Blogging How To Get More Traffic
When blogging first started out several years ago, it was essentially about presenting ideas or thoughts that you may have had throughout the day. As things evolved, blogging became an Internet marketing tool, a way to bring targeted traffic to your money sites and offers. Once people began to use blogs for this purpose, the search engines to notice. They started making it more difficult for people to utilize blogging as a way to game the search engines when attempting to garner more traffic. Fortunately, there are a few strategies that will always work in regard to using a blog to get traffic. Here are a couple tips that you can use to make sure your blogging efforts lead to increased sales and profits.
The first thing you should always do with a blog is to make sure, especially if you are selling a product, is to include legal pages. A website or blog without legal pages, including terms of service, privacy policy, and a page that will allow people to contact you, will not rank very high in the search engines. By adding this extra content, it not only improves your chances of ranking higher, but it adds a credibility factor to whatever it is that you are marketing for those that find your website. In essence, the search engines are about providing content that people are looking for. Therefore, by providing pages on your website that add to your overall credibility, it helps in the ranking process.
The next thing you need to do is add videos. Video websites like YouTube are extremely popular, and since Google actually owns YouTube, by adding a few videos from this video network, it will boost your overall ranking as a result. Make sure that the videos that you use are directly related to the content you are presenting. This has to do with the name of the video, but also the content in the video itself. If you make the user experience better, Google and other search engines will reward you accordingly.
Finally, you should add outbound links to your posts. Every blog post that you make should provide useful content for everyone that is reading what you have written. Even if you have written excellent content, by providing outbound links to additional content, the search engines will reward you by ranking your posts even higher in the search engines. More importantly, people that find your blogs informative because of the outbound links will keep coming back. You are saving them time from having to research this information and organize it in an understandable format. This will help you retain your regular visitors, and even gain new potential customers by using this simple strategy.
Hopefully these tips on blogging will help you increase the amount of visitors that come to your website, and also help you earn more money and increase your sales as a result of implementing these very simple, but extremely useful, online strategies.
