How to get more hits on your blog? This question does haunts every blogger's mind.Most of the times a newbie blogger is not able to do things right in order to increase hits on their blog and when they realise their mistakes often it is too late.In this post I will tell you some realistic approach to increase traffic on your blog.

I will write the post like a questionairre and answer the questions to make you understand the traffic building techniques. Here comes the question no. 1.

What is traffic?

"Traffic is total number of visitors visiting your blog or site."

Most of you would have answered this question like this and it is correct, isn't it? OK, lets play with words here.I will define traffic as-

"Sum total of new and returning visitors on your blog or site."

Words have changed but the meaning is same.But this definition has given you one clue,which is-

Traffic = New visitors + Revisitors

My point here is , since , new visitors and returning visitors are entirely different groups ,so, the strategies to increase hits from these two groups would be different.This is something bloggers don't think while building their blog.

Now,kick off to the next question.

From where does the new visitors come ?

Many of you would have answered this question quite comfortably. But let me answer this question for people who don't know the answer of this question.
New visitors generally come from following sources-

1. Search engines


2. Referring sites


3. Viral way

Now you know that new visitors come from generally three sources as listed above.In the coming paragraphs I will tell you how to increase hits from these sources.

Next question-

How to get more hits from search engines?

To get more hits from search engines you need to rank high in search engine results pages(SERPs) and this can be done with search engine optimization.Follow the link to know about search engine optimization.

There is another way of ranking high in SERPs.This is through paid listings but you have to spend some bucks for this which is not a good option for most of you.So, just stick with search engine optimization.

Next question-

How to get more hits from referring sites?

Visitors through reference come from three sources-

1. Comments on other blogs and forums-You can get whole lot of hits by just commenting on other blogs and forums.But to drive traffic through comments you nust know the right way of commenting.Read my post "5 tips to get most out of comments and forums" to know the right way of commenting in blogs and forums.



2. Social bookmarking sites-This the one of the most powerful source to get referred visitors to your blog.But it works only if you have unique and quality content.Your visitors will only bookmark your blog if you give them a reason to do so.So, always produce original and quality content.



3. Trackbacks-When a blogger likes or dislikes your posts then he/she may write about your post or blog in his own blog.This can bring some visitors to your site.



4. Web and article directories- This works only when you submit your website to quality directories.Uptill now I have never got a single visitor from low quality directory although I do submit my blog to even low quality directories to build backlinks.But in terms of traffic it is useless.Submit you blog to as many quality directories as you can and do it gradually.

Now lets quickly jump to the next question-

How to get more hits viral way ?

Well , for this you need to create unique and appealing content.Give your readers a solid reason to tell others about your blog.If you are continuously writing good articles, people will tell others about you and your blog.This is the most powerful way of generating traffic but most difficult also.

So, now you know how to increase hits on your blog from new visitors.Apply all these techniques in conjunction and you will surely be able to drive traffic to your blog.

Now get ready for the next and the last question .

How to increase hits on your blog from revisitors?

Again this completely depends on your content quality.If you are writing quality content every now and then ,then people will come back to your blog in search of updates you have made or new posts you have written.I have written a series of posts on "how to write articles on your blog?" I am providing you with the link of first post of that series.You can get links to other posts on this series in this post.

Now I can guess that you have fair idea about traffic generation techniques.Apply all these ideas and wait patiently.Remember getting more hits is not an overnight process unless you are spending some bucks on advertising.Be patient and try to do everything right you will surely get traffic !!!

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