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How To
Boost Traffic To Your Blog - How To Write A
Better Blog
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by:
Ryen Kim
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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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