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Seven sizzling ways to turn targeted traffic towards your blog!
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By William Johnston
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Blogs are an unbelievable way to achieve success on theinternet. Blogs can establish a web presence, express youropinions and generate serious profits. However, without visitorsa blog is useless no matter how good the content. With thousandsof blogs being created every day, you need to know exactly howto get people to your blog over everyone else's. Here are 7breakthrough ways to bring traffic to your blog:
1. Optimize your posts for the major search engines. Searchengines love blogs because they are frequently updated withfresh content. All blogs have the opportunity to make it to ahigh position on search engines but here are a few tips to beatyour competition for the top spots.
Make sure you use plenty of primary keywords in the titles ofyour blog posts.
Make sure you use secondary keywords in the body of your posts,however be careful not to use too many since this will make yourpost sound unnatural.
Use keywords in the anchor text of links in the body of yourposts since links have a higher importance to the search enginesthan ordinary text.
If possible try to use your most appropriate keyword in the URLof your blog. Search engines love keywords in the URL and thiswill have a serious effect on your positioning.
2. Write posts that people will want to read. Put yourself inthe position of someone following your blog. Always writerelevant content which will be of interest to your blogfollowers. Good content will lead people to recommend your blog.As a rule, each post should contain a single topic. If you wishto discuss two topics then break it down into two posts. Thismakes life easier for readers and makes information easier tofind. A great mistake that many bloggers make is writing large,infrequent posts. Get into the habit of writing short posts butmaking sure that you post regularly at least 3 times a week.This way, people will return to your blog because they are surethere will be something new to read.
3. Use your blog posts as articles. Writing and submittingarticles is a sure-fire way to gain more visitors. Just turnyour blog posts into articles by formatting them, and perhapsadding a bit more detail. This way you are building traffic andwriting for your blog at the same time. Recommended sites forsubmitting your articles are http://www.ezinearticles.com andhttp://www.goarticles.com.
4. Build links to your blog. This will also have a great impacton your search engine ranking, especially Google. Build links toyour blog by exchanging links with other blogs of the same topicas yours. This way you can guarantee targeted traffic. Come toan agreement with another blogger that you will each write apositive review on each other's blog. This way you will get agood testimonial for your website and receive a link on anotherblog. If you have a main website, then make sure you link fromevery page to your blog. This way you gain lots of links andwhichever page visitors enter your website, they will alwayshave the opportunity to visit your blog.
5. Ping the blog services. There are many services which trackand connect blogs all over the world. By sending a small ping toall of these services you will let them know that you exist.They will come and check you out and this could spell seriousvisitors if your blog is full of good content and is regularlyupdated. Sending this ping is not at all difficult. Just go tohttp://www.pingomatic.com where you can send a ping to a numberof services very quickly for no cost.
6. Submit your blog to blog directories. Just like if you have awebsite or an ezine, it is essential to submit your blog to thetop directories. A good listing in these directories could mean100s of visitors every day. You can find a great list of blogdirectories at http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/. Anddon't stop at blog directories. Don't be afraid to submit yourblog to the big directories such as Yahoo and Dmoz.
7. Capture your readers' email addresses. This is vitallyimportant because it is essential that you can keep in touchwith your readers so that you can update them about your blogand make sure they are still reading. Just make sure you have asubscription box on every page of your blog and offer a freebonus such as an ebook as a reward for subscribing. With a goodlist of subscribers, you can conduct surveys to find out whattopics your readers want your posts to consist of. Keeping intouch with your readers will lead them to trust you and theywill continually come back to your blog and will recommend it totheir friends.
Just be imaginative. Keep trying different techniques to gettingpeople to your blog and see which methods work best. Remember,creativity is one of the keys to internet success.
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