A Tried And True Method For Easy SEO Traffic To Your Blog Or Website

Written by Emil Yau Wednesday, 08 June 2011 08:15

The most important thing of any blog or site is to get readers into the door. If your blog is for fun, you may still want to attract readers to motivate you to continue blogging. For businesses, getting customers is necessary for survival.

The most important thing of any blog or site is to get readers into the door. If your blog is for fun, you may still want to attract readers to motivate you to continue blogging. For businesses, getting customers is necessary for survival.

So here are the three basic steps for SEO traffic and getting readers: 1) Create your online presence. This can be a website or blog. 2) Write articles a.k.a. blog posts for your blog and website 3) Post articles to various article directories with links back to your blog or website

This is called article marketing and is one of the tried and true ways to promote your website.

So What's Next?

1) Set up your online presence. This can be a website or blog.

You can use a free blog website as long as it meets your monetization needs. Popular free blog websites include typad.com, livejournal.com, blogger.com, and wordpress.com. There are some tools which can automate some blogging and marketing tasks in which case self-hosted Wordpress blogs tend to work better.

2) Write articles a.k.a. blog posts for your blog and website Search engines want to rank sites that they think are the most value added for their readers. This is why you will want to keep your site updated. One post per week is the minimum. Twice a week is preferred. So this means writing articles constantly for your blog. The more you post the better. Each update does not have to be a serious piece of work. You do want quality content but you can also update your site or blog with some small piece of trivia or commentary on current events as well. Just know the more you post, the better.

You can "drip feed" your posts too. This means you can write many articles ahead of time and then schedule them to post at intervals. For example, you could write fifty two articles in a few days and then schedule them to post once a week. Then when you go in and update your blog for the rest of the year it can just be something brief on current events.

3) Post articles to various article directories with links back to your blog or website

Article directories are like magazines. There are many out there, some more popular than others. YOu want to post your articles to these directories. While most article directories frown upon links in the article themselves, they will always offer a resource box or author box where you can add links to your site.

This serves two reasons: first, people reading the articles know where to find you. Second, search engines will see more links to your site and possibly rank you higher.

One important tip on this is to use targeted keywords as your anchor text when providing links in your resource box. This will tell the search engines which keywords you want to rank for.

There are more intermediate tips and advanced tips for article marketing. You will learn those as you go along. This includes how to increase readership of your articles, increase clicks in your resource box, and how to make your backlinking more effective for search engines. For now, that's a lot to learn, especially if you are a beginner in article marketing. So as not to overwhelm you, learn about those at a little bit of a later date. For now, just get started!

Good luck with your SEO traffic plans for your online websites and blogs!