3 Natural Ways To Increase Blog Traffic

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If I ask you where your blog traffic comes from, you’re going to name a lot of different things: SEO, social networks, forums, banner ads, etc.
But in general, all natural traffic sources fall into 3 different categories:
  • Search traffic
  • Your audience
  • Word of mouth
Let me visualize this concept for you:

Please Note: I’m using the term “natural traffic” because you can also use all sorts of advertising to generate “paid traffic” to your blog and website.
1. Search traffic.
This one is self explanatory. People search Google for hundreds of things every day and it sends them to hundreds of different websites.
You can also search for videos on YouTube, for presentations on Slide Share, for photos on Flickr, for tweets on Twitter, etc.
Share your content on highly searched sites to reach more people. #blogging
If you want to get search traffic from all these platforms, you just need to put your content there and make sure it’s optimized for the keywords that people might use to find it.
Well, actually it’s a little bit more complicated than that, but just by publishing your content on all these sites, you really win half of the battle.
2. Your audience.
These are the people who already know about you.
Some of them are on your email list, some subscribe to your RSS, some might follow you on Twitter, and some have your blog in their bookmarks.
Share the way your audience wants it—even if that means using many channels. #blogging
In other words—these people regularly check back with you to see if there was an update.
And all you have to do to make them come back to your site is publish a new article and let them know about it via your distribution channels (email newsletter, Twitter, RSS).
3. Word of mouth.
That’s the kind of traffic you get when your audience—and people coming from “search”—share your content with their friends.
They might tweet your article, share it on Face book, link to it from their own blog, or send the URL to someone via Skype.
So how can you help people share your content with others?
Well, if you need the short answer—you have to make your article “contagious”.

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