Tactics I Use To Get Repeat Visitors To My Blog Site

One of the hardest thing in blogging is to get repeat visitors. The visitors who visit your site for the first time and they keep returning for more.

I use the following tactics to get repeat visitors to my blog sites.

1. Staying Relevant

Many people make mistake of promoting so many affiliate products at the expense of writing useful articles. I try to always stay relevant with topics that are useful and informative. 

2. Being Specific

General and broad subjects are hard to cover for most blogs.  If a site is about playing better golf, i don't chime in with my opinions on NBA.

Narrowing your topic helps you reach specific readers that are 100% focused on that particular topic.  These people will come back every day to see what you have to offer.

3. Plan for Months Not Days

I have a blog editorial calendar that stretches 2 months in advance.

Planning months in advance allows you to be smart about topic selection.  You’ll be able to see natural ways to group your blog posts and create a steady, consistent rhythm.  This planning results in steady repeat traffic.

4. Hang Out with Your readers on Facebook and Twitter

Don't use Facebook and other social media as just outlets to churn out your content. I make sure I show up and actively participate on those platforms.

5. Connect with Regular Readers

I make an effort to know my regular readers. If they live comments on my blog, I reach out to them via email or a comment in their blogs.  The first contact is just to say a big thank you for leaving a comment on my blog. This personal connection helps cement authentic relationships and create opportunities for partnering and sharing resources.

6. Publish Consistently

It’s difficult to build a repeat readership with a sporadic publishing schedule.  Pick a publishing frequency and schedule and stick with it.  Your consistency says that you care about your reader’s time and you take your blog seriously.

Food Blog Traffic Secrets From 9 Yr Old Food Blogger With 2 Million Hits

Getting traffic to a blog is hard work but a 9 year old food blogger made it look so easy when she got two million hits in unbelievable 6 weeks of blogging. 

The nine-year-old blogger is Martha Payne from Scotland. Martha set up a blog as a writing project and to help raise money for a school-meals charity and then she did something that brought a flood of visitors. 

Martha Food Blog Traffic Tips 

The girl  started posting images of uninspiring school meals — one consisted of two croquettes, a plain cheeseburger, three slices of cucumber and a lollipop — These images drew international attention.  

One of the food pictures. 

Martha, who lives in the coastal town of Lochgilphead, about 210 kilometres west of Edinburgh, gave each meal a “food-o-meter” rating, and offered an assessment of its contents.

“I’d really like to know where the chicken comes from,” she wrote in one entry about having chicken fajitas for lunch, “so I am going to write to the lady in charge to ask. I know it comes from a hen but I’d like to know where the hen lived.”

As she garnered fame and attention, major newspapers started writing about her food blog and linked to her blog. 

Local officials weren’t amused, and ordered the schoolgirl to stop taking pictures.

In a statement, Argyll and Bute Council said Payne’s photos were misleading and had caused distress to cafeteria staff. The council was particularly irked by a report about the blog in Scotland’s Daily Record newspaper headlined Fire the Dinner Ladies.

No news is bad news 

The ban quickly became an online talking point, with free speech group the Index on Censorship even weighing in on Payne’s behalf. Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver tweeted “Stay strong Martha” to his more than 2 million followers. 

The controversy only helped to make her  food blog more famous. Attracting curious web users eager to know who is this 9 year old food blogger.

Lesson here is, to get traffic to your food blog, post unique images ( no one was posting images of unappetizing food before Martha came around. Cause controversy, people like talking and reading about controversial issue.  If you can embed this ideas to your blog, expect a flood of web traffic to your site.

To visit martha's blog go to neverseconds.blogspot.com

How I Use Youtube Videos To Drive More Traffic To My Websites

The reason why I focus on creating Youtube videos is because Youtube behaves like a search engine. When people want to get information on a certain topic they go to Google to find and read about it. But for some people reading is not enough, they want to watch and listen to someone explain things. This type of people use Youtube to digest information. If you are not targeting this type of web users you are losing on free traffic. 

To target this Youtube users, I upload short videos on Youtube. The videos content is on short tutorials that can be explained in under 4 minutes. The big challenge on Youtube is how to get the viewer to visit your website.

These are the things I do to get viewers of my Youtube Videos To visit My sites and blogs.

1. Have a link at the description. After uploading the videos I make sure I add a detailed relevant description. My intro is "This video is produced and provided by Kicker Hosting, for more free videos visit www.kickerhosting.com"

2. Introduce your website quickly at the beginning of the video (just quickly in a branded intro) so that users know who made the video and have your brand in their head. If you videos is eye catching they will know where to find you.

3. Wear Branded T-shirts. I don't show my face on my videos but if you are comfortable appearing on your youtube videos, wear a T-shirt with your website URL on the front. 

5. Keep the Youtube Videos Short - The truth is online audiences have a short attention spun. Few people are persistence and patient enough to watch and listen to a 1 hour video presentation. A long video will bore them and make them switch to another Youtube video.

4. Call To Action At The end. Am never shy at the end. I ask the viewer to visit my site. e.g. To find out more on this topic visit: www.mysitehere.com.

5.Showcase Other Free Videos. Weave mentions of your other free tutorials into the script of the video (make sure it is relevant and appropriate).

To Your success!

Traffic Tips For A E-Commerce Website

E-commerce websites live and die by traffic. The more visitor that come to your site the higher your chance of selling a product. On the other hand if visitors don't visit your e-commerce website you won't make a sale. 

Based on my experience, I believe you can dramatically increase your e-commerce website traffic by following these ten suggestions. 

Write Product Description Worth sharing.  

If you are not writing product description that will awe your readers, smarter marketing for you e-commerce website will not fix the problem. Begin by creating an eye catching title that makes people want to read what you have to say.

Write Consistently. 

You can’t expect to increase traffic to your e-commerce website if you don’t add new product descriptions on a daily basis. It is a fact, E-commerce websites with a bigger catalog get majority of web traffic. Frequency equals visibility.

Get A Brandable domain name. 

Think of amazon.com and zappos.com. Those names are great names because they are unique. Don't give in to the temptation of having your product name on the domain. Unique names are the best for a e-commerce website in the long term. By getting a unique name you make it easy on your readers to remember and to pass along your website name. The more they share your domain name with friends the more visitors you should get. 

Make it easy to subscribe to your website Newsletter. 

You don’t want to depend on your website visitors to remember to come back to your e-commerce website. Instead, you want them to subscribe, so they get every new article you write. They should be able to do so by either RSS or email. (Use both.) Position these two buttons prominently so that those who want to subscribe don’t have to hunt for them.

Optimize your articles for SEO. 

You want people to be able to find you when they Google one of your keywords or your name. Make sure you include product keyword in the title, at the introduction, sub titles and within the article. Please, don't overdo it because the articles won't be readable. 

Set Up Facebook page for your e-commerce website

If you want to build visibility for your e-commerce site, you must go where the people are. Today, more and more people gather online in places like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Google+. These social sites are becoming a major refferal of traffic. Make sure you set up a page for your e-commerce website with this social sites.

Invite Product Reviews. 

Start by making it easy for your visitors to review products. Research shows people are more likely to purchase when they read recommendation by fellow buyers .     

To You Success!