14 ways to increase the number of page visits to your blog

Original: To increase a Blog ' s Page views

Author: Darren Rowse, translation: Lucifer

　　14 ways to increase the amount of page access to your blog

How to increase the number of visits to blog is already the old growth talk, in fact, for bloggers, another statistic is also critical: Page view volume.

Many web traffic statistics services provide both data-"traffic" counts the number of visitors, and page views measure the number of pages on your blog that these visitors are browsing.

For different blogs, each visitor's page views will be different, but I hope this number can be a freshman is not a bad thing:

Repeat: The more pages the reader browses, the more likely he is to visit again.

Income: On the blog ads are more than the impression, that is, the number of visits, the likelihood of being clicked is greater.

The purpose of writing a blog is different, so I would like to increase the number of page views at the first place. For those who want this statistic to rise, here are 14 suggestions:

1, within the chain to their own article

This is probably the simplest way to increase page traffic, which is to add links to your own articles and point to other articles of your own. Puff may be a bit funny, but if it's linked to some previously written articles related to the same topic, I believe it's something that readers would like to hear. Many bloggers on their own blog will be written on the same topic many times, the articles are linked together will undoubtedly show you the depth of the discussion on this topic.

2, highlighting the relevant articles

If you don't want to add a link to a previous article in your article, it's a good alternative to separate a "related article" (Related Post) (you can see my related article in the sidebar (Related entries), and the original author, Probblogger's owner's related articles are placed after each article and highlighted in yellow background. WordPress has a dedicated plug-in can automatically achieve this function (named related posts). Of course, if you want to implement the manual is also possible, as long as the end of the article to add some relevant to this article for the reader to refer to the article link.

3, add a mail subscription or article Update tips service

The original author tasted the sweetness of page browsing by email subscriptions, readers who subscribe via email will notice a section called "Hot posts" when they receive ProBlogger's latest news, and in this section, collate the most popular 5 articles of the week. Because different readers pay attention to the different articles, it is likely that some people only read a few of these articles, after joining the "hot posts", this part of the reader will be interested in those articles that have not read. This increases the number of "visits" while also increasing the "page views". Other subscription services that are updated via email should also be effective (such as Zookoda and FeedBurner).

4. Highlight important articles in eye-catching position

ProBlogger has three highlighted menu bars in the upper part of the page, with some introductory or suggestive articles, such as Blog,blog design tips. And through the author's observation many readers will carefully read the article here. This will undoubtedly increase the volume of the page.

5, "A few big ..."

This "most ..." or "a few big ..." articles linked to multiple pages always seem to arouse the interest of the reader. For example, "the 20 most popular articles" often become the first visit of the reader must read the article, and this leads them to see next to each other, is a good way.

6. Write a series

Writing a series of articles to improve the volume of the page has two layers of meaning. First of all, during the period of writing this series, the reader will be drawn back to the time, because they want to see what your next article is about, and secondly, after you've finished this series, if you can put all of these articles together (refer to 1 and 2), the reader will read through the entire series ( Of course it's made up of multiple pages). The original author has written a series of beginners ' blog guides, and each reader who reads the series from beginning to end looks at 30 to 40 articles (Khan).

7, on the first page of the output summary

On the home page only output a summary or only part of the article, and then through a "read the full article" link to a separate page, so want to see the full article will have to go to a separate page. I have to say this will be annoying, so a lot of people don't. But for the length of the article, this does not only make the home page look more rigorous, but also an increase in the amount of pages.

8. Planning or Special topics

Similar to the previous series, for example, many of the theme (theme) designers blog is through the creation of a theme of the project, so that people who focus on the subject to see the progress of the work. The same effect can be achieved by similar discussions or contests. But the primary goal of these bulls is not just the number of pages, but the amount of the page is a by-product.

9, in the aggregate only output summary

It is not shameful for me. Even the original author did not do so. Even though your page access may be going up, I think it's a loss for both the reader and the writer. In such a "You have pressure, I have pressure" society, everyone's time is very valuable, with the purpose of aggregation is to save time and resources. So I see only output summary of the blog on a reaction, to remove it from my bloglines. It is strongly recommended that all bloggers are outputting complete articles in the aggregate!

10, entice the aggregation reader to visit the page

I think this is preferable compared to the output summary. Instead of forcing the reader onto your page, you can use skills such as voting, attracting readers to participate in comments, or internal links.

11. Interactive

The more the reader participates, the greater the chance of a return visit, and the greater the number of pages. Many of the readers who have participated in the comments or votes will return to see the response from others. And the response itself brings two pages of page traffic. Comment on the message, read the article is a page visit, and leave a message is again. Similarly, it is best not to take this as the primary purpose of attracting messages, communication is fundamental ah. Interaction occurs mainly in the message section, and of course voting and other tools should also be effective.

12. To attract readers ' comments

There are several ways to do this effectively: by using Plug-ins to display the most recent comments in the sidebar, providing a dedicated aggregation for comments, or providing options for mailing subscription reviews.

13, Search

By adding search capabilities to facilitate readers to retrieve your previously written articles, you can also increase the volume of pages. There are many ways to achieve this. Most of the themes have built a search engine, Google AdSense also provides such a service, readers can choose to search the site or the entire network, and if they clicked on the search results page ads, it can also bring you a little bit of the outside.

14. Leave homework for your readers

The original author cites a blog that provides photographic skills, for example, because it provides some photographic tips for readers, so it's natural to put some "homework" at the end of the article so that readers can try it out in person. As a result, readers will often return to visit, on the one hand this trick or teaching is step-by-step, so they will often open your page, repeatedly follow your instructions step-by-step to do; On the other hand, many people will want to show you their results.