If you are running a blog absolutely you need to improve it and take it to the advanced level. Here I have described 5 simple but powerful ways to improve your blog and get more traffic.
As you know, you always need to do better and engage your audience when running a blog, so I have come with 5 powerful techniques that will increases your traffic and sales and decreases your bounce rate and improve dwell time.
So, without further ado, I am going to explain here all the five advanced methods that I am sure will help you in ranking.
1. Start Title With Number Or Modifier
In the modern SEO of 2018, you should keep in your mind that always start your title with a number or modifier (Best, Top, Updated etc).
Absolutely, you will increase organic clicks and get more traffic by optimizing title of your post/page, it will boost your SEO.
In on-page SEO, title is considered as a big ranking factor because you can optimize your keywords in title and add modifiers to increase your CTR and when CTR will increase your website will rank higher in SERPs.
2. Create A Buyer’s Guide In Your Content
If you are a product reviewer or doing Affiliate Blogging you should always create a buyer’s guide in the end of your content because it will increase your traffic and branding and decrease your bounce rate.
Several websites have created buyer’s guide below their content, like RC Cars Buyer’s Guide. Buyer’s Guide helps users to pick the best product, not only this it also increase your content.
It’s not difficult to make a buyer’s guide, you just need to tell users what things need in a specific product when users buy.
3. Write Long Posts
You will get another big improvement by creating long posts. According to a research, longer posts more than 1890 words are better than short content (300, 500 words).
Long content have a lot of benefits:
- It will decrease your bounce rate.
- Google love longer post.
- Long content will rank highly in Google Search Results.
- More relevant keywords will be ranked.
4. Use Social Share Buttons
Social share is ranking factor and believe me you will get big improve in your ranking. Thousands share of your post have powerful effect on ranking.
Social shares will increase your traffic and your blog will get Social Signals which is a ranking factor.
If you are using WordPress, use Social Warfare plugin to add social sharing buttons above and below your articles. These will help you to get more social shares.
5. Improve Site Load Time
Now in 2018, site loading speed is one of the big and powerful ranking factor. You are losing your traffic if your blog not loading under 3 seconds.
There are some tools to check website speed:
- GTMetrix
- Google Page Analyzer
- Pingdom & some others
6. Add Infographic in your post
Adding infographic to your website will improve your ranking and branding. On the other hand, you can share your infographic to Pinterest and other image sharing websites.
Infographic is also another method to get backlinks, you just need to send infographic to your related websites and they can link your website through infographic.
7. Mobile Friendly Website
Your website should be mobile friendly in Google. Nowadays, SmartPhone User increasing day by day, according to Google now 70% are mobile user. So keep in mind, when you are going to optimize your website it should be mobile friendly also.