What is unique visitor?

The unique visitor is the unit of traffic counting every visitors of your blog (or website) in a specific period of time. A visitor is counted as unique visitor through the IP address of his computer. A visitor using two different IP address (or 2 different computer) is already counted 2 unique visitors.

However, there are traffic tracker software that count a visitor as unique using the cookies (Wondering what cookie is? Read my article “The Cookies“). The first time visitors are considered unique visitors, then a cookie will be created. Everytime they revisit a site, they are considered as return visitors. But soon as the cookie expires, their next visit to the website is again considered unique.

But here on this article, when I mention “Unique Visitor”, I am referring to unique individual who visits your blog whether he is using many different computers with different IP addresses, we will consider him as 1 unique visitor.

Increasing unique visitors

So, how could you increase the number of the unique visitors of your blog?

1. SEO your blog. Optimize your blog for the search engine, so that it will be ranked on the top spots of the Search Engine Result Pages. The better is the rank of your blog on result pages of any search engines will lead to the increase of the number of unique visitors of your blog. Read my article, “How to SEO your blog?”
2. Commenting. Visit high traffic blogs and share your comments related to the new posts. But of course, avoid spamming the blog for it will only result to trashing your comments into the spam bin.
3. Participate in forums. Join any forums with thousands of members and are related to your blog. Participate on their discussion and make sure to include your signature with a link to your blog. Again, avoid spamming the forums.
4. Reprint article writing. Write article related to your blog and submit it to reprint article websites.
5. Social bookmarking sites submission. Submit your interesting article posted at your blog to the social bookmarking sites like digg.com, etc..
6. eBook Publishing. Write ebook and give it free to your visitors and friends and let them promote it for free. eBook can be used in viral marketing your blog.
7. Blog Review. Find bloggers who are willing to write a review of your blog.
8. Guest Blogging. Apply to other blogs as guest blogger where you can publish your article or blogpost.
9. Link Exchange. Ask other bloggers to exchange link with your blog.
10. Advertising. If you have some money to be spent for the marketing of your blog, then why not spend them for advertisements. You can advertise your blog through PPC campaign or through CPM.

I have written before an article, “Secret in Traffic and Feed Subscriber’s increase“. Consider reading that article.

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