Blogging Tips that Increase Website Traffic

Blogging is probably one of the best ways to get fresh new content to your website. Search engines look only for one thing and you guessed it right, content. It doesn't matter how beautiful your website is because when bots scour your website, they look for keywords and content.

Before you start blogging, there are a few key areas to look at to ensure your website or blog gets traffic.

1. Use Social Bookmarking Websites
If you've heard of Onlywire or SocialBookmarker, use their services to instantly get your blog or articles on them. You will need to register to all the social bookmarking website but it is definitely worth the effort and your time. Do this consistently and you will see more traffic to your website and more backlinks. Most social bookmarking websites have very high traffic and good PR rankings.

2. The Power Of Videos
Videos have a much higher chance of getting good ranks then articles or content. You might notice that when you are searching for something like weight lost. You will find some videos on dieting and losing weight in the 1st page of Google. Again, do keyword research for your video title and make a good video. You don't necessarily have to use Youtube. Other high traffic video websites include Metacafe, Hulu.com, or even Google Video.

3. Keyword Research
Before you start posting anything take some time to research on keywords. Don't write something unspecific like "Golfing For Everyone". Go to Google Keywords and search for Golfing and see which keyword has high traffic. Do not go for keywords that have too much competition. I say go for those that has an average of 10,000 to 50,000 searches a month. If you go beyond that, it would be very difficult to get into the first few pages of search engines. So again to quote the above example, it is better to write something like "10 Tips To Play Golf Better".

This applies to any niche and not just the golfing niche.
Once you've chosen the right keyword. Try using it in your body(content) also. Do not repeat the main keyword too often. Try varying it and use them across your article. Search engines give more weight to your Title and the first few paragraphs of your article. Less emphasis is given to what's at the bottom of your article.

4. Use Social Bookmarking Websites
If you've heard of Onlywire or SocialBookmarker, use their services to instantly get your blog or articles on them. You will need to register to all the social bookmarking website but it is definitely worth the effort and your time. Do this consistently and you will see more traffic to your website and more backlinks. Most social bookmarking websites have very high traffic and good PR rankings.

5. Rewrite Articles
You might have hundreds or 40 articles on your blog. Sometimes you might run into the problem of not knowing what to write. When you encounter this "writer's block", search for inspiration elsewhere. For example, rewriting your previous articles or finding PLR articles and rewrite them. Doing this can also help give you fresh articles to post onto article directories. Bear in mind there are some article directories which has strict quality control, so you need to ensure you article still remains unique and doesn't look as if its written by someone else.

As you can see it does not have to take a lot of time to do a quality blog post. You don't even have to do them every day. If you are willing to spend 30 minutes or so three times a week it can really pay off for you in terms of new traffic and repeat traffic to your Internet business.

To Your Success,


Bryan Wong YH