You produce stellar content that’s helpful and easy to read.
You even publish a blog post a week – or more – to prove you’re serious about blogging.
You genuinely care about your audience.
But sometimes, despite doing everything by the book, the traffic’s a dud.
That’s when the questions start – am I good enough to be doing this? Heck, does blogging even work as a legitimate business model? Am I wasting my time?
No, you hard work would soon pay. Nevertheless, these are few ways to increase your blog traffic and look unique.
1. Add drama to your work
Spice things up by telling a story or starting out with a metaphor. Kevin Duncan of Be a Better Blogger uses this technique like no other. His posts open with engaging anecdotes that establish a connection with his readers right at the beginning.
The result? A hooked reader.
2. Pick a topic that attracts traffic
Needless to say, if your topic is dull, you are not going to attract much traffic any time soon. Start with Google Trends, BuzzSumo, Feedly and Semrush keyword difficulty to research what’s in demand.
The power of Semrush keyword difficulty, in conjunction with these other brainstorming tools, is that it can instantly determine how hard it will be for your website to rank for a keyword phrase. This is vital information when picking a topic.
3. Analyze your headlines before hitting “publish”
Use a headline analyzer like CoSchedule. Once you are done writing the post, copy and paste your draft headline into the free tool. It’s super-quick and effective.
Once you punch in a headline, the tool assigns it a “Headline Score”. It also gives your headline a grade based on the overall structure, grammar and readability. The report dissects your headline into “common words”, “uncommon words”, “emotional words” and “power words”. It tells you your headline “type” (this post is a “list type”) and does a length analysis. Lastly, you get some cool tips to improve your headline, all for free and in under a few minutes.
4. Deliver a top-notch content
Folajomi Ballo of Hugestepup usually preach that: content is not the king but quality content.
You should learn to deliver high quality content always. Oh! You want a guide?
Read: how to write a blog post Google will reward
You should do good with this.
