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5 Ways to Increase Traffic to Your Blog For Free

The best way to increase traffic to your blog is by being helpful.

Oren Cohen
3 min readApr 1, 2021
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Increasing traffic to your blog doesn’t mean that you have to wait for Google’s SEO to show your articles in search results. Nevertheless, there’s one core idea I want you to keep in mind as you go through this list: Your content’s goal matters.

If you genuinely help people through your words, you’ll see progress. But if you do everything I say in here and your content is clickbait or self-promotional — you’ll see people running in the other direction.

With that in mind — here are some more ways to increase traffic for free!

Capture Email Subscribers

Email subscribers could be the difference between a successful launch and a complete failure. That’s why you want to try and catch email subscriptions when people do visit your website.

If you don’t do that, you have no way of knowing if that person will ever land on your website again.

You could use free services like ConvertKit (free plan) or Mailchimp.

Send Browser Notifications

There are services out there that allow you to create an opt-in to browser notifications…

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Oren Cohen
Oren Cohen

Written by Oren Cohen

Software Engineer and Blogger. He/Him. Contact me: oren@thegeekwriter.com Newsletter: https://theorencohen.com Geek Peek: https://geekpeek.blog

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