What makes a blog popular and drives page views?”

I have gone through a write up and as per the write up they had analyzed 1,00,000 blogs out of 30+ million blogs on word press and have analyzed following observations and tips that would help any blogger.

Make a blog that is easy and simple to follow:

Add follow widget to the blog if possible since if they keep on getting notification every time you post something there are higher chances of their revisit to your blog.

 

Engagement and Comments:

Most successful blogs in these 1, 00,000 blogs were the one’s which were engaging rather that encouraged dialogue with their readers.

Most successful blogs were the ones where the bloggers got engaged with the reader by replying or by starting a conversation. This back and forth conversation is a significant driver of page views.

These blogs continued by simply asking follow-up questions at the end of each post.

Regular Postings 

If we keep on posting regularly and have enabled the follow feature checking your blog could become a daily routine for your readers

Even if it’s a short post, write something new as frequently as possible, and at regular intervals. (The Daily Post can help with ideas, as can the advice on how to get more traffic) 

Twitter and Facebook (using Publicize) can be extra benefit and can lead to additional page views. 

Start 

Tumblr does not work for all brands as seen in many articles and most articles suggest that tumblr works better under these three categories for blogs listed below:

1.  Publishing or broadcast media.
2.   large websites
3.   Fashion

 The huge blogging platform of tumblr is beneficial for website owners.

1.  It links back to their website with ease. 
2.   inbound links help a website rank higher in search engine
3.   due to its easy to use interface and can lead to thousands of visitors who are eager to read the whole blog post

http://tumblrplug.com/ is a site where we can post our blogs link its description and category and follow back those who follow our blogs

http://gatherfollowers.com/referral/jewnieissherlocked 

There are similar sites which help us in getting followers as well like http://tumblrfollow.me/

http://promote-your-blogs.tumblr.com/submit

After posting blog in the site here is what Top categories look like and how blog list show up:

Few points to promote blog in tumblr:

1.  Follow as many people as possible and many may follow us back and hence we gain followers (just as we do in twitter)
2. We should tag posts since many guys search for tags to the posts and maybe he may end up coming to our posts.
3.   Basic social media promotion might help put Tumblr link on Facebook, twitter, Myspace, youtube etc.

The Reason why guys use tumblr blogs over Word press and BlogSpot?

1. Tumblr blogs are easier to follow.
2. If we want to promote blogs we need more followers, more followers means more views and visits to the blog.
3. When more and more people follow our blogs there is a probability that re-blogs may occur that will help spread our blog all over the tumblr community.

Now points that should be followed to get successful in tumblr

•  Since many people unfollow blogs that don't post consistently make sure you post atleast 2-3 things in a day if it means setting up a queue.
• There are guys in tumblr who are following for follow (if we follow these guys they will follow us back) so you should follow these guys
• Because not only will it help you get new content for your blog, it will probably get you some followers in return. 
• Thank whoever follows you. Do write happy post whenever you see new followers and thanks them for liking blogs
•  tag post with all the things you post about, which will help attract more followers based just on that post 

5 ways to get traffic to your blog

 

Social Media

Social media is the first thing that must be taken care of .so create facebook page and twitter accounts solely dedicated to your blog. it will help in getting traffic

Content 

Since the internet world is filled with informations everywhere and the fact that google keeps on changing its algorithms to give best to the users. The valuable contents will always be benefitted most by these changes and good content is more likely to get more shares and reposts so content is king and try creating valuable content.

Guest Blogging

There are blog sites that allow guest blogging and if you start guest blogging it creates a pool of readers with common interest. It also helps in improving SEO rankings.and if the other site is high ranked it will help us even more.

Write and discuss about trending topics:

Trending topics attracts large quantity of traffic in short duration and if it falls in zone of your blog its would be blog booster if you write about it. This will definitely enhance the traffic flow to your blog.

Use SEO friendly keywords (we can try putting queries and questions)

SEO friendly keywords are most likely to be searched by the internet users and hence maintaining the right amount of keywords at right blog will always help. We can Research and use suggestion tools for finding right keywords.

Other points:

We can try captions like “follow me” “for more posts like this” on every image you post. 

Try a follower site
http://www.tumblrfollowers.com/ 
http://infinitefollowers.com/ 
http://www.gatherfollowers.com/ 
http://www.maxfollows.com/ 
http://www.ezfollowers.com

One additional way

You must try, is Reddit.com

Just click on the Submit Link button and start the promotion of the Tumblr blog.