Promoting Your Blog

Generate Traffic With Keyword Search Engine Optimization

2010-08-13T22:49:00.002-04:00

The keywords or keyword phrases that you choose are important pathways to driving customers to your website. Through the process of SEO (search engine optimization), you will improve a websites visibility in search engines using keywords. When your site is well designed with good keywords and structure, it can result in a website showing up higher in search result pages and more often. This results in more traffic to your site and hopefully increased sales.

There are several steps that can be taken to optimize your website. Google Adwords is a popular tool for studying the amount of search queries generated by everyday people for different topics. Use this tool to determine keywords that have a high numbers of requests, making them valuable keywords to be used on your website. It also lists related keywords or phrases that could be used on your site.

Incorporate selected keywords into the text on a web page. Place them above the fold-line on a page, preferably in the first paragraph of text. Scatter them throughout the text and the last paragraph. They should flow naturally in the sentence, providing quality information to the reader. Using bullet points in an article is an excellent method for incorporating keywords and making it easier for the reader to scan articles quickly.

Include keyword, text links pointing to other pages of your website within the text. Search engines and visitors will follow these links to new pages. Use creative titles for each page on the website to draw the reader in ,and be sure to incorporate the main keyword in the title.

Take advantage of meta tags and write a cleaver short description of the page. Keep it down to one or two sentences, and be sure to include a keyword or keyword phrase. Search engines may pick up the first text encountered on the page, to be used for a search result if there is no meta tag description for the page.

The text that you prepare for a description in a meta tag, is your presentation of the web page to the reader, that’s found in a search result. Grab their attention with your words and they will click the link to your site.

Visit websites listed in the first few results, from a search query for your keyword.
Study their styles, formatting and techniques used in search engine optimization. These websites can be an excellent teacher for you to learn how to effectively use keywords and SEO.

Fifty ways to bring traffic to your website and blog

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Fifty ways to bring traffic to your website and blog

25 Ways to Drive Traffic to your Blog

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25 Ways to Drive Traffic to your Blog

In order to gain more followers you must actively promote your blog. This article gives suggestions on 25 ways to promote your blog.

Increase Your Traffic: Free Backlinks (Dofollow & PR6, PR7, or PR8)

2010-08-11T01:24:00.000-04:00

Increase Your Traffic: Free Backlinks (Dofollow & PR6, PR7, or PR8)

Use Social Bookmarking Properly

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Social bookmarking sites can generate huge traffic for your website or blog. Being listed on the front page of a popular social bookmarking site can get tens of thousands of visitors to your blog. Some social bookmarking sites allow "do follow" links back to your site. These links will boost your search engine ranking.

Many people submit their blog to social bookmarking sites and expect tons of new readers to their blog. That's not quite how it works. The key word is "social". Social bookmarking sites are a community. In order to get more visibility for your posts you must be active on the sites. Add those with similar interests as friends, comment on posts that interest you and bookmark interesting sites other than your own. These things will get you and your bookmarks noticed in the community.

There are an overwhelming number of social bookmarking sites you can use to get new readers to your blog. It's impossible to stay active on them all. Choose 5 or so that you like and stick with them.

List of popular social bookmarking sites.

Share Your Knowledge On Other Sites

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A very effective, but often overlooked way of finding new readers for your blog is to write articles for other sites. There are two ways in which this drives more traffic to your blog. The first, and most obvious way, is by directing readers to your blog via a link at the end of your article and/or your profile on the article site. The second way is that it creates backlinks to your blog. Search engines recognize these links and take them into consideration when ranking your blog.

A common mistake bloggers make when posting to other sites is posting an exact copy of their blog post to the article site. Search engines will penalize you for the duplicate content and this will kill your search engine ranking. Your posts should be rewritten before being posted on the article site. This can be time consuming, but will pay off in the long run. You can save time by using a goodarticle spinning and submission service. Human Rewriter offers a $5 free trial to new customers. If you are just starting out you may want to save some money by using a free article spinning software.

In addition to gaining exposure for your blog, some sites will actually pay you for your articles. Some pay a set fee for the article. Some share advertising revenue generated by your articles. Others allow you to place Adsense or other affiliate links on your article pages.

When using this method you will want to post on as many article sites as possible. Click here for a list of good article sites to submit to.