“Hungry Visitors”
Seems that I have termed something new here. Isn’t it?
Most of the “Visitors” have the “hunger” of finding the right information and knowledge to educate themselves about various stuff.
Being a blogger, my primary goal is to grab tons of visitors to my blog, and for that, I need to share useful stuff as I said above that the visitors have the hunger of getting information. And, if I don’t have the meaty content on my blog to erase their hunger then why would they visit my blog?
I am writing this blog post to share 10 creative ways to attract Hungry visitors to your blog:
1. Write Attention Grabbing Post Titles
When it comes to grabbing the attention of someone, show him something that he cannot avoid. It’s like a person cannot avoid a food junction if he is damn hungry.
Therefore, when a visitor who is hungry of getting some information, he may not take out his eyes from the attractive titles while browsing on social sites or searching in Google.
Thus, always write attention grabbing headlines to attract those “Hungry visitors.” Such headlines grab their mind as long as they view it, and they cannot resist themselves to click on it. I have written a separate article on this topic that you can read here "8 Tips To Help You Choose The Best Headlines"
2. Give Something Valuable For Free
Many bloggers offer various things like some e-books, some software, etc. for free to their readers. That’s an excellent way to attract a lot of visitors to your blog.
But, here is a catch!
Many times, you find most of those freebies are useless or not much valuable enough. But, if you offer something valuable or some of your best work for free, you will see a lot of people coming to your blog, and engaging with you.
For example
If you are into Search Engine Optimization with huge experience, you can offer your readers an e-book in which you have shared all the secrets to rank on top pages of Google.
Or if you are a writer, and wrote a Novel for the very first time, you can give that away for free!
It is amazing way to attract a huge number of people when you offer something for free, especially when that something is very useful.
3. Add Visual Content To Your Blog Posts
Textual content is essential, and that is what your visitors read to educate themselves, but if you write a blog post without any images, videos or any other visual content, it looks boring and monotonous. But, if you add some relevant images, videos, and even an infographic(if needed), that blog post looks more professional and attractive. Now, it can grab more eyeballs.
Visual content should not be added just for the sake of having them rather create attractive ones to add more value to your blog post.
Of Course, the second one because the same content is presented in a creative manner and creativity is what attracts more visitors to your blog post.
Therefore, don’t just add the visual content for the sake of adding rather try creating something interesting that everyone loves to check out.
Read more: Blogger's FAQ Answered: All About Making Money & Traffic
4. Applying The Best SEO Strategies
As a hungry person would search for food here and there desperately, visitors with the hunger of information would search for information at different places such Search Engines, Social Media sites, etc. Search Engines are one of the best places where people find out the information they need.
Therefore, if you can rank your blog on first pages of popular search engines, you can easily get those hungry visitors onto your blog. And, to rank well you need to apply the best SEO Strategies.
If you are not an expert of SEO, you can take reference from blogs like backlinko.com, quicksprout.com, searchengineland.com, and many more and learn more about SEO.
5. Promoting On Social Media
Social Media sites like Facebook and Twitter are very popular. They are one of the popular sources of website traffic. Most of the Internet users spend their time on these social sites, and they spend their time finding information, playing games and learning many new things from different articles or statuses. You can target those hungry visitors over there too, and that is an excellent opportunity to attract them to your blog.
First write good content, and then promote it heavily on these social sites, and even ask your friends’ help to share your content. The more reach you achieve, the more visitors you get.
Read more: Blog Post Social Signals Strategy
6. Create Useful Content
The most important thing is to write the content that is useful and has complete information on particular topics. If you are one of those bloggers who publish crap content just for search engines, then you won’t be able to attract hungry visitors because even they come once, they won’t get back again if they find useless content on your blog.
Therefore, it is utmost important to write very useful content, and in a manner that is easy to understand.
7. Post Replies In Discussion Forums
Forums are the best places where you can find out most hungry visitors. As Forums are kind of places for discussions, people visit them to find out answers to their query or they ask their questions which get replied by different members.
You can respond to users query and be active in a few forums in your niche. Suppose someone is asking a question related to social media tools that can boost social media marketing, and then you can check out your blog whether you have any blog post that can be the answer to it, if yes then you can write something, and provide the link of your blog post. In the case of this question, I do have a blog post. So what I will do is I will write something like “There are so many tools available online that you can use to boost your social media productivity, and can boost your social marketing strategies as well. You can take reference from this article: http://goo.gl/NRThB3
It helps you get a good amount of traffic from there, and the most importantly The Targeted Traffic.
8. Professional Blog Design
Though the design is not what visitors get information from, still a better-designed blog or website attracts more visitors. Therefore, either hire a good designer to give your site a professional look or you can buy readymade themes. For example, if you use WordPress, you can check Elegant Themes, Genesis, Tesla Themes, and many other to get professional themes.
Below screenshot is of my blog and this is how it looks, and I am using Divi Theme from Elegant Themes, and I think the look is very elegant and professional too. No clutter at all.
9. Email Marketing
Everyone uses emails! And, thus, email marketing has a great and unique value in the blogging and other online business industry. Suppose I am a reader, and once I read your blog. I liked the content and subscribed to your blog so that whenever you publish a post, I will get an email notification.
There are cases here:
- You don’t offer newsletters
- I don’t subscribe to your emails even if you offer it on your blog.
Therefore, set up the newsletter thing so that your new publications go right into the mailboxes of the people who subscribed to your blog. They will keep coming back to your blog.
And, another thing is why don’t I subscribe to your blog?
Only one case, if I really didn’t like your content. So, go back to #6 where I mentioned that creating useful content is important to get those hungry visitors.
10. Run Various Contests
I have mentioned in the point #2 that giving away something free attracts hungry visitors. You can offer them by asking to sign up for your list.
But, there is one more way, in fact, more attractive way and that is running contests and keeping a good prize that will be given to the winner.
You will notice more engagement on your blog when you run such kind of contests. Make a schedule of running contests such as one contest a month or one contest per 3 months as you find suitable.
This attracts a lot of people, and the hungry visitors who have the hunger of getting information would love to check out the contest if you offer informative things as prize such as an e-book or some case study, etc.
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Conclusion:
Attracting a lot of traffic to blog is the main target of every blogger or webmaster. But, visitors will come if you have something unique or you are ranking well on SERPs, or you are marketing your site well.
There are a lot of factors that decide how much traffic you will get. I have shared 10 creative ways to attract hungry visitors to your blog, that does work well for me, and many of my blogger buddies.
What’s your take on this? Would love to hear from you.
You all have a wonderful rest of the week
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