This is a Guest Post by Oussama Afellad of Twitter Tips Center dot Com – Follow him @TwitTipsCenter
If you’re able to write unique content, then everything else will be easy for you, however using your creativity to generate unique content isn’t enough to drive traffic to your blog, many bloggers write unique articles in their blogs but they don’t receive much traffic back. I’m listing below some points and tips which I hope they’ll help you.
Find The Hungry Crowd:
It’s about finding a hot topic for you blog. Blogging about something which few people are interested in won’t help you to receive much traffic to your blog. See what people are interested in nowadays, and write about it.
Understand Your Readers:
The more you know your readers, the more easy you can pick a good topic. Ask yourself why the readers are reading what you’re writing and focus on it.
Give Your Article an Objective:
Meaning the purpose of the article. Your readers should reach some goal after reading your article.
Explode Your Creativity:
Create something that will attract people’s attention and make them do what you want them to do by asking yourself what’s new and unique in this article.
Ask Your Readers What Do They Want:
Take the chance to ask your readers what they would like to read on your blog, it somehow creates a kind of friendship with your readers and they will always give you ideas on what to blog about, which is good.
Learn from Feedback:
If you write something interesting, your readers will definitely leave a feedback for you, either in comments or Twitter… Wherever. Learn from their feedbacks and mix it with your article to produce a high quality content.
These are great tips to drive traffic, understanding your audience is the key, you need to feed your readers information that they want to read, it’s one of the best tips to keep your readers coming back and look for more.
Oussama, you have a great post here.
Calvin
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Agreed. Without understanding ur audience u cant drive traffic, its like travelling without knowing the destination.
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Cool you must be creative enough to make the hungry crowd of readers stick to your blog. Learning from feedback and understanding the readers can help you to give what they need. Comments are the best place for this. I always end with asking suggestions to my readers to improve the article which I can follow atleast in the next article.
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Yup asking suggestions from readers is the best way to interact with them and know what exactly you need to change in your blog….
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Agreed dude. I can see lot of people make use of comments section to give the best content.
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Great points. Unique content is good but having and audience to read the content is better. You have gave some good tips in this article.
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Short but great article by Oussama.
Quality content is critical, but it must also be UNIQUE. And even that is not enough… it must be something that people are interested in (and the more people that are interested in it, the better).
So in the end you need content that is quality, unique, and of interest to other people!
Sometimes this is easier said than done though. 🙂
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yes main thing is the feedback of the readers. You can set your lines and goals, after reading the feedback of your readers. This will increase your number of loyal readers and overall traffic.
In other name, build roads to your blog if you want more traffic, build high ways 😀
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I agree , even wierd articles can drive traffic if you are marketing them at the right place .
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Writing contempting articles is also an option
I have a post to which i had not built any links. But the post was so great that people who read it bookmarked it in the social bookmarking section. This page now pops up in the front page of Google with any keyword whatsoever. With a few such links you can definitely be pushed to the top pages of Google without much effort. The article should be very unique and should be convincing all the readers that come across it.
Creating content certainly is not enough. that simply proves that Marketing is still king. thanks oussama for providing this quality article regarding driving traffic and creating Content. 🙂