Blogging For Traffic Tip #1 – Create Original Content Of Significant Value

Content is king. If you have been in the Internet marketing scene for any period of time you would have heard this saying day in and day out. Every Internet marketing manual has this as it’s mantra and rightly so.

One of the biggest problems people have when blogging has nothing to do with the lack of traffic coming to their site. It’s a symptom of something more sinister. Bad content. Even worse then poorly written original content is content that is not original at all. This is the death bell for all blogs that want to be taken seriously.

You HAVE to have unique content. It is the lifeblood of blogging. Every other blog is lacking in original content, you have to be different.

Pay someone to write it if you have to.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #2 – Create Content That Gives People A Plan Of Action

Want to get people to not only read your blog but follow your word blindly and do your bidding for you? I kid you not, people will fall over themselves to do what you say if you do this. You just have to tell them what to do.

This is the greatest idea, especially if you are preselling an affiliate program via your blog.

Every one of your posts you write should give people an action that could be taken by the reader.

IE, every idea you give the reader, they should be able to go and implement in their business right away.

I’m not sure who I read this from but I remember reading that the best way to sell a product or an affiliate product, especially in the Internet marketing arena is to give them a plan that they can follow and implement straight away and then give them the resources to do that with.

A lot of people write ebooks or articles or blogs that are very informative but don’t really presell what they are trying to promote.

Giving people a plan they can follow straight away after reading what you wrote will give them that incentive to buy that recommended product from you instead of another affiliate.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #3 – Create Content That Is Timeless

If you want your blog to be around for a while and you want readers to come in 5 years time and still find your content relevant to them, you need to make sure the content is timeless, whether they read it in 3 months, 3 years or 30 years.

This not only means you don’t have to keep updating your content every 6 months which will save you time, it also helps with other people who you may allow to use your content on their websites. They are sure not going to update your content for you.

Some topics however, will always be timeless. Find those, write on them.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #4 – Write For Your Visitors As Your #1 Priority Not Search Engines

While you should be optimizing your posts and your blog for search engines, and I talk about this later, your main focus should be on writing for humans, not bots.

Keep this in mind always. Don’t try and repeat your keywords all over your blog posts to the point where it does not make sense.

This might work sometimes for search engine ranking and you may get some extra traffic, but they won’t stay long if the content is obviously geared for search engine ranking. People have a short attention span and won’t waste it on junk.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #5 – Write Like You Are Talking To A Friend

There is nothing worse then reading a blog with no personality. People think that they have to take on this serious, boring persona when writing a blog, but you should be having fun with it instead.

People like to read blogs that are conversationalist in nature. People like to read writing that is written at the 7th grade level. People don’t want to read large words and hard to read sentences.

People also like it when you talk to them one on one like an old friend. Talk to the reader as if only one person were reading your blog.

Having a unique personality will get you more traffic from people telling people about your site then any “traffic building” technique.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #6 – Be True To Yourself And You Will Never Worry About Money Or People Again

A lot of people just starting out, especially in the affiliate marketing game write blogs to earn affiliate commission, and there is nothing wrong with that.

What you want to avoid is promoting affiliate programs just because they pay out larger commissions even though the products might not be of the highest quality. Never promote a product you have never bought or tried yourself. You have to like and really want to tell other people about it.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #7 – Make Sure You Post Regularly But Not Overly So

You have to blog regularly to keep search engines interested, ping sites interested and even more importantly, people interested. If you don’t post regularly, all of the above will still coming back as frequently and will lose interest in your site.

You should post at least once a week, at the very least. Two to three times would be better. But make sure you don’t post every day all day. This makes your site to search engines look like a spam blog.

Also make sure you split your post times up. Some weeks post on mondays, thursdays and sundays, other weeks post on the other days.

Blogging For Traffic Tip #8 – Write Posts That Are Very Topical For The Times

One of the best ways to get a sudden burst of traffic is to write about something that is hot right now or in the news. This is a great way to get a sudden burst of really interested traffic.

You can find out whats hot now by watching the news or use online services like Google Trends, Yahoo Buzz or Ebay Pulse.

These sites give you lists of searches that are very popular online right now.

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