How to Get Traffic to Your Blog With SEO Basics
- By Z. MacKinnon
- Published January 31st, 2012
- Business
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You’ve had your blog up for a couple of months but it seems like your traffic is stuck at 10 or 15 visits a day. You might be making a sale a month or you might be making no sales at all. What can you do to get traffic to your blog? Are you applying the SEO basics when it comes to building your links?
You probably have already optimized your site and blog entries for SEO and you’re still not ranking well. You’ve posted articles in the directories until your brain went blank and you just couldn’t figure a way to say the same thing again and again. An alternative to driving traffic using SEO and article marketing is buying it using Pay Per Click advertising but that can get really expensive really fast especially if you are new at it.
There is another way though.
You probably already know that Google puts a lot of weight in the number of backlinks that point at your site. The number of links is important but the quality of the links is even more important. So why don’t you go out there and get a few PR 3 and above links, maybe even from your competitor, and see what that does to your page ranking?
The basic idea is this. If you can’t get the audience to come to you, then you have to go to the audience. One slick technique to accomplish this is to research your competitor’s blogs and find one that you really like. Use the Firefox SEO function and make sure they have a PR that is greater than yours.
Once you’ve selected a competitor’s blog, create an entry and do a favorable review of your competitor’s site. Use a title along the lines “My Favorite (insert niche) Blog of the Week. Make it a good solid review and include a link to your competitor.
Once it’s published, contact your compet
itor either by email from their “contact us” tab or as a comment on their site. Explain that you thought the content was so good that you wanted your audience to have a shot at it and posted a review (include a link to the review).
If the content on your site is solid, you can expect that one out of three of your competitors will reciprocate and include a link to your site even if it’s just to your review article. True this is a reciprocal link and not a one way link but if the competitor site is relevant to your own and a PR 3 or above you have just gained some significant Google juice.
A second way to “go to the audience” is to hang out where they do, on forums. To find the forums that talk about your niche simply Google your niche name and add forum. What you’re looking for are forums that are relevant to your site and that have current activity, the more the better. Lastly you want to look at the entries and see if the members have anchor text in their signatures. If they do join up.
Now that you are a member edit your signature to include anchor text back to your blog and then start to participate. When you do participate by either starting a thread or responding to one, make the participation meaningful. You want to deliver value to the forum and you definitely want to avoid spammy responses like “great thread” or “I agree” as those will be spotted for what they are and you could get booted.
Participation in these forums can not only get you a backlink but some targeted traffic as well. Just as important, you’re getting your name out among the people in your niche and in the long run that’s going to help your credibility particularly when you recommend a product.
So if you’re stuck in a rut, apply seo basics and try reaching out to the people you want as visitors. The more active you are in your niche the more successful you’ll become.
You probably have already optimized your site and blog entries for SEO and you’re still not ranking well. You’ve posted articles in the directories until your brain went blank and you just couldn’t figure a way to say the same thing again and again. An alternative to driving traffic using SEO and article marketing is buying it using Pay Per Click advertising but that can get really expensive really fast especially if you are new at it.
There is another way though.
You probably already know that Google puts a lot of weight in the number of backlinks that point at your site. The number of links is important but the quality of the links is even more important. So why don’t you go out there and get a few PR 3 and above links, maybe even from your competitor, and see what that does to your page ranking?
The basic idea is this. If you can’t get the audience to come to you, then you have to go to the audience. One slick technique to accomplish this is to research your competitor’s blogs and find one that you really like. Use the Firefox SEO function and make sure they have a PR that is greater than yours.
Once you’ve selected a competitor’s blog, create an entry and do a favorable review of your competitor’s site. Use a title along the lines “My Favorite (insert niche) Blog of the Week. Make it a good solid review and include a link to your competitor.
Once it’s published, contact your compet
If the content on your site is solid, you can expect that one out of three of your competitors will reciprocate and include a link to your site even if it’s just to your review article. True this is a reciprocal link and not a one way link but if the competitor site is relevant to your own and a PR 3 or above you have just gained some significant Google juice.
A second way to “go to the audience” is to hang out where they do, on forums. To find the forums that talk about your niche simply Google your niche name and add forum. What you’re looking for are forums that are relevant to your site and that have current activity, the more the better. Lastly you want to look at the entries and see if the members have anchor text in their signatures. If they do join up.
Now that you are a member edit your signature to include anchor text back to your blog and then start to participate. When you do participate by either starting a thread or responding to one, make the participation meaningful. You want to deliver value to the forum and you definitely want to avoid spammy responses like “great thread” or “I agree” as those will be spotted for what they are and you could get booted.
Participation in these forums can not only get you a backlink but some targeted traffic as well. Just as important, you’re getting your name out among the people in your niche and in the long run that’s going to help your credibility particularly when you recommend a product.
So if you’re stuck in a rut, apply seo basics and try reaching out to the people you want as visitors. The more active you are in your niche the more successful you’ll become.
Written by Z. MacKinnon
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