Google Adwords is a great tool to drive targeted traffic to your blog. You can target specific keywords from your blog that you know people will be searching for. You’ll know the keywords from having done your research on search trends and competition when you set up your blog. Which obviously means you are putting your ad in front of a hungry audience (the best kind!).
Now there’s a lot of free and paid for information out there for Adwords. I started out by using Google Cash, it was recommended to me by a writing newsletter I subscribe to (Google Cash 3 has recently been released). I also subscribed to any free courses that I came across (they are after your email address but you can always unsubscribe afterwards).
But don’t forget Google itself! adwords.google.com explains exactly what adwords does and the best way to utilise it. It also has a help centre that’s crammed full of information, demo’s, guides, troubleshooting and FAQ’s. The information is useful and they take you through each step in producing an adwords ad. It’s all free to use, just sign up for an account and have a look around
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Showing posts with label gaining traffic to blog. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Get Traffic tro your blogs from Emails!
So how can you get traffic to your blog from emails?
Add your blog address to your email signature like we did with forums. You can add a message to the signature, inviting your recipient to pass your information on to a friend if they enjoyed your blog.
Then every time you email your list (if you have one) or family or friends, then your blog address is sent with it, giving you more exposure. And hopefully if they do enjoy your blog and pass it on, then it can become viral and bring in traffic for your blog over some time!
Add your blog address to your email signature like we did with forums. You can add a message to the signature, inviting your recipient to pass your information on to a friend if they enjoyed your blog.
Then every time you email your list (if you have one) or family or friends, then your blog address is sent with it, giving you more exposure. And hopefully if they do enjoy your blog and pass it on, then it can become viral and bring in traffic for your blog over some time!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
sites to get more traffic
Once you’ve submitted your blog to those directories, they will categorize you, and your blog will “ping” their servers every time you’ve created/updated a posting on your blog, which is a fancy way of saying “you’ve informed them that you’ve updated your blog”, which in simple terms…This does great things for your blog in terms of search engine optimization.
Once you’ve added your blog to the directories, the next important thing you need to do is submit your postings to the major Social Media Networking sites, such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and more. While it’s not required that you add every posting that you post, I do recommend it – or at least the majority of your postings. If you think somebody would be interested in reading a particular posting – submit it. It’s only going to help you in the end. Now, I bet you’re wondering how many Social Media Networks do I need to submit my article to? Well – that’s up to you, as a blogger. The more you submit to, the more traffic you’ll see and more exposure you’ll get, but, it can be time consuming. So, if you don’t have the time to submit it to all of the Social Media Networks, pick the best ones, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Google Bookmarks. Here is a list of other Media Networks that you might be interested in:
* Searchles
* Technorati
* Blogg Buzz
* Del.icio.us
* StumbleUpon
* Reddit
* Digg
* Yahoo! My Web
* Clipmarks
* BlogMarks
* Furl
* Google Bookmarks
* Blue Dot
* NetVouz
* Diigo
* Del.lirio.us
* Feedmarker
* Scuttle
* Simpy
* Mag.nolia
Now those two methods mentioned above are sure fire ways to get more traffic to your blog, but do remember, fresh and new content is needed for those methods to work. It can be a tedious, and an annoying process at first, but the end result will be well worth all of your troubles.
The next main way to get traffic onto your blog is to properly use search engines to your benefit. When you are creating postings on your blog, you will see areas within your posting form (a posting form is the form or template that allows you to post your articles) that will allow you to enter “keywords” and “keyword phrases”. What you will do in this situation is add in any keyword that you feel relates to your article. So, when somebody goes to a search engine and types in “shoes” or “brown shoes”, make sure you’ve added those keywords and keyword phrases if your posting is about shoes. It is important to stay on topic though. Don’t add in keywords about foods, if your posting is about shoes.
One last important way to generate traffic to your blog is to create a sitemap. Now, if you use Wordpress, there are automatic ways to do this. You can download a plugin that will do it for you, and make your life very easy. If you’re using another blogging platform, what you’ll need to do is go to Google’s Webmaster Tools and create a sitemap. This will allow search engines to properly dissect all of your keywords, meta tags, posting titles, etc, and break them down for better search engine results.
Now that you’ve got all of the blog directories and article submissions out of the way, it’s simply a matter of keeping fresh content on your blog, and becoming a social blogger. And what is a social blogger you ask? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like – getting out there and mingling with other bloggers. Make connections with them – cross promote links – feature their sites on your site, and vice versa. Add them to your BlogRoll (friends links) and have them do the same. You can never have too much promotion…and don’t be afraid either. Other bloggers are just as excited to work with you, as you are with them. Do whatever you can to make friends with them – leave comments, e-mail them, etc.
Follow these steps, and your blog will be featuring heavy traffic numbers in a very short time. At first, it will be a lot of hard work, but once you start seeing the results, you’ll see that it was worth the effort
Once you’ve added your blog to the directories, the next important thing you need to do is submit your postings to the major Social Media Networking sites, such as StumbleUpon, Digg, Del.icio.us, and more. While it’s not required that you add every posting that you post, I do recommend it – or at least the majority of your postings. If you think somebody would be interested in reading a particular posting – submit it. It’s only going to help you in the end. Now, I bet you’re wondering how many Social Media Networks do I need to submit my article to? Well – that’s up to you, as a blogger. The more you submit to, the more traffic you’ll see and more exposure you’ll get, but, it can be time consuming. So, if you don’t have the time to submit it to all of the Social Media Networks, pick the best ones, such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Del.icio.us, and Google Bookmarks. Here is a list of other Media Networks that you might be interested in:
* Searchles
* Technorati
* Blogg Buzz
* Del.icio.us
* StumbleUpon
* Digg
* Yahoo! My Web
* Clipmarks
* BlogMarks
* Furl
* Google Bookmarks
* Blue Dot
* NetVouz
* Diigo
* Del.lirio.us
* Feedmarker
* Scuttle
* Simpy
* Mag.nolia
Now those two methods mentioned above are sure fire ways to get more traffic to your blog, but do remember, fresh and new content is needed for those methods to work. It can be a tedious, and an annoying process at first, but the end result will be well worth all of your troubles.
The next main way to get traffic onto your blog is to properly use search engines to your benefit. When you are creating postings on your blog, you will see areas within your posting form (a posting form is the form or template that allows you to post your articles) that will allow you to enter “keywords” and “keyword phrases”. What you will do in this situation is add in any keyword that you feel relates to your article. So, when somebody goes to a search engine and types in “shoes” or “brown shoes”, make sure you’ve added those keywords and keyword phrases if your posting is about shoes. It is important to stay on topic though. Don’t add in keywords about foods, if your posting is about shoes.
One last important way to generate traffic to your blog is to create a sitemap. Now, if you use Wordpress, there are automatic ways to do this. You can download a plugin that will do it for you, and make your life very easy. If you’re using another blogging platform, what you’ll need to do is go to Google’s Webmaster Tools and create a sitemap. This will allow search engines to properly dissect all of your keywords, meta tags, posting titles, etc, and break them down for better search engine results.
Now that you’ve got all of the blog directories and article submissions out of the way, it’s simply a matter of keeping fresh content on your blog, and becoming a social blogger. And what is a social blogger you ask? Well, it’s exactly what it sounds like – getting out there and mingling with other bloggers. Make connections with them – cross promote links – feature their sites on your site, and vice versa. Add them to your BlogRoll (friends links) and have them do the same. You can never have too much promotion…and don’t be afraid either. Other bloggers are just as excited to work with you, as you are with them. Do whatever you can to make friends with them – leave comments, e-mail them, etc.
Follow these steps, and your blog will be featuring heavy traffic numbers in a very short time. At first, it will be a lot of hard work, but once you start seeing the results, you’ll see that it was worth the effort
Easy Introduction on Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Easy Introduction on Increasing Traffic to Your Blog
Increasing traffic to your blog is fundamental to your blog's success on the Internet. As you'll soon find, it isn't all that hard to increase traffic to your blog, but it does take time.
Post Frequently to Your Blog
The first and most important rule for increasing traffic to your blog is to post, post and then post some more. Posting new and unique content on a regular basis to your blog is crucial to success.
Building Inbound Links
Another critical method for getting traffic to your blog in through by establishing links to your site on other people's webpages. This servers two purposes for your blog. First, a link on someone else's site can be clicked on thus bringing a visitor to your site. Secondly, links on other sites pointing to your site factor into the equations that Google, Yahoo and MSN use to determine the order in which sites are listed in searches conducted on their site. These types of links are referred to as "inbound" links.
When you try to develop inbound links it is important to make sure that the links are relevant. For example, if your blog is about cars then it doesn't do a lot of good to have an inbound link from a website about vacation spots. Your goal is to get inbound links on sites similar to your blog or, at a minimum, sites that target the same type of people (age, gender, interest, etc.) as your blog.
To begin developing inbound links, do a search for other blogs that are relevant to your blog. If your blog is about cars then search "cars" in Blogger Search or Technorati (two of the bigger blog search engines). Browse through the results that you get and make a list of those that you think are well designed and interesting. In order to get a link on those blogs you will most likely have to give something in return and usually the easiest thing to give is a link to them. So from that list add a link on your blog for each of the blogs that you liked. Then, after doing so, email the owner of each of those site and write something along the lines of:
"Hello, my name is John and I write for Crazy Cars, a blog about cars. I've recently added a link to your site on my homepage because I feel that my readers are in a very similar demographic to that of your site. If you get a chance check my site out and if you like what you see please link back.
Thank you, John"
Remember that these blog owners don't owe you anything for you linking to them, but often if you ask nice you'll get a link back.
Submitting Your Blog to Blog Directories
Another way to build inbound links to your blog is by submitting your blog to blog and web directories. These directories contain literally thousands of websites and very rarely will someone come to your site by clicking on a link in one of the directories. However, including you blog in these directories can in many case help your ranking in search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). Don't spend too much time doing this but if you have a little free time they are worth looking into.
Write Interesting Blog Content
Finally, and maybe the biggest key to increasing blog traffic is to write interesting and excellent content. The most powerful way to get people to your blog is to write content that your readers want to read. This will not only make people want to come back but it will also make them want to tell others about your blog. Anyone can get someone to come to their blog once but getting someone to come back again and again, that is the key to increasing your blog traffic.
So post often, build links so people can find you and then make sure to keep it interesting. They'll come...for now, work hard and be patient.
Increasing traffic to your blog is fundamental to your blog's success on the Internet. As you'll soon find, it isn't all that hard to increase traffic to your blog, but it does take time.
Post Frequently to Your Blog
The first and most important rule for increasing traffic to your blog is to post, post and then post some more. Posting new and unique content on a regular basis to your blog is crucial to success.
Building Inbound Links
Another critical method for getting traffic to your blog in through by establishing links to your site on other people's webpages. This servers two purposes for your blog. First, a link on someone else's site can be clicked on thus bringing a visitor to your site. Secondly, links on other sites pointing to your site factor into the equations that Google, Yahoo and MSN use to determine the order in which sites are listed in searches conducted on their site. These types of links are referred to as "inbound" links.
When you try to develop inbound links it is important to make sure that the links are relevant. For example, if your blog is about cars then it doesn't do a lot of good to have an inbound link from a website about vacation spots. Your goal is to get inbound links on sites similar to your blog or, at a minimum, sites that target the same type of people (age, gender, interest, etc.) as your blog.
To begin developing inbound links, do a search for other blogs that are relevant to your blog. If your blog is about cars then search "cars" in Blogger Search or Technorati (two of the bigger blog search engines). Browse through the results that you get and make a list of those that you think are well designed and interesting. In order to get a link on those blogs you will most likely have to give something in return and usually the easiest thing to give is a link to them. So from that list add a link on your blog for each of the blogs that you liked. Then, after doing so, email the owner of each of those site and write something along the lines of:
"Hello, my name is John and I write for Crazy Cars, a blog about cars. I've recently added a link to your site on my homepage because I feel that my readers are in a very similar demographic to that of your site. If you get a chance check my site out and if you like what you see please link back.
Thank you, John"
Remember that these blog owners don't owe you anything for you linking to them, but often if you ask nice you'll get a link back.
Submitting Your Blog to Blog Directories
Another way to build inbound links to your blog is by submitting your blog to blog and web directories. These directories contain literally thousands of websites and very rarely will someone come to your site by clicking on a link in one of the directories. However, including you blog in these directories can in many case help your ranking in search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc). Don't spend too much time doing this but if you have a little free time they are worth looking into.
Write Interesting Blog Content
Finally, and maybe the biggest key to increasing blog traffic is to write interesting and excellent content. The most powerful way to get people to your blog is to write content that your readers want to read. This will not only make people want to come back but it will also make them want to tell others about your blog. Anyone can get someone to come to their blog once but getting someone to come back again and again, that is the key to increasing your blog traffic.
So post often, build links so people can find you and then make sure to keep it interesting. They'll come...for now, work hard and be patient.
The Google Big Daddy Update's Impact to Your Blog
The Google Big Daddy Update's Impact to Your Blog
Over the coming weeks a major Google update, commonly referred to as Big Daddy, is taking place that will undoubtedly affect your blog's traffic from Google. To help explain the update I found this article entitled "What's The Big Deal About Google's BigDaddy Update?" by Matthew Coers. Read on to learn more about what you can expect to see from the update.
What's The Big Deal About Google's BigDaddy Update?
Internet Marketers assign names to these updates much the same way the weather service names hurricanes. Last October it was Jagger, before that we had the infamous Florida Update in late 2003, and Austin in early 2004.
Each update is designed to improve search results by either doing a better job of identifying high-quality content on the Internet, or by doing a better job of suppressing low-quality content.
Over the last two or three weeks, many website owners have seen traffic to their sites from Google fluctuate quite a bit. This is normal for algorithm updates – as the index is updated on one data center, a site will change positions. The fluctuations occur because the index in the new data center is not completely built, and therefore a site may be placed artificially high or low until all the data is brought into equilibrium.
A few days ago, Google completed a major overhaul of its algorithm – this one dubbed BigDaddy and in the world of search engine updates it's a category 5 hurricane; well, sort of.
You see, after all the turmoil of the past three weeks or so, most marketers are probably seeing their websites ranked more or less where they were about a month ago. This is unusual. Usually major algorithm changes result in significant changes in site rankings for virtually all sites on the Internet. Both the Florida and Jagger updates changed the landscape of Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) dramatically.
So, What's the Big Deal About BigDaddy?
At first glance, the BigDaddy update seems to be much ado about nothing. However, there are some welcome changes that have been included in this update that should make Google a much friendlier place for those of us who build valuable content-rich websites.
* - Increasing size and scope of the index – One of the purposes of this latest update was to increase the size of the index itself. This will allow Google to dig deeper into your site and catalog even more of your content (HTML, JavaScripts, Flash, etc).
* - URL Canonicalization – Yes, it's a scary word, but it's actually quite simple. Essentially, canonicalization is determining which URL is the most appropriate for a given page. For example, the following URLs are all valid ways of reaching the homepage of ProfitChoice.com:
o - http://www.profitchoice.com
o - http://profitchoice.com
o - http://www.profitchoice.com/index.asp
o - http://profitchoice.com/index.asp
By improving URL Canonicalization, Google is attempting to make sure your site gets credit even though the URLs might be spelled differently on different websites.
* - No More Page Hijacking – Although not a common problem, there are unscrupulous jerks out there who will find a popular site and hijack it's content by using 302 redirects. Google is attempting to eliminated the ability to do this effectively – hopefully they are succeeding.
* - New Spider – You will also see a new Google spider called Mozilla Bot instead of the old familiar GoogleBot. If you are into looking at server logs, the new agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
* - Less Search Engine Spam – continuing with the recent trends, Google seems hell-bent on eliminating the effectiveness of purchased keywords and link farms. If you are still employing these "black-hat" techniques, then you probably just found out about the BigDaddy update the hard way. If you didn't, then you will probably be hearing from BigDaddy soon.
BigDaddy Foretells More Changes To Come
In the immediate aftermath of a major update like BigDaddy, there are a number of things you can expect to happen.
The first is that your website's PageRank (PR) will probably change over the next few weeks. If you've been doing the things that Google likes, then you will likely see your PR improve, if you are engaged in unscrupulous (by Google's standards) activities, then you can expect your PR to go down. To see a list of what Google likes visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/.
In addition, some of your site's older content will be re-crawled and older, unlinked content will probably be removed from the index.
Over the next few months, there will also likely be a series of smaller updates that will take advantage of the new "infrastructure" provided by the BigDaddy update. Flash-heavy sites that were held artificially low may move up in the rankings while sites that rely heavily on reciprocal linking will likely go down.
BigDaddy – Not Such A Big Deal
In short, as long as you are not engaged in "Black-hat SEO", BigDaddy itself is probably no cause for alarm. If your site has recently bounced around in Google's results, then you will notice that things have probably returned to normal in the last week or so, and your rankings have probably improved a little bit.
Moving forward, in the next few weeks you can expect changes to your PageRank, and perhaps deeper crawls by Google's new spider, "Mozilla Bot". In the next few months there will likely be a number of smaller updates, mostly pertaining to issues like Flash content and niche-specific algorithm changes.
As with all algorithm changes, there is no reason to panic just because "BigDaddy" blew through town. Like hurricanes in the real world, algo changes blow a lot of loose material around; but if your website's foundation is sound, you will weather the storm and be ready for business once the storm has passed.
About the Author
Matthew Coers is an Internet marketing expert. His website, ProfitChoice.com contains FREE video tutorials and online courses designed to help entrepreneurs build a website and make money online.
Article Source: http://articles.simplysearch4it.com
Over the coming weeks a major Google update, commonly referred to as Big Daddy, is taking place that will undoubtedly affect your blog's traffic from Google. To help explain the update I found this article entitled "What's The Big Deal About Google's BigDaddy Update?" by Matthew Coers. Read on to learn more about what you can expect to see from the update.
What's The Big Deal About Google's BigDaddy Update?
Internet Marketers assign names to these updates much the same way the weather service names hurricanes. Last October it was Jagger, before that we had the infamous Florida Update in late 2003, and Austin in early 2004.
Each update is designed to improve search results by either doing a better job of identifying high-quality content on the Internet, or by doing a better job of suppressing low-quality content.
Over the last two or three weeks, many website owners have seen traffic to their sites from Google fluctuate quite a bit. This is normal for algorithm updates – as the index is updated on one data center, a site will change positions. The fluctuations occur because the index in the new data center is not completely built, and therefore a site may be placed artificially high or low until all the data is brought into equilibrium.
A few days ago, Google completed a major overhaul of its algorithm – this one dubbed BigDaddy and in the world of search engine updates it's a category 5 hurricane; well, sort of.
You see, after all the turmoil of the past three weeks or so, most marketers are probably seeing their websites ranked more or less where they were about a month ago. This is unusual. Usually major algorithm changes result in significant changes in site rankings for virtually all sites on the Internet. Both the Florida and Jagger updates changed the landscape of Google's Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) dramatically.
So, What's the Big Deal About BigDaddy?
At first glance, the BigDaddy update seems to be much ado about nothing. However, there are some welcome changes that have been included in this update that should make Google a much friendlier place for those of us who build valuable content-rich websites.
* - Increasing size and scope of the index – One of the purposes of this latest update was to increase the size of the index itself. This will allow Google to dig deeper into your site and catalog even more of your content (HTML, JavaScripts, Flash, etc).
* - URL Canonicalization – Yes, it's a scary word, but it's actually quite simple. Essentially, canonicalization is determining which URL is the most appropriate for a given page. For example, the following URLs are all valid ways of reaching the homepage of ProfitChoice.com:
o - http://www.profitchoice.com
o - http://profitchoice.com
o - http://www.profitchoice.com/index.asp
o - http://profitchoice.com/index.asp
By improving URL Canonicalization, Google is attempting to make sure your site gets credit even though the URLs might be spelled differently on different websites.
* - No More Page Hijacking – Although not a common problem, there are unscrupulous jerks out there who will find a popular site and hijack it's content by using 302 redirects. Google is attempting to eliminated the ability to do this effectively – hopefully they are succeeding.
* - New Spider – You will also see a new Google spider called Mozilla Bot instead of the old familiar GoogleBot. If you are into looking at server logs, the new agent is "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
* - Less Search Engine Spam – continuing with the recent trends, Google seems hell-bent on eliminating the effectiveness of purchased keywords and link farms. If you are still employing these "black-hat" techniques, then you probably just found out about the BigDaddy update the hard way. If you didn't, then you will probably be hearing from BigDaddy soon.
BigDaddy Foretells More Changes To Come
In the immediate aftermath of a major update like BigDaddy, there are a number of things you can expect to happen.
The first is that your website's PageRank (PR) will probably change over the next few weeks. If you've been doing the things that Google likes, then you will likely see your PR improve, if you are engaged in unscrupulous (by Google's standards) activities, then you can expect your PR to go down. To see a list of what Google likes visit http://www.google.com/webmasters/.
In addition, some of your site's older content will be re-crawled and older, unlinked content will probably be removed from the index.
Over the next few months, there will also likely be a series of smaller updates that will take advantage of the new "infrastructure" provided by the BigDaddy update. Flash-heavy sites that were held artificially low may move up in the rankings while sites that rely heavily on reciprocal linking will likely go down.
BigDaddy – Not Such A Big Deal
In short, as long as you are not engaged in "Black-hat SEO", BigDaddy itself is probably no cause for alarm. If your site has recently bounced around in Google's results, then you will notice that things have probably returned to normal in the last week or so, and your rankings have probably improved a little bit.
Moving forward, in the next few weeks you can expect changes to your PageRank, and perhaps deeper crawls by Google's new spider, "Mozilla Bot". In the next few months there will likely be a number of smaller updates, mostly pertaining to issues like Flash content and niche-specific algorithm changes.
As with all algorithm changes, there is no reason to panic just because "BigDaddy" blew through town. Like hurricanes in the real world, algo changes blow a lot of loose material around; but if your website's foundation is sound, you will weather the storm and be ready for business once the storm has passed.
About the Author
Matthew Coers is an Internet marketing expert. His website, ProfitChoice.com contains FREE video tutorials and online courses designed to help entrepreneurs build a website and make money online.
Article Source: http://articles.simplysearch4it.com
5 Types of Blog Posts for More Traffic
5 Types of Blog Posts for More Traffic
You never know whether you’re blog posts will bring you traffic. One thing you could say is that traffic is unpredictable. You can never pinpoint the exact reason why one of your posts brings more traffic than another one. However, you can see the “basic” reason why people like one article better than another. Over the constant research I did for a company, I found that five types of blog posts will generate more traffic than any others.
The best thing is that it doesn’t really matter what topics you choose to address. These types of blog posts will generate traffic, comments, linkbacks, and social media syndication for all topics. They continue to work over and over again even if the information has been written before. Don’t just write content, but write content in a way that brings traffic. Here are my five types of blog posts that will get you more traffic:
1. Numbered Post or Round-Up Post
A numbered Post and a round-up post are close to the same thing. They can also be known as list posts. This is because they typically contain a list of topics, ideas, sources, etc. Generally these are one of the easiest posts to write.
A lot of people do not use a numbered post but instead just list their ideas. However, they should always put a number of how many different ideas, topics, sources, etc. that is used in their posts. Why? Because people love these kind of blog posts. They love them for many different reasons and I have written a complete article about numbered posts.
You can see how popular they are by just looking at some of my blog posts. My most popular blog posts always have a number in the headline. For example, I wrote 15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read and it became an instant hit.
2. The How to Post
This is also one of the more popular kinds of blog posts. Everyone seems to love to learn something that could benefit them especially if it is easy to replicate. I have recently been writing how to blog posts and many more people seem to come to my blog on the days I post those articles.
For example, I recently wrote an article called How to Build a Community on Your Blog. I went step-by-step and told people how they can build a community on their blog. The fact is, building a community is something a lot of us would like to do more of, but we don’t know how. I have had a lot of luck building communities on other blogs that I have started and I recently began to feel like this blog was going that way too. I thought I could pass my knowledge on to my readers. It is an article that benefits the reader so it brings traffic to your blog.
3. The Controversial Post
This is actually one of my favorite kind of posts and it will sure bring you loads of traffic. There are many different ways to be controversial when writing an article. Having a strong opinion on something is okay even if people do not agree with you. That is basically the point. When you get on topics such as is it professional or not to disclose your online earnings, tell people whether a link is an affiliate link or not, whether it’s okay to photoshop your feeds subscriber count, etc. you’re tapping into controversial topics.
Those are all very controversial topics and people seem to be drawn to them. There are controversial topics in every blog niche. If you are writing about the Constitution then I am sure you have a lot of controversy. You have abortion, gun rights, gay rights, etc. Everyone seems to have strong feelings about those which will make them read your article and they will likely put their two cents in by commenting.
4. The Motivational Post
The motivational Post is one of the most compelling types of posts to blog about. Getting your readers motivated or excited is much more powerful than a post that provides entertainment for the few minutes it took people to read the article. Even though telling people how much you have made blogging is controversial, it can still get people motivated to make money also. They are more likely to leave more excited than anything.
It is possible that visitors and readers that get motivated and excited from a blog post will return to your blog. That is what you want the most so why not do it. That is why it is still one of the most compelling types of blog post today.
5. The Hot Topic Post
Everyone seems to like reading about the latest hot topic. Lately it seems that the presidential election has taken over everything. It’s pretty much a guarantee that if you write about the presidential election on your blog that you will get traffic. It’s difficult remembering a time when the presidential election hasn’t been on the list of top searches (on blog searches).
The one thing you have to remember is to always relate it to your blog topic. You don’t want your readers and visitors to think that you have lost focus. There are many clever ways to implement the hot topics into your articles. If you are writing a post about dogs then use the headline, “What the presidential election has taught us about dogs?”.
Those are the five types of blog posts that will get you traffic. There are many other kind of blog posts went through my research for a company I worked for, I found that these five types of blog posts generated the most traffic. Like anything else in the blogging world, I’m sure some of these posts work better for a certain kinds of topics.
You never know whether you’re blog posts will bring you traffic. One thing you could say is that traffic is unpredictable. You can never pinpoint the exact reason why one of your posts brings more traffic than another one. However, you can see the “basic” reason why people like one article better than another. Over the constant research I did for a company, I found that five types of blog posts will generate more traffic than any others.
The best thing is that it doesn’t really matter what topics you choose to address. These types of blog posts will generate traffic, comments, linkbacks, and social media syndication for all topics. They continue to work over and over again even if the information has been written before. Don’t just write content, but write content in a way that brings traffic. Here are my five types of blog posts that will get you more traffic:
1. Numbered Post or Round-Up Post
A numbered Post and a round-up post are close to the same thing. They can also be known as list posts. This is because they typically contain a list of topics, ideas, sources, etc. Generally these are one of the easiest posts to write.
A lot of people do not use a numbered post but instead just list their ideas. However, they should always put a number of how many different ideas, topics, sources, etc. that is used in their posts. Why? Because people love these kind of blog posts. They love them for many different reasons and I have written a complete article about numbered posts.
You can see how popular they are by just looking at some of my blog posts. My most popular blog posts always have a number in the headline. For example, I wrote 15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read and it became an instant hit.
2. The How to Post
This is also one of the more popular kinds of blog posts. Everyone seems to love to learn something that could benefit them especially if it is easy to replicate. I have recently been writing how to blog posts and many more people seem to come to my blog on the days I post those articles.
For example, I recently wrote an article called How to Build a Community on Your Blog. I went step-by-step and told people how they can build a community on their blog. The fact is, building a community is something a lot of us would like to do more of, but we don’t know how. I have had a lot of luck building communities on other blogs that I have started and I recently began to feel like this blog was going that way too. I thought I could pass my knowledge on to my readers. It is an article that benefits the reader so it brings traffic to your blog.
3. The Controversial Post
This is actually one of my favorite kind of posts and it will sure bring you loads of traffic. There are many different ways to be controversial when writing an article. Having a strong opinion on something is okay even if people do not agree with you. That is basically the point. When you get on topics such as is it professional or not to disclose your online earnings, tell people whether a link is an affiliate link or not, whether it’s okay to photoshop your feeds subscriber count, etc. you’re tapping into controversial topics.
Those are all very controversial topics and people seem to be drawn to them. There are controversial topics in every blog niche. If you are writing about the Constitution then I am sure you have a lot of controversy. You have abortion, gun rights, gay rights, etc. Everyone seems to have strong feelings about those which will make them read your article and they will likely put their two cents in by commenting.
4. The Motivational Post
The motivational Post is one of the most compelling types of posts to blog about. Getting your readers motivated or excited is much more powerful than a post that provides entertainment for the few minutes it took people to read the article. Even though telling people how much you have made blogging is controversial, it can still get people motivated to make money also. They are more likely to leave more excited than anything.
It is possible that visitors and readers that get motivated and excited from a blog post will return to your blog. That is what you want the most so why not do it. That is why it is still one of the most compelling types of blog post today.
5. The Hot Topic Post
Everyone seems to like reading about the latest hot topic. Lately it seems that the presidential election has taken over everything. It’s pretty much a guarantee that if you write about the presidential election on your blog that you will get traffic. It’s difficult remembering a time when the presidential election hasn’t been on the list of top searches (on blog searches).
The one thing you have to remember is to always relate it to your blog topic. You don’t want your readers and visitors to think that you have lost focus. There are many clever ways to implement the hot topics into your articles. If you are writing a post about dogs then use the headline, “What the presidential election has taught us about dogs?”.
Those are the five types of blog posts that will get you traffic. There are many other kind of blog posts went through my research for a company I worked for, I found that these five types of blog posts generated the most traffic. Like anything else in the blogging world, I’m sure some of these posts work better for a certain kinds of topics.
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