Work From Home In Pa - Champs Guide to Blogging Pt 3

Part 3: Traffic-Traffic-Traffic

So in order for the millions of visitors to the www to see your blog you need to rank high in the search engines for them to find you. . . alexa.com the list goes on hey, bing.com, yahoo.com, so you will head off to places like google.com. The most common place to get information on the www is at the search engines right? . . Well. ? What am I getting at? . . However the trick here is to think in reverse gear. You must offer attractive information, in order to attract people. Traffic is the bloodline and life of your blog.

Which I shall teach you in no time. . . To learn the basics. . . Now this can be a hard a complex subject to master but that's why you are here right. (Search Engine Optimization) and OFF PAGE SEO. . . Those being ON PAGE SEO, now in order to get a high ranking you need to learn a few tricks of the trade.

On Page SEO:

Now what are the chances of beating that at your first attempt, 000, 000, take Blogspot.com for instance at the time of writing this article it had a search index of 358? . So when someone Google`s a certain topic you want your blog to come up first, this is basically using certain keywords in your blog title and other parts of your blog/website.

Don't forget you are writing to people not search engines. . . Try and mention that same keyword in your blog 3-5 times if possible and the reason I say if possible is coz if the search engines think you are spamming(by putting that keyword in every 2nd sentence) they will drop your rankings. You can change the title of your blog in the blogger control or with wordpress when you are creating your blog. . . If you can get it into your title then you are already half way there, you need to find a key word with high search listings and have them in your Blog.

And it will defo help you in the long run. Learn a little HTML it can`t hurt can it? . . So word of advice. If you know how to use HTML you can use this on other blogs aswell.

So remember to include the term there whenever relevant, the tags are usually the post titles, since we're posting a blog. This is important as it tells the search engines what your page is about ("your blog title" "Keyword you using"). The page heading is the bit of text in your code that is enclosed within the and tags. Your page heading should also contain the term you're optimizing for, other than that.

Off Page SEO:

There are many factors to Off Page SEO but the most important one I think is the amount of links to your blog or website. These are factors that are not on your blog but affect your search engine rankings a vast amount. Ok so now we're moving and on to Off Page search engine optimization.

Or how to cheat the casinos, unless your blog is about how to find the best man/woman? So try get links from relevant blogs/websites in your niche and not dating/gambling sites as these have no relevance to your knowledgeable blog, however it is also the quality of links to your website and not just the number. The more the search engines think you are an authority in that particular niche and hence the higher they rank you, the more links to your blog.

So with a higher page rank you in turn get a higher search engines result, so in a nutshell the higher the page rank of a website the more often Google`s Spider/Robots will index it. You can get the full down low on this at google.com/technology/. Is a scale in which Google ranks websites, all this is. We are now gonna talk about Google`s page rank system, moving on swiftly, use the same sort of keywords that would relate to your blog/website.OK. . . Example. When requesting links from other webmasters as you want them to link to your blog with appropriate keywords, now it's essential to put a lot of thought in. You of course will add theirs in return. . . Bottom line is to have good quality content that is original with quality info then approach respectable sites and ask them to add your links.

Thus enabling search engines to find you faster and index your blog which will ultimately rank you higher in page rank and search engines, getting high-quality links to your blog will help direct targeted visitors who are interested in your niche to your blog.

You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free pingomatic.com. You can let blog portals such as technorati.com know by pinging them, when you update your blog, basically. You can also utilize the "blog and ping" technique that everyone's talking about.

submityourarticle.com ultimatearticledirectory.com, some good article directories to get you started: Ezine articles, You will of course have links directing them back to your blogs and websites, other ways to get links and traffic to your websites will be to turn your blog submissions into articles and submit them to as many article directories as you can.

But if you are serious about making blogging your new job then I suggest you make the time and join lots of forums related to your blog/website. . . If you have the time of course, another great way to interact and get your name out there. . . Join forums my friend.

So choose wisely, you will end up losing money, if your profits do no offset the expense. A thing to keep in mind when buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. There are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space, besides the techniques described here.

. . Monetize it. . . Next I will be speaking about how to make money from your blog or as they say. If you have anything to add kindly let me know and I will "quote" it in my next post with your relevant links of course.