Step 1) Create Great Content For Your Blog
The number 1 thing you should focus on to get traffic is great content. Why? because that’s what attracts people to your website.
When I’m writing an article, I have two things in mind. Firstly, I want to make it as simple for someone to understand as possible. Secondly, I want to make it as beneficial to the reader as possible.
So, with that in mind, how much great content do you need to get 1000 visitors a day?
10 articles getting 100 visitors a day.
20 articles getting 50 visitors a day.
100 articles getting 10 visitors a day.
Looking at these numbers, I would say you were best focusing on fewer articles that bring more traffic.
So how do you go about creating content so good that you can get 1000 visitors a day? Here is step by step what I would do:
Brainstorm and research high traffic keywords.
Great content gets linked to a lot, on both social media and blogs, but only if people can find it in the first place.
Links help you rank high on Google.
But none of this matters if you don’t target your blog post for something people are actually searching for on Google.
That’s where keyword research comes in.
Keyword research is all about finding keywords that get the most searches on Google.
To do this, we use SEMRush. This has to be my favorite tool that I have found this year. It’s far better and more user-friendly than any other tool similar to it.
Once you signup for an account (they have a free trial), go to their Keywords Explorer tool and type in the topic you want to write a blog post about. You want to find keywords that have a lot of searches but are not so competitive that you can’t rank for them.
SEMRush will tell you how much traffic a search term is getting and how many backlinks you are likely to need to rank for this search term. It will also tell you who is already ranked for it, how much traffic they are getting and what other keywords they rank on that page.
This is an important point to remember. Your blog posts won’t just rank with 1 keyword, but perhaps 100’s and in some cases, 1000’s of different keywords.
Write a headline to sell people in your article.
A headline is what attracts people to your blog post.
When we write headlines for our posts, we try to include what they will learn, the benefit from learning it and also why they should learn it from us.
A good example of this is: 10 Headlines Examples That Got Us 10 Million Readers
They will learn the best headlines, to get lots of traffic and they should listen to us because we have been successful at it.
Another example could be: 18 Website Optimization Tips For More Traffic and Higher Conversions
They learn website optimization tips, the benefit being more traffic and higher conversions.
Create a top list article around keywords.
Our readers seem to prefer top list articles much more than any other type of post. I think this is because you know exactly what you are going to get.
Not only do you know what you are going to get, but you also know how the content is going to be laid out.
I think this is key to their success because people want to skim content. They don’t want to invest time in reading long posts if they don’t know it’s going to be worth it.
One recommendation I would make is, link out to other websites in your blog posts. When we write articles such as 50 Most Influential People In Blogging, we link to each blogger. When they see the post, they often share it and link to it somewhere on their blog.
As mentioned earlier in this post, the more links a website has pointing to it, the higher it ranks in Google.
Make Sure Your Blog Post Looks Amazing
Optimize readability and proof read your blog posts.
We like to write content in a way that people can come to our site and quickly skim an article and figure out if it’s an article they want to read. I think this is a big part of why so many people read our posts.
Think about it this way, if you go to one of our blog posts and it’s just 2000 words, no paragraphs, no headlines, no images, are you going to invest your time reading it? It’s unlikely you would.
When we create a blog post, we make sure we use images, not just to promote our posts, but to split up the content.
Sometimes we include sub-headlines for sub-headlines. It’s important to break up content to make it easy to read.
Step 2) Search Engine Optimization
Now that you have found a good keyword and written a blog post, you need to optimize your post for that keyword.
Optimizing Your Blog Post For a Keyword
Go and download a free Wordpress plugin called Yoast SEO. This plugin will ask you what search term you want your blog post to rank for. Then it will tell you everything you need to do to best rank for it.
Such as:
.Including keyword in headline
.Including a keyword is meta description
.Including the keyword in the first paragraph of the post
.Including internal and external links
.Including an image with the name of your keyword
.Add alt attributes with the focus keyword to your images
.Mentioning the keyword enough times
Once you have done this, you should be ready to publish your post.
Optimizing Your Website For Search Engines
A big part of how Google decides where your blog post will rank in it’s search engine is based on how much it likes your website.
Google wants to link to websites that are up to date, user-friendly, trustworthy and popular.
Here is a list of ways to achieve this:
Have a contact page with address and phone number
Get HTTPS on your website URL
Add a sitemap to your website
Always fix broken links
Improve your page speed
Make sure you have no duplicated content
Remember, you can optimize your blog posts as much as you like, but if the content isn’t amazing, it’s not going to get linked to it, which means it’s not going to rank well on Google.
Related: A Free Copywriting Course – That is BETTER than the BEST ever.
Step 3:
Optimize Your Blog Marketing
Now that your blog post is published and it’s optimized for Google, the next important thing I recommend you do, is to make it easy for people to find your content.
You want as many people as possible all to come to your website at the same time to view your new post. Not just because you want lots of traffic, but
You must be logged in to post a comment.