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“ Traffic is a soul of blog If no traffic, blog is dead Mirza Abdul Manan ” The today's topic forced me to write my quote which defines blog traffic with a real life example. No doubt, Traffic is soul of your blog and if you've no traffic than it is almost equal to dead blog. Well, There are many ways to drive traffic towards blog like Search Engine Optimization, Social Promotion, Advertising, Offering Giveaways and much more. But Today, we're going to take a deep look at the sub item category of Social Promotion. Here I'm going to show you that how can you drive traffic from Google+ to your blogs.
I hope everybody here know about Google+ very well. It is a social networking site just like Facebook where people can get in touch with each other. It is a new social networking site which has attracted billions of users in very less time. Now for bloggers, It is a good opportunity to grab more traffic with G+ and also use it to be connected with friends, fans, relatives and loved ones.
1. Start Official Page of Your Blog at Google+
Just as you might have created Facebook Page of your blog, You should also create page on Google+ as it is free, easy and effective. While creating page, try to put awesome logo and cover at your page in order to gain more audience attention. After this, get a verified icon on your page by linking your blog to G+ page and also put Google+ badge in your blog to obtain followers. At last, Try to share your awesome blog content on that page to gain traffic from there. Also remember this point that sharing posts on page with a big zero followers is not going to get something so try to increase your page followers as more as you can.
2. Stylify Way Of Sharing Posts
It is not only important to share posts with high audience in pages or profiles but your post look also matters to get much views, plus ones and clicks. In short, while sharing posts we should do some magic with it by which people may get attracted and land on our blog through that post. In order to put that kind of magic in posts while sharing, I've some tips for it which I'm gifting you. First of all, Try to write attractive main heading title like I've done in this post to attract more people. Secondly, customize the thumbnail by setting good image and description in it. And also put image sometimes in these posts. After that you should use hashtags to spread your post on Google+.
3. Target More People and Also Send Them Emails
While sharing posts in Google+ profile, we shoud also take a look that whom we're sending this post. Basically, There are some default circles in everyone's account such as Friends, Family, Following, Public, Your Circls and many more. So, here I'm talking about them to see in which circle this post is going to be shared. I recommend you to add every circle while sharing so that the post may go viral and also to get high traffic.
The above image is making it clear that how can we add every circle while sharing post. And yes, I forgot to mention about sending emails to them. Basically, We can't send to such audience but we can send emails to only "Your circles" group as the tick mark message tells that. But we should also try to send them in emails as it can help to gain a bit of more traffic.
4. Join Communities in Your Blog Niche
Another thing which we can do to get traffic from Google+ is that joining some niche related communities and participating with them. Just like Groups on Facebook, Communities can also be called groups on Google+. And remember this point that we've to only join our blog niche related communities otherwise joining others can waste the time. So, search the communities and join them. Also try to join such communities which may have good number of audience or members. You should also point out before joining any community that does it allows to share blog posts or not. If Yes, Then just enter there without thinking. Once you've joined some communities then share your blog posts there and also participate there.
5. Implement Share and +1 Button in Your Blog
This is the 5th tip for driving traffic from Google+ to our blog that we've to implement share and +1 button in our blog. You can put these buttons in the bottom of the post, below post title or in any plugin or widget that you're using for social sharing. Simply, These buttons will allow visitors of your blog to share your blog posts on their own Google+ profiles. If someone have fallen in love with your blog content then there is no doubt that he/she will not share your posts on his/her profile. So, Basically it will help you to spread your blog more and more on Google+ and get traffic from there.
What're Your Thoughts About This?
These were some tactics to drive traffic from Google+ to blogs and hope everyone has got the points easily and understood the way of driving traffic from Google+. Maybe I've missed some ways for this but if you know more methods then share it with us in comments as we're here to teach and learn with each other. Also try to share your thoughts about this article in comments and share this post in your G+ profile. Take a lot of care and Happy Promoting!
