Work At Home Business Blog

Generating traffic for your blog and and ultimately funneling that traffic to the site, or affiliate site of your choice takes some time and work. Understanding the viral aspects of blogging and the community-like following you can create is crucial to increase your blog traffic.

First and foremost, original content is vital to gain any type of search engine traffic and building a subscriber base of readers. Optimizing your WordPress blog can make a big difference in how nice the search engines treat you. Make sure your WordPress blog is using ‘pretty’ permalinks, meaning it has at least the postname (title) in the permalink structure. If you look at the URL of this post you see I use the category and postname. Other bloggers suggest using a date and postname structure. Regardless, some keywords should be a part of the permalink structure. Warning! Changing your permalink structure to an existing, established blog will break any links you have established! Using the All In One SEO plugin to add search engine friendly titles and descriptions to your WordPress posts is a must have for your blog.

Consider the titles of your posts carefully, try to keep special characters out of the titles, and use good, descriptive keyword rich post titles that you think others will search for. Think of how you would type into a search engine for the answers to your questions and format your post titles accordingly. Using a very short highly competitive post title like ‘work at home’ will most likely render your post to the 1 millionth page of the Google search results. Using extremely long titles may get you to the top for that actual phrase, but no searches may be done for it. It is a fine line to try to keep your post titles short and concise, yet long enough to get search traffic.

Commenting on and participating in other more popular blogs, and online forums with a link to your blog in your signature will also help gain some traffic. And if your content is good and original you will start building a loyal subscriber base and repeat traffic. Joining and participation in blog networks also builds blog traffic and, again if you are writing good content repeat traffic from like-minded bloggers.

To learn more about generating blog traffic, subscribe to more popular blogs that write about the subject. Problogger is great resource for just that and here is a more in-depth discussion on How To Market Your Blog. If your blogs niche isn’t related to blogging, pay close attention to how the top blogs in your niche market their blogs. Don’t blatantly rip-off their content, but there is nothing wrong with using some of their ideas and methods for yourself.

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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.

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