There are plenty of ways to increase a site’s traffic. Cross
promotions, social media marketing and many other strategies can be
incorporated in order to make your site more popular and increase its
traffic. When your site is using WordPress as a CMS, there are also a
lot of plugins that can simplify these tasks. We are going to take a
look at
some of the best in this article.
some of the best in this article.
- Sharebar
As the name suggests, Sharebar is a WordPress plugin that adds a
floating share bar to your site. Unlike other plugins that display
static icons, Sharebar actually connects to the social networking sites
and display native Share buttons from each of them.
You can also persuade users to share using Sharebar thanks to its
display of stats. The number of times a page has been shared can often
increase the sharing rate perpetually.
To make it even better, Sharebar is very light. It will not slow your
side down simply because it is loaded asynchronously. You can use
Sharebar to increase your site’s exposure by quite a long way.
- WP to Twitter
WP to Twitter is another plugin that can help you share quality
content to social media. You don’t have to even worry about sharing
manually, because WP to Twitter will post a tweet every time you post a
new article.
The process of automatically tweeting new posts is actually very
simple. You start by creating a template for your tweets. You can add
hashtags, titles and even a shortened link to the tweet. Once the
template is set, WP to Twitter will automatically tweet your new posts.
WP to Twitter is a set-it-and-forget-it kind of WordPress plugin. It
also comes with a Twitter widget that you can use to display your
tweets.
- SumoMe Popup and Headers
SumoMe is no stranger to WordPress users. The SumoMe complete suite
of WordPress plugins has been helping WordPress users add a lot of
interesting features to their blogs and websites. What I want to focus
on in this article is the SumoMe Popup and Headers.
The plugin can be used to display a popup that shows a subscription
form. This is a good way of getting more users to subscribe to your
website. Be sure to time the popup properly and to have a good design as
well as clear content.
- All in One SEO Pack
There are plenty of SEO plugins for WordPress, but All in One SEO
Pack is perhaps the most comprehensive yet easiest to use of them all.
Once installed, you can fine-tune every page’s SEO parameters, from
keywords, descriptions and key titles all the way to Twitter cards and
Open Graph elements.
Other additional features include the ability to search for duplicate
contents. We all know how much duplicate contents could hurt a site’s
SEO performance. The WordPress plugin also helps review each page’s SEO
performance and give you a clear analysis of what you can improve.
- Scribe
Scribe is a content research tool for WordPress users. It helps you
identify trends, top (relevant) keywords to aim for based on the
existing contents of your site. It taps into the Trends engine of
multiple search engines and provide you with quality information to
begin with.
Scribe is simply a must-have if you want to increase your site’s
traffic. It is a good way to keep up with popular searches. As you
fine-tune your content to these searches, you should see a surge of new
visitors almost immediately.
- Facebook Comments
I don’t really like third-party comments plugins such as Disquss, but
this one is an exception. Facebook is still such a huge social network
that not offering a chance for Facebook users to comment using their
IDs is just a bad mistake. Besides, you can also use Facebook Comments
to help gain more followings or subscribers.
Alternatively, you can use Jetpack’s own unified login for
commenters. The plugin works as effectively in getting more subscribers.
- Websites Mobile Optimization
If your site is not mobile optimized already, this next plugin will
certainly help you. For just $50, Websites Mobile Optimization will
optimize your site for mobile users. With over 50% of today’s internet
traffic coming for mobile devices, not having a mobile-friendly site is
simply unacceptable.
With everything that has been outlined in mind, what do you
personally think about the WP plugins that we have mentioned? We can
guarantee that most of these will surely give you a traffic boost on
your website, which is exactly what you might be looking for.
