Are you a startup Blogger or do You own a website for your online business but you doesn't have enough traffic? It may seem discouraging because you haven't achieve your goals, and one way to do that is to get booming amount of traffics to your blog. It all depend on your efforts tho.
Today, I will show you ten (10) main reasons why your blog or website is lacking traffics and different things to do in other to remedy the situation.
But note that, Just because
you have a blog site doesn’t mean you’re going to get traffic automatically. There are a lot of things to put in place in other to get there.
In most cases, a business starts a blog in order to serve a higher purpose — brand visibility, marketing, higher conversions, more clients, etc.
But you should know that a
blog does not exist for the sole aim of publishing more content. The web doesn’t need more content. A blog exists for conversions, revenue, information, etc.
And your Traffic simply indicates that your blog may be achieving its real objectives. Gaining traffic is not a good thing unless your blog is also achieving its other purposes. What if you’re getting traffic from all the wrong sources? That traffic is not going to convert, and your blog becomes essentially useless.
Instead of just eagering looking for traffic, you need to be pursuing the right kind of traffic. Why do I use the phrase “the right kind of traffic”? This must entails you that there are the wrong kind of traffic which you should run away from! So now, What is “the right kind of traffic”?
Look for it in point two below in this article.
Now, let’s consider some of the few things that you ignore that makes your blog lack that traffic and visibility it require to grow.
Remember, we are often asking the question, why isn’t my new blog
getting any traffic?
Here are the answers and tips to correct the isuues.
1. You Are Not Sharing it Socially
We’re in the era of the social web maximisation.
The social web refers to the fact that the Internet is a place of social communication and collaboration. Consider this scenario: 63% of all Nigerian adults use a social media platform. When people “go online,” they are likely to do several things — research, comment, share, etc.
Therefore, if your online platform neglect the sharing of content and posts to social media, its no more included in the social web.
Remedies: Promote your content
Writing content is only half of content marketing strategy. The other half is spreading that content online on social medias. Don’t expect
the traffic to come flooding in after you click “publish.” Publish your content, and then promote it.
Some Unavoidable Tips:
#. Add sharing buttons to your blog article.
#. Share content a for your social audience.
#. Share your article on Twitter with images.
#.Share content multiple times on every social site.
#. Keep up with your content as it circulates on social, and be sure
to participate in the conversation.
#. Encourage blog authors, contributors, and team members to use their existing social networks to share the article.
2. You Aren’t Focusing on Any One Keyword or Subject
Most of people dealing with SEO have knowledge of this point. Most people are at least aware of keywords, and title tags, and have at least a minute idea of how it all works together. But in spite of the widespread knowledge, it can be hard to strategically apply it to one’s own blog.
Often, a blog writer starts by assembling an editorial calendar, which is basically a list of blog articles with dates. He/She may select these article titles based on the fact that they are interesting or
perceived to be relevant to the target audience.
Remedies: Research and target long tail keywords
A lot of bloggers misregards this approach described above.
Meanwhile, Content marketing should not start with articles. It should start with research.
Some Unavoidable Tips:
#. Understand your marketing personal.
#. Understand what they are searching for.
#. Understand the intent behind their queries.
#. Understand the keywords that would gain traffic from these queries.
At this point, you can come up with a list of longtail keywords. From the list of keywords, you can develop a list of articles. Using the list of articles, you can create your editorial calendar.
Each article should use the selected longtail keyword in the;
a) page title,
b) article title,
c) one or two times in the
article itself.
Be sure not to stuff the article with the selected keyword.
3. Your Site is Boring
From my observations, I’m convinced that user experience is the basic
among all other marketing techniques, and stands as the supreme methodology for gaining and retaining customers.
Obviously, user experience is an extremely broad subject. It effectively encompasses nearly every other aspect of digital marketing — from conversion optimization to search engine optimization.
Content marketing falls within the broad realm of user experience. When a user goes to visit your blog and read your content, what is he experiencing? Does it satisfy his needs? Is it easy to read and comprehend? Does it match his expectations? Does it answer his
questions? One of the reasons why user experience in content marketing is such an issue is because Google says it is.
According to the document, the Quality Rating Guide, Google rates content based on expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. Human raters review selected content on the blog in order to refine and streamline the algorithmic formulae behind content quality grading.
Low quality content gets downgraded. High quality content gets upgraded.
Only high quality content will get the ranking improvement that will produce higher traffic levels.
Remedies: Improve the quality of Your Blog
The quality of your content matters a lot. I’ll point out few reasons why your posts are low quality and boring.
#. If your contents are all about you. Content marketing should not be exclusively about your business, your products, your awesomeness, and your employees. It should be about subjects that are relevant in the
industry.
#. No relevant images. If your blog doesn’t have some sort of visual engagement like pictures, graphs, charts, or videos, it’s boring. Sorry, I can't help but to term it that way.
#. Not relevant enough. If you are producing articles that aren’t relevant to your target audience, you lose. No one cares about content that doesn’t answer a question, solve a problem, or meet a need. For instance, on the ABTechBlog blog we aren’t going to write any articles about parenting. Would such post get traffic here? Probably, but it doesn’t target our audience. And it would make my blog unfriendly and unproffessional as well.
What happens when you commit these content marketing mistakes?
Your bounce rate rises, your visitors dwell time drops, your clickthrough rate sinks. Google measures these metrics and reduces your site’s rank accordingly. The better your content quality, the better your traffic. We'll discuss more on this as proceed in the following Reason.
4. Your Blog Design is Wack and Horrible
Another user experience issue is blog design. Why does it matter? The way your blog looks, feels, and functions affects how users engage with your blog posts. If the design is awful, then your users will not engage with the blog, but if it's vice-versa trust me nobody hate good things. You will have a lot of engagements and conversions.
Based on my research and analysis, here are the ingredients of a great blog design:
Today, I will show you ten (10) main reasons why your blog or website is lacking traffics and different things to do in other to remedy the situation.
But note that, Just because
you have a blog site doesn’t mean you’re going to get traffic automatically. There are a lot of things to put in place in other to get there.
In most cases, a business starts a blog in order to serve a higher purpose — brand visibility, marketing, higher conversions, more clients, etc.
But you should know that a
blog does not exist for the sole aim of publishing more content. The web doesn’t need more content. A blog exists for conversions, revenue, information, etc.
And your Traffic simply indicates that your blog may be achieving its real objectives. Gaining traffic is not a good thing unless your blog is also achieving its other purposes. What if you’re getting traffic from all the wrong sources? That traffic is not going to convert, and your blog becomes essentially useless.
Instead of just eagering looking for traffic, you need to be pursuing the right kind of traffic. Why do I use the phrase “the right kind of traffic”? This must entails you that there are the wrong kind of traffic which you should run away from! So now, What is “the right kind of traffic”?
Look for it in point two below in this article.
Now, let’s consider some of the few things that you ignore that makes your blog lack that traffic and visibility it require to grow.
Remember, we are often asking the question, why isn’t my new blog
getting any traffic?
Here are the answers and tips to correct the isuues.
1. You Are Not Sharing it Socially
We’re in the era of the social web maximisation.
The social web refers to the fact that the Internet is a place of social communication and collaboration. Consider this scenario: 63% of all Nigerian adults use a social media platform. When people “go online,” they are likely to do several things — research, comment, share, etc.
Therefore, if your online platform neglect the sharing of content and posts to social media, its no more included in the social web.
Remedies: Promote your content
Writing content is only half of content marketing strategy. The other half is spreading that content online on social medias. Don’t expect
the traffic to come flooding in after you click “publish.” Publish your content, and then promote it.
Some Unavoidable Tips:
#. Add sharing buttons to your blog article.
#. Share content a for your social audience.
#. Share your article on Twitter with images.
#.Share content multiple times on every social site.
#. Keep up with your content as it circulates on social, and be sure
to participate in the conversation.
#. Encourage blog authors, contributors, and team members to use their existing social networks to share the article.
2. You Aren’t Focusing on Any One Keyword or Subject
Most of people dealing with SEO have knowledge of this point. Most people are at least aware of keywords, and title tags, and have at least a minute idea of how it all works together. But in spite of the widespread knowledge, it can be hard to strategically apply it to one’s own blog.
Often, a blog writer starts by assembling an editorial calendar, which is basically a list of blog articles with dates. He/She may select these article titles based on the fact that they are interesting or
perceived to be relevant to the target audience.
Remedies: Research and target long tail keywords
A lot of bloggers misregards this approach described above.
Meanwhile, Content marketing should not start with articles. It should start with research.
Some Unavoidable Tips:
#. Understand your marketing personal.
#. Understand what they are searching for.
#. Understand the intent behind their queries.
#. Understand the keywords that would gain traffic from these queries.
At this point, you can come up with a list of longtail keywords. From the list of keywords, you can develop a list of articles. Using the list of articles, you can create your editorial calendar.
Each article should use the selected longtail keyword in the;
a) page title,
b) article title,
c) one or two times in the
article itself.
Be sure not to stuff the article with the selected keyword.
3. Your Site is Boring
From my observations, I’m convinced that user experience is the basic
among all other marketing techniques, and stands as the supreme methodology for gaining and retaining customers.
Obviously, user experience is an extremely broad subject. It effectively encompasses nearly every other aspect of digital marketing — from conversion optimization to search engine optimization.
Content marketing falls within the broad realm of user experience. When a user goes to visit your blog and read your content, what is he experiencing? Does it satisfy his needs? Is it easy to read and comprehend? Does it match his expectations? Does it answer his
questions? One of the reasons why user experience in content marketing is such an issue is because Google says it is.
According to the document, the Quality Rating Guide, Google rates content based on expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness. Human raters review selected content on the blog in order to refine and streamline the algorithmic formulae behind content quality grading.
Low quality content gets downgraded. High quality content gets upgraded.
Only high quality content will get the ranking improvement that will produce higher traffic levels.
Remedies: Improve the quality of Your Blog
The quality of your content matters a lot. I’ll point out few reasons why your posts are low quality and boring.
#. If your contents are all about you. Content marketing should not be exclusively about your business, your products, your awesomeness, and your employees. It should be about subjects that are relevant in the
industry.
#. No relevant images. If your blog doesn’t have some sort of visual engagement like pictures, graphs, charts, or videos, it’s boring. Sorry, I can't help but to term it that way.
#. Not relevant enough. If you are producing articles that aren’t relevant to your target audience, you lose. No one cares about content that doesn’t answer a question, solve a problem, or meet a need. For instance, on the ABTechBlog blog we aren’t going to write any articles about parenting. Would such post get traffic here? Probably, but it doesn’t target our audience. And it would make my blog unfriendly and unproffessional as well.
What happens when you commit these content marketing mistakes?
Your bounce rate rises, your visitors dwell time drops, your clickthrough rate sinks. Google measures these metrics and reduces your site’s rank accordingly. The better your content quality, the better your traffic. We'll discuss more on this as proceed in the following Reason.
4. Your Blog Design is Wack and Horrible
Another user experience issue is blog design. Why does it matter? The way your blog looks, feels, and functions affects how users engage with your blog posts. If the design is awful, then your users will not engage with the blog, but if it's vice-versa trust me nobody hate good things. You will have a lot of engagements and conversions.
#.Your website should be responsive. If your website is not mobile optimized, it won’t be featured in mobile search results.
#. Feature blog snippets on your main blog page. Snippets are brief excerpts of a main article that people can skim through at a glance.
#. Make your main content prominent. Place it on the left side, where users are most likely to look first.
#. Use scrolling social buttons to encourage social sharing at any point in the article.
#. Use an 12px font or larger for the body text.
#. Use a 17-25px headline font.
#.Use a sans serif font.
#. Use a light colored background with dark colored text.
#. Use headers and short paragraphs to break up the content..
#. Use plenty of images.
#. Use headers, bullet points, short paragraphs, and easy vocabulary.
#. Include the name and possibly a brief bio of the author.
#. Provide a CTA for users to subscribe to the blog.
Improving your blog’s design can dramatically improve your blog’s quality, readability, and traffic.
5. You’re publishing too much content.
You didn’t know that was possible, did you? But it is. In fact, it’s likely the most common reason why folks don’t get more traffic.
In the earlier days of blogging, the rule used to be, “Publish as much as possible, as fast as possible.” Content were thinly scattered, you could finish writing out a 300-word article in six to ten minutes and still get traffic, not because the article was good enough, but because it was the only article on the subject on the web as at then.
But today, the game as change, the web is bursting at the seams with content on every imaginable topic. The posts you publish are competing with dozens or even thousands of posts on the same subject as yours on the Internet.
As a result, quantity no longer wins. Quality does.
When you publish a post, it needs to be better than anything ever published on that topic. Anywhere on the web. And that takes time.
Here at ABtech Blog, we usually spend at least 3 days on each and every post. I can remember at some point, I could only finish 6 posts in 3 months. Due to the topics. The entire year, I couldn't published any posts, so as to step up the game. but each and every one of my modern posts are very fantastic.
But on realistic, my traffic drop because I calm down to plan for something bigger, but that couldn't be compared to the traffic am getting now
In other words, yes, publishing more is helpful, but only if the posts you publish continue to be the best to your Audience.
Oh, and you also have to promote the hell out of the suckers.
6. You’re Writing for a Small niche Audience.
Let me gaze. When choosing your blog topic, you probably tried to find something nobody else was writing about, right? A small niche you could dominate and call your own? If so, you need to summon your self.
Though it's always good to be original and craft your own kind of niche and write things that's new. It's true that post that people write a lot about are post that are highly sorted after for in the net, so try to rank for such topics. Instead going for the once withlittle or no Audience.
7. You’re trying to find fresh post topics.
Here we go again.
Have you been trying to find topics for your blog posts that no one else has written about?
8. You aren't doing well: It’s the same as the last point about choosing your blog topic. Everyone writes about the same stuff for a reason: that’s what people want to read! I’m not saying you have to be a copycat. You can choose a different angle, go deeper into a subtopic, or even just apply your unique personality.
But don’t try to be original. It just makes you irrelevant.
9. You’re scared to ask for links.
Let me ask you some questions:
#. Is your content genuinely helpful to your readers?
#. Will it entertain them?
#. Is it better than any other post ever published on the topic?
If you can answer yes to all of the above questions, you have absolutely no reason to be scared to ask for links. Influencers will be delighted to hear from you. So, stop being such a damn coward and send that email. Here’s a quick format:
Subject: Post you promised to link to
Hi
Actually, you didn’t promise to link to it. You don’t even know me. But let’s assume for a moment you promised to share it for me because:
1. It’s a perfect fit for your audience. They’ll love it.
2. It’s the best post ever written on the topic (check if you don’t believe me)
3. It’ll only take you 10 seconds to scan the post and click the share button
Here’s the link:
LINK
Best, your name
PS: If you find that any of the above are untrue, I’ll donate $1,500 to a charity of your choice as a way of apologizing. I swear.
Once you have a post worthy of sending an email like that, simply fill out the template and send it. I think you’ll like the response.
10. You’re not building an email list: This is another area a lot of bloggers (especially newbies) neglect a lot. But do you know the easiest way to get traffic?
Here it is. Email list building. Create an email list landing page and also have a Subscription Box in your side bar or Footer and see the difference. Also encourage your visitors to subscribe to your updates.
Conclusion:
If you want your blog to continue growing, and you may need to make some improvements to keep it moving. The reasons your blog may not be getting any traffic are pretty simple. Thankfully, the remedies are relatively simple, too.
Keep in mind that traffic may not flow in the way you expect, but with time and persistence you will see an influx flow of it. So, If traffic doesn’t spike overnight, don’t be dismayed. Be patient. Give it a few months, things will improve.
What’s your experience with blog traffic, and the reasons for growth or decline?
Happy New Year 2022
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