There are a good number of blogging tips blogs online today, but only a handful of them get noticed or generate a significant amount of blog traffic and readership. Not every blog goes on to become another “Basic Blog Tips” or “ProBlogger”.
Even though many bloggers find they can earn a fair amount of money, for most of us we can't make as much as the big A-list bloggers. 
The most important task among these – is generating and endless stream of quality, targeted traffic to your blog.
In this post I am going to share 5 simple strategies that you can use to double your blog traffic in 2013.
5 Tips To Double Your Blog Traffic
1. Google+ Communities
As most of you already know about the newest Google+ feature – Communities. By posting informative articles to the communities, you can double your website traffic.
If you really want to get a lot of brand and traffic exposure, you need to post your content inside the appropriate Google+ Community. And don’t just share links from your own site, but also comment on and share other people’s content.
By engaging in the right Google+ community, you would be able to make the connections with other members and thus get traffic to your blog.
Here is a screenshot of my stats from Google Analytics. You can see that I got a nice spike in my blog traffic rankings when I finally started using the Google+ communities+.
Head over to Google+ and enter your keywords in the search box, then refine your search by clicking “Communities”. Check out a few of the top results until you find the ones that are active and engaging. I think it’s worth a try.
2. Link Outreach
Link outreach is hard, you send 100+ emails and end up getting just a few links.
No not always the case, last month I sent an email to 10 blogging friends who are well-known in my niche for sharing successful blogging tips, and almost everyone replied. I even ended up getting two guest posts – SEO for WordPress – What Every Blogger Should Know and 5 Powerful WordPress Plugins to Help Prevent Content Theft from Matthew Barby and Adam Connell, respectively.
Few things to consider:
- Write more long form content. You need to have quality content (at least 800+ words) before you even do link outreach.
- Engage with those on social media sites. Before sending an email pitch, you should connect with those people before hand.
3. Focus on Quality over Quantity
Ever since I started focusing on writing quality content, my traffic has been doubled. Though, those types of blog posts take a lot of time but the benefits are endless. Over time I have learned that this is one of the best tips for good blogging.
Be it a guest post or content on your site, focus on Quality. In the past few years, the search algorithm has been improved a lot. Now, if a competitor has tens of thousands of links and you merely have a few hundred, you can still outrank them if your quality is better. When your content is valuable, you begin to earn the trust of your readers and the search engines. The readers will come back for more and the search engines will continue to send you more blog traffic.
If your site growth is organic and has original content, than it’s just a matter of time before you start getting 1000+ visitors every day.
4. Triberr
Wouldn't you love if you get 100+ retweets as soon as you hit the publish button? Yes, there's a site that lets you get more retweets simply by joining or forming a tribe in your niche.
This is one of those sites which you could use to increase the social signals & get more traffic.
These days, search engines are using social signals to measure the site quality & authority. By joining sites like Triberr, you could easily boost your rankings. Here is a video from Ms. Ileane introducing you to the power of Triberr:
How to Reach Millions of People on Twitter with Triberr
5. Use Social Blogging communities to get blog traffic
By social blogging sites, I mean the niche bookmarking sites. This is the easiest way to increase your blog traffic. It takes few minutes everyday, all you have to do is submit your content and engage with the community.
This is where you need to have a presence –
- Inbound: The most engaging community for Inbound Marketers
- Blokube: Established and invite only community for bloggers and internet marketers
- BlogEngage: The most active community!
Know of any more social bookmarking or community site which I didn't included? Please let us know in the comments below.
These sites can bring very targeted & quality traffic to your blog. If you have a great post shared and it makes it to a home page, you will have your blog flooded with traffic.