Six Tips To Boost Your Website’s Traffic

“How To Get More Traffic To My Website” has got to be the biggest question of today’s internet age amongst webmasters.

Whether you are a large corporate or an in-house firm, traffic is the need of the day. Most of the online businesses fail due to lack of adequete traffic, but you can avoid this by following sound internet marketing techniques.

Here are a few methods you can use to increase your website traffic…

1. OPTIMIZE YOUR WEBSITE

If you already have a decent site up and running but you are not getting any traffic, the first thing you can try is to rank in the SERPs. Start off with some keyword research, find a decently searched keyword with moderate competition and optimize your site for that particular keyword.

After you are finished with the on-page optimization, try your hands on some link building. Increase the number of inbound links to your website, submit to authoritative directories, write some articles on your field of expertise and submit them to popular article directories, get active on popular forums in your niche, leave out useful comments on related popular blogs, exchange a few links with trusted sites related to your niche and see if you can rank within the top 10 for your targeted keyword.

NOTE: Ranking in the SERPs takes time, it can be 3-6 or even 12 months, depending on the level of competition and the aggressiveness of your link building campaign, so be patient.

2. START BLOGGING

It is possible that you get some traffic, but you are stuck without any growth due to low amount of traffic. If that is the case, start a blog and start writing. Don’t be afraid to spill out a few secrets, let your visitors know the level of expertise you have in your niche. Try to hold your current traffic by blogging about what your users require, this will help them bring more traffic to your site by referring you to their friends and family.

Post about something your users would want to read, ask yourself a few questions like “What answers could I be looking for as a visitor”, and try to answer them in your blog post. Keep your style of writing professional, to the point, yet enjoyable to read.

3. GET ACTIVE ON SOCIAL MEDIA SITES

Register your company profile on sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. These sites are now seen more as a brand management tool than anything else. Due to the authority of these sites, you have a good chance of ranking for your company name with your profile on these sites. You can also use your keywords here to have a better chance of ranking in the SERPs with these profiles.

Provide a direct link on your homepage to your social profiles so that your visitors can follow you there. Engage your visitors, let them know about you, your company, upcoming products, events, news and changes in your niche.Promote your blog posts on your social media profiles. Communicating via social media gets you a great opportunity in converting your visitors into real-time customers.

4. GUEST BLOGGING ON POPULAR SITES

Guest blogging is gaining in popularity and with platforms like MyBlogGuest people are getting a direct exposure with blogs interested in guest posting. More and more blogs have now started accepting guest posts. Guest blogging can give you the exposure you need, your level of expertise and knowledge gets exposed to a broader range of traffic. Guest blogging can turn out to be decisive factor for your blog in terms of traffic and links.

Try to find out blogs within your niche that accept guest posts, write an informative post for them in return for a link to your website. This way, you not only get traffic but also free inbound links. The real plus point of this is that if your posts gets published on popular blogs people treat you as an authority in your area of expertise.

5. GIVE SOMETHING OUT FOR FREE

Give out something for free, it can be anything from a free coupon, product, service or advice. Just don’t be afraid of giving things out for free occasionally, because this will bring more people to your site, everyone loves the idea of something being free so it will result in more and more amount of traffic. The people you give out to free will refer you to their friends and family. You can ask them to write a review on their site about your products or services; they will be happy to help.

NOTE: You do get traffic from giving out things for free but its upto you to hold on to this traffic.

6. BUILD A PPC CAMPAIGN

All of the mentioned above can take you some time to get traffic, but if you are looking for traffic instantly sign up with popular Pay Per Click programswith popular search engines like Google for Google AdWords, Yahoo Sitematch or even with Facebook. It only takes a few minutes to set up a PPC campaign with these services and you will start getting traffic immediately but remember your site needs to be good enough to convert this traffic into sales, so make sure that you are ready to receive the traffic.

CONCLUSION

For people to appreciate you, you need to build something so useful that you are able to hold onto whatever traffic you recieve. So first make your site so useful that those once visit you come back to you for more.

Remember behind every successful site there is some useful content.

So roll up your sleeves and start working, choose the best marketing technique that you find suitable for you and get the traffic flowing to you.

3 Proven Ways to Generate Fresh Post Ideas

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1. Use stories

This is the easiest way to generate fresh post ideas without having to come up with original ideas. If you see, hear or read a story that helps pose a question or prove a point related to your niche or topic area, then use it in your post. Especially if the story involves a famous person or event, it will be attractive to readers. This includes true events as well as fictional events from movies, TV series and novels.

My post on the importance of hard work, for example, was hardly a new idea. But I used the story of how Obama uses hard work to look effortlessly stylish to breathe life into an otherwise tired idea.

Similarly, my post on familiarity breeds content was made fresh and new by using the story of how Margaret Thatcher used repetition to turn her otherwise radical ideas into conventional wisdom.

2. Dig deeper

Another way to find new ideas is to focus on a sub-topic. Say you want to write about guest posting. You could write a typical post on how to get guest posts, which has been done to death on the internet. Or you can concentrate on a specific part of guest posting like how to write a great guest post submission, or how to find a-list blogs that accept guest post using Google etc.

Similarly, you can write a generic article about why guest posting is a great way to build traffic or you can concentrate on how guest posting can help your SEO efforts, like Oni did in his article on guest posting and SEO.

3. Compile the views of multiple people in one post

With so many different voices on the internet, one way to generate post ideas is to compare and contrast the views of different bloggers and thinkers on a given topic in a post. NPR recently ran a post using this formula where they compared the views of 3 eminent scientists on climate change.

Alternatively, if you find multiple sources of information on one topic with each source concentrating on a specific area, put all those topics in one post and you can create a complete post. Copyblogger have used this formula to great effect with their ‘Ultimate Guides‘ series to popular marketing tools like Facebook and Twitter.

These are three proven methods to generate fresh content without having to come up with original ideas. They have worked for me, and they have worked for many other successful bloggers. There is no reason why they should not work for you.

Why Bloggers Should Meditate

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What is meditation?

A meditation is a moment—long or short—when the thought traffic that normally marches through our minds slows or ceases. To meditate, in the sense that most people interpret the word, is to deliberately focus attention in a way that makes this happen. We minimize surface thought to help our mind slip into stillness.

Meditation does not, as some people seem to think, make you withdrawn or oblivious. On the contrary, it fosters a deep awareness of what is being created in any given moment.

It moves us from being caught in surface thoughts and life circumstances towards the condition that Buddhists call Big Mind—an alert, relaxed, creative, present-centered awareness. This ancient understanding of how the human mind works is now being understood in a new way, and validated, by contemporary science.

Meditation offers enormous benefits for everyone—and particular benefits for those who are engaged in a creative activity like blogging.

1. Meditation opens creative space

Neuroscience is showing, through brain mapping, how meditation affects brain wave activity. The most striking difference is a shift, in the meditator, from the stress-prone right frontal cortex to the calmer left frontal cortex.

Regular meditation also shows increased brain activity in areas associated with the creative and the mystical.

This is the shift that Albert Einstein described as “the most beautiful emotion we can experience…the [underlying] power of all true art and science.” What it means for the blogger is experiencing more ideas, insights, and connections—the currencies in which we trade.

2. Creates conditions for insight

Insight, perception, revelation: these are the qualities that mark out the good blogger from the mediocre, the great blogger from the good. Meditation creates the mental and emotional conditions in which they are most likely to flourish. For centuries, it was thought that such qualities were the innate gifts of a special elite—born not made. Now brain mapping shows them to be available to all who meditate.

3. Meditation eases blogger’s block

It’s not easy putting yourself out there, day after day, post after post. It can make us edgy—vulnerable, raw, a little crazy sometimes. Brain scans show that meditation reduces activity in theamygdala, where the brain processes fear.  It blunts our edginess, creating a place of safety from which we can take risks. It allows us to become, as Flaubert suggested we should, steady and well-ordered in life, so we can be fierce and original in our blog.

4. Meditation gives us roots

With that steadiness comes what Buddhists call “solidity,” a calm acceptance of self (see also #5), and a centered belief in what we have to offer.

5. Meditation quietens the critics

This steady solidity makes us very much less vulnerable to critics and to the pressures and persuasions of others. And it also muzzles the meanest critic of ‘em all: the great fault-finder within.

6. Meditation claims the essential self

“Be yourself,” Oscar Wilde once said. “Everyone else is taken.” But it’s not always easy, especially if you’re trying to do it in print. Consciously quieting the chatter of our surface mind helps us to claim, and express, our unique self—the indefinable essence that makes us different from anyone else who ever lived.

Also, by detaching us from our surface, chattering mind and the sticky grasp of personalized emotion, meditation allows us creative distance to observe ourselves, others, and life itself with clarity. This makes our blogs more original and compelling.

7. Meditation improves attention and concentration

Essentially, meditation is focus. Practicing it daily helps us to have it and to be able to draw on it when needed—an essential when negotiating the distracted and distracting online world.

8. Meditation makes us mindful

Blogging is a never-ending game. As soon as we finish one post, we’re thinking of the next. Regular meditation develops our ability to appreciate what we’re achieving and getting right, as well as what still has to be done. To enjoy what we are making in the moment of its making. To value process as much as product.

9. Meditation fosters flow

For bloggers, flow is that delectable condition where words seem to appear of their own volition, where all we have to do is turn up at the page and dictate ‘em. Analyzed in depth by creativity theoristMihály Csíkszentmihályi and others, flow has been found to induce similar brain states as meditation.

10. Meditation makes us happy

The transformations induced by meditation and creative activity decrease stress, early depression, and anxiety. This brings about a long list of proven physical and emotional benefits, from eliminating insomnia to easing addiction.

Against this long list (which grows longer as each tranche of research turns up new benefits) bloggers regularly cite one problem. They’d love to meditate but they “can’t”: they don’t have time. For all the reasons outlined above, it’s clear that for bloggers, meditation doesn’t take time, it makes time.

What’s your experience? Have you ever meditated for creative benefit? What happened? Would you like to try? What’s stopping you?

10 Steps writing mindfully for your blog

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1. Find a still, quiet place within which to write.
2. Before you begin writing, take a few minutes to ground yourself in the present moment by bringing a simple, uncomplicated awareness to the whole of your physical body.
3. Simply observe what it feels like to inhabit your body, without mental comments or judgments.
4. If you notice your mind wanders, that’s fine. Gently return your awareness to your body.
5. When you feel centered, relaxed, and reconnected with your essence, slowly begin to move your fingers, toes, and limbs, and with a feather-light touch begin—with all your senses—to observe your surroundings while positioning yourself comfortably to begin writing.
6. As you start writing, promote a sense of doing so with the whole of your being, with the whole of your physical body, rather than purely with the intellectual, wholly rational mind.
7. Allow for writing to flow in imaginative, playful ways. Be curious, childlike.
8. Try to maintain a general, global awareness of your body throughout the time you’re writing.
9. Reawaken your mind, body and spirit by taking frequent breaks to stand, stretch and bring movement back into your body.
10. When you’ve finished writing, gently take this mindful approach into the rest of your day.

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