GET MASSIVE TRAFFIC|WRITING BLOG POST

GET MASSIVE TRAFFIC|WRITING BLOG POST

INTRODUCTION:

In this article I’m go to show you how to get massive traffic from writing blog post that get hundred of comments, thousand of social share, and first page Google rankings. In fact, I use the exact process in this article.

To grow my blog to a article 426,496 visitors per month. The place where marketers turn for higher rankings and more traffic. Keep reading this article. Let’s face it, getting traffic to your blog is harder than ever.

In fact I’ve recently teamed up with BUZZSUMO to analyze 912 million blog posts. And we found that the vast majority of blog posts that are published, get zero links or social share.

When I launched my first blog way back in 2009, things worked completely different. Back then, getting links and social shares was relatively easy. You could publish a 500 words blog post and call it a day.

Flash forward to today and things are completely different. According to WORDPRESS 2.3 million blog post come out on their platform everyday. So for your content to stand out and get shared today. It needs to be amazing.

Lucky for you, that’s exactly what I’m gone to show you to do in this article step-by-step.

Let’s dive right in:

1. FIND A PROVEN BLOG POST TOPIC.

2. WRITE YOUR HEADLINE.

3. WRITE AN ATTENTION GRABBING INTRODUCTION.

4. WRITE AN AWESOME POST.

5. WRITE YOUR CONCLUSION.

6. OPTIMIZE YOUR POST FOR SEO.

7. CONCLUSION

1. FIND A PROVEN BLOG POST TOPIC:

It’s no secret that your blog post topic is huge. Here’s exactly how to find blog post topics that actually work. First head over to UDEMY. UDEMY is a blog post topics goldmine, here’s why. UDEMY doesn’t just show you content that people are interested in,

Instead you see content that people paying for. You can search for courses by category or by keyword. Either way, you’ll find content that people are actually paying to access.

For example let’s say you run a blog about graphic design. Well head over to the design category in UDEMY, and scroll down to their best-selling courses and within five seconds you have a lot of proven topics very cool.

The next place to look for proven topics ideas is AMAZON. To use it, just search on AMAZON with the keyword that describes what you’re blog is all about.

Then look for a book on that topic with lots of ratings, this show you that people actually bought the book. Finally click look inside to see the table of content and just like with UDEMY, you get a list of topics.

Presented to you on a silver platter. Last up we have conference agenda’s. First head over to a conference website in your niche.

Go to the agenda’s or schedule page, and you’ll see topics that people are paying to learn more about. Which leads us to step number two.

2.WRITE YOUR HEADLINE:

Now that you have a proven topics. It’s time to write your blog post headline. You might have seen the stat before that 80% of people read your headline but only 20% click over to the actual post.

Is that stat true? Who knows but I do know that your headline is super important. With that here’s exactly how to write blog post headline that stand out and get clicks. First start your headline off with proven phrases.

BUZZSUMO recently analyzed about 100 million headlines. So what did they find? That headline that start with these 20 words and phrases get the most share on social media.

For example, when I published this post on my blog, I made sure to start my headline off with one of those phrases. Obviously you don’t need to start every single headline off with one of those phrases but when it makes sense try and use them.

Second make sure that your title uses brackets or parentheses. A study by out brain found that adding brackets to headline can improve click through rate by up to 38%. And this study confirms what I’ve seen in the real world.

In fact six of my top ten all time, most popular blog post have brackets or parentheses in the title. Finally you want use long headings.

That study of 900 million blog posts I mentioned earlier, found that post with long headlines got 76% more share compared to posts that used short headlines. With that it’s time for next step three.

3.WRITE AN ATTENTION GRAPPING INTRODUCTION:

Topic, check. Heading check. Now it’s time to write an introduction that grabs your readers attention right off the bat, how? the PPT formula. This formula is killing it for me right now. By the way PPT stands for preview, proof, transition. Here’s a breakdown of the formula. Now I’m gone break down each part of this formula and show you how it works with real life example.

PREVIEW:

First up you have the preview. This part of couldn’t be any more simple. Just let your reader know exactly what to expect. That way when some one lands on one of your blog post, they know that they’re in the right place. Here’s and example.

PROOF:

Next it’s time for proof. Here’s where you show people that you know what you’re talking about. Well you’re got bigger problems then blog post introductions but that’s another story.

Now you can show proof with personal results years of experience number of clients credentials or certifications or any things that shows that someone should listen to advice here’s an example.

TRANSITION:

Cap your intro with a transition. A transition that pushes your reader to keep reading. For example you can see that of used the phrase “let’s dive right in” at the end of this intro simple. Moving to the fourth step.

4.WRITE AN AWESOME POST:

Is there a formula for writing blog post that people will links to and share? No if there was everyone would use it. That said there are proven strategies that you can use to make your content ten times better.

For example one technique that’s working really well for me right now is using lots of section sub header. Sub headers are great because they break up your content into easy to read chunks, which is super important.

If you publish a lot long- form content like I do.

For example this post for my blog is super long. In fact that post is 4,400 words, so I broke up the content into little chunks using dozen of sub headers. I also recommend using lots of visuals in every post that you publish.

VISUALS:

Now I am talking about visuals and talking about things like screenshots, charts, pictures, info graphics, basically don’t afraid to use a ton of different visuals and just lots of visuals in general in every post.

For example this post for my blog has 95 visuals.

FONT:

Next we use a font that’s between 16 and 20 pixels. If you’ve ever read anything at medium.com. you’ve probably notice that their article are super easy to read. How do they do it? Well beside a clean lay out they use 21 point font.

And if you’re using less then 16 , you probably missing out on a lots of reader. That’s why be use 18 point font. Finally when it makes sense publish content that’s at least three thousand words.

Our BUZZSUMO industry study, found a clear correlation between long-form content and social share. In fact our data showed that long-form content got an average of 77 percent more social share, compared to traditional short blog posts.

Obviously this doesn’t means that you need to pad. Your blog posts with a bunch of fluff or filler. but if does make sense to publish a long-form content blog post or guide go for it. So now that your post is in the book. It’s time for the next step, step number five.

5.WRITE YOUR CONCLUSION:

Here’s a deal. Most use throw away conclusions like this. “I HOPE YOU LIKE MY POST!” But professional blogger know that your conclusion is super important.

Especially if you want get lots of comments on your blog. Well I’ve recently developed a three step process for writing awesome conclusion.

It’s called the TAC process. TAC stands for Transition, Ask, and CTA.

TRANSITION:

First start your conclusion off with a transition. This sentence let’s people know that the meat of your blog post is over and it’s time to sum things up. Next it’s time for the ask.

ASK:

Here’s where you ask your reader a very specific question. In other words, you don’t want to ask some things vague like “what do you think”?. Instead, give your reader on insanely simple question that’s easier to answer.

That’s I asked people some things that will take like two seconds to answer. And you want end your conclusion with a CTA.

CTA:

Your CTA can be whatever you want your reader to do next. You can ask your reader to leave the comment, share on social media, subscribe your YOUTUBE channel.

The exact call to action that you use in totally up to you. But the important thing to keep in mind here is you that you get some to read your blog post all the way to the end.

Which means they really enjoyed you’re your content and they’re ready for the next step. And as long as you give them that next step in your conclusion. You’re good. We do a conclusion in the book, let’s head over to the next step number six.

6.OPTIMIZE YOUR POST FOR SEO:

Obviously there’s a lot more to SEO then I can cover in an article. In fact I have an entire blog and YOUTUBE channel about SEO. That said SEO is super important for your blog posts long-term success. So I do want a quickly cover three simple technique.

That’s you can use to optimized you blog post for SEO. Because the truth is traffic to most people blog post look like this a huge spike on day one, then it flattens out to pretty much zero.

But when you optimized your blog post the right way you still get that spike but you post still brings in consistent traffic month after month.

For example I first publish this post over one year ago. Now I’ve update it a few times since then. But it’s basically the same post. And because that post if optimized for SEO, it still brings in over 12,000 visitors per month from Google.

ON PAGE SEO:

So the first on page SEO technique is to include your target keyword in your introduction. Google and other search engines more weight on words and phrases that show up at the top of your page.

So you want makes sure to use your keyword once in your blog post intro like this.

SHORT URL’S:

Next use short URL’S. when it’s comes to Google rankings there’s no doubt about it. Short URL’S work best. In fact Google themselves actually recommend that use short descriptive URL’S.

Make it easy for Google to understand the topic of your page. Plus people use your URL’s to figure out which result they should click on it . which is why lots of industry studies have found that short URL’s get clicked on more than long URL’s.

ADD INTERNAL LINKS:

Finally add internal links to your post. Now internal linking doesn’t have to be complicated. In fact when it comes to internal links, I like to keep things simple. Whenever I publish a post I add two to five internal links to some of my older posts.

Now you could also go back to older posts and link to the new post that you just published. For example when I published a post on any topic. I linked that to related content on my site that I already published.

And added a handful of internal link from older post to my new guide.