“How much is your page views?” – Is the first question usually asked by advertisers, before putting their money on a blog.
For professional bloggers or full time bloggers, page views play an important role to attract advertisers and helps to achieve the financial goal.
Page view is also important for bloggers who use Google AdSense or other services like this. Let’s know the benefits of increased page views of your blog –
- More revenue from advertisers and AdSense program.
- Higher conversion rate, or selling of products / affiliate marketing.
- Increased trust factor of search engines due to more time spent on the domain or site.
- Increased trust factor of search engines leads to higher ranking of content in search results.
- Increased page views leads to improved or lower Alexa Rank.
Without much ado, let me tell you – 5 Tips to Increase Page Views of Your Blog or Website.
1. Great content
In present day scenario, the meaning of great content is much beyond than a great piece of copywriting, or an unique piece of article which provides solution to a critical issue, or even a breaking news.
Visual satisfaction makes a web-reader to consume more content and pages. To make your blog post visually appealing, you have to use better graphics, user friendly layouts and soothing colors.
The layouts of your posts, pages and the whole blog should be user friendly. Use of relevant graphics at appropriate places, with an user friendly navigation of the blog makes your readers to spend more time on your site. And more time spent means more page views.
2. Interlinking of posts
Interlink relevant and old posts on your article to provide in-depth knowledge to your blog readers.
People usually like to refer old and relevant posts to know more and gather more information. Interlinking of posts not only increases page views of your blog, but also helps your overall SEO efforts. The hyper-links on your blog post send a signal to search engines about the anchor texts and the subject matter for higher ranking.
3. Displaying related posts
Offering related posts at the end of the article is a great way to increase page views.
It’s a natural human tendency to do something or click on the next link, after reading the article completely or completing the act of reading. You can take the help of a great WordPress Plugin called WordPress Related Posts to achieve this task. This is one of the best and easy way to increase page views of your site.
4. Displaying featured posts
Use your side-bar cleverly by displaying more posts for your visitors.
By displaying more featured posts, you are offering more option to your blog visitors to consume more or read more. A thumbnail image along with a teaser line / article heading works great.
5. Displaying excerpts on the home page
More number of posts on your home page means more number of option for your readers, and more page views.
But you can’t display 10 or 20 complete posts on your home page. It not only makes the loading time prolong, but also needs more scrolling by the readers.
The best solution is – Show only the excerpts in the form of initial 4 to 5 lines of the article. In this way, you can comfortably display 8 to 10 articles on your home page.
Do you have any tips in your mind to increase page views of a blog? Add in the comments below to make the list perfect.
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