WordPress Blog Can Generate Website Traffic

Sunday, June 10th, 2007 | WordPress Blog with 2 Comments

I started this WordPress blog back in late January 2007. Not knowing very much about blogging or WordPress for that matter. I did know that a blog on my site, if used correctly could start generating traffic for my entire website.

Then around late March 2007 a friend of mine recommended that I read the Authority Black Book by Jack Humphrey at the Friday Traffic Report.

After studying the Authority Black Book it came to my attention that I had a lot to learn about properly setting up a WordPress blog to take advantage of the Web 2.0 tactics that Jack was writing about.

While the ‘Black Book’ gives you the overall picture, it is not a step-by-step guide to properly installing and using all the WordPress plugins needed to generate more website traffic.

I began to get things setup; finding the WordPress plugins, configuring them and signing up for all the right social bookmarking sites. And everything else that I was reading about in the Authority Black Book.

Then slowly I started seeing results. Below are the stats for my site in March 2007, this site was a few months old at the time and was not getting tons of traffic. Keep in mind I was blogging almost every day at this time but without using any of the recommendations from the Authority Black Book.

Average daily visits for March were 295 and the most in one day were 428.

After several months of Authority Site Building my average visits per day in June are up to 635 and have spiked to a max of almost 1000 visits for one day. As Shown below:

I know for some veteran bloggers traffic like this is a drop in the bucket, but for some just starting out it can be very encouraging.

Since March the average daily visitors has increased by 100 per day every month. There are several reasons for this. One are the back links that are getting spread around the Internet from consistent blogging and social bookmarking. Others are coming from search engine traffic for long-tail phrases used in the blog post titles. Using the proper WordPress plugins for SEO some of these posts can and have climbed to the top of the search engines very quickly, sometimes in one day.

Continue to post good quality content, use all the tools that a WordPress blog offers and you too can see your website traffic grow exponentially with each new post.

Questions? Comments? Submit them below and I will be glad to help!

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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Comments

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Karen // June 19th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

Jeff, thanks for your tip. I look forward to tracking my traffic with this tool, especially since I am not a veteran blogger!

Karen

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mlm contact management // November 9th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

I love wordpress, thanks for the post and the tips.