5 Ways To Increase Your Blog Visitors

1. Great Content

There is an art to writing content that is readable, searchable and draws visitors into the site:

* Use Headings,

* Use Bulleted Lists,

* Use keywords regularly,

* selectively bold or emphasize keywords, and

* Include images in the body of your post.

2. Great Layout

Take a look around the top blogs, and there’s one thing you’ll notice. They all have customized layouts, some have probably paid big bucks for the web design, but really you don’t need to do that. Rather, focus on a clean, easily navigable layout, keep the bling to a minimum and see the layout as a work in progress.

3. Social Networking

Some people say that having great content is all you need, but really you need to get that content out there for people to see, particularly people with the same interests as you. Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon, Technorati and digg are example of sites that you can submit your content to and be part of a network of readers. There are social networking sites for every niche, and there are even blogs that are dedicated to tracking what’s new in the world of social networking. So how do you use these sites? well usually you can get a browser toolbar or widget to help with the submission. As with all areas of the web, there are etiquette rules for how you use these sites, and self promotion is allowed, but only respected as part of general use of the network.

4. Links From Great Content

Getting links from other blogs in the same niche as you is critical. Having other sites linking to your content is a sure fire way to get readers from that blog, as well as increasing the likelihood of the search engines picking up the importance of the content (see point six). Do you have a network of blogs that you regularly read and comment on? These are likely to be the best people to point to your great content. You never know, they may just promote it for you.

5. Search Engine Optimization

What is SEO? SEO is the process of tweaking your layout, content, links, backlinks, keywords, headings, metatags and many other parts of a blog, to make your site stand out above the rest.

How does it work? Essentially it makes your site and content more easily readable for the likes of Google and tells Google that your’s is a site of authority on a topic. Remember, a site has to be readable by both humans and the google-bot!