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7 Ways to Increase Site Pageviews

by Alfa Mercado on March 27th, 2008

How to Increase PageviewsPageview is dead! - This is so 2 years ago, I know. But do you really believe that using pageviews (one way to measure a site’s importance by using stats tools that count the number of views a page on your site got from one visitor) is really dead?

I don’t. Why? Here are some major reasons why pageview is still in:

- Direct advertisers still use it as a metric in determining if the ad spot is worth the squeeze

- Blog networks still pay bloggers some good money if they up their blogs’ pageviews

- YOU still check your pageviews stats. :-)

Like Google Pagerank, Pageviews is still one of the metrics that weren’t dethroned yet as ways of telling if a site is engaging enough. It still makes money for many - sweet and simple.

So how do you increase pageviews on your blog? Darren Rowse wrote about 11 tips to help visitors stay longer. I’m highlighting 7 of my favorite ways to increase pageviews:

1. Emphasize related posts - I sometimes add short descriptions of the related posts to introduce them to new visitors.

2. Interlink within posts - my favorite way of increasing site pageviews. You can link to categories and search results as varieties of this method.

3. Highlight Key Posts and Categories in your Blog’s Hotspots - this will need the cooperation of your site’s design. Creating a list of Top 10 Posts on your sidebar is one way to do this.

4. Compilation Pages - This is similar to tip no. 3. But this one requires a separate mother page for your top lists of posts. It’s like making a differently organized sitemap. I remember Darren also calling these as “Sneeze Pages” since they help propel readers to read those compilations of related links. One top blogger that does this very well and quite often is Skellie.

5. Series - This is what Shai is currently doing with the A-Z of Making Money Online

6. Build an Interactive Blog - aside from applying tip no. 7, this one can be accomplished with the help of plugins like Subscribe to Comments and these traffic-building tips

7. Quality Content - is still king. ‘Nuff said.

I’d like to add including appealing images (I know because I fall prey to this) and social network marketing as other effective ways that will drive more eyeballs to your archives.

Got something we don’t know about increasing blog pageviews? Feel free to share them.

image credits to sxc.hu

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