always Answer Reader Correspondence
When a reader takes time out of his or her day to write you an email, no matter about what, you need to take a moment to respond to it. Even if it’s just a simple question or two, it’s your responsibility to answer them. After all, you should be honored they’re contacting you at all. If you do answer, thank them appropriately for their inquiry. If done promptly, you’re likely to have a reader for life.
Backlink to Your Own Posts
When in doubt, it’s time to start backlinking your own posts. Backlinking is simply referencing your own old posts in new ones. Say you wrote a post about one of the tips you’re writing about – link to it so people can get more detailed information on that one tip. You’ll find that people will be stick wandering around your site for hours, getting more information as they go.
Don’t Always Do the Same Thing
Are your posts are exactly the same? Being predictable is a death sentence in the blog world, as it means you aren’t being interesting enough for anyone to pay attention to for a long time. Predictable is boring. Don’t go completely off topic, but go in random directions sometimes.
