How to increase your blog’s search traffic

Guys from SearchEnginePeople has created very interesting post dedicated to raise your blog’s search traffic, very useful tips for every webmaster. Read some excerpts from this post.

Now that you know which posts would benefit from links, let’s look at how to get them shall we?

1. Get Links Within Guest Posts

I intentionally nofollowed the link to my motivational techniques post above because I don’t think it’s right to write about a tactic that I would have been doing so blatantly. Guest posts for my newest blog have turned out to be an excellent source of traffic with low bounce rates and high visitor staying times.

Of course, guest posts don’t just send traffic, you get links. There are tons of high quality blogs out there looking for help with content, so if you have a way with words then make a pitch. Of course, don’t go overboard with links to your own site and only link back to yourself in the content (besides the bio) if it would be relevant to do so.

I have been able to reach and audience of over 500,000 feed subscribers through guest posting and that means links from sites with a lot of authority.

2. Build Links via Article Directories

I’m not really a fan of all the article marketers out there and the thousands of people slaving away writing 300 articles per month for some Clickbank earnings. However, the reason people do article marketing is quite simple…it works. While I’m not talking about going to the extremes here, you can get a lot more links to certain blog posts by writing about a similar topic or even the same from a different angle.

Sites like EzineArticles and GoArticles have a huge amount of authority in the search engines and their new pages get indexed in seconds. You can write a 400 word piece on a relevant topic and submit it to these sites with a custom anchor-text link back to your site. This does take a bit of effort but it means the backlinks can be highly targeted and of your choosing.

3. Re-Publish the Post

If you’re trying to increase the rankings of a blog post that is more than a year old, consider republishing it. What I mean by that is that you change the date in WordPress or whatever blog platform you use so that it shows up as new content to your RSS readers whenever you choose and gets some time on your blog homepage.

Alternatively you could also update the blog post with more information and then make it live again to ensure you don’t annoy any of your readers. The benefit of this, clearly, is that you can let the natural effect of readers linking to quality blog posts take its course.

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