How to beat the low-traffic syndrome?

Well, traffic is the life-force of any blog or site. It is especially so if you are a blogger and started blogging with dreams of building up a blog that is visited by a lot of people who are interested in the unique content that you create.

Your enthusiasm may last a few days till you are hit by the biggest dampener of your blogging spirit “ very low traffic or almost no visitors on certain days. 

It happens because of a few things. First and foremost, it takes a few days for your blog to be indexed by search engines that sent the bulk of traffic to most sites.

Even if you submit your blog or site to search engines this may happen. Links exchanges and other means of link building also help, though link exchanges are not counted by search engines like Google for your link popularity computation.

Commenting on other blogs and sites helps a lot, but mostly in the form of clicks from visitors to those blogs who find your views interesting.

The maximum benefits from the SEO point of view come when your links are picked up by other blogs and quoted to show some important views expressed by you or to recommend your blog otherwise. However, all these take time. But you have to continue link building, and keep updating your blog with new compelling fresh and unique content. 

Posting some content every day, many times a day, or at least as frequently as you can, helps in many ways, because, as soon as you post something, search engines are alerted and your blog is crawled and indexed.

A regular practice like this can boost your traffic in a very short duration of time. When more visitors come in, it provides a psychological boost to your enthusiasm to blog more and more.