WordPress Blogging

It doesn’t really matter if your blog is a personal blog that you do just for fun, or if you’re a serious online marketer who uses their blog to make money, everyone wants to know how to increase blog traffic. 

That seems to be the universal question.

The good news is that just by using a blog format for your website you’ve already done a lot to get more targeted traffic to your blog.

The search engines love fresh content.

Blogs are updated far more frequently than a static site would be, the search engines view that as a content-driven site and will rank it higher.

There are many other things you can do, for free, to increase the amount of traffic you get to your blog. 

It’s not just about any traffic, it’s about getting quality traffic, traffic that consists of people who are actually interested in the topic of your blog.

Here are a few of the simplest and most effective free things you can do to keep the flow of quality traffic to your blog going strong:

1. Post often

The more often you post, the more often your blog will get crawled by the search engines and you will be rewarded with a higher page rank and more free traffic.

If you post too many times in a day, the search engines will think that you’re not building your site in a natural way and they will penalize you for it.

2. Write articles that will direct people to visit your blog.

You can use the free Google keyword tool to target the types of keyword phrases people are using to find your blog, then write quality articles around that keyword, and then you can submit your article for free to article directories such as EzineArticles.com.

3. Learn a little about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and start using those techniques on your blog.

This will make your site stand out to search engines. Don’t worry about knowing everything there is to know about SEO, just a few basic concepts can make a huge difference.

4. Visit other blogs and leave a comment with a link back to your blog.

This will not only show people that you are an expert in your field, but they will also be interested in checking out your blog and more about what you have to say, assuming of course that you leave insightful, interesting comments.

These methods are the easiest methods that will help you increase blog traffic, that you will find.

Don’t waste a ton of money on expensive pay-per-click campaigns when you can have even better results just by investing a little time.