Saturday, October 22, 2011

Traffic Generation: Blogging For Visitors

Blogging is an excellent way to get more visitors to your website. If your site is a blog then you already have this taken care of. If you just have a standard HTML website you'll certainly want to consider adding a blog to your site as well. The search engines tend to rank blogs very highly and it's easy for you to update the content or to outsource it to your writers.

Tip #1 - Search Engine Optimize Your Blog

The first thing you need to do after you set up your blog is to make sure it is search engine "friendly". That means adding some plug-ins and optimizing your content.

A popular plugin you'll want to check out is the All in One SEO Pack.

You should also change your Permalink setting in the admin area to %permalink%, because that will optimize the titles of your entries. Instead of each post having a long URL composed of numbers and letters, it will contain your title.

This will help you rank higher so you can get more traffic.

Tip #2 - Optimize your content

You should definitely make sure that your blog content is optimized for search engines. That means doing your keyword research and including your keyword in the title, first paragraph, body, and last paragraph. Your content should be relevant to your niche, and you should link to internal pages in your website to give your site an extra boost.

Tip #3 - Ping your blog.

Pinging your blog is very important because it alerts the search engines and blog search engines when you update your contact.

WordPress (the most popular blogging platform) automatically pings your blog entries for you if you tell it to.

Tip #4 - Submit your site to RSS feed engines.

There are sites out there that are dedicated to collecting blog feeds so that readers can quickly and easily find blogs they are interested in many niche topics. These readers are great because they syndicate your content by using your RSS feed, and they also give you a link back to your blog.

There are many different sites out there, but the most popular is Technorati.com

This is where many people go to search for blogs they might be interested in. You can also claim your blog at the site, which has its own benefits. If you update your blog you want to save each page as a favorite in Technorati. Other people can then pick up on your content, and you will get more traffic as a result.

Tip #5 - Blog often.

The more often you blog, the more often your site will get spidered. This means that new blog posts will be indexed in the search engines quickly and you will start to become a "favorite." This doesn't mean you have to blog every day (though it helps). Just post as often and as consistently as you are comfortable with.

Both people and the search engines like to see freshly updated content. That means you'll see a lot more traffic if you're able to add a few new blog posts per week or so.

For example, you may want to make it a habit to blog at least three times every week around the same time. If people get a feel for when it's a good time to stop by they will visit more often. Best of all, people will start passing out your blog link and you'll get more links and more people visiting than ever before.

Ashish Patel is a well known Affiliate Marketer and Blogger. You can join his 7 days E-course to learn basics of affiliate marketing, blogging and product creation.


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