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Increase Blog Traffic

July 11, 2008

„ A great site without traffic is like owning a beautiful huge store in the middle of nowhere! “

Yes, it’s MUCH about getting traffic to the web site. I am not saying it’s all about it, because you need quality content to offer as well. You see, website owner can deliver wonderful idea, amazing products, but without traffic, his business is death. So, let me say again….ITS MUCH ABOUT TRAFFIC!!! You can have fancy landing page, even forum for your website, or whatever, but without traffic, you are without a business. How to increase and get constant traffic to the blog?

If you’re just starting, you should know that blogging is a great way to increase traffic. When you are writing on a regular basis your blog will drive traffic automatically (ping and posts submission to RSS Directories). And besides that automation here are few good ways to promote your blog:

First, blog SEO

Vitally important is to optimize properly your blog for search engines. If you are new to this, I have made a weblog post how to avoid mistakes and avoid losing SEO page rank. Also I recommend putting related images to every post. You see, images are totally different type of promotion and traffic, because Google and other engines are using particular robots only for “alternative text” behind images. Discover here how properly to optimize images for your blog, and to increase traffic that way. Don’t forget to submit your blog to Google, Yahoo and MSN (although if your blog is totally new, maybe is better to wait month or two, until there is some content on the website). And above averting, if you’re using WordPress as a publishing platform or just starting with blogging watch my free WordPress SEO video tutorials (you will see which plugins are important for SEO optimization, correct permalink structure and similar matter with purpose to increase blog traffic).

Second, Article Submission

To article directories you can submit blog posts, but its better if you spin a little those articles or submit completely new. Why would you do that? Quite simple, in the submitted article, you will include a link to your web site. Submitted to many directories you are getting many backlinks and it will boost your search engine ranking. Also it will provide direct traffic from people who visits those article directories.

Here are some major directories to submit your articles to:

• Ezinearticles
• Articlefeeder
• Selfgrowth
• Knowhow-now
• Goarticles

Article marketing is a proven way to get traffic. It needs some time to provide results, but eventually, if done correctly and often, it will substantially increase traffic to the site.

Third, blog communities:

• MyBlogLog
• BlogCatalog
• Bumpzee

These sites are great way to connect with other bloggers and to use them in promotional marketing. Use tags to find your market.

Fourth, blogging traffic exchanges:

(You place widgets on your blog sidebar pointing to other blogs, and at the same time, the other bloggers are aiming to your blog).

• Entrecard
• BlogUpp!
• Spottt

These websites can drive traffic away from your blog, but at the same time will drive to it. Don’t worry, just concentrate on quality content. Find here some tips and techniques for making the content valuable. Also keep in mind that there is saying in internet marketing world regarding traffic “The more you send the more it returns to you”.

Anyway, these sites may not be an effective traffic generator for you. Test it. You won’t know unless you try it. If it doesn’t benefit you after a trial, you can always uninstall widgets.

Besides blogging exchanges, also common traffic exchanges, like Trafficswarm and Linkreferral, can increase traffic. They can be used for common website, but as well blog promotion.

This is end of the 6th step from How to create a successful blog. Happy blogging!

Tag plugin

July 11, 2008

For every post you can determine keywords related to your article. At the bottom of each post those keywords will be displayed, and when visitor clicks on particular tag, blog will open a new page with all posts you have made with that keyword (tag). Visitor will be able to browse through posts and see related articles for that tag. It will also help in proper disposal of your articles on blog directories.

UTW WordPress plugin

This is the 7th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial.

This video will show you how to install and configure Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin for WordPress weblog. This plugin will create tag pages for your weblog. That way you will get more in-depth pages and it will help Google spiders to index your blog better.

Note: Ultimate Tag Warrior is not supported in WordPress 2.3+. Only install it if you’re using version prior 2.3.

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Related posts plugin

July 11, 2008

Welcome to the 6th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. This video is guide for related post plugin for WordPress blog.

Note: to setup this plugin you will need to paste the code into the theme editor. The video is explaining that very well. I just want to warn you, whenever you’re changing something in WordPress theme editor make sure to copy whole code into the text editor on your computer before you make any change. After you have the copy of the code on your computer you can safely paste additional code from related post plugin, (what you will see in the video). This way, if something goes wrong, you can always paste back original theme code to your WordPress blog.

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Google Sitemap plugin

July 11, 2008

This is the 5th video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial.

Google xml sitemaps will automatically notify search engines after every blog post. Not only Google, the plugin will notify Yahoo! MSN and Ask engines. Download Sitemaps plugin, and watch configuration.
This video will show you how properly to optimize this plugin for your WordPress blog.

After plugin set up, I suggest you sign up for Google webmaster tool and add your Sitemap.xml to Google.

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WordPres Blog META Tags Optimization

July 11, 2008

Welcome to 4th WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. This video is showing you how to configure “All in one SEO” WordPress plugin, which installation you have seen in previous video. If you are using WordPress version latter than 2.5 you will find options for this plugin in your WordPress admin/ settings/ All in one SEO.

Keyword in Title tag

Its most important part of tag optimization. Your page title is the link that will appear in search results. Since it is what people click on in the search results and is the first thing people see about your site. Keyword in Title tag should be close to beginning. Title tag with 10 - 60 characters, and without special characters.

Keyword in Description META tag

This plugin enables you to put Meta description for every post so you can put keywords there. Description Meta tag is average important for search engines. However certainly it should be complement to the page title and bear in mind that your description will show up on Search Engine Results Page when someone is searching. Basically, you want to describe and optimize your posts for humans rather than spamming with too much keywords (overuse of keywords can lead to Google penalization). So do not do this:

blog | blogging | |SEO| WordPress plugin | Meta Optimization

You should write natural descriptive sentences for Meta. You want to be teasing enough to somebody click on it. Imagine yourself like you are writing an ad for your post.

Keyword in Keyword META tag

• Every word in this tag must appear somewhere in the body text. If not, it can be penalized for irrelevant specification.
• No single word should appear more than twice. Other way it may be considered spam. (I found this really hard to do).

Keyword meta tag optimization is not so important, Google purportedly no longer uses this tag, but other engines do.

Here is the source where you can find more SEO optimization guidance of this kind.

Update: In the video you can see that both categories and archives are not set for noindex search engines, but due to duplicate content possibilities, I recommend you set it like on this screenshoot from my blog. This way Google will index categories, but will bypass archives and you will bypass penalties from Google for duplicate content. You can comfortably display your archive on your WordPress weblog, they will just be avoided by search engines (your categories pages will be ranked).

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WordPress SEO plugin

July 11, 2008

Welcome to the 3rd video of WordPress SEO Video Tutorial. In this video you will see how to install “All in one SEO” plugin for your WordPress blog. This way your weblog will be much more search engine friendly.

If this is your first time installing some plugin, then it’s great you will see video guide, and I suppose its much easier then reading how-to text file. Also note, almost all WordPress plugins installation is pretty the same. After the first installation, you will be confident with any plugin setup.

Download All in one SEO plugin and watch how to install it.

You may also want to check my post on must have WordPress plugins. Enjoy blogging!

Update: this video has been created with WordPress 2.3 and since then WordPress team has released upgrade version, and you will probably use version above 2.5 for your weblog. You should know that this will NOT affect on this tutorial, only pay attention that “plugins” link in WordPress above 2.5 is at the up right corner of the WordPress admin (in the video it’s on the left side).

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