{"id":13150,"date":"2016-03-08T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog?p=13150&preview_id=13150"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T05:40:09","slug":"how-to-grow-traffic-on-your-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dlvrit.com\/blog\/how-to-grow-traffic-on-your-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Playbook to Make Your Blog Insanely Awesome"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world of blog traffic growth<\/a>\u00a0can sometimes feel a little overwhelming, especially if you\u2019re new to the game and wondering where to start.\u00a0Wouldn\u2019t it be nice to have a comprehensive list of proven\u00a0tactics\u00a0you could follow?<\/p>\n

Andy Merchant\u00a0created an impressive list of 35 ways to attract readers<\/a>. After reading through his list, I was inspired to do a follow-up post that shows you how to implement many of his great ideas in growing blog traffic. We won’t cover all 35 – some don’t require much explaining. However, others require a few steps and for that reason, I’ll expand upon Andy’s ideas over several blog posts.<\/p>\n

<\/span>The Ultimate Playbook to Grow Your Blog Traffic – Part 1<\/span><\/h2>\n

There is a reason why we listed search optimization first. It is the number one source of blog traffic (when done correctly). It takes work but well worth the time, and the results speak for themselves.<\/p>\n

1 – Be Visible on Search by Optimizing your Blog\u2019s Content for SEO<\/h3>\n

Andy Merchant:\u00a0To grow your blog traffic, readers\u00a0must find you in search engine results. Make sure to optimize your blog content for SEO by creating Meta descriptions, using relevant keywords and linking your blog to other websites, among other ways. Also, make your blog\u2019s infographics, pictures, videos and everything else SEO friendly.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ryan Cote, from\u00a0WPamplify<\/a>,\u00a0shared his advice on the\u00a0easiest things you can do to grow blog traffic is to increase your ranking in search engine result pages (SERPs):<\/p>\n

\u2013>\u00a0Optimize Your Metadata for Relevant and Local Keywords<\/h3>\n

Metadata<\/a>\u00a0tells the search engines what your page is about. Note that I said \u201cpage”, and not \u201cwebsite”. If you look at the source code of your Web pages, you\u2019ll find that each one begins with an HTML tag. In the HTML language, it is the information between two tags \u2013 the opening tag and the closing tag \u2013 that tells you what the tag is affecting. In this case, the tags looks like this:<\/p>\n

<head><\/p>\n

<\/head><\/p>\n

The opening of the tag \u201c<head>” has some other tags in there. As the name implies, this tag houses the heading of each page. Within this heading, you\u2019ll see another tag entitled \u201c<title>”. The information in between the opening title tag and the closing title tag is where the metadata for your Web page will appear.<\/p>\n

In a search engine, this will be what the name of the page is, often underlined in blue and hyperlinked to your page. For every page on your website, you need to add applicable and relevant keywords, so the search engines have an idea of what your page is about.<\/strong> On the page itself, website visitors will not see this metadata. They will, however, see it in the title bar of the window. To that extent, you need to keep the title short with either one keyword or one keyword phrase so that the search engines have an easier time finding your page.<\/p>\n

Use keywords that allow your business to stand out. It’s important to get the right kind of blog traffic to keep your exit rate low and time on site high. Search engines take these things into consideration when ranking your site.<\/p>\n

\u2013> Submit Your Business Information to Directories<\/h3>\n

Your mission is to make it simple for people to find you.\u00a0Directory Bug\u00a0has an excellent\u00a0list of 100 local directories<\/a>\u00a0to submit your information to so that people can find you. Business Directories are an easy and often free way to grow blog traffic.<\/p>\n

Every place you send your information is just one more chance customers have to find you.\u00a0Take the time \u2013 even if it takes a couple of hours \u2013 to submit your information to each and every directory.\u00a0Every directory that you fail to provide information to can be seen as the same as if you left money behind on the table.<\/p>\n

\u2013>\u00a0Add Local Schema Markup to Your Website<\/h3>\n

As important as it is to modify the title tag on each of your Web pages to match the page content,\u00a0schema markup gives search engines the ability to classify your page even further.<\/p>\n

As a local business, you probably hold events. Schema markup will allow the search engine to scan your page for specific \u201crich snippets\u201d so that these events will appear dynamically in the SERP entry.<\/p>\n

For example, the SERP entry will have the:<\/p>\n