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10 Tips to Reduce Blog Load Time Fast [Detailed Guide]

By Ashutosh Jha → Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Since the time search engines have started giving much importance to the blog load time, it has really become to reduce blog time.

According to a recent Akamai research, the loss of the number of visitors to a site follows the radioactive first order decay from 4.001 seconds to 30 seconds. Immediately after four seconds there is a loss of one-third of the visitors who abandon the site.

So, you can understand the importance of blog load time which does not only affect the SERP but also affect your business. So now it’s you who will have to decide whether to reduce blog time or not. I am sure you will definitely want to reduce blog time.

If you are on Blogger then you have bit less option to reduce blog load time but definitely you have great options to reduce blog load time fast if you are with WordPress. In recent days, mine blog’s blog load time is also bit more but I am working very hard and I am sure very soon I’ll get rid of it.

Here is an interesting research done by moz on how blog load time affects the search engine ranking. The ideal load time for any website should be less than 3 sec. As per Google,

A search result for a resource having a short load time relative to resources having longer load times can be promoted in a presentation order, and search results for the resources having longer load times can be demoted.

So here in this article I am going to take you through the complete stuff about blog load time like how to reduce blog load time fast, how to check blog load time and how to test the web page load time. So let’s start with how to reduce blog load time fast.

How to Reduce Blog Load Time Fast

Here are some of the best tips using which you can reduce blog/website load time quickly. Hope after implementing these tips you would be able to reduce blog load time quickly. Definitely these tips are for all the users no matter on which platform you are like Blogger, WordPress or it is coded HTML. You can apply majority of the tricks and can reduce website or blog load time.

1. Remove Unused Plugins

This is really a great stuff to decrease blog page load time. Usually we have regular practice to install and active too many plugins in our WordPress dashboard. Yesterday, I was checking one of my WordPress site and found around 40 plugins installed and when I checked how many I am actually using then it was just 17 so I removed the remaining. Definitely it will help me to reduce blog load time by at least a second or couple.

Similarly you can do it as well. There is no hard and fast rule to keep a fixed number of WordPress plugins but keep only those which you are actually using.

This is still a matter of discussion that how many plugins you should actually use in WordPress but definitely go for those which you use. Also, if you are not sure about that you can keep those inactive. So for better practice, you should follow the below 2 options.

a. Disable Temporary unwanted plugins

Suppose you have installed a plugin which you need right now and may be in future but you are not using frequently then it is good to disable that plugin once the work is over.

For example, you have installed a plugin to hide backlink and after sometime you don’t want to hide those so you can disable it till the further use. By this practice you can definitely reduce blog loading time.

b. Remove Unwanted Plugin

You should definitely remove those plugins which you are not using and not have any plans in near future as well to use.

Ok…honestly tell me how many of you are really using the Dolly plugin that comes by default with WordPress?

I am sure many of us DON’T. And now how many of us keep it as it is? I am sure many of us. But why? 
Remove such plugins so that your blog loading time can be increased.

2. Use a Fast Loading Theme/Template

Theme plays a major role while reducing the blog load time. You should use the fast loading themes for your blog. You can check my detailed article, how to choose effective template for your blog.

If you are a WordPress user, definitely go for My Theme Shop themes as they have really amazing collections of highly optimized themes. Their themes doesn’t have unnecessary codes or files which increase the blog load time. So definitely go with My Theme Shop WordPress themes.

It is the themes and templates which decides how much your website will convert apart from the blog load time. As said, first impression is the last impression and so theme should make an impact on the visitors.

Many times we find that people use some theme which is good for adsense but not looks cool. You should avoid such scenarios as there are multiple adsense optimized wordpress themes which you can use for both design and adsense earning.

3. Use a Good Hosting

This point is applicable to WordPress and other custom website users. Apart from the plugins and themes, it is the hosting which, majorly affect the website load time. In order to reduce blog load time, you should definitely use a high quality website hosting.

We recommend BlueHost for better speed and up-time. BlueHost really provides amazing services in terms of website loading time, customization, security and many other stuff which can reduce website loading time.

For our users, you can get a free domain with 50% off on BlueHost Hosting. So invest some amount while selecting the hosting and don’t go by considering only money as they harm your site. Here are the average loading time for some of the major hosting companies-

You can also try Siteground hosting. Check Sitegound coupon code discount.

4. Use Optimized Codes

This point must be taken care by custom coded sites with the WordPress and Blogger users. You should have optimized codes if you are making any changes to the themes in WordPress or Blogger and of course in custom HTML design.

Also, try to avoid the inline CSS codes for styling. Instead make a separate style sheet in your file manager (in case you are a WordPress user) or in Google drive or any shared drive (in case you are a Blogger user). This affect a lot when it comes to reduce the blog load time.

As we all know there are three kinds of CSS used-

• Inline CSS
• Internal CSS
• External CSS

All of these are having their own advantages and disadvantages. You can check more details about those here. But for SEO point of view, try to avoid much of inline codes.

The HTML users should use minimal codes that can fulfil your need. Also, you can take help of any external tool to compress your written code. You can take help of Textfixer for such help. I was using this tool when I used to be a web developer :)

Also, there is a plugin called autooptimize in wordpress which helps you to optimize your CSS codes. This is a free plugins and is a great help to keep your codes compressed.

5. Used Optimized and SEO Friendly Images

Here from the word optimized mean, you should use an image which is search engine friendly. Many times we uses may find royalty free images in Google or may be using the free/premium images from stock images sites or the custom images but if we are not compressing or optimizing those images, those are not going to benefit what it was supposed to be.

No doubt images increase the visuals of the web page but should be optimized properly. If you are a WordPress user, you should follow the below three tools before using the updated images in your blog post in order to reduce blog load time.

• Use SmushIt wordpress plugin to decrease the size of the images without losing the quality of the image.

• For PNG images, use TinyPNG to compress without affecting the quality.

• Want to be smarter? Why not? Yes, you can load the images only when users are reaching out to that place else not. You can achieve this using LazyLoad wordpress plugin.

WordPress Plugins

A Complete Guide on Blog Post Interlinking

By Ashutosh Jha → Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Many of us just run behind making backlinks here and there and usually don’t much focus on interlinking blog posts. There may be plenty of reason behind this like you don’t know why you should interlink blog post or why you should do internal linking and what are the benefits of blog post interlinking.

So if you are among the above or want to know how to interlink blog posts, then this article is for you. Here I am going to share each and everything of Blog Post Interlinking.

Let me quickly summarize, what all I am going to cover in this post-

1. What is blog post interlinking?
2. Benefits of Blog Posts Interlinking- Why you should interlink blog posts?
3. How to interlink blog posts in Blogger and WordPress

That means I am going to cover each and everything about Blog Post Interlinking. But before that let me ask a simple question-

How To

List of Dofollow Forums to get High Quality Backlinks and Traffic

By Ashutosh Jha → Sunday, December 1, 2019

A single high-quality Dofollow backlink is better than 100 nofollow backlinks. So you can estimate the importance of Dofollow backlinks in the success of any blog or website.

The blogs or websites or forums which provide dofollow backlinks uses dofollow attributes which boost the traffic as well as a ranking of the blog. If you have got links from few high PR dofollow forums, you’ll get decent traffic, as well as your page rank, will increase. Indirectly you can say dofollow backlinks plays a significant role in the success of any blog.

Today we’ll be talking about, how we can increase the dofollow backlinks using online forums. Remember you should not use the unethical way like auto link building or link buying method to increase backlinks. Because nowadays, Google or any other search engines are so intelligent that it’ll identify your blog and can ban you. So be cautious while building backlinks.

Also Read: How to increase links by commenting on CommentLuv enabled site

To increase dofollow backlinks, first, you’ve to visit these forums and register yourself and then need to participate in the discussion because most of these forums allow links in your signature. So the more you'll take part in these forums, the more links you’ll get. By doing this, not only you’ll increase the links, but you’ll also get decent traffic as well as you can establish your blog as a brand too.

Also Read: Top 3 Most powerful ways to promote your blog for free

Now the Question is how to get these dofollow links?

It’s simple. Don’t worry all forums are free and you don’t have to pay a single penny for it. What you’ve to do is, visit these sites and register yourself. Then complete your profile because many forums allow your website details in the profile section too. So just by completing your profile, you’re going to get one links.

Now go to the Introduce Yourself section and let the other members know about yourself and about your blog. This is the best way to start in a forum. Later move to the other section of the forum and check the threads and the question which you feel comfortable, answer that. And if on your blog, if you have any article related to that question, share your link.

By this way, you’re going to make decent traffic as well as quality backlinks too. But starting this method to increase backlinks and traffic, I would suggest you to first read forum policies and the below points carefully-

• Don’t ever try to spam any forums. They’ll simply block your profile.
• Don’t try to put unnecessary links in the post section on any thread.
• Focus on QUALITY, not on QUANTITY
• Reply to the threads indecent manner and try to solve the problem.
• Try to make an image for you and your blog
• Use signature in each and every post

Using these ways you’ll never get blocked from any of the online forums, and you’ll manage to get maximum benefit from those.

List of Top 20 High PR Dofollow Forums

1. SiteOwner Forum
2. Search Engine Watch
3. CNET Forum
4. V7N Forum
5. MySql Forum
6. 5 Start Affiliate Program
7. Sitepoint
8. HTML Forum
9. PHP Forum
10. File Sharing Forum
11. Web Hosting Talk
12. Joomla Forum
13. MyGame Builder Forum
14. Microsoft Answers
15. Videolan Forum
16. Chronicle Forum
17. Flicker Forum
18. Geek Village Forum
19. Book Forum
20. Cpanel Forum

Also Read: 5 Killer tips to generate traffic without SEO and Social Media

So, friends, these are the 20 best high PR Dofollow forums. Frankly speaking, it’s not possible for anyone to be active on all the forums. At most, you can be on 4-5.

Even I’m active on the only couple of forums. So it doesn’t matter how many forums you are on, be active and try to participate in the maximum discussion. By this way, most of the members of those forums will know you. Isn’t this is what you want? Yes by this way, if you do these regularly you will manage to get maximum promotion and extra traffic to your blog.

Once people have confidence on you, on your words definitely they will rush to your blog.

Final Words

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Forums are one among the top ways to get a maximum promotion. I already talked about how we can promote our website or blog using online forums. It’s time to get benefit regarding traffic, backlinks, page rank and SERP. So I hope you’ll join some of these forums and you will start participating in discussions. If you’re not doing this, believe me, this is the best method to get an identity in the blogosphere.

Also, you should remember these forums frequently changes their policy and guidelines. So keep checking these. Hope you enjoyed reading this. So why don’t you share this with your friends? Maybe one of them needs this type of articles. If you know any other high PR forum which provides dofollow links, do let me know in comments. I’ll definitely include that in our list. Thanks for reading. Keep visiting!!

Social Media

A Complete Guide on How to Use Reddit to Drive Massive Traffic

By Ashutosh Jha →

Like Pinterest, Tumblr and Stumble Upon, Reddit is also a social bookmarking site but may be not a perfect fit for all type of marketers. But still Reddit has lots of capacity to become number #1 referral traffic source for your site.

Reddit can drive instant and huge referral traffic to your website and also it is very simple to use. Today I will take you to all the insights of Reddit and will let you know how to use Reddit to drive massive traffic to your blog.

What is Reddit and how Reddit it works

Reddit is one of the top bookmarking sites and if you are on the front page of Reddit for just few minutes, you can expect millions of traffic instantly to your blog.

Reddit calls itself the “Front page of Internet”. It was founded on 23rd June 2005 and yesterday Reddit celebrated their 10th Anniversary.

Here you can submit your links and contents in one of the particular category which matches your content called SubReddit and other Reddit users will interact with your content by voting, commenting and sharing. This is how Reddit works. Below is what Reddit was after it went live way back in 2005 by its founders Steve and Alexis.

Why you should Use Reddit?

As per me the main use of Reddit is to drive huge traffic to your website. Reddit drives more than 150000k unique visitors each month and so you can estimate the potential of this bookmarking site.

So it’s the stats of Reddit. The main question is how much it can send to your website? Well it completely depends on your link or content. How much famous your link is.

The success of your link mainly depends upon the popularity of the content you’ve shared. Whenever you share any content on Reddit under any allowed subreddit, other Reddit users can either up-vote your content or down-vote. The number of up-votes you content will get the more is the chance to get visibility and hence traffic.

Warning: Unlike Pinterest and Stumble upon taking wrong decision on Reddit can harm you a lot. On Pinterest and Stumble upon, if someone doesn’t like your content shared by you, they simply can ignore that and what you will lose is the money and time but the same does not only apply to Reddit.

On Reddit, if you will do wrong thing, your name and status will also get destroyed. Because on Reddit if somebody will not like your content then they have an option to down-vote you and in addition to losing money, time you’ll also laughed and your status will be ruined out which is a huge loss for marketer.

As per Neil Patel, if your subreddit has received 54 up-votes then you can expect traffic of around 61k. Which is huge, isn’t it?

The most interesting thing about Reddit is, it doesn’t work on the influence like some sites do. No matter who you are, if you’ve good votes on the subreddit you have shared, you can reach to the front page.

How to Submit on Reddit

Submitting your content on Reddit is too easy. Just create an account on Reddit. Once signed up, login to your account. Here at the right top you will find options to submit link/posts etc.

If you want to submit just link of any of your blog post or website, click on “Submit New Link” and it will open a new page for you where you have to fill the required details.

Here in this form you’ve to submit the details. At the top of the above form you can see, two tabs. One is for Link and another for text. So depending on what you want to submit, select appropriately.

Now let me take you to each field in details.

Title:

This is the most important part of Reddit submission as Reddit users decide whether to click on your link or not by seeing the title. So if you’ve an eye catchy and interesting title, you’ll rock else no matter what your content is no body is going to click on it.

Write an interesting title which can force the Reddit users to click on your link and you can get lots of traffic. You must double check your title and see if this is fine or not. At the end of post, I will show you few most popular subreddit on Reddit and then you can get an idea which type of subreddit gets famous on Reddit.

URL:

As simple the link of your content you want to share. But never ever use link shortener tool to short the link length to submit on Reddit. These are real people and avoid any type of spam. So no matter what your original url is, you must provide the real one.

SubReddit:

Another most important part. There are only limited subreddit available on the Reddit and this is the reason, Reddit doesn’t work great for everyone. Also, at the time of submitting the link, you’ll only see those subreddit available which you have subscribed.

Also Check: How to Promote your old blog posts

So out of available subreddit, you should select the one which suits your content very wisely. Below are the top 10 subreddit. These subreddits have maximum number of subscribers. So there is more chance to get traffic.

What you should submit on Reddit

As I mentioned earlier in this post, Reddit won’t work well for all the niches. As from the above figure, those are the top 10 subreddit available on the Reddit depending on the subscriber. And the more number of subscribers, the more number of engagements you’ll find on those subreddit category. Here are the few categories which get maximum visibility and if you’ll submit these types of post on Reddit, you will get good traffic.

1. Infographic- A good subreddit for an infographic might be /r/TIL.

2. Drawings- /r/comics can best suit of drawings

3. Questions- /r/askreddit is best for this category

4. Videos- Videos can be posted under /r/videos

5. Interviews- Interviews can be listed under subreddits like /r/IAMA

6. Pictures- Can be posted under /r/pics

When you should submit on Reddit

Like other social media and social bookmarking sites, posting on Reddit on some particular time can give you maximum benefits.

Also Read: 3 Powerful & Unconventional Link Building Techniques

If you’ll analyze the posts on the front page of Reddit you will find that most of those posts have been submitted in some particular time interval. Randle Olson analyzed the timing of Reddit posts and he has depicted that in the below chart.

Also while searching for the best timing, I found one site which analyzes the post based on number of votes and subreddit. You must check this site. It is Redditlater. I searched with 100 votes for /r/IAMA subreddit and found this result.

Don’t be Selfish

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Yes like other social site, Reddit also works great on reciprocal nature. If you’ll vote others, others will vote you. So to get maximum benefits from Reddit, you should definitely do the following-

• Up-vote other’s submission

• Comment on Other’s share

• Save other’s link as favorite etc.

And in return they will also do the same with you and by this way, traffic will increase.

What about Reddit Advertisement?

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Have you tried any social media or social bookmarking site’s advertisement? If yes, what was your experience? DO let me know in comment.

As per the top internet marketer, Reddit advertisements are very much beneficial. You can buy two types of ad here-

• Either you can buy ad which will show for all subreddits. This is the general kind of ads.

• You can go for targeted ads like targeted location and subreddits.

Once you will go for advertisement, your links will be shown at the top of the page and you will get lot of traffic and visibility.

What you should not do with Reddit

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There are few things that you should avoid with Reddit else your account may get blocked also. Below I am listing some of the checkpoints which you should remember.

• Don’t post same links again and again.

• Don’t use auto poster for Reddit like you do for Facebook or other social media.

• Avoid posting very old links.

• Don’t use Reddit for link building.

• Submit your link only in relevant subreddit.

Bonus Tips for Great Success

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As you are aware now that Reddit is great for driving instant and huge traffic. To drive more traffic I am following some extra steps which took Reddit traffic as the top 5 traffic source for TricksRoad. Below is exactly what I follow.

• Write eye catchy titles. This is most important.

• Up-vote, save as favorite and comment on other’s submission and in return they will do the same to you.

• Avoid doing down-vote for any submissions.

• There are several groups of Reddit users on Facebook and Google+. Join those groups and share your subreddits. Vote the group member’s subreddit on Reddit and they will do the same for you. This is one of the best ways to increase traffic.

Top Reddit Submissions

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As promised earlier, here are the top 10 submissions of Reddit which got maximum up-votes. I am sharing this so that you will get an idea about which types of titles get most famous on Reddit. This trend is from 2013.

Conclusion

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Reddit is a great tool for internet marketers, bloggers, webmasters and business peoples. You must add this in your list.

The best thing that I liked about Reddit is the right source of audience. While submitting your link, you will only see those subreddits which you have subscribed. So this tool will help you a lot in your marketing. I am sure if you'll implement these tricks, you can drive massive traffic from Reddit.

Do you have any good experience with Reddit? Have you tried Reddit? Do share your stories with me.

Promotions

How to Promote Your Website and Get More Visitors

By Ashutosh Jha → Thursday, November 14, 2019

Your website might look great, it might contain excellent content, and it might even be focused on a sought-after niche. However, if it's not getting any traffic, it's all for nothing.

The question is, how do you get traffic to your website? How do you get people to notice that your website even exists?

Successfully promoting a website isn't the easiest of tasks, but it's most definitely possible. The key is in focusing on the right advertising techniques. Without further remark, here is how to promote your website and get more visitors. 

Here's How to Promote Your Website

There is a lot that goes into promoting a website. In order to secure optimal traffic for your website, you must:

Focus on SEO

If you really want to drive traffic to your website, you need to prioritize SEO or Search Engine Optimization. SEO is a process in which you optimize your website so that it ranks high for specific keywords on search engines such as Google and Bing.

So, what's involved with SEO? Well, a little bit of everything. In addition to publishing quality content on your website, you must also utilize appropriate keywords and on-page SEO practices.

There's a fairly steep learning curve associated with becoming an SEO master. It couldn't possibly be explained in one blog post.

For this reason, if you're not well-versed in SEO, you might consider hiring an SEO company such as JSA Interactive. Companies such as this have studied SEO for years, and know exactly how to optimize their customers' websites.

Take Advantage of Social Media 

While SEO might be the most important promotional tool for advertising websites, social media is arguably the second most important. If you aren't advertising on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other such social media platforms, you're missing out on huge swaths of potential traffic.

Social media is terrific for websites because it allows them to get up close and personal with potential visitors. Sharing content, engaging with other social media accounts, and posting important updates will all help you to attract more visitors to your website.

Note, though, that the key to social media is consistency. You can't use it once a week and expect results. You must be engaging with your audience on a daily basis.

Create Engaging Blog Posts  

A big part of increasing web traffic is maintaining the traffic that your website already has. If you can't get anyone to stick around for more than a single visit, you're not going to have any success at all.

How do you get visitors to stick around? Perhaps the best way is by maintaining a blog on your website.

And it can't just be a blog about anything. It needs to focus on a specific subject, and it needs to provide value to those who are interested in that subject.

One of the most successful methods in blogging is to answer specific questions within blog posts. If readers find that they can learn from your website, they will almost certainly come back.

Make Informative Videos 

When it comes to social media, video often reigns supreme over the written word. Not only are videos easier for online users to consume, but they also feel more personal. This is why, if you have the capability, you should create informative videos which relate to the subject of your website.

Your videos don't have to be elaborately planned or impeccably edited. In fact, a simple video of you sitting in front of a camera and explaining something can get the job done just fine. The primary points are to teach your audience and to make your website more recognizable in the process.

Place Paid Ads 

If you have the money to spend, you could consider placing paid ads. Paid ads have proven time and again that they are capable of bringing in substantial amounts of traffic.

The best platforms for paid ads are Facebook and Twitter. Placing ads on these platforms will get your website noticed by thousands of people in a very short amount of time.

Post on Forums 

Another website marketing technique is to post in forums while adding links to your website. If you're adding value to the forum discussion, and are not just spamming links all over the place, you will almost certainly attract some new visitors. Not to mention, you'll build on your SEO efforts through backlinking.

The goal is to target forums which are relevant to your website. For instance, if your website is about WordPress, you would be wise to apply this technique in WordPress-related forums.

Network, Network, Network 

It's impossible to overstate the importance of networking as it pertains to promoting your website. The more relationships you make with fellow webmasters, the more opportunities that open up for your website.

Attend blogging conventions. Follow popular bloggers on Twitter. Join relevant groups on Facebook.

Whatever you have to do to make more connections, do it. You have to stick your neck out there in order for your website to get noticed.

Write Guest Posts 

One of the best ways to increase website traffic is by writing guest posts for other websites. Writing guest posts is beneficial in two different ways.

On one hand, guest posting will get you and your website noticed by readers of other websites. On the other hand, because guest posting provides your website with valuable backlinks, it will also improve your SEO ranking. Because of this, your website will become easier to find through Google and other such search engines.

Securing guest posts isn't too difficult. All you have to do is find the "write for us" section on a website that you like and then follow the guidelines. While not every website will supply you with a guest posting opportunity, one of them eventually will.

Need Help Promoting Your Website?

Still not sure of how to promote your website? Looking for a little help with the task? If so, TricksRoad can help.

Utilizing social media marketing, content marketing, and other online marketing techniques, we not only help clients to attract more web traffic but to convert more sales as well.

Contact us now for a free consultation! 

Get Traffic

11 Tips for Boosting Foot Traffic & Attracting Customers to Your Store

By Ashutosh Jha → Wednesday, April 10, 2019

If you read the news, you’ve probably heard of the retail apocalypse. As the world of shopping shifts online, brick-and-mortar stores are struggling to keep up and convince customers to come inside. In fact, it’s believed that close to 75,000 stores that sell clothing, furniture, and electronics are expected to close up shop by 2026.

But your business doesn’t have to meet the same fate. There are ways to boost foot traffic, attract customers to your store, and avoid the retail apocalypse.

11 Tips for Boosting Foot Traffic & Attracting Customers to Your Store

Need some tips on bringing people into your business? Here are 11 tips on how to improve your retail storefront, so you can convince customers to come inside and start buying.

Create a Great Display Window

If your business is located in a mall or destination with a ton of foot traffic, you already have a giant potential audience. You simply need a way to capture their attention and bring them over to your store. You can achieve this with a great display window that tells your brand’s story in a way that piques a customer’s curiosity and encourages impulse buying.

Not sure how to create a great display window? Use bold shapes and vibrant colors to capture the attention of customers. Showcase products or sales offerings but be sure to keep things clean as clutter will drive customers away.

If you're struggling with your signage, here's more information on how to create a great one.

Host a Great In-Store Event

In-store events are a fantastic way to bring customers inside your store. If you want, host entertainment or offer light bites for customers as they peruse your shop. Walk them through any new offerings you have and entice them to buy by offering exclusive in-store event deals.

Talk to your employees about what kind of event they think would entice customers most. Then ask customers if there is anything they’d want from an event. Just make sure you plan in advance and invest more money then you’ll ultimately get out of it.

Hold a Workshop or Seminar

Do your products offer training or expertise to properly use? If so, think about hosting a seminar or website that shows customers how they can make the most of your products.

You can host product demos or educational seminars. Anything you can do to establish your company as an expert and trusted resource customers can depend on.

Connect with Old and Existing Customers

Business isn’t just about bringing new customers in, it’s about keeping your existing ones coming back for more. And by investing in your existing customers, you can encourage the established foot traffic you already have.

Reach out to customers over social media and email to recapture their attention. Offer a thank-you discount for their previous shopping or inform them of any new products or services you now offer. You can also offer a referral bonus or discount for customers to encourage them to recruit new customers.

Take Note of Who’s Passing By

A great way to engage with potential customers is to identify who they actually are. Stand outside your shop and look at who walks by and looks inside.  See where they come from and go to next to understand who your audience is, and if it differs from how you advertise.

By paying attention to your customers, you can better adjust your storefront materials to match that demographic.

 Promote Your Business Using Mobile Apps

Sometimes customers don’t come to stores simply because they don’t know they exist. A great way to address this issue and encourage foot traffic is by using location-based apps.

Many apps like Groupon and FourSquare let you post about your limited-time deals to customers within a certain distance range. This can help you target customers who are so close they can’t help but come into your store and buy.

Offer Free Wi-Fi and USB Chargers

Free Wi-Fi is a great way to attract bored customers or people who are open to shopping at your store but may not normally come in on their own. It’s a great strategy; in fact, 62% of businesses report that customers spend more time in their store after they started offering free Wi-Fi.

Another great way to bring customers in? Offer free USB charges.  Customers love free charging stations, and shopping around your store will give them something to do as their phone charges.

Provide Animal Amenities

Believe it or not, but a store being pet-friendly can be a great motivator for customers to come in.  And all you really need to do that is to put out a water bowl, offer some treats, and have some doggy bags on hand in case of any messes. Making pets welcome is a great way of making your customers feel even more welcome, and this strategy is especially great for businesses in public markets or outdoor spaces.

Provide Discounts for In-Store Shopping

Providing discounts for customers who check-in to your store on social apps is a great way to encourage them to visit your store. It also alerts other potential customers that people are shopping at your store. And once they’re there, offer exclusive in-store perks for people who buy in the store.

Partner with Influencers and Celebrities

Do you have a bigger marketing budget? Why not partner with a celebrity or influencer as a way to attract customers to your stores.

This chance to meet celebrities is something many customers can’t pass up, and they’ll be more likely to buy because of it. And the buzz around it can also help drive more traffic to your website.

Influencers come in all sizes and varieties, from entertainment and sports, to tech and pets. You'll even find influencers in industries like vacuum cleaners. You should focus on finding an influencer that is first, highly relevant to your business and second, appropriately sized for your needs and budget. Lastly, the more local they are to your area the better your success is likely to be with attracting more local foot traffic.

Host Wellness Classes or Clubs

This strategy is great for retailers who work in the athletic gear or wellness space, but it is something any store can try out. Organize things like run clubs or partner with a local yoga studio to get potential customers engaged and motivated. Not only will you get them moving, but you’ll get them to think of you as more than just a store.

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Top High PR Directories For the Submission Of Websites/Blogs

By Ashutosh Jha → Monday, December 17, 2018

Traffic on your blog or website is the most important factor in the success of your online venture. No matter how the excellent quality of content you have written, but if nobody is reading that then it's of no use. That will be treated like literature in a closed notebook. So in this article, I am going to so you, how you can generate the decent traffic, just by submitting your website on some of the high PR (Page Rank) websites. This effect a lot.

In our early days, we received some good amount of visitors with this. So this is a proven method to get the traffic on the site, just by bookmarking your website on the high PR sites apart from the other methods to pull the traffics. I will discuss the other way later in some other post.

Also apart from increasing your traffic by bookmarking your website, you will have increased page rank also for your site. Some of these sites allow paid as well as free submission. So if you are ready to pay, it's well and good. If not then also you will get quality backlinks. The below figure depicts the exact scenario as for how you will get traffic.

So take some time and register yourself on these below sites and get great benefits.

High PR Website Submission Directories

Here is the list of some High PR Website Submission Directories. Take time and submit your sites to these directories and see the ranking growing up.

Page Rank -10

• Twitter- http://www.twitter.com/
• Add This- http://www.addthis.com/

Page Rank -9

• Pinterest- http://www.Pinterest.com/

Page Rank -8

• Stumbleupon- http://www.stumbleupon.com/
• Reddit- http://www.Reddit.com/
• Citeulike- http://www.citeulike.org/
• Delicious- http://www.Delicious.com/
• Connotea- http://www.connotea.org/
• Boingboing- http://www.boingboing.net/

Page Rank -7

• Squidoo- http://www.squidoo.com/
• Mister-Wong- http://www.mister-wong.com/
• Citeulike- http://www.citeulike.org/
• Fark- http://www.fark.com/
• Link Arena- http://linkarena.com/
• Bibsonomy- http://www.bibsonomy.org/
• Diigo- https://www.diigo.com/
• Newsvine- http://www.newsvine.com/
• Library Thing- http://www.librarything.com/
• Design Float- http://www.designfloat.com/
• Link Arena- http://linkarena.com/
• Squidoo- http://www.folkd.com/
• Mister-Wong- http://www.scoopit.co.nz/
• Citeulike- http://www.bizsugar.com/
• Fark- http://www.fark.com/
• Link Arena- http://linkarena.com/
• Bibsonomy- http://www.bibsonomy.org/
• Diigo- https://www.diigo.com/
• Newsvine- http://www.newsvine.com/
• Library Thing- http://www.librarything.com/
• Design Float- http://www.designfloat.com/
• Link Arena- http://linkarena.com/

Bottom Line

So, these were some High PR Directory for Website Submission where you can submit your blog or website to get a high-quality backlink, which is good to increase your rankings.

Did we miss anything? Say it all in the comments.

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5 Killer Tips to Generate Traffic without SEO or Social Media

By Ashutosh Jha → Sunday, November 4, 2018

After looking at the title of this post, you must be thinking is this possible?

You want traffic, and you must have heard that SEO/SMO is the necessity to get traffic. I’m not declining this fact, but SEO/SMO is the best way to generate organic and continuous traffic. But we can also get enough traffic from other sources.


Getting traffic on your website/blog without SEO is of course possible and the main thing is – It is quick, easy and less time consuming and of course FREE.

So now you must have been thinking, how? Today in this post I am going to show you the 5 killer ways to get instant traffic to your blog just by spending few minutes per tips.

Blog Commenting Method

I’ve put this method at the top because of its popularity and importance. Blog commenting is the best way to generate traffic for your website. What you have to do is to make a list of blogs (of course select the one which you like) and whenever you write a post, visit those blogs and leave a meaningful comment.

Now suppose you have added only 10 blogs in your list and you left comment on all 10. At the worst condition at least you’ll get 20 unique visitors (I’ve considered only two per blog) on your blog. Now suppose each user are only seeing 3 pages of your blog and so you will have -

10*2*3=60 Page views

This is the minimal page views you’ll get. I’m telling you my experience. At the start I commented on one blog around a month ago and till now I’ve received more than 100 page views from that URL. This has not been done in a single day but of you are getting 100 page view for one comment, isn’t it’s a great source of traffic?

Also if you want to generate even more traffic from this method, you can include the CommentLuv enabled blogs which shows your latest blog post along with your comment. You can find the high PR CommentLuv enabled blogs here.

Also Read: Tips To Check Keywords Ranking on Google

Search and Pull Method

This is also one of the best methods to pull traffic and the easiest one. In this tricks all you have to do is find the popular NICHE and bring the already existing traffic back to your blog/websites. This seems to be easy and exciting right? Yes, it is. Just you have to follow the below two steps and you’ll be able to drive good traffic-

• You have to find the popular blogs with relevant posts as soon as they are getting published. Don’t worry. I’m not asking you to find this. Google Alert will do this task for you. Yes you heard it right. It’s a free service provided by Google. All you have to do is set up a Google alert for the topic you want to have the traffic. Suppose I’ve written a blog on how to start a free blog, then I will set up a remainder something similar to ‘start a free blog’. And whenever Google will find the similar topic on any popular blog, it’ll send you an email on your registered email id. You can set up a Google alert by this link and can set up the alert like below-





• Now whenever any post will come on the internet, Google will send you a free alert right in your inbox. As soon as you receive that, visit the blog, read it and leave a meaningful comment. Now once a user will visit that website which is already very famous, they’ll also read comments and as you’ve left a good comment they’ll definitely visit your blog.

Tip: Never provide your home page URL while commenting. Provide the address of your particular post and also use recent post widget to engage users more.

For this subject line, I’ve created a Google Alert and I usually get 3-4 alerts a day. That means you’ll comment on 3-4 good blog. Suppose each blog is sending you only 5-5 users and each user is seeing only 3-3 page, so total number of page view will be-

4*5*3=60 Page Views

As your comment will be the first/second so chance of getting traffic with this method is more.

Link others in your post

Yes! You heard it right. This is one of the most common mistakes that a blogger. They always hesitate while adding other’s link in their post. But you do it. Suppose you’re writing any good post and you know someone has written a good case study about that, link that. There is several benefit of it-

• When that person will find, you have linked his/her post, they may share your post in their social profile. Now just imagine if a blogger having good social profile shares your link on their profile, how much traffic you can get?? This is the usual case. At least in return they’ll tweet you.

• They can even link you back on their post in return. Isn’t this awesome? If above 2 conditions are not happening, nothing to worry. Open your email account and write a cool email to him/her. You can simply write the following-

Hi, Mr./Ms. …

Good Morning !!

I am a blogger, blogs at so and so blog (provide URL here) and while writing this post (name your post), I found your case study (provide URL) very useful for my readers. I’ve put a link to it in my post (provide your post URL).

It will be very kind of you if you can visit my post and provide suggestions and if you’ll find it interesting, kindly tweet.

Thanks,
Signature

If the first two-point will not work, I am sure the third is definitely going to work. So now you have great traffic and a good network with a good blogger. I’m considering only 100 page views through this method. But be sure you’re going to get far more than this count.

Use signature in your emails

Let all the emails that you send with the work headers, link your blog. Now a day peoples are so crazy and busy in their life that they don’t have much time to search your blog or put manual effort to type URL. So the best way is to put a link to your blog and enable the LAZY :) people to access your blog with a single click.

How many work-related emails you send daily? 20 for now. Yes, I’m considering only 20. Provide a link to your blog in your signature. Now suppose only 10 of them have clicked on your link and have seen only 3 pages each, you are going to get-

3*10=30 page views.

How much time this method cost you? Hardly 1 minute and that too a onetime investment :) Isn’t this a killer method to generate traffic.

Use Intro method to get traffic from forum

This is also one of the best methods to get traffic. People generally use the forum to answer and ask questions. In the answer by providing the link to your blog, you are going to have couple of benefit-

• Good Traffic
• Backlinks. This is going to increase SERP and DR of your blog.

Now it’s time to start another trick in these forums.Start a new thread for discussion for your newly post. Just write ‘I’ve written a good article on this topic and wanted to share with you all. Let me know your view on this’. If this is a popular forum and has 1000s of the user a day then there is a chance that at least 100 will visit your link. I’m considering only 2 page views per user in this case because they have to write about your post in the forum soon. So total page views will be-

2*100= 200 page views

But remember all forums don’t provide this facility to start a new thread for your post. So before doing this read their T&C.

Final words

So, friends, these are the best 5 methods to pull the best traffic to your blog and that too without any SEO or social marketing. I’ve given the least estimated traffic you can get as a newbie from these sources.

So in total, you will be having 200+30+100+60+60=450 page views and think how much time it cost you, hardly an hour? Again this is the least traffic you can get. You’ll get much more than this. And if only 5 of them will share your content on their social profile, you are going to get massive traffic again.

So start using these methods and let me know which tricks you are using to get the traffic on your blog apart from SEO and social marketing. Also, do let me know if I’ve missed any great source over here. Thanks for your time and kindly share this post, if this has helped you!!

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Stunning Tips to Write SEO friendly Blog Posts

By Ashutosh Jha → Monday, October 22, 2018

Do you know around 2 million blog posts are getting published every day? Yes, even more than that. But how many of those perform well? Definitely majority of those don’t perform well as per search engine point of view. To do well in search engines, you need to write SEO friendly blog posts. Yes, seo friendly blog posts don’t only mean keyword stuffing. SEO friendly blog posts have many more than that.

In this post, I will talk about how to write seo friendly blog posts. What all factor you should consider to write a seo friendly blog post.

How to Write SEO Friendly Blog Post?

Here are the list of few points using which you would be able to write SEO friendly blog posts.

1. Convey your message properly

This point is important from both SEO as well as reader point of view. You should convey your message to your readers very efficiently. Write blog posts in such a way that it can be read easily and also fulfill the aim due to which it has been written.

Write a post having around 700+ words so that search engine can prioritize that and also where message can be conveyed easily. If your post is having more words, you can insert keyword easily and can be targeted well for search engines also.

2. Write Small Lines

Yes, breakup the sentences in to small sentences. This makes the blog post easy to read and understand. If you will write long sentences, it leave not so positive impression on the readers and also search engines don’t like much.

Properly use heading, sub heading and paragraph with bold words, italic words etc. These cautions help you to understand your reader well and also with these sentences length can be reduces.

If you are still not sure, then you can write something like this. “First I will discuss about this and then will share an example to make it more understandable” and then will ask your feedback.

Also, write eye catchy headlines. You can take help of these free title generator to write blog post headline.

3. Post frequently and at fixed interval

Search engine loves the site which are getting refreshed frequently. Here refresh means those site where contents are getting updated/added very frequently. Search engine treats these site active and give preference to those.

Also, fixed interval is very important. You should not write 4-5 blog post in a day and won’t write any post for next 3-4 days. Better write a post every day or alternate days.

If you are unable to write for your blog, you can hire freelancers from these top freelancers sites as well.

4. Do Internal & External linking

Yes, interlinking blog posts are very important. This tells the search engine that you are giving proper information and reference to your readers. Also, this leave positive impression to your reader as they get some more reference to the topic you have written.

Add wherever required external links as well. If you are writing any article and have come across any keyword on which a detailed article has already been written on some good site, don’t forget to add that as a link. Yes, you can give that as nofollow if you like but don’t forget to add external/internal links to blog posts. This makes seo friendly blog posts.

5. Optimize your Images

Now a days, Google Images are also one of the great source of traffic to the websites. Yes, there are millions of search done on Google image on daily basis and if you will optimize your images well then you can pull good amount of traffic every day.

To optimize your image, use keyword as the image name, add keyword in title tag and alt tag as well. Also, keep your image of small size so that your website loading time will not increase which is another important factor of SERP.

6. Make your article sharable

Yes, social signals are also considered as an important factor of SEO. Search engine give preference to the article which are having good number of social share. Even now, Google shows real time tweets as a search engine results.

So have the social share icon on your blog page so that if the user want, they can share immediately. Also, appeal to user anywhere in the article to share your article.

Over to you

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These were some of the important tips to write SEO friendly blog posts. I am sure if you will follow these tips, you would be able to write SEO friendly blog posts.

If you liked this article, please consider it for sharing on social site. Also, do let me know if you have any good point using which we can write seo friendly blog posts.

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How To Grow Your Law Firm Website Traffic

By Ashutosh Jha → Monday, July 30, 2018

Some law firms think that having a website is simply enough. A website by itself is just a fancy business card. A well optimized website via can bring in traffic and increase the profitability of your law firm more than any other marketing vertical. If done correctly your attorney SEO efforts can help you achieve targeted visitors looking to hire attorneys to handle their cases.

Go After the Right Keywords

One of the biggest mistakes a law firm can make is choosing the wrong keywords. It happens time and time again when an SEO company is not realistic or unrealistic with the keyword planning. Focus on local keywords that will bring in business.

There is no need to rank for national keywords like “accident attorney” especially if you only practice law in one state. On the other end of the spectrum don’t get excited that you rank for keywords that have virtually no traffic. Many SEO’s send reports with hundreds of these keywords in which their clients rank for. The bad news is nobody searches for these obscure keywords and it’s a waste of money and time.

Analyze Competitors

Analyzing your competitors can really help you find keywords that you should go after. Not all keywords are relevant or worth-wild but if you put in some work you can often find gems you overlooked. Once you find these keywords create a detailed plan on what type of content you can create based around these. You can even create an editorial calendar to help plan and stay on track.

Create Content and Longtail Keywords

If you aren’t creating new content to help rank for keywords then you aren’t doing SEO correctly. Creating content is a great way to go after new keywords, especially long tail keywords. Longtail keywords might not have the high search volume as your head terms but are a powerful strategy that really adds up. Most studies show that longtail keywords convert at a much higher rate as well.

Basic On-Page Optimization

Most attorneys have a website but to some it’s more of a business card. There website doesn’t do much other than provide basic information about the business. Even if that’s all you have some basic on-page optimization will go a long way. Ensure your keywords in your title tags and use proper heading tags for your content. This is basic advice but are two of the most important on-page ranking factors.

How to Optimize for Multiple Locations

If you have multiple locations you can optimize this too. Create a new page for each location you may have. If you service multiple cities then this strategy works well for this as well. Each page should have its own unique content and include the phone number and address of the specific location. Building links to these location pages is also very important for ranking.

Link Building

You can have the best looking website in the world. You can also have the most compelling content ever created but if you neglect link building you won’t get very far. Building links from on-topic content is a must but it’s more complicated than that these days. Getting a popular website to link to your website is what can move the needle. Don’t expect to build just a few links and start ranking. Depending on the city and keywords if can take months of link building to see some good results.

Final Thoughts

Growing an attorney website’s traffic can have a huge impact on the bottom line. The process is not instant and will take some time. Ultimately, you can reduce your customer acquisition costs and become more profitable.

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Ahrefs Review: A Powerful Tool for Link Building Campaign

By Ashutosh Jha → Thursday, June 14, 2018

Ahrefs is one of the best and the first link building tools that I have ever used. Few days ago I did an expert round up here on Link Building Tools and in the vote given by 31 industry experts, Ahrefs came at Top position with 13 votes.

Below is the image showing link building tools those came in top 5.

As we all know Links are something that search engines are mainly looking for. The more and quality links you get, the more visibility you'll have in search engine and hence the higher traffic you will get. So analysis of links for your blog or website is very useful. You keep on doing these works frequently to maintain the quality and quantity of links else you may also get penalized.

Also Read: 31 Experts Have Shared their Favorite Link Building Tools. What are Yours?

Ahrefs Review

I've seen several people spending $400-$500 just for the link audit. So why don't you try yourself with the use of Ahrefs tool. It allows you to analyze your link profile completely and helps you to improve quality links for your blogs or websites.

Ahrefs provides a fast graphical representation that would be easy to understand for all. The tools integrated into the platform which includes:

•Site Explorer and Backlink checker
•Crawl Report
•Batch Analysis
•Domain Comparison
•Backlink Report

One of the world's best internet entrepreneurs Neil Patel also uses Ahrefs to check about the competitor’s links and Ahrefs is his top link building tools.

Ahrefs Features- Top Metrics You should look for

In a nutshell, here is a list of activities where I use Ahrefs as one of my link building tools:

• Link Discovery
• To Check and analyze the Backlinks
• Anchor Phrase
• To check from where I am getting linked
• To Create Detailed Report
So below I am going to explain this great link building tool with the help of above points for which I use this tool.

1.Link Discovery

If you're planning to start a new link building campaign or started a new campaign then link discovery could get you dive into both easy and hard to replicate links as well as give you better insights on which method will work perfectly for you and your niche.

Also Read: Tips to Earn from Sponsored Post

Ahrefs is a technical tool but the interface has been designed in such a way that even a non-technical person can also explore it very easily. It allows you to check Rank, referring page URLs, number of Internal and External links, link URL and other useful information.

For the user simplicity, you can use its filter option to check only those links which you want. Like you can sort the result by using all backlinks or backlinks/domain option.

2.To Check and analyze the Backlinks

The backlink checker tool of Ahrefs analyzes the links of your website from the external website. It will tell you how many other domains have linked your website. You can even do daily, monthly and yearly backlinks analysis.

Also Read: Top 3 Most powerful ways to promote your blog for free

These reports will give you the detailed analysis of the newly added links (if you have received any new) or have lost any links. New and Lost links may be analyzed for the period of up to 2 months.

The loss of links may occur due to any of the below reasons-

• The site got down where you were linked earlier.
• The article/page is no longer available where you were linked due to some reason.
• The owner of the website has removed your tag due to some particular reason.

If in your case, 3rd is the reason, you still having a chance to get those links back. You can contact the website owner and ask for the reason for removing the links and can request to link back again.

3. Anchor Phrase

Anchor phrases are something that is very important in the SEO of any website or blog. Anchor phrase is the same that you write inside or the text inside  <a>..</a> tag. For example in the link <a href="http://www.tricksroad.com">TricksRoad</a>,  TricksRoad is the anchor text for this link.

In earlier days, search engine was loving the sites having exact matched keywords in the anchor phrase. But now those days gone. Now if you've received 100 links from 100 different domains and all are using the same anchor tag then search engine will consider those links as spam. Instead you should use different variants of anchor phrases. Like you can try the different combination of anchor phrases while link building-

<a href=”http://www.tricksroad.com”>TricksRoad</a>

<a href=”http://www.tricksroad.com”>Tricks Road</a> etc.

Using this Ahrefs tool you can identify these links and if you find all the referring domains have used same anchor texts then you should request the website owner to edit the link or to remove it.

4.Pages/Domains linked you

Using Ahrefs tool you can get detailed report of all the pages and domains wherever you have received links. By using this report you can analyze the performance. If your links are not increasing you should check your content strategy and need to write attractive and useful content so that your fellow bloggers can link you.

5.Do an SEO Audit and Create Report

Ahrefs also allows you to run a full Crawl report on your blog and website and analyze each aspects of SEO. This report will give many results. The main points are as below-

•Titles/Descriptions for all articles
•H1/H2 tags used
•Errors accessing any pages
•Performance of pages

As you know H1/H2 tags are very much important in the SEO of any website so if you don't have sufficient amount of these tags, check your posts again and try to create. Similarly check for other errors as well and try to fix those errors.

6.Competitor Analysis

Ahrefs is one of the best tools to analyze the competitor performance. In the below report you can see I have compared my blog with one of the top blog in the industry backlinko.com and below is the performance. Using this comparison you can analyze other sites and can see how they are performing well and can work on your week points as well.

Also Read: How to Get Google AdSense Approval Fast

Over to You

While doing expert round up on link building tools, I received so many comments and emails that many newbies don't have much idea about these link building tools and so I decided to write detailed reviews about few main tools and so here is the first.

Ahrefs is one of the most powerful research tools for your blog using which you can not only analyze your own blog but also can check your competitors as well. So try this great tool and let me know your experience. Also if you've used this earlier, please share your experience with us.

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