Double Your Blog & Website Traffic! A Few Hints That Work & Are Totally Free

Friday, July 12, 2013 12:14

(Before It's News)

I am writing you this story to share a few PROVEN hints on how to go about doubling or tripling your blog or website traffic. These hints that I’ll share with you are proven over time and are quite easy for all bloggers to implement into your daily stories. I know that they work because they work for me and because they work for others, too, as I will show you here now. There are no tricks involved, you don’t have to pay anyone anything.

I recently shared these tips with a Beforeitsnews contributor Susan Duclos of Wake Up America Blog. She has shared with me that since doing so, her own websites traffic has more than doubled and nearly tripled. This is a no lose situation and quite easy. Please try and let us know in a few days or weeks how it has worked out for you.

1) ALWAYS add a picture to EVERY story! While promoting stories on Facebook, stories with pictures to catch the eye of the reader get clicked on. In general, those without pictures, don’t. We have found that overwhelmingly people avoid clicking on story links on Facebook w/o pictures while nearly 10x the number of stories WITH pictures are viewed. I add at least one picture to every story, no matter what, just for that reason. You can put the pic up top if its important or down below everything else just to get the facebook grab. Always add a picture that is somehow related to the story, even if you have to search for one. Try to avoid copyrighted pictures for your own protection.

2) TitleTitleTitle: The first 5 words that people read in a story’s title are the most important in helping them decide whether or not to read the story. On Beforeitsnews, those first 5 words are even more important as they are the only words visible on our website. Make those first 5 words count. What would you rather read, a story that starts out/all you can see on BIN: “An Interesting Event Happened Today….. (when extraterrestrial life was confirmed)” or “Extraterrestrial Life Confirmed Today”? Make those first 5 words of your story hit home.

3) Always try to find a good video that somehow relates to the story that you are sharing. Videos are todays media; they perform greatly in both informing our readers as well as keeping them on the story for longer periods of time, building up the numbers. Great videos on interesting stories will build up to 10′s of thousands or 100′s of thousands of hits. I love to watch videos. It’s our nature. Always add a video to your story.

4) Always add original content to the story…as in, talk about it a little bit. Many people just copy/paste full stories from elsewhere to BIN or their blogs; they are taking copyright risks as well as putting out info that people can find elsewhere on the internet. Add your own thoughts about what you are reporting. It doesn’t take much. In general our guidelines for featured stories are to use a good paragraph of original content for every few paragraphs/sentences you bring into your story as source material. ALWAYS link back to where you get your information. Once you’ve added original content, you own the story.

5) Set up a free Beforeitsnews account and get your stories to our audience. Beforeitsnews drives traffic to those who link back to their own websites. ALWAYS link back to your website or blog from Beforeitsnews. How many other websites will allow you to do that nowadays? I’m sure there are some other good ones out there but not too many. Try to get the MSM to allow you to link your comments to your website or even allow you to post comments with links back to your website. You won’t find many.

Finally, as I mentioned above in #3, I always add a video to every story. Sometimes its hard to find a video that fits the story exactly so I’ll search for something that is very close though not completely related to the story. For this story, I’ve chosen the following video from Mass Tea Party called “Health Care Law & What Is Costing America! – Wake Up America!”