Traffic is the lifeblood of any blog. With thousands of daily visitors you are king of the hill. However, having 20 or 30 people showing up everyday and your struggling to earn a pittance. Most of us know this, but still are not taking advantage of true power posts can add to your blog. In this article, I will answer some of the most frequently asked questions about increasing blog traffic with posts.
What is one of the best ways to drive traffic to my blog?
By far one of the best ways to drive blog traffic is by posting regularly. This is the biggest advantage of blogs... you have a website that is ready made to accept and organize new content. This is why Google and the other search engines salivate over blogs. They have a constant supply of new, original content they can deliver to people searching for information. The search engines are always on the lookout for new content. If you post regularly Google will get in the habit of indexing your site often. That alone will help increase your traffic.
How can I make my posts a more effective traffic magnet?
OK you've written your blog post, and published it - So that's it right? Not quite, now it's time to give your new blog post a little bit of social love. This is one of the quickest things you can do to add some extra juice to each blog post. Make sure you Social Bookmark as soon as you publish your post. Now, before you run off and bookmark your post to every Social Media site in the know universe... try this instead. The best approach is to pick only 4 or 5 places to bookmark your post. This way you don't look like the king of spam. In this case less is truly more.
Is there anything else I can do to get more out of my posts?
I'm glad you asked. We are now going to use the magic of repurposing to add the final elixir to your post's secret sauce. What is repurposing? That's a fancy word for rewriting the post. Before you groan and get the wrong idea, let me tell you why it's easier to rewrite posts. You see the information is still fresh in your mind, ideas are still swirling around and you've got momentum from writing your post. You've also probably thought of some other points you'd like to make, or even a better way to say what you've just said in your post. That's why rewriting is so much quicker and easier.
As you can imagine adding these strategies to your blogging routine can really stoke the traffic machine. Just throwing into the mix these simple steps will make each blog post much more powerful. So, the next time you write a post don't just hit the publish button, and walk away. Add these extra steps to give each post that little extra push it needs to climb the search engines.
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