5 types of posts to explode your blog traffic

If you want to grow your blog, here are 5 types of blog posts that can help you increase your blog traffic fast.

Aaaand we thought writing about what we ate in a day will make millions of people come to our blog, read our stuff and just love us forever.

(How did we not turn out to be a narcissist when we took that personality test is a mystery to us).

Well now we know: If you want people to come to your blog, read your stuff and care about who you actually are – you need to give them something they want.

The type of content that will drive the most traffic to your blog is simple, simple and actionable.

Most of all, your content solves a common BURNING problem.

The Key To Creating Viral Posts

No matter what you blog about, writing viral posts is mostly about creating great content. We know. But it’s true. By doing so people who come once are more likely to share your blog with others and to come back in the future.

Grammar is unquestionably HUGE when it comes to blogging and you shouldn’t ignore it either. Put the commas where they need to be, don’t use the same keyword 30 times throughout your article (Google is also not a fan of that) and stop writing “your” instead of “you’re”.

We're not saying we're not making these mistakes myself, we're human and we're not a genius, but we recently started using Grammarly and it’s such a relief. Especially when we're batching content – we can’t seem to see our own mistakes, but having Grammarly installed helps a lot! If you want to try for yourself – you can start out with the free plan.

5 Types Of Blog Posts To Grow Your Blog Traffic

As for what to write, here are 5 types of posts to write every month, so that your blog goes viral.

1. Lists

We love lists. Lists do well. They do because they give you options.

They hold a promise that if one of the options doesn’t work for you, some of them will. So our chances of a post solving our problem are HIGHER, the more options we have on that list.

For example, if we need stock photos and find a list of 10 free stock photo sites online – we will click.

Even if we know most of these sites, we would check out the article anyway, because we might find a new site that could be a better match for our needs.

Just keep this in mind: people look online for ideas, rarely FACTS.

Ideas that help you solve a problem.

For example, we wrote a blog post we found fascinating about the health benefits of eating more fruits and vegetables and how they could even make you smarter. That post took us long to research and write. But, people didn’t care about it. Everyone knows they need to eat fruits and vegetables. Now, that post was a list, but it wasn’t something people needed. As a result, it didn’t have many shares (not for the lack of promotion).

On the contrary we wrote a list blog post about 5 anti-inflammatory foods you need to eat daily and it gets lots of shares and views.

Why?

Well, if you struggle with inflammation and see this post in your search results, you’re gonna want to know what these foods are. And you’ll click through.

They might be the DIRECT solution to your problem.

A reason why you should eat fruits and vegetables unfortunately isn’t.

Good types of list posts would be:

• foods to eat to lose weight
• tips to grow your traffic
• jobs to make money fast
• essentials for a newborn
• products or natural remedies to get rid of acne
• things to do when you’re bored or sad.

2. Roundups

Similar to lists – a roundup is a collection of online resources (think blog posts, videos or pictures), that help solve a problem/help the reader do something she wants to do.

Some of our most successful posts are roundups of workouts. We are not committed to filming myself while we work out (not only because our face gets red like a tomato), so we just make lists of workouts we've tried and loved.

Examples:

• 15 healthy vegan dinner recipes
• 10 workouts that will help you get abs
• 6 simple tips to organize your home like a pro
• 9 bloggers share how they make over $5000 month
• 20 quotes that will motivate you today

3. Ultimate Guide

Now an ultimate guide is the mother of helpful and useful posts. It’s a monster of an article.

Not just a simple how-to – it’s an article that teaches you EVERYTHING you need to know about a certain topic.

Another example would be if we write the ultimate guide on eating clean – we will not just include what foods to eat and how you need to prep, but how to stock your pantry, your fridge, how often to eat, which plates to use, mental “hacks” (we hate this word), what to have for breakfast, lunch, dinner and a couple of recipes to start.

We haven’t yet written an article like this, because we haven’t found the time, but it’s definitely on our messy to-do list. Because we know, if done well, these ultimate guides can get traffic for years to come.

4. How To/ Step by Step (incl. Recipe / Workout)

This one is a no brainer. Just think of how often you look online for tips on how to do something. A recipe, a workout or a tutorial to do anything. Like always, the more helpful and detailed you go, the better.

Don’t overcomplicate things, make it simple for the reader to take action.

A great goal to have when writing a post is to help your reader do something.

One of our popular recipes is this quinoa with tomatoes. We seriously made it in 10 minutes without even planning to take a picture or post it. But it was so simple and so good, that we wrote down the recipe and posted it online. It turned out to be a hit.

5. Personal journey/transformation/experience that solved your problem

With so many generic tips online, there’s one thing that proves to always stay current and helpful: The experience of someone else.

Tips from others who succeeded, or tried something you intend to try, work well.

We don’t write many articles about our personal journey and we think it’s a big mistake. It’s definitely on our list.

The one thing you need to keep in mind when writing based on your experience: BE HONEST and helpful.

Don’t focus so much on promoting products as on telling the truth. Sure if you used a product that solved a particular problem, definitely mention it.

Examples:

• How we lost 20 pounds by walking every day
• How we made $40 in one hour working online
• We went vegan for a month and here’s what happened

Alright, now this concludes our blog post about blog posts 😀 that will bring you massive traffic. We hope you found it helpful if you have any other tips or examples of posts that bring loads of traffic, let’s see them in the comments below 🙂