How to get blog visiters?

It's traffic! The thing that would be liked by every blogger to get more and more even if it touches thousands. The reason, there are many and exciting benefits of receiving a lot of traffic. While there are many ways to get traffic towards your blog and in the previous, we had discussed some easy ways which were the following.

1. Driving The Social Media Traffic Towards Your Blog
2. Increasing Traffic On Newly Made Blog
3. Getting First Position In Google Search Results
4. On-Page and Off-Page SEO Tips For High Search Ranking

When I was about to prepare this post, suddenly a quote came in my mind which I would like to share with you. "Traffic is the soul of a blog, If no traffic, the blog is dead! - Mohammed Yaqoob". How is the quote :P

Well, let's come to our main topic. Today I'm going to share some smart ways to get more traffic on your old posts of your blog. Usually, I've seen that when the blog post gets old it loses quality, people don't land on them and sometimes it doesn't bring traffic. No matter, whats the problem with you, the below given ideas may become helpful for you to gain traffic through old posts.

1. Internal Linking - Connecting Posts With Each Other

One of the common and you might know about this. Internal Linking lets you connect all the posts with each other which can bring increase in the page views graph at your Google Analytics account. If you're new to this then you should readout our detailed post about doing and improving the internal linking. There is nothing any difficult task for internal linking as it is most easiest. Just while writing your new blog posts, do mention your old posts with smart way to bring your readers to old posts. As till now, in this post, I've mentioned my five old posts which will not help us to raise up page views but it also help us to make our blog more SEO friendly and easy for search engine crawlers to index and crawl the blog content. Once again, I'm suggesting to checkout our post on internal linking to learn more about that. Link is given in the above sentence and you can also use search box to find that.

2. Do Social Promotion For Your Old Posts

This is the second method which I do mostly to get immediate visits to my blog. You can easily share your old posts to some popular social networks where a lot of people should be connected to you. You can do social promotion at Facebook Groups, Fan Page Of Your Blog, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, Good.is, Bizsugar and more. Some of these sites are also social bookmarking so there is nothing bad, you can socialize your old content on any site, directory, social network, social bookmarking or whatever else it is. 

2.1. Stylify The Way Of Promoting Posts

It is not just copying the link, paste and press share button. Try to be creative and think why people will open this to visit the old post. I just want to say and heading of this era tells itself that you should try to promote posts in a smart way that could attract more visitors. Let me tell you some points which you can do for this. First thing is that write the short message while sharing the post, the message should be something unique which may not only contain the post title but it should be the reason of visiting the post by people, Secondly you can set the attractive title which may help to get more clicks. In the last, the main or featured image is also important, you should show the creative or graph image for thumbnail which will also help to attract people.

3. Do SEO For Old Posts - Update Them

Some people say that once if you publish the post, it gets indexed then you should not edit it. But here I'm disagree with them. From one side they are correct and from other side they are wrong. Let me clear this all.

First Side Which is Correct : If that old post is ranked higher with the good position then you should not edit or update it because it can loose the ranking.

Second Side Which Is Wrong : If that old post not ranked well in search engines then you can surely edit or update them, but the update should be positive. 

Here is what I'm trying to say that you should update the old posts for the sake of SEO and good ranking in Google. Mostly, People in the beginning of blogging career don't have perfect knowledge about SEO and their initial posts are not fully on-page optimized. If the same thing happening with you or you don't have completely SEO optimized your old posts then do it now to get more traffic from those and believe me this organic traffic is thousand times better than referral traffic. You can readout on-page and off-page SEO Tips which is given in the above top list and they will surely help you to rank your old posts.

Final Words

So friends, these were some top 3 best methods for getting more traffic to our old posts. I think this is short post but the given points are really helpful, if you try them correctly then surely there will be increase in your traffic going to the old posts. If you've more ideas then please do share with us and also your views in comments. We're eager to hear and learn from everyone, even it is request to silent readers to commenting below. Take a lot of care till the next post.