How To Generate Traffic By Blogging

Apr 6
19:32

2013

Adam Harding

Adam Harding

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Understanding how to generate traffic by blogging is an extremely powerful skill to possess in the internet marketing world. In this article we will look at a basic blogging strategy to follow, as well as reveal the best way to make money from all your new blog traffic.

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Understanding how to generate traffic by blogging is an extremely powerful skill to possess in the internet marketing world.

Blogging is one of the most evergreen online traffic generation strategies,How To Generate Traffic By Blogging Articles and the more consistent you remain the more you are rewarded with a consistent stream of traffic and leads to your website.

In this article we will look at a basic blogging strategy to follow, as well as reveal the best way to make money from all your new blog traffic.

The easiest way to get some traffic coming into your blog is to write lots of content around targeted keywords. The aim is to get free web traffic from the search engines.

Some people might advise you to go out there and start guest blogging on existing high traffic websites. This is a powerful strategy, but I just prefer to get out there and get some content published on my own blog without hanging around waiting for people to give me permission to publish content.

So the first step is to do a bit of basic keyword research. You do not need any expensive keyword research tools to do this and the free Google keyword tool should be more than enough to get you started.

Pop into this Google keyword tool a generic keyword around the general subject area of your blog. You will then be returned with lots of results that give you even more ideas for different long tail keyword variations you can target. Whilst you are unlikely to rank on the front page of the search engines for a very generic term you can get quicker and easier traffic from the more obscure and longer phrases.

Now that you have a good idea of the sort of keywords to target it is time to get writing those blog posts!

The key to write an SEO (Search Engine Optimized) blog post is to make it a good 500 words or so, include your main keyword in the first and last paragraphs, and a few times naturally throughout the article body. Try to base each blog post around your chosen keyword in a natural way.

The idea is to get lots and lots of these blog posts typed up onto your blog over the coming months. The content does not have to be a work of art, but aim to give value to the reader and answer the questions they had been typing into the search engines to arrive at your website.

Over time your blogging traffic will increase with this method. But also share your content directly via social media whilst waiting for the SEO to kick in.