How can you get more traffic to your blog.

These days the internet is full of people and websites looking for information and/or providing the information. The main thing that drives any web-site or blog owner crazy is that "HOW DO I GET MORE TRAFFIC TO SEE MY CONTENT?".
Well there are few methods to get more traffic to your content are listed below.
1. Know your audience.
You have to know the behavior of your audience, Like -what do they want,-What information to give them which they might find helpful and share the info to their friend circle. For that you have to communicate with your audience, Organise some giveaways, Appreciate them.
2. Participate in their gathering.
You have to understand the audience's nature to better understand them and make yourself useful to them. For this visit the blogs, Facebook pages, or any other community forum which sends you the most traffic.
3. SEO (Search engine optimisation).
Make your content seo friendly, Because most sites get their traffic from search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing. For making your content SEO friendly you have to include seo friendly "Keywords" in your content so that the search engines shows your content first to someone searching for information.
TO find the keywords people use in their search query goto this amazing website Keywordtool.
4. Use the SOCIAL MEDIA.
The second most important factor to get traffic to your site or blog is "Social Media" which is Facebook,Twitter,Instagram. Head to these social media platforms and find the audience which has similar interest as your site. For that you can use search tools. For example if youe want to find peoples who has interest in pets,Then just search the facebook for "pets". You'll get many search results, Find the pages with name pets name and most users for that page. After finding that page the next step is to join that page and that's it. You are now in a community of peoples who likes pets.
5. Analyse the results.
The best way to find out what works for your site and what doesn't you have to analyse the results. To do that head to the Google Analytics which is the best yet completely free tool to analysing the result of your hard work. It helps you to find couple things like
- Traffic source
- Page views
- New visitors
- Returning visitors
- Bounce rate
- Average visiting time. etc
6. Using media (Pictures,videos)
People says 'A pic can say thousand words' which is absolute true fact. Because the media has very impotence to get traffic. A pic help you to make yourself easily understand the audience. And the other thing is that people find solutions of their problems in the google image search too. The image displayed there has the backlinks connected to your sites. Which means if people want to know the source of that pic they'll end up at your site.
7. Include lot's of keywords in post.
There, i said it again. The keyword is the way to your site through the search engines. Make a good research on the traffic attracting keywords before posting any content. For example if you are writing about 'ways to teach you pets' then make a title more attractive like "How to tech pets".
8. Focus on the design of the site.
While designing the site, Think like one of the visitors of your site and ask yourself 'If i were a visitor would i like the design?' Make your content easily discover able and make the navigation of your site easy.
9. Promote you site.
After writing your posts you have to tell people about it which means you have to promote your content(Site,Blog).
For that post on the social media with links to your content, advertise on Q+A sites like REDDIT and QUORA with links to your content. If you have a budget to spend then buy yourself some audience through google's ad program "Google Adword" or facebook ads..