HOW TO INCREASE & MAINTAIN TRAFFIC

What is blog traffic?

Blog traffic is the amount of data being sent by visitors to a blog / website. Traffic was determined from the number of visitors and the number of pages being visit. Blog / web uses this data to determine the traffic that comes and goes (incoming and outgoing traffic), which pages the most frequently visited (popular), and to know the level of visitors as well as the popularity of your blog / website as a whole. This data is then used to evaluate the structure of your blog / website, specify the topic, see the weaknesses, etc.

So, blog traffic is much more than just an indicator of the blog crowd. If we can use the traffic data well, we can fix a lot of things and increasing traffic. One of the services that traffic analysis best known course is Alexa. We can see the conditions of our blog / website in terms of number of visitors, reach, page view, search, visitor demographics, search trends, bounce rate, etc. Other traffic analysis service which is more complex and has a deep analysis is Google Analytic.

Tips to Increase & Maintain Traffic

There many ways to increase blog traffic. Each has advantages and disadvantages of their own. Tips that I convey that follow organic methods, which stays a lot longer rather than the traffic from link scheme, traffic exchange, spamming, until the spam link referrer which harmful and only derived temporally. Ways below is also a part of how to improve your blog page view.

- Content is king, so prior to publication, and promotion-focused blog and its contents, prepare everything carefully. Fill with quality content and not to deceive / confuse visitors. Give visitors with quality content. Although just sharing personal experience, if there is a value for visitors, then he will love and look-see one other article.

- Make sure the content is unique, original, updated, and up to date. Unique and original content has a great opportunity to maintain visitors to come back again to see the next article updates. Visitors love new things, especially if they have subscribed to. Meanwhile, up to date means content & blogs still continue to have continuity with the present (not stale). 

- Learn trending topic or topics that much loved by visitors. The easiest way is to evaluate your own blog, which articles have the most frequently visited. See the theme / niche of the article, learn, add and develop in other articles.

- Diligent blog walking give effect to the blog traffic. But there are things that need to be considered. When commented, don't just say "visit back!", Or just leave your url or blog link only. That way will not make a large effect, it will only have a negative impact on the credibility of our blog. Fill with quality comments on topic, read the article thoroughly. As the identity of the commentator, simply leave your blog link with anchor text name / identity clearly in place. Make the blog owner interested and want to know who my friend and how they blog.

- Maximize the use of social media. Social media is now the biggest promotional tool. Introduce blogs and content through social media. Share link blog / article. For example, use the auto publish articles to Facebook. In order to create more leverage and strengthen brand blog Facebook Page, Google+ Page, Twitter account, LinkedIn, Orkut, etc. Be active on social media by creating direct communication, bids, ideas / thoughts, news flash, etc. Do not just share a link blog / article. 

- Use social media tools to share blog. Visitors who liked the blog posts can easily find tools that can be used to share content / blog to their favorite social media. Examples of social share widgets are: Facebook Like Box, Facebook Like Button, Follow Button, Tweet Button, Google +1 Button, buttons and other widgets share. Content that has always had a significant effect on the share of traffic.

- The structure of the blog is very influential in increasing page views. Visitors who view another item that caught his attention effect on increasing page views and reducing bounce rate. Use internal linking and deep linking and menacing navigation widgets (menu). 

- Create a brand and credibility of blogs and self-pal. Branding has a profound effect on visitors. A brand that will create the impression of a unique look and imprinted in the memories of visitors even if they are not intentionally recorded in memory. One effort is to create a visual image branding blog logo. So, create a unique logo blog so that visitors can recognize it as a blog when they saw it. Create a unique identity, for example in the article speaking style, unique ideas, insights, etc. Secondly, the credibility of both will make visitors impressed. Forth as a self-pal and as a blog owner who credible. Do not hide. Write the "about me" for information about yourself and your buddies. Trust is very important for visitors.

- Spread widely disseminated blog article through social bookmarking sites and directories to promote your blog through blog. Both of them not only as a media link building in SEO alone. Maximize as a means of promotion articles & Blogs. Create a title and a description that is clear and interesting.

- Spearheading that maximum traffic is simply a blog and content found on search engines. As we know, the search engines (especially Google) is the largest source of traffic so we can not just ignore it. That is why webmasters / bloggers flocked raced improve SEO for your blog / web. Perform in-depth SEO efforts. Learn how to improve SEO and other SEO tips.

An important point of the above tips is constantly try and don't stop. As well as SEO, managing and to maintaining blog are regular activities carried out by blogger. If  we do it, we will be able to increase our blog traffic and maintain them. our blog then by itself can be exist in the virtual world for a long time.