The most common question new bloggers ask is: “How can I attract more visitors to my blog?” »
It's been about 20 days since I started blogging on Hashnode (My main blog), DEV and Devdojo, and I've reached over 29,000 pageviews. Since then, I've received a lot of questions about how I increased my traffic, so I'll lay it all out in this article.
As you can see, I received 11,109 visitors in DEV, 15,149 visitors in Hashnode and 2,817 in Devdojo, making a total of 29,075. And the strategies I used are
1. Publish Articles Consistently
I published a new blog post every day (or at least 1 post every other day) and never went more than a week without blogging.
After some research, I discovered that the more often I published an article, the more frequently my readers returned to my site.
2. Write a catchy blog title
Your entire article depends on your article title, so the catchier/better title you write for your article, the more visitors you will get.
For more information, here is a detailed article regarding “Blog Title Formulas That Will Increase Your Traffic”: coschedule.com/blog/catchy-blog-titles
3. Find a good keyword
If you want to generate traffic from search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, etc., you need to find the correct keyword for your articles. Most beginners simply rely on their best guesses when creating content. As you can imagine, this strategy is hit or miss.
If you use this strategy, there is a good chance that your articles will not rank well in search engines.
4. Optimize Website Speed
Your visitors won't wait for your blog to load. If your page doesn't render quickly enough, they will click the back button and move on to the next Google listing (i.e. your competitor).
That’s why the first thing I made sure was okay was my website speed. As a beginner in blogging, I have tried many platforms like WordPress, Blogger, Ghost CMS, etc. But ultimately I settled on Hashnode. Hashnode blogs are fully optimized. Here is an article from @sandeepthe co-founder of Hashnode on how they optimize their blogs:
5. Promoting Articles on Social Media
Whenever after publishing an article, I would definitely post it on Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin with related tags like #javascript #python #web_development. It helped me get most of my traffic from social media
6. Interact with other developers
From the moment I started blogging in addition to writing articles, I got into the habit of reading articles too 😉 so I started going through other articles, reading them and commenting their article. It also helped me get some traffic.
Conclusion
There you have it, friends, I hope you found this article useful. If you need any help, let me know in the comments section.
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