What is the best way to push traffic to my new blog? I have tried Pinterest, but I am not very good at it.

Pinterest is great, but not the only source to drive traffic to your blog. And, using Pinterest alone is simple not enough to be effective. 

There is no one best way and no magic trick to drive more traffic to your blog.But there are a couple of things you can do to improve your SEO, marketing, and social media efforts. It’s a combination of strategies, that will generate more from organic search, drive more people to your site, and help you to grow a loyal blog community.

And, you will need passion, patience, and persistence to make your blog successful. But this will pay off in the long run.

Here are 7 tips & tools to drive more traffic to your blog

1. Know your audience and create exceptional content
   The better you know your target audience, the better you can create content that matches their interests. Look out for topics that get much engagement in social media. Audit your social media followers, comments, but also social communities and discussions on your topics. Look for frequent questions and challenges that come up and look for gaps in coverage. Is there anything you can add to your posts, that will make your post stand out. Create help content, tips, and guidelines that your target audience will remember as a useful resource of information.
   
   Tool Tip:
   Try out the WordPress plugin Easy Blog Ideas to help you find top performing content to help you never to run out of topics and ideas.
2. Include keywords in your content
   Keywords are key elements of optimizing your pages and posts for the search engines as well as for your audience. Do a thorough keyword research. Try to discover, how your audience refers to the topic you are covering, what search terms or hashtags they are using. Use these keywords to search for topics you can write about and include these keywords in your meta tags and descriptions as well as in your copy, headlines, lead texts, links and image descriptions. 
   
   Tool Tips: Use keyword tools like Google Keyword Planer or Long Tail Keywordsfor your keyword research.
   
   Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress to help you with basic SEO and check your posts for focus keywords, meta tags, and descriptions, and Flesh index for readability.
3. Optimize your content for readability Search engines preferably rank sites that are fast, responsive and user-friendly. Make sure your blog posts are easy to read. Use short paragraphs with headings and subheadings, bullet points and lists to make your posts easy to skim and scan. 
   
   Tool Tips: 
   Try Grammarly for proofreading, and the Hemingway Editor for readability, grammar and style.
4. Use Visuals: create images, infographics, and videos for your contentVisual content is more likely to get shares, likes, and comments than text messages. And, visual content can drive additional traffic from images search in search engines and social media.
   Illustrate your marketing contents and social media posts with photos, infographics, and videos. You don't need to be a professional designer to create professional looking visuals.
   
   Tool Tip: Use tools like Canva to create unique graphics, infographics, motion graphics and share pics or Moovly to create animated videos easily.
5. Display social media follow icons and share buttons on your site, your posts and your visualsIn order to turn your blog readers into social media followers, make sure you place social media follow ikons in visible places on your website. Also, place social media share buttons on the top and bottom of your posts and also on your visuals. This will encourage your blog visitors to follow your social media channels and to share your posts.
   
   Tool Tip: 
   Try the Super Socializer - WordPress Social Share, Social Login and Social Comments Plugin to place share and follow buttons on your site.
6. Email- and Newsletter Marketing
   In order to turn your website visitors into loyal blog readers and subscribers, grab their email address to hook them to your blog. By offering a blog subscription, all subscribers will be automatically informed whenever you publish a new post. With a newsletter, you can send news to your subscribers, whenever you have important news or stories to tell. Email subscriptions will encourage your readers to come back to your blog.
   
   Tool Tips:
   Try the Email Subscribers and Newsletters plugin for list building and email marketing to turn your website visitors into blog and newsletter subscribers.
   
   And try the Icegram plugin to create popups, a welcome bar and other opt-in forms for lead generation.
7. Promote your posts and contents on social mediaPinterest is great, but simply not enough and not the only source to drive traffic to your blog.
   
   However great your content is, you need to promote your blog consistently. Social media help your content to build authority, incoming links and reach. The better the engagement you receive for your content on social media the more this will help your ranking and visibility. Sharing your content on social media helps you drive more traffic to your site. There are multiple social sites to share your content as well as your visuals.
   
   Share your content on Twitter, Facebook, but also think of Google+, Reddit, Instagram, Pinterest, and Flickr, and also on LinkedIn, if your content is business-related.
   
   Also share your content to relevant Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn Groups or Reddit Subreddits.
   
   Share your content on Social Bookmark communities such as Diigo, Delicious or Digg.
   
   Re-publish your content on Medium, Tumblr, Bloglovin’, Quora, and LinkedIn Pulse.
   
   Share and cross-promote your content at different times and days across social networks and customize your comments with personal comments, hashtags or handles for each channel. Use social media automation for scheduling and consistency.
   
   Tool Tip:
   The WordPress plugin Blog2Social helps you to schedule and share, auto-post and cross-promote your blog posts directly from your WordPress dashboard, with individually tailored social media posts and at the best times to post on each network.

Learn more about how to optimize your posts and promote your blog for more traffic and engagement: Get a free guide and checklist

• Ultimate Guide: How to Write, Optimize and Promote Your Blog [+Checklist]
• Free Complete Guide for Social Media Sharing

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• 15 Basic Plugins to Kickstart Your Blog and Boost Your Productivity
• 10 Tips & Tools to Promote your Blog Post after Publishing [Checklist]
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