Many blogs do not enjoy the kind of traffic that they have the potential for. Below is a list of best practices for increasing your staffing blog traffic. These tips can help you optimize your blog posts.

1. Content, Content and More Content – Each blog needs to keep the readers interested and engaged. Posts can have a variety of topics depending on your vertical markets. Your goal should be 4-8 blog posts per month.
2.Integrate a Professional Design and Layout – Blog visitors are more likely to stay on your blog or web site if it has a clean, organized and professionally designed layout. If you site is difficult to navigate or hard to use, bounce backs are more likely to occur.
3.Learn How to us your Google Analytics – Blog stats can show a wealth of information including which keywords are rewarding the most traffic. They will also show the topics that are most searched and viewed on a particular blog. By reviewing these, more effective and audience-friendly blog posts can be created in order to keep readers coming back for more.
4.Focus on SEO- Ensuring each blog post is optimized for specific keywords will significantly increase the ranking of each blog thereby enabling more readers to find you.
5.Integrate Social Media Sites – It can greatly benefit a blog to have a plugin available for each of the social bookmarking sites. When readers bookmark a post on facebook or any other social network, their friends could create additional traffic for a blog. In addition, some search engines may measure interest level depending on the amount of shares that a post gets.

 

If you have any questions about setting up your blog or blogging in general, please feel free to contact us. At ASJ Partners, we specialize in help staffing firms Win More, Grown More, Sell More and Be Found More. Contact us and put our industry expertise to work for you.