How to Increase Traffic to WordPress Site

by Stefen L. Web designer

Many client ask me how to rapid increase traffic to their website, what are the efficient way to drive traffic to the WordPress site. Bearing this in mind, I search and sum up some tips, this article will share them with you. Hope them helpful.

1. Choose a Professional Design

No matter you are running a business site or a blog, the design is very important.

Four facts you need to care when you choose a design

A. Layout. The traditional layouts are loved by most people, so, you’d better not turn to other special layouts unless they really appealing.

B. Advertisement. There should not be too many ads on your site.

C. Images. Appealing images worth thousands of words

D. Responsibility. Your site should be responsive so that mobile users can visit your site with better experience.

2.Make Your Site SEO Friendly

This is very important, or you will get little after you pay quite a lot. Aside SEO friendly WordPress theme structure, you need some SEO plugin on your site. WordPress SEO by Yoast is a good choice.

3. Choose Topic Wisely

You need to choose topics wisely. After all, the more popular the topics are, the more difficult for you to get your site ranked. So as to choose keywords.

4. Write Quality Content

High quality articles are more likely to be read and shared, as a result, you site will get more engaging time and more incoming backlinks, which will help the articles rank.

5. Keep Updating Your Site

Search engines love fresh content, so, you’d better update your site regularly, two articles per week or three articles per week is OK if you do not have sufficient time.

6. Link Building

Link building is the most effect way to drive traffic to a site. You can put your link to other sites to get traffic; and your site’s ranking will get higher along with the link’s increase.

All the tips listed above are very important to help you increase traffic to WordPress site, you need to stick to them, and after a month or two, you see the increase of traffic to your site.