How can you increase the number of visitors to your blog?

A blog can be created for a number of reasons. You may have a blog to publish your own personal journey somewhere or on a specific subject such as travel or fashion. You may have a stand-alone blog site or you may have it attached to your website. Often marketing companies create blogs for their clients as a way of getting fresh, relevant content on to the site without cluttering up the main pages of the site. These blog posts should be unique and relevant to the business. Although you may of h=created the blog mostly for SEO purposes, it is important to remember that people may well read these posts so they need to be accurate and informative.

With a standalone blog you may need to work a little hard to get traffic to it as you cannot rely on traffic from a website. This can be done in several ways, but more and more people are using social media to promote their blog posts. Finding relevant groups on social media sites such as Facebook and then promoting your blog posts or page can help drive traffic through, always check what the rules of the group are in case you are not allowed to share links.

If your blog is part of a website then make sure you have a place on your home page which shows your latest blog posts as this will allow people to easily click through on to articles that are of interest to them.