If I ask you how to get traffic to your blog, you can give me a list of 10-15 ways to get traffic or even more. It’s almost easier to get some traffic to your blog in no time, but the thing we look forward for a blog is, how much time a visitor is spending in your blog and how many pages he is viewing in each visit? This is definitely a key factor to make your blog better and to convert first time visitors into loyal readers.
I was watching over my blog’s statistic other day and I saw some improvements in the traffic. Thanks to google analytics for collecting my site data. I’m sharing my last month’s traffic status below and you can see that I’ve highlighted ‘Pages/Visits’,
The average number of pages a visitor visits in each time is called Pages/Visits. My blog is having 40% bounce rate that means 40 out of 100 people left my blog from the first page. Getting 2.04 page views per visits is extremely difficult when you are getting the bulk amount of traffic from social bookmarking sites. I get most of my visitors from Stumble Upon but many people complain that the visitors from that source don’t stay longer on the site.
I’ve constructed some good quality articles which sure attract people but also I’ve applied some other ways to increase page views. Here are some easy steps to increase page views in your blog,
Continued articles (Read more method)
There are plugins for wordpress and hacks for blogger platform to create continued articles. When a visitor will land on your home page, he will see a summery of the article. He will then have to click on the ‘Read more, continue reading, or whatever..‘ to see the full article. The visitor will be redirected to the article page to read the article; this means another extra page view to read the same article. But if your article is not appealing enough for your visitor, then he will not click on the ‘Read more’ link to see the article.
Internal linking
Internal links are one of the best ways to attract more page views. You have to put the links between the article texts which will link to another page of your blog. This will catch the attention of the reader and he will click on the link to read that article too.
Related posts
There are automatic and manual ways to create related posts under your articles. When a reader will finish reading your article, he will see a set of articles related to that article topic which will give him more resources to learn about the topic. This is a nice way to increase page views and it works all the time.
Using your sidebar
You can use your blog sidebar to increase page views. Use some of your best articles like a top ten list on the sidebar and your readers will read them too. You can also add recent articles, categories, labels and other links that point to your articles in your sidebar.
Article pages
I’ve created some special pages on my blog with a set of articles on each topic. These will help you to capture more page views. The page is full of links to your older posts. You have to make this page easier to browse and to find good articles. You can see some of my article pages like, Popular articles, Beginners guide and Make money.
Comments
Comments are also important for getting more page views. If you can attract lots of comments, your readers will stay longer on your blog to read and come back again to see the reply of their comment. Most of the comments system has another page when a person leaves a comment, meaning another extra page view. You can also use your sidebar with recent comments to have more page views.
More ways for more page views
There could be more ways to attract page views on your blog like adding a community page or an about me page on your blog. You can add the RSS feed icon and email form to capture the new visitor. Using your social platforms on your blog is also a nice way to get more page views. You can use chat box on your page to interact with readers or could add a forum page which will have more page views.
What do you say?
I’m looking forward if I could get 3.00 Pages/Visits, I know it’s difficult but have to try my best. What is your status? Are you getting more page views from your loyal readers? What are the things you are doing to get more page views, tell me and I will post it on my blog.
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Please Listen. I have all my internal links in a page other than home page, but the home page has a link to that page. In this design, is it possible for search engines to index all my internal links? Also I have not blocked any web pages from indexing using robots.txt file.
@Cartoon Bears, Don’t worry, Google can index every page of your blog even the links are not poiting them.
nice tips for increasing page view i thing if you write fresh and informative content you got page view and visitors, for increasing page view you can share your post some social book marking sites like stumble upon, digg, mixx, face book, twitter etc!!!
Great suggestions. It’s been a slow process for me learning to make my blog more streamlined. I’ve now implemented both the condencing plug-in as well as a “related” plug in. Very impressive.
These are excellent tips – a “related posts” plug-in is pretty much a must for nearly any blog, as it alerts readers to content that the author himself will frequently forget exists.
I also liked your comment from above:
“Getting 2.04 page views per visits is extremely difficult when you are getting the bulk amount of traffic from social bookmarking sites. I get most of my visitors from Stumble Upon but many people complain that the visitors from that source don’t stay longer on the site.”
Exactly correct – my search traffic may be ungrateful and not terribly useful at helping me promote, but it explores the site. Social bookmarking tends to result in glances more than sustained looks.
btw, is something wrong with commentluv? I’m not able to get links back to particular posts of mine.
I think the best way to improve the page views of your site is to have excellent content that matches the needs of the people who are visiting it.
Hi
Increasing my page rank is what I’m concentrating on at the moment. Thanks for the info, great post
Tom Horton
http://www.Increase-SignUps.co.uk
I’ve recently seen traffic spiking on my blog. I attribute it to 3 reasons. I used to mix 100% original posts with recycled news, I mean, I would piggyback on interesting news, recycle the information, give it a personal twist and publish it. Since I stopped doing that and switched to %100 original content I’ve gotten more traffic and a significant increase in comments.
The second reason is that I’ve been posting orginial content more regularly and the feedback I’ve been getting is that my writing has improved.
The third reason is social media. I’ve been promoting my posts on twitter and facebook since I started the blog last year. I’ve never gotten too much traffic from Digg (maybe because I’m not into the pop/tech niche, I mostly write about career development). Since I started using Stumbleupon a few days ago, monthly referrals have overtaken facebook in just 3 days.
My blog is not too big yet since I moved from a wp.com to wp.org and lost readers in the transition.
I’ve been getting between 10 visits and 20 PV per day.
Since I changed my strategy 2 weeks ago, I’m seeing 40 visits and around 200 PV a day. Bounce rate went down from 80% to 20% and the vist-to-PV ratio has gone from 1:2 to 1:4
I hope the trend continues
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