Four Effective and Advanced SEO Tips To Generate Traffic, Shares and Links

Nearly 72% of a website traffic is generated from Google only. This is the reason why utmost importance is provided for Search Engine Optimization. This is the age of digitization and almost every business is thriving for online presence. Setting up a website or blog is not enough. It is important for you to grab the attention of audience. The algorithm of these search engines keeps on changing and it indeed is tough to keep up with the trends. In this article, you are going to learn four effective SEO tips that will help in generating traffic, shares and links for your website. 

Write Interesting Blog Posts

Blogs are one of the best ways to attract traffic for your website. The one thing that you have to remember here is that quality is always important than quantity. Rather than stuffing your website with more blog posts that are not on par with quality, you can just write two or three blogs that are attractive and give some value for the reader. Catchy headline will help in just bringing a reader to your website, introduction of the blog post will decide whether the visitor will stay on the website or not. So, write a compelling copy with interesting introduction and ensure that you are sharing something with the visitor here.

• Introduction should be short, write 7-8 sentences.
• Keep sentence length short, there should be 15-20 words in the sentence
• Generate curiosity among the readers
• Call to action button matters

Google uses Rank Brain algorithm so write blog posts that are friendly with this algorithm.

Use Share Triggers in the Post

What are these share triggers? Share triggers are a very important aspect that will help your post get shared. Here are the three factors that you have to look out for getting your post shared.

• Long form content: According to a research, the longer posts are shared more among the people when compared to short ones. Detailed articles will get more attention.
• Make Post Interesting: In order to keep your post interesting, add headings and lists in it.

• Involve Influences: Influence's have a lot of impact on the traffic of a website. Interact with them regularly and approach them with your blog posts. Let them know how you can give knowledge and value through your posts. 

Know Competitors Keywords

No you won’t be approaching your competitor to know about the keywords that they are using and other secrets. There are certain tools that you can use to know the keywords that your competitors are using. You can research and know more about them so that you can use them in your website. One such tool is SimilarWeb.

It gives you an idea about your website traffic and will also inform you from where your website is getting the traffic in first place. Another such tool is SEMRush. This tool will help you in analyze your competitors keywords and understand which keywords are generating them traffic and which aren’t.

You can make use of the online Forums to generate traffic for your website. Just keep answering the questions asked by people in the forums and redirect them to your website for more details.

Optimize Content for Maximum Shares

Design of your content matters more than anything else. You have to optimize your content so that users share it with other people. Here are some of the ways that will help you in optimizing your content

• Including numbers in your headlines will make the blog look more attractive
• URLs should be short and descriptive to attract more number of users. You can use tools available in market to shorten the URLs.
• Almost every blog will have share buttons but no one plays much heed for the placement of this share button. It is important for you to have share button at the top of your blog post rather than at the bottom of blog post. People will hit share button more if it is present at the top.
• Infographics are a smart way to convey things. They get more shares when compared to other posts.
• Keep the sentences in introduction short and simple. If you use long sentences, your visitors may bounce back and it isn’t a risk that you can take here.

• Use images and make sure to give alt tag for those images. You can give the headline of your blog post as alt tag.
• Facebook- 9am, 1pm, 3pm

Instagram- 2pm, 9pm, 2am

Pinterest- 9am, 5pm, 2am

These are the best times to share articles on social media platforms.

Author Bio

AarifHabeeb is an experienced Content Writer and Founder of DMC, a Jaipur Based Digital marketing company that specializes in SEO, PPC, Content Marketing, and Website Design. With over 6 years of experience in the Digital Marketing industry, Aarif is passionate about helping online businesses to increase their branding on the internet. Follow him on Twitter and LinkedIn.