Lately, I received a few questions regarding how you can improve traffic. As some of you know, I am trying to improve my traffic levels and I decided to talk about some of the ways I plan on doing that. Its not too difficult to get traffic but it is difficult to maintain that traffic so this is more about how well you can keep yourself in the game. Lets take a look at a few things I am doing:

1) Maintain Your Posting Frequency – It is true that I do dip low once in a while but for the most part I try to get 4-5 posts a week and sometimes a few more if I find something interesting but about 4-5 topic posts. If your post frequency is one post a week, then you may not be able to maintain your readers. You need to find a way to keep people coming back and the way to do is is by maintaining a standard.

2) Be Unique – If you and 10 other bloggers are talking about the same issues then there isn’t any reason why you should expect someone to read your blog and not the other blog. You need to find a way to stand out from the crowd and that can be done in the way you write your posts, diagrams, or anything of that sort.

3) Inspire Others – Sometimes you can have a post that is informational and sometimes that post inspires others. What usually happens is that someone likes a post on your blog and they link to it and that is one way to get traffic on a consistent basis. If you are making sure to give out great advice then you will see that your readers will respond more to it and not only return but they will also want others to know about it.

Some of the facts that DO NOT play a role in how your traffic is affected are listed below:

1) Contests – Yes, contests do bring you a lot of attention and might bring you a lot of traffic while the contest is running but sooner or later the buzz will die out so you need to have a plan to entice readers to stick around after the contest is over, and you can do that with the methods mentioned above.

2) Being Fake – This is a big issue nowadays and its mainly because you have a lot of people writing posts that are either not true or hosting unbelievable contests with no end result. Yeah, you might get a lot of attention for posting about something totally off the wall or having a contest where you give away a house, but when people will see the truth, then theres nothing worse than negative publicity. Be sure to maintain your image in the blogosphere and so lets be sure to do it with honesty.

So hopefully you have been able to gain something out of this post. If you like it, please Stumble it or Digg it and leave a comment. Let me get your feedback on some ways you improve your traffic.