There are a lot of ways you can improve traffic on your blog. Some of them are no-brainers but there are also some that you probably haven’t thought of. Here’s seven untapped tips to improve your blog traffic.

1. Save your best posts for the best time.
If you are cranking out content, you should have a lit of posts waiting to be published. You know some of them are better than others so why not submit them on days your blog has higher performance. Take a few minuets to log into your analytics tool and see what days your blog gets more traffic and on those days, publish the best content you have in the line up. The better performance maximizes your chances of sharing, social mentions, bookmarks, backlinks, etc.

2. Answer questions.
If you solve peoples problems chances are they will continue to come back. If you are getting questions in your comments, and in your e-mail then answer them. Chances are it really won’t take that long but the more you increase your reputation, the stronger your blog and brand will become.

3. Get away from your computer.
Go to the mall, go out to eat… Go do something totally unrelated to computers, the internet, and blogging. Look for titles and text in the places around you and think about how they can help you. Use what sticks out on your blog and see what reaction it brings. The importance of titles has been mentioned by everyone, everywhere on the internet so it must carry some kind of weight. To generate hype around a post it will be necessary to create a title that’s just as good as the post itself.

4. Use your competition.
Subscribe to industry news feeds, and feeds of blogs in your niche. Know whats poppin’ in your industry and stay relevant. Your competition can be a great source of content. Not only the feeds can help you though. Why not craft a piece of quality content and submit it to a prominent blog. They get a quality post on the site, and you get some great exposure for your blog, name, and brand once again. This is highly effective and is no harder than if you where creating some content for yourself.

5. Update your posts.
Look at your posts and see how you can improve them. Can you make the details stronger, the title better, include more links? There are a lot of strange factors that go into creating a viral post. While it is just blogging, you can’t have horrible grammar. For the most part people wont mind (myself included) some simple mistakes. But if your post reads like it was written by a ten year old, you may run into some problems. Take the time to read over your posts and you will be thankful, chances are it won’t take long for you find some errors.

6. Interlink your blog posts.
If you post a great resource or a post that’s performing well, go back to other posts and link it. For instance if you write a good post about “linksys routers,” go back to five or ten related posts in insert a link to your “linksys routers” post. Work the link into the post so it looks natural. Another great technique is creating large resource lists and updating them to include your posts as time goes on. While the list becomes increasingly popular, all of your posts will too.

7. Keyword your high traffic posts.
A lot of the time you will notice that people end up at your content for related keywords that you don’t have in the title. Taking some time to work the keywords into your title can increase your search rankings, and the traffic that goes with it. Being on the first page of search results can be extremely beneficial for many reasons.