Recently, I have put in place a new blog, using a few tricks that I don't usually use. And immediately I have seen traffic to that site that matches websites that I have had in existence for a year or two. Obviously, these are tricks that I am putting in place now across the other blogs to improve the traffic levels there! These are tricks to get more visitors onto my weblog and also to keep traffic there. Both aspects are important and improve your visitors. I'll share with you today those tricks that I am currently using to improve my blog and get better visitors.
First Improvement - Install An SEO Pluggin
By installing an SEO pluggin, you are helping to give the search engines what they want from your website. There are various pluggins available, from those tha supply the metadata to those that supply extra linking from the content of your posts to other posts. These are important for ensuring that the search engines can get fully about your web site and send visitors to every page.
Similarly, grab a sitemap pluggin and install that onto your website. Make sure that there is no reason for search engines to miss a single page!
Second Improvement - Remove Pluggins!
How lots of pluggins have you got installed that don't currently help the site - either you don't really use or aren't doing something important? Are they slowing down the page loading time? This can put off traffic and search engines will also downgrade your search positions if your site is slow to load.
Third Improvement - List Newest Comments
Do what you can to get people to leave comments and then display these comments on every page! By showing the latest comments that other traffic have left, some of these comments will tempt other traffic into replying with their own thoughts. This is great, especially when the new comment passes back to the first person and they return to the web site to reply. This can go on and may not seem beneficial traffic, but it is. These traffic soon feel that they belong to your blog, they are a part of it and they will keep coming back. This makes them more prone to accepting your posts and buying what you recommend through your affiliate links!
Fourth Improvement - Tidy Up The Web site
This is without doubt something that I am very guilty of, as you would notice if you visited my unchanged websites! An old fashioned theme, too many advert positions, Google Adsense all over the page, getting in the way of reading the post and other such sins of packing a lot in are all guaranteed ways of getting the visitor packing themselves and hiting the back button. Limit yourself to one or two add positions, keep the content clean and tidy and use a fresh lookint theme. There might not be as numerous opportunites to click on adverts, but if you just concentrate on those that drive income, you should see improved returns.
Fifth Improvement - Tidy Your Navigation
By making sure that traffic can find their way around your site and that your most popular posts are highlighted to the readers and the search engines, you should see more return traffic and the search engines finding their way around your site more.
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Written by Keith Lunt, owner of http://www.realwebtraffic.co.uk . If you want to know more about getting real visitors onto your site, call in to claim your free copy of our very own Real Web Visitors Ebook ! Well worth a read.
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