{"id":1978,"date":"2005-12-30T02:52:10","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T15:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T00:48:40","slug":"three-simple-actions-that-doubled-my-website-traffic-in-30-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/problogger.com\/three-simple-actions-that-doubled-my-website-traffic-in-30-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Three simple actions that doubled my website traffic in 30 days"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following post on how to increase website traffic<\/strong> was submitted by Adrian W Kingsley-Hughes.<\/p>\n

Get more tips on increasing website and blog traffic by subscribing to our RSS Feed.<\/a><\/p>\n

I started the PC Doctor<\/a> blog in May of 2005 and for the first few months my traffic was really low – down in the few hundreds of visitors a day. It was pretty depressing I can tell you and there were times when I thought about quitting.  I knew that the site was in the Google ‘sandbox’ and so I either had to keep on plugging at it until it was out or I had to give up.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I decided to keep on posting but in the interim I decided that I was also going to do my utmost to drive traffic to my site manually until Google kicked in. I took a look around at what some of the successful blogs were doing and came up with three tactics that helped to double my website traffic in a month.<\/p>\n

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  1. First, I made the most of Technorati<\/a> tags.  I tagged every key word in each of my posts. Initially I did this manually but them I discovered a WordPress plugin called SimpleTags<\/a> that made the job a whole lot easier. I found that by tagging my post effectively they were getting a lot more attention then their untagged counterparts, and as an added advantage I was getting focused, quality traffic to the site!<\/li>\n
  2. I leveraged my existing website.  I’ve been running my business website for a few years and that was getting modest levels of traffic that was relevant to my blog – so why not try to drive some of that to my new blog! I placed a few FeedBurner<\/a> headline animator blocks on some of my most popular pages and after a day or so I noticed a significant increase in traffic for 5 minutes worth of work on my part.<\/li>\n
  3. Finally, I made effective use of trackback links to popular sites. If I commented on a post on another site I would make sure that I set up the appropriate trackback for it. The results from this are varied depending on the site and post that you are linking to but since I liked to comment and interact with the wider blogosphere anyway, it was free traffic!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Using these three simple techniques, I took The PC Doctor blog from a few hundred hits a day into the thousands in less than 30 days. This kept my interest in the site until it came out of the Google sandbox and I started to receiver some serious traffic. However, I’m convinced that these actions I took at the early stages have helped me create a loyal and targeted readership that continues to benefit my blog today.<\/p>\n

    Further Reading<\/strong>: If finding new traffic for your blog is what you’re interested in – check out 31 Days to Build a Better Blog<\/a> – a month long set of exercises to help you develop content but also build a well read blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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