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Kira Permunian
And I’ve got some questions from my fellow bloggers in the blogosphere, they were new bloggers who were just asking how to rank a website without much campaigns made on it. Alright! So I have gave them some of my blog posts which tackled about compelling content, quality content, usability standards in blogging and social media sharing. And I thought all of those materials are enough, but not really. So today, let’s make up with the types of traffic we need to have for our blogs. Oh yeah, I haven’t get much on any of these types, but maybe collaborating them with the aspects of our life would make sense while inculcating that traffic is everywhere. Welcome to getting traffic to the circle of no life!
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| Circle of No Life |
Anyway, so I believe if you have a new blog, one of your concerns is the number of visits you have daily and it’s really amusing to see a good number of visitors. But do you concern on the story behind these traffic you’ve got. Where do these visitors and readers come from? This is one reason why we need to use applications such Google Analytics or other traffic analyzer websites to determine what kind of traffic you’re getting.
To identify if you’ve got quality traffic or not, you have to be acquainted with the types of traffic around the web, they are just from the 5 aspects of our life: (Mental) Search Traffic, (Social) Social Traffic, (Physical) Paid Traffic, (Emotional) Word Of Mouth, and (Spiritual) Return Traffic.
Your Mind at Work in Search Traffic
To get this traffic we need to be mentally wise with SEO tweaks and rankings following the search engine guidelines. Search traffic if you don’t know is from people who type in a definite search term on a search engine such as Google and who are particularly looking for a sort of relevant content.
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| Search Engine Traffic |
I believe of all these kinds of traffic, these are almost certainly the most wanted because they are targeted traffic so it means readers are purposely looking for content that your blog has to offer. People who search in the search engines are searching the Internet with a reason.
How this to be at work in your mind? While there are tricks and techniques to rank up to search engines, you should first to make your content useful, highly relevant and quality.
Social Engagement Traffic
Traffic which comes from social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Google +, LinkedIn and other social sites is called Social traffic. This certainly make up from the social aspect of your life. This type also includes video sharing sites such as YouTube or any other type of site that fits into the sort of social networks. As we all know, this type of traffic is very emerging nowadays as everyone is into social media most especially to Facebook and Twitter. A punch from this type permits visitors to hit upon popular content being shared, read, and share again from one profile to another, groups, or into some networked bloggers community such as blog engage, etc.
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| Manage Tweet, G+ and FB |
In engaging to social media sites, you’ll get two benefits. First, you will get backlinks that will help you to increase your popularity and because Google have said that they counted social signals in their organic search results, you also get a PR juice to rank up. Second, is the direct visitors and a chance to be the top news in the network. If your link can make it to the top news, you will get thousands of hits swiftly from people interested on your share.
To make it to the top, use a compelling title for your link to attract and grab readers’ attention.
Get Physical with Paid Traffic
I don’t have much idea on paid traffic but if you want this type, simply this is just the traffic you paid for ofcourse. Paid advertisements hosted by Google AdSense, Facebook and other ad networks are examples of this type where you can get thousands of visitors if you pay a definite amount of money.
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| Pay Per Click Ads |
Another form of this type is done by way of software sending a broadcast message, comments, or emails to various websites in the web. Yes, this is very dangerous as you can be considered as spam site to search engines and social media sites. With this type, you will be physically at rest letting your money work for you. Paid ads such as Google AdSense can work well particularly if you have business to promote in your blog. Remember that when you use this type to promote your blog, you must do a research and use the appropriate relevant keywords; or else you're paying for nothing.
Emotional Word Of Mouth (WOM)
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| Word of Mouth |
You don’t need to be emotional in this type but if you can, then it will help somehow. This type is when people promote your blog offline. The Word of Mouth (WOM) traffic can either come from other bloggers who link to you on their blogs.
These bloggers tell their friends and family about your blog and spread it out to their acquaintances.
Be Spiritual to Get Return Traffic
This is the best example of getting hooked, loyalty and subscriptions. When readers subscribe to your feeds, definitely they will come back when they receive your updates. Some readers, if the find your content useful to them, they will come back surely.
Spiritually and for goodness sake, these are the people who have visited your blog and then decided to see more from you. You need to make your blog very interesting and appealing to your readers as well as having a good communication to them. If you haven't have them return, now know..
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So there you have the 5 sources of traffic. They’re truly just around us and a part of our lives. In connection, I have asked some of my blogging friends in Facebook on what type of traffic they get in their blogs and I was amazed with the results getting 54 votes all in all. Here’s the result.
Search Traffic got the highest votes
Social traffic
Return Traffic
Word of Mouth Traffic
Paid Traffic got the lowest votes
Now, I’m pretty sure you can start to plan out how to promote your blog and in which of these types you want to use to get utmost results you ever wanted.
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