6 Ways to Increase Blog Traffic

5 January 2009 291 views One Comment

Always write valuable and original content. The main difference between static websites and blogs is that blogs are updated frequently and that content is the life blood of blogs. Content is the number one way to attract and convert visitors into subscribers, or regular returning visitors. No matter the subject of your blog make sure your content is relevant, valuable and informative and the blog traffic will come.

Next, SEO is one of the best ways to get blog traffic. Many times bloggers just title their posts at random, this is a big mistake. Keyword research should be done for each blog post title. When researching the keywords choose those that have less competition, especially if your blog has a lower Page Rank. With lower competition you will have a better chance of ranking higher in the SERPS and get more blog traffic.

Article marketing is a great way to get blog traffic too. Write articles related to your blog topic and submit them to several article sites. Interchange the links with each article you write. Remember the better your article the more those readers will want to visit your blog and read more of what you’ve written.

Make use of social networking sites to promote your blog. Many social have huge memberships and traffic and posting your content to these sites can bring you tons of blog traffic. There are over 100 social sites and they are great for networking with other bloggers as well. Make sure to also have a widget at the end of each of your posts so your visitors can submit and vote on your content on these sites.

With blogs, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a blog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent to one or more “ping servers,” which can then generate a list of blogs that have new material. This pinging mechanism is very important as it spreads an alert all over the net that you have updated your content with a new blog post. The more ping services you use the more attention and blog traffic you can get.

RSS submit sites are a fantastic source of blog traffic. Because blogs are dynamic with RSS feeds and are updated regularly with fresh content, RSS sites exist to promote such content to their own members.

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