5 Alternative Strategies to boost your blog’s traffic during a slowdown

First off, its quite natural to have a slow down in traffic. We bloggers watch the traffic like hawks I know, but isn’t it very unrealistic to have your traffic always go uphill ? The real growth is always reflected by a wave in your traffic graph. And waves always have ups and downs, which is why they are called a wave in the first place.

So, apart from panicking, what are the other things that you can do to overcome the slowdown ?

1. Use the social media to get some immediate attention to one/couple of your popular posts.

The social media is a great tool to give you not only traffic, but motivation during a slow down. Get an active social media user friend of yours (or yourself) to tweet/share a few stories from your blog that are popular. There’s nothing wrong in trying to get some extra traffic to your archives using the social media. Make sure your friend don’t spam but do it wisely.

2. Re-Work on the titles of your previous posts, that fail to get traffic

Sometimes, even if you write great articles, the use if incorrect titles will hinder the post from getting popular on the search engines for the keywords they are supposed to rank for. Check for such posts and rework on their titles, making them SEO friendly ones. Believe me they work.

3. Write a couple of articles for the week ahead that are social media friendly

Clearly, you need a traffic booster at this point of time and what’s better than the social media ? Study the popular articles by other blogs from your niche and try to do something as close to as what they’re doing, if you fail to get original ideas. Social Media friendly content is sure shot success and it can definitely give you some attention if not huge.

4. Find out the posts that have “dead traffic” and re-work on the content

There would be a lot of posts in your archives that you thought were super hits but aren’t. Dig them up, find what’s wrong and try to calibrate them online with the SEO tools you have. They may have gone down in the SERPs because of newer competition. Find it out and re-work on the content to beat your competition. These posts should get some “movement” after the edits. Something is better than nothing !

5. Increase your posting frequency with more quality articles over the weekend

Finally, do a study on your posting frequency, see if there were fluctuations recently. Mostly, traffic slowdown can be attributed to lack of new content. So plan ahead to increase your posting frequency, and get ready with some new posts in your drafts. If you have been writing lengthy articles, try writing shorter articles but more in number.Publish them over the weekend.

So there you go. Five super simple alternative strategies to create that buzz and get going during a traffic slowdown. Hope it helped.

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