8 mistakes you should avoid to improve your blog traffic

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You are planning to write a blog, talk about your favorite topic and things you are passionate about. Its so easy to start a blog nowadays with the free option of two of the most popular platform Blogger and WordPress. Your blog is up and running, you did some posts and publish it to your blog. You know that that you need to do some promoting and marketing in order for people to visit your blog. You did just that!

But why is it that you are seeing low traffic in your blog? There isn’t much people who are visiting your blog. Did you make some mistakes along the way?

Here is a list of 8 mistakes you should avoid in order to improve your blog traffic.

You don’t have consistent quality content

Try to maintain consistent quality on your posts. Prevent spelling mistake and typo errors which make it difficult for people to read and resulting in them to visit other blogs. Try to improve your writing by reading and learning. Copyblogger is one that you can pay visit if you wish to improve your writing.

You do not blog consistently

You are not blogging consistently enough to attract your readers to come back for more. Do not disappear for 1 or 2 weeks especially if you are starting out on a new blog. Your readers will not remember you once you stop publishing your posts for long periods. The ideal post frequency will be 2-3 days per posts.

You are not doing enough blog marketing

You are not marketing and promoting enough for your blog. There is a lot of ways to get traffic to your site. Here is one great post for you to explore, learn 100 ways to get more traffic to your website by howtomakeawebsite.net

4) You have a poor design blog

Not everyone can be a website designer but you should choose or a theme which make it easy for your readers to navigate and read regardless of whether it is free or by purchase. You should visit some web design blog such as Smashing Magazine for a better idea on the web design aspects. If you have the budget, try to invest on a premium theme like woothemes and elegantthemes.

You are in a world of your own

You are not alone once you enter the blogging world. You need to be sociable and try to interact with your readers and other bloggers. Try to make friends out there and build up good relationship with other bloggers. You will be amazed to find that there is a lot of help along the way.

You are not inserting keywords in your blog posts

Try to insert keywords into your blog post for better search engine optimization. This will rank your post higher in various search engines and more people will see it if your post ranking is high. You can check out seomoz.org for more resources regarding SEO.

You lose your focus

Initial start up is not easy, just because there is no readers,  you tend to feel down-hearted and start losing your focus. You need to have positive thinking that you need to work harder to improve the blog traffic instead of letting your heads down and start blaming everything but yourself.

You have a wrong strategy

You need to have a good planning on your blog and you are not targeting the right audience.  Start producing quality content and promote your blog by targeting the right audience. Start applying every marketing efforts to build up more traffic.

I got to admit i am still guilty of some of the mistakes listed above and this post is also a self-reflection to remind me not to make the same mistake again.

What do you think? Is there any other mistakes that you make? Please share with us in the comments!

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