While new methods of attracting traffic to your blog are coming out all the time, there are a few that remains as timeless classics and continue to be relevant today.

1. Pump Out Better Content

Before you do anything else, take a look at your content if it sucks, there is your answer to why you don’t have traffic.   A blog post consists of several elements which are the title and the body copy.  Most new bloggers fail to realize that blog headlines are so important they could make or break their blog.

Before your visitors read your content, they’d have to read the headline first. Writing a poor and uninspiring headline could result in you losing the majority of your visitors.  Lets me give you an example: which of the following headline would you likely click? Leave you choice in the comments.

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The second element that you have to pay attention to is of course the body copy. Here’s a tip, you don’t need to produce good content with a perfect grammar and so on.

You just have to write posts that your readers want to read.  See, when it comes to blogging, it is often not about what you want but what your readers want.  While you might not be the best writer in town, that doesn’t stop many people from visiting your blog daily.

2. Optimize, Optimise, Optimise

As time goes by, it’s becoming increasing difficult to get your blog listed high up in the search engine results.  While you can perform some on page search engine optimizations which undoubtedly are important, but it won’t guarantee a good ranking because obviously the external factors play a much bigger role these days.

Off page optimization factors include anything from the number of sites linking to your blog, the anchor text used by those sites that are linking to you, primarily your Google PageRank and so on. They all influence your ultimate ranking on the search engines.

While you can’t directly adjust the external factors to your advantage, you can do things such as improving your blog content (my first point), attracting links from other blogs and making your blog more social by participating in the comments.

3. Link are link handshakes

Again, this comes back to your content. You are more likely to attract links from other bloggers if you offer something that people want to read and more importantly want to share with their readers, thus saying they agree or find interesting your content.  The online handshake.   You should also be lining out to others great content.

Also bear in mind that not all links are created equal.  Those that will benefit you most are links from trusted, authoritative, high PageRank’d sites, links that use relevant keywords in their anchor text, links from relevant sites, and links from variety of sources instead of just from one or two of your own sites for instance.   I’m Blogging That… What are you blogging?

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