As a blogger, everyone wants traffic to their blog to generate some revenue (or) to share something. To drive traffic, we need to perform an activity called Search Engine Optimization [SEO] to drive and increase website traffic.

No matter what you do and how you do? but your website traffic was not increasing at all. Also, it doesn’t make enough money.

Increase Your Website Traffic

Well, I am having some good news for those bloggers and webmasters, to learn some possible tricks to increase website traffic by just tweaking some small changes in your blog (or) website.

Let’s discuss these changes and to-do list in the rest of the article, but before that, you should realize one thing, Search Traffic is not everything. However, most bloggers were entirely relying on Search Engine traffic is the only means and work every day to improve their blog rank.

They perform various activities in both On-Page and Off-Page routine with an aim of the first-page rank in Google. But when you see that there are no changes often, less traffic (or) no traffic to your blog from search engines, you will be fed up.

Otherwise, your SEO giving you very good results and at one time, Google rolls out an algorithm update, and your blog gets hit and lost its ranking.

There are lots of articles about how to increase your website traffic? But when you look at them, there is no solid proven system that tells you actionable step by step procedure.

When you have the right systematic procedures to apply, you can implement them and you can see significant growth in your traffic numbers. In this post, we are going to discuss tips about, How to increase website traffic and blog traffic by leveraging different traffic sources. Before getting into this thing, first, let me explain to you the different sources of traffic.

Different Sources of Website Traffic

Direct Traffic

When people land on your website either by typing your blog URL directly in their browser’s address bar (or) from a bookmark. Sometimes, URLs from emails are also categorized as direct blog traffic.

Referral Traffic

When other websites start sending visitors to your blog, then that traffic was called referral traffic. This can be possible through placing your banner ads (or) text ads in other blogs.

By Guest Posting also, you can get referral links from another blog. Off-Page practice such as Link Building, Blog commenting, Forum participation contributes to referral traffic.

Social Traffic

The name itself describes that the visitors coming from different social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus were called social traffic. When you post any updates on your timeline (or) direct link to the lead page will drive social traffic.

Organic Traffic

It is otherwise called Search Engine Traffic (or) Natural Traffic, which means people visit your blog by clicking the link in the search engine result pages. Major search engines are Google, Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, etc, will list your blog based on your keywords in their search results.

When people search for something and if your blog matches their search, chances are your blog may show up at the top of their search results.

There are some other methods to drive website traffic and those are email marketing, SMS marketing, starting a CPC/PPC campaign, etc. So now, you got an idea that there are so many different sources of traffic to your blog.

Let’s see how to leverage this traffic and increase your overall blog traffic to get more sales and revenue.