We have pretty much established what a fan I am of blogging and the search engine opportunities you get with blogs that you simply don’t get with static sites. And we have pretty much established as well, that blogs as a business model is the new wave of doing business online. What I want to get into today is keeping the traffic flowing to your blog. Once you can get a steady stream traffic coming you’ll make money.
There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal Web ages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are traffic techniques you can use to maintain a steady flow of traffic day in and day out. When you first start out try to do a blog post a day. At least for the first 30 days and be sure to optimize your post properly.
Proper use of keywords and keyword phrases is key to getting your post listed in the search results of the search engines. The reason I say for the first 30 days at minimum is because you want the search engines to sit up and take notice of you and the content your are creating. Once this begins they will start to crawl your site more than once a day. (more…)
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