Get Traffic To Your Blog Following These 15 Steps

In this article we hope to give you useful information on how to get more traffic to your blog. Useful for both beginners and you who have had a blog for a longer period of time and wish to see more traffic.

1. Use WordPress and only WordPress! Google and WordPress work closely together so WordPress is optimized completely in a way that the Google search bot like.

2. Write articles that are really useful. Off course they should be keyword optimized but if you really want traffic to your blog in the long run the article has to be of use. Imagine you were reading it yourself to get the information you want.

3. Make content which is also relevant in 10 years! If it is still relevant in 10 years the content is somehow deep and useful. It also forces you to be more serious in your writing as you have to try and dig deep in yourself to find what is relevant for you and for otheres.

4. Write 10-15 articles about a certain topic – between 300 to 700 words. Perhaps you have a certain category in your dog training site called “training the Scottish terrier”. Make 20 articles about training that kind of dog. Having over 10 articles today is like having one article ten years ago.

5. Make a new post every day. Creating new content is an absolute must. It literally forces modern search engine robots to visit your blog and check it out which will help human visitors to find you. Write relevant, informative and keyword-oriented content and you will receive more traffic.

6. SEO changes constantly. In 2010 huge content blogs are in. Putting links in the top of your article to other pages in your site helps you to rank high. Place your keywords in the start of the title and make sure they are generously present in the first 200-300 words of your article. 20% of the text should be the keywords or keyword related.

7. Submit the articles to directories – we recommend Unique Article Wizard. It blasts unique versions of your articles to up to 1000 directories in one setting. Profoundly effective.

8. Create buzz around your blog by announcing it on Facebook and other social media.

9. Get your readers emails by offering a newsletter. In this way people will be reminded regularly about your blog when they open their email and see a newsletter from you. This also create a relationship between you and your visitors.

10. Begin researching online tools and traffic generating software. Use www.pingomatic.com to tell all the search engines that you have made a new post. The related sites plugin tool displays a list of links to similar websites. Other websites that have this tool installed on their site will also send you relevant traffic. Research other WordPress plugins that will optimize your site. There are many of them out there!

11. Visit other blogs with similar content and leave comments that show that you have insight in that field leaving a link to your site.

12. If you have other websites remember to link to your blog from all the pages on that website.

13. RSS! A lot of people don’t know what it is and what it can be used for. Its actually a great way to generate traffic. RSS sends your articles to common databases which can be accessed by other peoples newsreader software. If people like your blog posts they will subscribe to your rss feed.

14. Distill your blog, meaning analyze it and take that which does not work away and improve that which works well. Which of the posts are popular and why? What kind of people visit your blog and how did they find it? Make it a habit to analyze your site once a week or once a month depending on how big it is.

15. Work at it! Never give up. Give yourself a timeframe of 3 months where you add a post every day. In 3 months your site will have 90 articles. That is not bad. Once you have traffic to your site you can start thinking about monetizing it. But first of all create traffic and ensure that the quality is good.

Hans Hvass who has made a living from the internet for some years has written a very practical 30 page guide Making Money Blogging Step By Step Guide. Get a free copy for a limited time period. Go to his blog about internetmaketing, music and spirituality