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How To Boost Traffic To Your Blog:How to write a better blog?
Sources of traffic and how to write blog that boost
traffic?
Where does the traffic come from? Where my
readers come from?
It's essential to know the sources of
traffic. Then, you know where your effort should go to boost
traffic to your blog.
The sources of traffic:
Your blog itself Major search engines and
Directory: Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL,... External
links
First thing first. Whatever techniques or tips you hear about
how to bring traffic to your blog, don't get lost the foremost
important thing: your blog itself!
Your blog itself should be something people like to read and
like to link.
People are not waiting for you. They even don't know you. But
they'll start noticing you if your posts cater their interest
and they'll spread your blog to their friends. The quality of
your blog is superior to any other techniques such as search
engine optimization (SEO). But it seems some blogger apt to
forget this yet the majorities are providing good blog. This is
common sense, right? Nothing new, huh?
OK, here are four
tips how to make your blog attractive:
Write
something controversial,topical, and pithy. And make your blog
title attractive but don't forget to include keyword in your
title. The word "keyword" will appear several times in rest of
post, meaning it's just important! You may want to read, Traffic to Blog:Keyword Research, to know why
keywords are important and how to find keywords that brings
traffic to your blog, if you haven't read. It also guides you
how to find topical keywords. Write as frequently as
possible.
If you just started new blog, write everyday. If
your blog already have decent traffic, just keep on writing as
frequently as you can. Both readers and search engines look for
new information. You provide new information and they will
come.
Write fresh content.
Don't just copy from
others. This not only troubles you in legal matter but also
makes your readers leave you. If you find less traffic comes to
your blog though you write every day, check whether you're
posting fresh content.
Fresh content doesn't mean that it
should deal with brand new item. It does mean that new point of
view, additional point of view, or even imitation of topic but
filled with recreated content. Provide internal link
within your blog.
If you have related post to other post,
link each other within your blog content. This helps your reader
find more information out of your blog, stay with you longer and
even come back to you again.
Furthermore, it is one of SEO
techniques. By doing inter link you can have more back links,
though they are less valuable than external inbound links. More
technically it can be used to improve the page rank of certain
blog. For example, suppose you have 5 related post, 4 have page
rank 4 and the other page rank 0. If you want to increase that
page rank of 0, you link all the other 4 posts to that post.
It'll surely improve the page rank of the lowest one. But be
aware that when you link back the higher page rank post may not
keep the original page rank. So do it under your plan and do it
moderately. Don't abuse this technique because search engines
may consider you as a search engine spammer.
The bottom
line is that moderate is always good.
In the second bullet, I wrote "You provide new information and
they will come." Oops, it's WRONG! They don't come. They don't
know whether you provided new information at all. You have to
let them know you wrote new information. This is related to the
topic that how to optimize your post search engine friendly. If
you want know more about this topic, you may want to read Search engine optimization for bloggers.
About the author:
Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing research and
analysis. His current focus is blogging and home based affiliate
business as a work-at-home scheme. He is a founder of Blog Sites and running Hom Based
Affiliate Business web site.
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