I thing you’ll agree with what I say:
Getting traffic from search engine is hard..buying traffic is easy..
but you know
Organic traffic (Search traffic) is the best traffic for your blog or business.. as it sends you most targeted traffic.
Well, there are ways by which you can start getting traffic from search engines naturally. You will learn it right now, here.
The best of profitable visitors which you can get to your site is from Organic search results. This means, when people search for something and land on your website, because these are the people who are most likely to convert into customers or clients. In blogging, it’s also most profitable as users will be seeing more high
CPC Adsense ads, as they will be seeing ads based on their search term. Even
direct advertisers look for blog, which gets natural traffic from search engines. Now, there are many search engines like Google, Bing but we mostly target Google as it’s one of the most used and popular search engine. For bing, you can refer to our earlier guide on
Getting started with Bing Webmaster tools.
If you have noticed ShoutMeLoud monthly traffic reports, then you might have checked that ShoutMeLoud gets its maximum traffic from Organic search fresults. Getting traffic from Organic search is always beneficial when it come to generate income from advertisements and
affiliate programs. Another good reason to get organic traffic is that we get targeted visitors thus it increases the chances to
lower down bounce rate and revisiting of readers.
Apart from organic traffic there are other ways to
drive huge traffic from social networking websites like Twitter or sometimes
images might also help you to get targeted traffic. Here are few articles which might help you to get good traffic apart from search engine traffic:
How to increase organic search traffic
There are various things which you can do to get organic traffic and most important is SEO and we will start with the same.
SEO – Make Search engine easily access your blog
SEO is all about search engine optimization. Making your site more search engine friendly and giving them what people are looking for. There are various aspect of SEO and it starts from On-page SEO, off page SEO, and on Site SEO.
The best place to start is with On-site SEO. Make sure your site is not only indexable but also all important part is crawlable by Google bots. We always prefer to give you tips on SEO and quality articles, both the things go hand in hand when you want to generate traffic from search engine. It is important that you must take good care of Titles, Tags, URL, Descriptions,
broken links etc. There are many things which must be taken care about when it comes to SEO. You can refer a
checklist of SEO, which will help you with good organic traffic.
SEO optimized content: Write content that search engine understand
Content marketing is the best way to attract organic traffic. The key is to write content based on something what people are seeking for. For example, this piece of content is written to make people understand how ogranic traffic will help and how you can increase it. Similarly, a Website selling fashion cloths can write about content based on what kind of fashion trend is going on and channelize it to drive traffic to their product page.
Though, writing SEO optimized content is not easy as it consist of many steps, which starts from doing Keyword research, writing content based on our Target Keywords and then promoting the content to increase it’s search engine friendly. We have already covered everything you need to write content which drives organic traffic, and below are few articles which you should check out right now, which will help you to make most out of content marketing to get organic traffic.
Link building is a part of SEO strategies. Search engines loves quality links and hate irrelevant links. Thus it is important to have relevant and quality links to your blog. Links can be
backlinks,
outbound links, reciprocal links, connect to other blogs directly or indirectly but the only thing to remember is to get links from good PR and same niche blog.
Specially avoid falling into the trap of buying backlinks for sake of improving your search engine ranking as Google have rolled out an algo update called penguin update, which will flag all such sites who are using spam ways to get links to the site. The best and easy ways to get link to your site is by
Guest posting and blog commenting. Write content which are not only unique but also attract organic backlinks, which will help the most.
Maintain blog frequency – Regular content keeps reader happy
Many bloggers don’t get time to
maintain their blog frequency thus search engine bots also don’t like such blogs much. It is not that tough to maintain blog frequency, just need to be bit organized. But writing post frequently doesn’t mean that you write articles not related to your niche. Always write article related to your niche and take care about keywords.
Make traffic revisit
So you succeeded in getting traffic from your search. But what next?
Many bloggers miss out on taking this to the next level, and later on regret.
Don’t you want that visitors should stay on your blog regularly? If you haven’t thought about it, you should. As returning visitors are audience, brand advocate.
These people are the one who will share your post on social-media, will tell people about your blog.
How can you do that?..
.. The process is simple as you need to play one secret trick. You need to give them option to subscribe.
I’m sure you have your Facebook page, Twitter page all setup..but are you giving them option to subscribe via email?
Understand one simple yet powerful thing,
You might not check your Facebook, twitter always, but you will always check your emails. If my email hits your inbox, you will either open it or delete it.
Point is, you will see it & take an action. Since ShoutMeLoud sends high quality posts to email subscriber, our open rate is about 16.3%, which is a good number.
Do a simple math:
Email was sent out to approx. 6000 subscribers
16.3% opened the email : == That is 978 readers
6.2% clicked == that is 372 returning visitors…
.. These are the people who will be sharing or commenting & increasing the social value of the post.
Want to do the same for your blog?
Offer email-subscription on your blog. Good placement is after blog post & the sidebar…
.. This is what we use at ShoutMeLoud
You can read his guide over here & create email subscription box for your blog. If you looking for the best plugin to add the box on your blog, use this easy to use WordPress plugin call
OptinMonster.
This is by prominent WordPress developer, and trusted by thousands of bloggers around the globe.
Social media promotion:
Social recommendation is the best way to promote a product and people are more likely to trust something when their friends or family recommend something to them. Google understand it and they are taking social media as a great signal to rank a content…
..You need to make sure your content are sharable..
and you should add social bookmarking buttons on your blog so that people can easily share your content on their favorite social bookmarking sites.
Avoid unethical ways
Many bloggers use unethical ways like link farms to get good search engine ranks and drive traffic but it can result in your getting your blog blacklisted. Getting good ranks in search engine through ethical way might take time but it gives good results in long term to increase organic traffic.
There is no rocket science or secrets to get good amount of organic traffic for your blog. You just need proper strategy for same. If you know any useful strategy to increase organic traffic then do share with us.
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