Blogging has become a favorite past-time for many people and it has also become a favorite money-making habit. Most blogs that you’ll see will either have ads from Google Adsense, Adbrite, Bidvertiser or some other pay-per-click engine while others sell affiliate products. Others blog just for fun while others blog for business.
But no matter what you’re blogging about or what your reason for blogging is, chances are you want the world to know about your blog and the most common way for them finding your blog is via the search engines. That said, you need to blog with the search engines in mind if you want to increase blog traffic. Would that be hard? No. It’s actually pretty easy.
Step 1. Go to Keyword Discovery and type a word or two describing the topic you’re about to right about. In this case, I typed in “blog traffic”. Keyword Discovery returned me a list of search phrases that people searched. The higher the number the more the keyphrase is searched by people.
Step 2. Choose a keyphrase from the generated list and do a search for that keyphrase in Google. If the top 10 have the search phrase in their titles then skip that. We want an easy one. Keep on choosing a keyphrase until you find an “easy” keyphrase. By that, I mean a keyphrase that is not in the title of most of the pages returned. In this case, my easy keyphrase is “increasing blog traffic”.
Step 3. As soon as you find your easy keyphrase, start blogging with that keyphrase in mind. Include the keyphrase in the title of your post and include it naturally in the body of your post.
Optional Step 4. Those three steps are likely to give you good traffic but if you want to be sure then the last step is to build links to your new post. This can be done in many ways but my favorite is to simply ask a fellow blogger to link to your particular blog post in return of the favor of doing the same.
There you go. Increasing blog traffic is not really that hard.
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