Boosting blog traffic doesn’t have to be difficult.
There are many different ways to boost your blog traffic, some may cost money and others may not. You may have just started your blog but boosting blog traffic can be something you think about now!
Today I’m focused on some free and easy ways to boost blog traffic so that you can make more money and enjoy the benefits of increased blog traffic.
Build a Large Following on Social Media
Don’t underestimate the power of Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn as a relevant place to boost blog traffic. Work to build up a large following on each of these social media outlets so that you have a large audience to promote your blog traffic to the general public.
Automate Social Media Shares
Develop a social media sharing calendar with content ideas for your newest blog posts. Get a social media scheduling account with Hootsuite (free works), CoSchedule, or Buffer to try to automate your social media shares. This will save you time and help you have another easy way to boost your traffic.
Link to Your Blog
Always put a link to your blog on every profile you have online. This includes your personal Facebook profile and any social media profiles you have on the internet. This allows you to not only have an easy way to boost traffic but in some cases gets you backlinks to your blog for SEO.
Build an Email List
Sign up for an email newsletter program. There are many free ones available such as Mailerlite and MailChimp that you can start for free while you work to build a large email list. Create a pop up sign up form on your blog and use a free opt-in gift for anyone who subscribes to your email list.
Create SEO-Friendly Content
When writing your blog content make sure that your content is search engine optimized for best organic reach. I’ve shared some tips before about how to create awesome SEO-friendly blog content. This is a great way to boost blog traffic with organic search engine traffic.
Have Social Share Buttons
Always have social share buttons on your blog posts so that readers can quickly click and share your content with their social media profiles. There are many social share button plugins that you can use on your blog to ensure you have social share buttons on every blog post.
When it comes to boosting blog traffic you’ll want to try each of my tips and evaluate how each of them is working for your niche. While some may work better than others, this is ultimately the best free list of ways to boost blog traffic without spending money on advertisements.
Great advice here, it’s a continuous job promoting.
I do love reading other peoples posts as well so blog sharing threads are one of my favourite ways of sharing my blog and discovering new blogs x
Some really fabulous tips! I seriously need to do more work on social, I’m terrible. It’s always the lack of time that gets in the way! 🙁 Sim x
Some simple things I hadn’t even thought of. I need to read up on SEO, I think a few easy tweaks could really help people find my posts.
I need to work on my social media more as I definitely don’t use it enough. I need to nail Instagram at the moment and do more stories x
Very timely reminder. It seems like the more extra time I have, the more I get lazy posting on social media. I should start building my following again. I do more Pinterest and Twitter than I do Facebook and Instagram. I think that is what I need to boost right now. Thanks for the tips.
Thank you for these great suggestions as I’ve now had to make a mental note to implement some of these which includes building an email list as well as adding a link to my blog of my online profile.
I love social share buttons, I always try to share a post which I’ve enjoyed reading.
Some great tips there, I really need to implement some of them. You’d think after all these years I’d be better at this by now.
I really wish I’d been better at building up my email list, it’s such an easy way to get your readers engaged and coming back. I’m trying to grow it now!
Kind of you to share aspects regarding blogging.