6 Tips To Increase Blog Traffic

Significant traffic is a need of every blogger. Sometimes we do everything to attract new visitors to increase blog traffic. We spend hours to design our blog template, work hard to write quality and unique content to publish but if we don’t have decent audience to read our content then all of our hard work will be in vain. Quality traffic like from search engines (organic traffic) is really important to boost the ranking of blog. If you aim to make some money from your blog then work to drive traffic. Many of my blogger brothers and sisters struggle to generate traffic to their blog. So, I decide to share my own way on how to increase blog traffic. Let me introduce you to tips of the day.

Tips To Increase Blog Traffic

Read below 6 tips that really work to build traffic to a blog.

1. Fast Loading Template

You must need to make your blog looks professional. Always try to make your blog’s look nifty. Visitors first look at the blog design and if they don’t like the design then they will never come back. Try to get a fast loading template for your blog. Visitors love to read fast loading blogs. You can read our top 9 tips that will help you to make your blog loads faster.

2. Use Share Buttons

Social share buttons really works to get new visitors to your blog. If your readers like your post content then surely they will share it with their friends. This will invite new readers to your blog to read the story. Beside this share buttons also help to increase your blog backlinks and search engines loves these backlinks. It will help your posts to rank in search engines and your traffic will increase.

3. Keyword Research

Keyword research is an interesting and enjoyable task. Before publishing any article always do some research on your keywords you are going to use into your post. Choose best keywords for your posts to target the audience. Always use Long Term Keywords (Long Tail Keywords) because they are easy to rank as compare to short term keywords. Google also show accurate result while somebody search for any information if the user query contains more than 5 words. You can use Google Keyword Tool to get idea which keyword you should use for your posts.

4. Blog Commenting

This is what I like most to increase blog traffic. Make it your habit to post comments on other popular blogs of same niche regularly. It is the best way to increase your blog readers. If possible then try to leave the first comment with link back to your sites. Because readers also read comments and first comment attract the readers and if your comment is interesting for readers then they will surely click on your link to know about your blog. It will increase your blog readership and hence more traffic to your blog. Note: Don’t put spam comments. First read the post and then leave a valuable comment that add some value to the conversation. Don’t comment like ‘nice post’, ‘helpful article’ etc. These types of comments not attract the readers.

5. Reply to Comments

Reply to your reader’s comments. Solve their queries and doubt about the topic you are posting. It will help you to build better relationships with your blog visitors. They will like to visit your blog again and again to get something new. Returning visitors are really important for success of a blog.

6. Use Q&A Sites

Use Question and Answers websites like Yahoo! Answers. Try to be active on such sites because these sites can give of lot of free and targeted traffic. Search questions to your niche and answers them and provide your website link as source. If you give best answer then it will attract new visitors to your blog and they will become your reader. More readers equal to more traffic. You can also use some popular forums for this purpose like Digital Point Forums!

Feedback!

These were the 6 tips on how to increase blog traffic. If you give some time on these tips then surely you will get new and targeted traffic to your blog. These tips will help your blog to get notified in search engine eyes. Once your blog starts ranking in search engines then your organic traffic will increase automatically. Please give me your valuable feedback about these tips. I really love it. Happy Blogging!

How to Improve Keywords Ranking in Google?

Writing content for blog is not enough to rank well in search engines like Google. We need some special care to make our blog SEO friendly. Then it will rank awesomely in all major search engines. In my previous posts, I shared some Off page SEO Tips that are beneficial to improve keywords position in search results. As you may already know that we must focus on On Page and Off Page SEO Techniques both to make our blog SEO friendly and search engines lovable. That’s why today I bring some tips that will help you to rank well in search results. Hope you guys like to read these tips.

Improve Keywords Position in Search Results

There are many things that we must care during blogging. Read below points and try to follow them to improve your blog traffic through search engines.

1# Optimize Post Titles

During writing new post for your blog, always tries to use SEO friendly post titles because this is the first thing that decides your ranking in search results.
Include your main and targeted keyword in your post title. If you are a blogger use then read below tutorial to optimize your post titles.

2# Add Keywords to Content

Provide best quality content in your blog and add some keywords into it at prominent places that fits there.
Keyword density should be kept in mind to make content for SEO friendly. Use at most 2% or 3% keywords in your content.
For example if you have 500 words in your article, then you can use your keyword 10 to 15 times.

3# Add Keywords to Images

Images not only use to make blog posts more attractive. They can also be used as an extra place to put keywords into it.
There are some image optimization tips that you must know to optimize your images. Read below tutorial to know about this topic in details.

4# Add Keyword Rich Labels

Labels are used to categorize blog posts. They also used by related posts widget to show related posts under every post. But if you used them correctly then you can take its benefit to improve your keywords ranking in Google.
Always add a keyword rich label name to every post you publish on your blog because it is also a best place to put keywords.

If you have already added some labels without adding keywords into it then don’t worry, you can rename it also.
The above 4 tips are for On-Page SEO, now continue reading for some Off-page SEO Tips. These tips are also beneficial to improve keywords ranking in search results.

5# Use Guest Blogging

Guest Blogging is the best method to gain high quality keyword rich dofollow backlinks. If you don’t know about importance of backlinks in search rankings then let me tell you that quality backlinks are very important for every blog or website to improve search rankings.
Use guest blogging to increase number of keyword rich backlinks of your blog. Write high quality content and submit it to other blogs under your niche. It will also help to increase your blog page views and readers.

6# Blog Commenting

You might think that why waste time to leave comments on other’s blog. This is the big mistake that newbie bloggers do.
You should participate in the conversation on other blog’s by leaving a valuable comment. It will not only introduce you and your blog into the blog-o-sphere but also you will get quality backlinks for your blog.
Don’t waste your time to leave comments on random blogs. You must target KeywordLuv and CommentLuv enabled blogs to gain dofollow backlinks. If you don’t have any idea about that then read below tutorial.

7# Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking is the part of Off-Page SEO Techniques. It helps a lot to improve keywords ranking in Google.
I have published a post on How To Do Social Bookmarking in SEO but it must do with proper care. Misuse of this can ruin your blog ranking too.
There are some tips and suggestions for those bloggers who want to participate in social bookmarking to increase their rankings in search results.

8# Directory Submissions

As same as social bookmarking, directory submission with care can also help blog owners to make their blog popular in search results.
There are also some points for directory submission that you must know to take proper benefits of your hard work.
Please read below tutorial to know what you should know before doing directory submission for your blog.

Final Words!

These were the top 8 tips to improve keywords ranking in Google. I tried my best to share all the working methods here.
If I miss something then please let me know through comments and if you know other tips and tricks to improve ranking in Google then please share them with me. Thanks! Happy Blogging!

7 Basic On Page SEO Tips For Blogspot Blogs

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most important thing to learn for best blogging experience. Without proper blog optimization, we can’t even dream to get impressive traffic from search engines. From past few days, I am getting too much request of newbie bloggers to share some On-Page SEO Tips. That’s why today I plan to mention all those On Page SEO tips which I already shared on my blog in my earlier posts. I’m sorry if you have read those posts before, but I need to grab attention of newbie bloggers who just start learning SEO for their blog. All those tips are must to know by every blogger. So, let’s take a look on best On-page SEO Tips for Blogspot Blogs and if you have read them before then don’t ignore this post. May be you learnt something new which you ignore before because of any reason.

On Page Search Engine Optimization Tips For Blogspot

Below are the tips and tricks that will be beneficial for you to optimize your blog for Google and other search engines. Read them carefully and apply all of them on your blog to make your blog lovable and trust worthy for search engines.

Custom Robots Header Tags

There are some settings for bloggers that they can personally do for their blogs to make their blogs for SEO friendly. Custom Robots Header Tags setting in one of them. It’ll be beneficial for you to use custom robots headers tags correctly. It’s easy to manage these settings. Just take a look at below tutorial.

Custom Robots.txt

Search engine bots like Googlebot (Web Crawling Robot of Google) needs some guidelines on how they have to crawl and index our blog. We can prevent some non important pages labels pages from indexing in Google to protect our blog from duplicate content issues. Got confused? Check out below tutorial which will clear all of your confusions.

Optimize Blog Post Titles

If you just started your blog on blogger’s default template, then definitely you’ll not be aware with this fact that your post titles are not properly optimized for search engines. You need to do some editing in your blog template to make your post titles properly optimized. You will see a noticeable change in organic traffic of your blog after making this change. Follow the instructions given in below mentioned post.

Image Optimization

You may definitely notice relevant images between the posts on many blogs. Images not only enhance the look of our content, but it also plays an important role to optimize our blog posts. If we make effective use of images in our blog posts, then we can attain extra traffic from search engines. Follow below post to learn more on image optimization in blogger.

Internal Linking SEO

Many bloggers fail to optimize their internal links or even they don’t link their posts to each other internally. This is really a big mistake that we must avoid. Internal linking not only increases our blog page views but also help our posts to rank well in search engines. If you are also doing the same mistake, then you must need some tips to optimize your internal links.

Search Engine Submission

When we are ready with our blog optimization, then we need to submit our blog in Google’s webmaster tool. Verifying and submitting our blog in Google webmaster tool helps it to get indexed in Google super fast. It also tells about our blog issues like broken links, HTML improvements etc that we must try to resolve. We just need to verify our blog ownership and submit a sitemap. That’s it. If you have not added your blog GWT, then I recommend you to read below tutorial.

Improve Your Blog Load Time

If your blog takes lot of time, then visitors will go back and never come back again. It will increase bounce rate of your blog and you’ll lose your valuable traffic. Search engines give more value to fast loading blogs because they want to build best user experience. That’s why it’s very important to optimize blog loading time. I have shared some best tips that can help you to enhance your blog’s loading speed.

Feedback!

I have mentioned all the On page SEO Tips for Blogspot Blogs in this post which I shared in my blog till yet. I’ll provide more quality tips and tricks in my future posts. All these tips have their own value. So, don’t ignore a single one and optimize your blog as much as possible to get flow of traffic on your blog. Wish you success for your blogging goals.

Analyze Your Competitor’s SEO Strategy To Beat Them in Search Results

There are lots of competitor analysis methods, techniques and procedures out there because there are a lot of competitive marketplaces. This article covers SEO competitor analysis. You are competing for a position on the search engines, and would especially like to rank highly on the Google search engine results pages. Your competitors are of the same mindset, so here are a few ways you can learn from them and use what they are doing to your advantage.

Look at Their Website With SEO Eyes

 

Be a SPY to Beat Your Competitors in Search Results ;)

Telling people to look at their competitor’s website in order to gain a bit of SEO insight is such a crap piece of advice that you see littered around the net. So, here is what you look for: 1. The Words That Are in Bold
They have been put in bold for the sake of the search engines. The search engines still key in on the words that are put into bold within the text of a website. It is an old trick that a lot of people now choose to ignore, but you will find that it is still applicable as your competitors are using it and they are ranking above you.
2. Look For The Words That Affiliate Advertising Has Keyed Into
Do your competitors have affiliate advertising? And if so, are one or two words in the text highlighted? Underlined? Or are anchor texts? If so then the page was no doubt created to hold those keywords.

3. Mirrored Words Throughout The Page
Take a look at that title, the URL, the anchor texts, and the content itself. Look for words that seem to appear in all of them or most of them. These are the keywords that your competitor is trying to optimize for.
4. Look At The Source Code of The Website
This is going to give you some very nice information and it can be found using a regular web browser. You just press CTRL+U and the source code will appear for the page that you are looking at. Now press CTRL+F and a small search bar will come up. Here is what you are searching for:

• Keyword
  It will highlight different things depending on how the page has been written. Some web designers may have made it easy on you and have a keywords Meta tag that is clearly defined; in which case a search for the word “keyword” will take you right to it. Look at all the occurrences of the word “keyword” as it will be close to the keywords for the web page.
• Description
  This may take you to a number of different places in the source code. You are looking for the Meta description. This piece of text will act as a good example for your worn Meta description, and you will notice that one or two of the mirrored keywords are in it too. You may also wish to optimize for those mirrored keywords.
• H1
  This will take you right to the H1 text. It should be a short phrase or sentence that is surrounded by the H1 tag. This tells the search engine that the phrase and words within are important. It makes inspiring reading when coming up with your own keyword profile and H1 text.
• Word counters will show you their keywords
  Find a good word and phrase counter online. Do not pay for one as most of them are free, just search out good ones. Copy the content of your competitor’s page and cut out any unnecessary text such as guarantees, disclaimers, sitemaps, etc. that may also be on the page. Paste the content into the word counter and see which words seem to appear with routine frequency.The important words that appear there are probably not on there by accident. They are probably there because the webmaster is optimizing the page for them. Use your frequency list to update your keyword list with new/important keywords. Then run the text through a phrase counter. You are looking for phrases of two or more words that have been repeated. Look to see if they appear to have repeated by accident. If they look suspiciously like key-phrases, then they probably are. You can steal them or write anti-SEO against them when you optimize your web pages. Read: Best Places to Put Keywords in Blog Posts For Optimization
• Take a look at their ALT text
  It is now common practice to embed a keyword or two into the ALT text of the web page images. Look at the descriptions within the ALT text of the images by looking at the source code, or hovering your mouse pointer over the image (this does not always work). If all else fails then go to your Internet options on your browser and turn off your image loading. Go back to your competitor’s website and all of the images on there will not load and you will be able to see all of the ALT text.

Conclusion

Once you have gathered enough information through the various means listed above, you can start to alter your ON-Page SEO to match and beat that of your competition.
You can create a keyword profile that is as full and varied as theirs. Plus, you are collaborating the keywords that you came up with, with all of the keywords that you have researched from your competitors. This will mean you will be able to narrow down your keyword profile to the most powerful and usable keywords. You will also be able to see what your competitors are trying to optimize for. If the competition is too harsh then you can go out of your way to optimize for something else by avoiding the keywords you discover on their websites.

Is GOOGLE Really Trying to Kill SEO?

We all know that Google keep updating its Search Engine Algorithms for showing better results in its SERPs (Search Engine Result Pages). Last month, it started using a new algorithm named “Hummingbird” which affected the traffic of most of the websites to a large extent. Now, Google give more importance to user’s engagement like sharing of blog posts, liking, Google Plus ones (+1) etc rather than giving importance to SEO factors like backlinks and PageRank. Due to this, a major topic of discussion has emerged among SEO Experts “Is Google Trying to Kill SEO?“. Are you shocked? If yes, I have lots of explanation behind this claim.

A Little Information about SEO

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. We divided SEO in two parts i.e Internal (On-Page) SEO and External (Off-Page) SEO. Internal or On-Page SEO makes only 18% of the process as it mainly comes into play while designing the website. Good designers follows best practices to get higher ranking on Google.
External or Off-Page SEO is much more important because it comprises of writing quality content, comments, using keywords, press releases etc. Now, SEO experts also include SMO as a part of Off-Page SEO.
Two kinds of SEO strategies which are popular among users are “White Hat SEO” and “Black Hat SEO“. As the name suggests, Black Hat SEO is a technique of gaming the system for getting better rankings in short span of time. It can give you best result in shortest possible time but it is extremely harmful. On the other hand, “White Hat SEO” is a genuine SEO technique.

What Google and Users Want?

Google or other users always want to see relevant and best results in search result pages. If Google fails to show you relevant content when you search, they aren’t doing their job properly.
When you say Search Engine Optimization (SEO), it alternatively means you are gaming Google to get your content ranked higher than what it would be without SEO.
Black Hat SEO techniques hurts Google as well because Poor or useless content get higher rankings as well. However,with the release of Penguin update, Google started giving more importance to Social Media Activities like Shares, tweets, likes, reddits, +1s etc rather than “backlinks” which was one of the main cause behind the success of Black Hat SEO technique.

Why Google Started Giving More importance to User’s Engagement?

According to Google, if you are promoting the content of other website/blogs, it has valuable content. In other words, Promoting the content with social Media is an indicator of High Quality content. Users can’t fake Google in this as well.
Be it Black Hat or White Hat SEO, users mainly create content and promote it all over the internet. If No one other than you is sharing your content, Google will consider it as a fake attempt.

What does it mean?

As I mentioned earlier many times, Google is now giving more importance to the quality of content rather than Search Engine Optimization. This is probably the reason why it considers factors User’s engagement and participation while ranking a website. So many bloggers are there who don’t know much about SEO but still managed to get best results in Google SERPs. Due to this, users think that “Google is trying to kill SEO”.

Why SEO Will Never Die?

According to me, SEO will never Die due to below given reasons:

• SEO will exist as long as search engines are available- Search Engines follows some kind of algorithms for showing relevant content. SEO experts will figure out these algorithms and will definitely change the SEO methods which means, it will not die.
• Search Engines can protect themselves in case of failures- If a particular search engine is not showing relevant results, they can cast blame on SEO methods used by different websites. After the death of SEO, they won’t be able to give any kind of explanation. As a result, they will lose user’s faith.
• SEO industry has Money – At present, SEO industry has lots of money. That’s probably the reason why so many SEO experts are able to make money for giving their services. Any occupation which has money will definitely exist for long time. If Google will change their tactics, SEO experts will find new SEO tactics to overcome this.
• Traffic Acquisition – As you all know, More traffic means more earnings. Search Engine optimization is a technique of attracting more targeted traffic to your blog. To accomplish this task, the website must be easy and simple for search engines to find and translate because they can’t understand web pages in the same manner that humans do. That’s is why SEO is necessary and it can’t die.
• Search Engines can’t play with Publishers- Search engine companies also earns a lot of money from their publishers. The content inside Robots.txt file is mostly responsible for showing relevant Ads on any website. End of SEO means poor settings of Robots.txt file. It alternatively means, visitor will see useless or irrelevant Ads. It will decrease the earning chances of Publishers. Google also want to maximize the earning of Publisher from their side because they get handsome commission from publisher’s earning as well so they can’t destroy the SEO.

From the Editor’s Desk

SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization is really very important for any website or blog. This is probably the reason why, people are investing lots of money on it. Whenever Google launch new Algorithms, people starts discussing on topics like “Death of SEO”, ”End of SEO” etc. However, I don’t think SEO will ever die. What do you say? Share your views in comment section.

Awesome Slide Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget For Blogger

 

This widget released by Sharethis team was made as a Valentine gift from them. The heart bookmarking gadget has a cool slide out effect that makes the heart icon split each time you mouse hover it, displaying several bookmarking buttons like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Stumble Upon, Email and many more bookmarking choices. This gadget/widget comes with a fixed position and stays in the corner of the page, so it will grab your readers attention and make them share your posts easily.

I'm sure you will love it after seeing the demo of this gadget:

View Demo

Adding The Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget to Blogger

Step 1. Go to your Blogger Dashboard, select Template and click the Edit Html button:

 ....select the "Expand Widget Templates" box (it is recommended to make a backup first)

Step 2. Find the following tag (Ctrl + F):

</head>

Step 3. Paste above/before the </head> tag, the following code:

<!-- Start Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget From http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/ -->
<script src='http://w.sharethis.com/gallery/shareegg/shareegg.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script src='http://w.sharethis.com/button/buttons.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<script type='text/javascript'>stLight.options({publisher: &quot;ur-98d377f-bdd3-9ad1-fbe5-2a678f0a60ee&quot;, onhover:false}); </script>
<link href='http://w.sharethis.com/gallery/shareegg/shareegg.css' media='screen' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
<!-- End Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget From http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/ -->

Step 4: Now find (CTRL + F) this tag:

</body>

Step 5: Paste above/before </body> tag... the following code:

<!-- Start Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget From http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/ -->
<div style='position: fixed; bottom: 2%; left: 2%;'>
<div class='shareEgg' id='shareThisShareHeart'/>
</div>
<script type='text/javascript'>stlib.shareEgg.createEgg(&#39;shareThisShareHeart&#39;, [&#39;facebook&#39;,&#39;twitter&#39;,&#39;pinterest&#39;,&#39;linkedin&#39;,&#39;stumbleupon&#39;,&#39;email&#39;,&#39;sharethis&#39;], {title:&#39; <data:blog.pageTitle/>&#39;,url:&#39;<data:blog.url/>&#39;,theme:&#39;shareheart&#39;});</script><a href="http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/">Blogger Gadgets</a>
<!-- End Open Heart Bookmarking Gadget From http://www.helplogger.blogspot.com/ -->

How To Move The Position Of The Gadget

To move the position of this widget from the bottom right corner of your blog to any location you want, change the percentages of the red code from Step 5.

Step 6. Now preview and Save Template.

Done!

Add Css/Jquery fixed horizontal menu to blogger blog

This navigation bar gets semi-transparent when you scroll down the page and is slightly showing up by fading out and becoming almost transparent. When the user hovers over it, the menu becomes opaque again.

Inside of the navigation there are some links, a search input and a top and bottom button that allows the user to navigate to the top or bottom of the page.

-> SEE DEMO <-

Let's start adding it...

1. Go To Blogger - Template - Edit HTML

 ....and select the "expand widget templated" box:

2. Search (using CTRL + F) for this piece of code:

</head> 

3. Just above/before the </head> tag, add this code:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html/[helplogger.blogspot.com]Fixed Fade Out Menu.css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://helplogger.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html/[helplogger.blogspot.com]jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
 <script type="text/javascript">
            $(function() {
                $(window).scroll(function(){
                    var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                    if(scrollTop != 0)
                        $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'0.2'},400);
                    else   
                        $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'1'},400);
                });
               
                $('#nav').hover(
                    function (e) {
                        var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                        if(scrollTop != 0){
                            $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'1'},400);
                        }
                    },
                    function (e) {
                        var scrollTop = $(window).scrollTop();
                        if(scrollTop != 0){
                            $('#nav').stop().animate({'opacity':'0.2'},400);
                        }
                    }
                );
            });
        </script>

4) Now search for this tag:

<body>  

If you can't find it, search for this one:

<body expr:class='&quot;loading&quot; + data:blog.mobileClass'>

5) Just below/after this code, copy and paste the following code:

<div id="nav">
<ul>
<li><a class="top" href="#top"><span></span></a></li>
<li><a class="bottom" href="#bottom"><span></span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 1</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 2</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 3</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 4</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 5</span></a></li>
<li><a href='URL address'><span>Link 6</span></a></li><li class="search">

<input type="text"/><input class="searchbutton" type="submit" value=""/>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="top"></div>
<div class="desc"></div>
<div id="bottom"></div>
<div class="scroll"></div>

Note: Replace URL address with the URL of your pages and Link 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 with the name of the link that will appear in the menu.

6) Now click on the Save Template button and you're done ;)