so first and foremost, you need good quality content on your website... Without good quality content, your visitors aren't going to stick around, which means less subscriptions and poor user interaction; Since Google and other search engines use this interaction data to help indicate whether they should rank your site, it's important to give out good signals from the offset.
Well, as for increasing blog traffic, there are a few ways in which you can do this... via organic means (SEO, Social Media) and via paid means (PPC, Google Ads, Facebook Ads).
Most people will tell you that PPC is best for the short term, and SEO for the long-term, and although this is true, SEO is more short-term than you might think....
See if you're looking at running Google Ads, your ads rank position depends on the following
Ad Rank = Quality Score x CPC bid amount
And Quality Score is made up of SEO, UX and Ad relevancy.
Therefore, SEO, alongside website/landing page optimization will, in turn, help your PPC campaigns. So SEO is important from the offset.
Now SEO is made up of On-Page and Off-Page optimization, and although you can certainly do all of this yourself, it will be easier to outsource this task to experienced professionals.
One of the companies that has a glowing reputation in the field of SEO is The Hoth.
They provide their clients (from all over the world) with affordable SEO services and no contracts, all with 24/7 Live Chat functionality. Their packages start from $69 and some agencies even pay them $10,000 per month.
Regardless of geographical location, you want to see results...
The Hoth have a great case study demonstrating their past results, where they've improved traffic to some of their client websites by up to 842.4%