Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Get Traffic To Your Blog

By Preston J. Davis

To get traffic to your blog you need to have articles or ads that rank high in the search engines.

The key to ranking high in the search engines is having a lot of backlinks. The more back links you have the higher you will rank.

There are three common ways to go about this. One of them is to buy ads, usually pay per click. The next one is to write articles and manually submit them to as many different directories as you can and the third on is to buy backlinks to your blog.

When you use pay per click ads you have to have a firm understanding of targeted keywords. If you target the wrong audience or don't pick highly optimized keywords you stand to loose a lot of money.

If buying links sounds like a good idea just keep in mind that not all links are created equal. When you buy links they have to come from high PR sites or they won't help you very much. Buying high PR links can cost a lot of money.

You also want to make sure that the sites that are linking to you are in the same category as your blog. When you have links that are from the same kind of site as yours the search engines hold them in higher importance.

When you are article marketing the more articles that you have submitted the more traffic you will receive. Article marketing has two advantages. The first is that you can create content that will allow people to read it and click over to your site if they like what they read and second it gives your site backlinks.

You can also write and manually submit your articles to directories for free. Most article directories don't charge you to submit your article and you can use the author resource box to put your links to your blog in. Generally you can use two links in an article resource box.

There are two different ways to article market. The first way is to write your article and manually submit it to a directory. When you do this you need to write a new article for every directory you submit to so you don't end up with duplicate content. The other way you can go is to use an article submission site. Writing new articles and manually submitting them takes a lot of time but it's also free.

If you choose to use an article submission site they will submit the articles for you saving you a ton of time. When you use an article submission site to get traffic to your blog you need to make sure that they are sending out unique articles to all of the directories. Not all of them do this and you will end up with duplicate content all over the web and the search engines frown upon such things. Search engines frowning equals very little traffic for you.

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