5 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your New Blog
A new blog is something to get excited about. In the early days of a blog, traffic can be scarce. It takes time to build momentum but here are 5 easy ways to drive traffic when your blog is brand new.
1. Post on social media
Social media draws attention to your new blog posts and could start driving traffic in. Don’t forget to put social media share buttons on your blog that enable readers to share your posts with their social media followers.
2. Call in favours
Do you have other blogging friends or networking groups that you hang out with online? Why not ask them to check out your new blog and share it on their blog or social circles? It never hurts! And it could help kickstart things for you. Be prepared to return the favour too.
3. Paid advertising
Paid ads can start to drive traffic for you to get the ball rolling. For example, a Google Adwords campaign or a Facebook advertising campaign could be helpful in driving some interested people to your blog. A good design could gain you a subscriber that will come back without it costing you money.
4. Off-page content
Create some off-page content that points back to your blog. Consider doing some syndicated article content on an article directory, a guest blog post that points back to your new blog, a press release that you syndicate to drive traffic to your new blog, and so on.
The off-page content could do two things for you:
a) drive traffic to your blog and
b) help search engines take notice because other pages are linking to a new page they haven’t yet indexed.
This could also bode well for your early SEO efforts.
5. Keep on posting
Don’t overpost in the early days, as a brand new blog that suddenly has 50 posts will probably look strange to the likes of Google. It is hard to keep the momentum if you start too fast. But steady posting will definitely help.
Work hard at building your audience from the start with a good strategy and you could definitely hit the ground running and build momentum fast.
SOURCE: Learn How To Blog
