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The viral aspects of blogging have made static website building almost obsolete. Getting traffic to a WordPress blog can be the easiest thing to do if you just know how to leverage the power of WordPress and use it to spread your links around the Internet.

In order to generate blog traffic you must first and foremost give something. With a blog that ‘giving’ is producing good useful content. Not something that has been copied from another site or PLR articles rewritten (guilty here I admit!). But content people want to read, content people are searching for and content that people can use.

So in this post am I going to give you all the answers? Well no because I admit to not have them all but I will tell you that, based on past experience, if you provide useful content that people want to read and share with their readers the traffic will come. This is just one small aspect of the bigger picture. What I am referring to is called link bait.

How do you generate link bait? First, as I said provide good content original content, and then start searching for more popular blogs using Google and other means to find blogs that are related to yours. Sign up for their feeds, hopefully with an email option sent to you when new posts are made. Then when a post is made on these blogs elaborate on a point this blogger made with a link provided within your post to the post you are writing about. If the other blogger likes it they will approve the trackback and will most likely appear on their post as a comment.

Now don’t do this on every post from only one blog but doing so on several blogs with a big following will do several things. It will get some direct traffic from people clicking your link in the comments section of the other blogs post. If your content is good people will sign up for your feed and may do the same to you. If the other blogger you linked to likes your content they may even reciprocate and link to your posts.

I have seen this in action on my WordPress Guides site. Where I will write basic guides to using WordPress, referencing other more popular blogs and before long my guides are linked to in their posts. I have even had the opportunity to be a guest blogger on a few of them.

Blogging is fast becoming the way to setup very functional professional looking website that can generate traffic very quickly if done right. A WordPress blog is one of the most functional scalable platforms to run an online business with.

I recently started a new website or really a WordPress blog about WordPress. Called WordPress Max “WordPress Guides For The Geek Impaired”. As some of you may have recognized I haven’t been posting here on a regular basis as I have been busy with the new blog.

Writing a Wordpress blog post is pretty straight forward. Tagging a WordPress blog post is the extra step to get more traffic, higher search engine listings and page rank.
To get started click Write on the main panel and the Write Post screen opens. Then follow these steps to write your post and tag it using [...]