Most of you might be blogging. You might have noticed the traffic variations to your website. In order to improve the traffic you need to follow the below guidelines.
3. Write Quality Content
5. Consistently add the images
1. Love your Headlines or Titles
Write the impressive headlines for your posts before writing the content, as it increases the chances of post headlines getting clicked and read the post. Otherwise no one is going to read your blog posts and they won't share your posts. Therefore, it's essential that you write blog post headlines that people want to click!
2. First impression matters a lot
Start writing your post like a journalist and open your blog posts with the most important thing you want the readers to takeaway from it. Make sure that they know what the post is about within the first paragraph, and add details (from most important to least important) in the rest of the post.
Quality matters a lot as visitors like it most. If the quality of posts is good, visitors will read the entire post. Also your post gets spread on the social network. So, take your own time and try to write high quality content to make it as shareable as possible.
4. Avoid grammar mistakes
4. Avoid grammar mistakes
It doesn't matter how great your content is, if it is filled with spelling and grammar mistakes. Bloggers are human and there will be a typographical errors in your blog posts from time to time. Try to prevent this kind of typographical errors which will definitely impress the readers.
5. Consistently add the images
You might have heard in your schooling, diagrams(images) explain more than the text. Similar things apply here as well. Use images in your blog posts, keeping in mind about their formatting to make your posts more shareable. format images properly before adding in the posts.
6. Quotes should be highlighted properly
As this draws a lot of attention from the readers it is good to highlight it properly. You can add some color or make it bold or italic and increase the font size of quotes. It will add a good impression on the readers. So make sure to write content that people want to quote!
7. Pre - view before publishing
Preview your written posts before publishing it to the web, it your give you a clear visual look as how it appears once it gets published. It matters a lot as you can improve the formatting of posts at an earlier stage. If the format of your post look neater, it will be linked by many of readers.
8. Add sharing buttons
Don't forget to include social sharing buttons on all of your blog posts, as it helps readers to share with their social circles with just a click of the mouse!
9. Promote the posts in the right way
When you promote your blog posts by sharing them through updates on your social media profiles, make sure you format these updates so that they are highly clickable and shareable. When you have limited characters to work with, such as in Twitter updates, include the link to your blog post early in the tweet so it doesn't get truncated when it gets re-tweeted. When you share your blog post through a Facebook or Google+, make sure to include an image along with the link to the post to increase click-throughs.
10. Schedule posts properly
Write the posts regularly as it matters a lot to your readers as well as to search engines. You can make your readers to remember you by writing regularly. It also increases the crawling rate of search engines to your blog. More and more your blog gets crawled your blog gets traffic from the search engines.
Be consistent in following the above guidelines and make your blog super-awesome!!!