Attract Blog Traffic With Free and Simple Methods

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One of the skills that you will have to learn if you want anyone to read what you have to say is how to attract blog traffic. This one skill will determine whether or not you are going to have a successful blog or promotion using a blog platform.

To start with, there are two categories of traffic. You can attract blog traffic that is organic or traffic that is "purchased." You have to decide what primary method that you want to use or if you want to use them in conjunction with one another. Ultimately, the latter strategy may be what you want to do, but if you become very good at driving organic or natural traffic to your blog you may never want to pay a dime for any traffic and organic traffic is what this article will focus on.

So, what are the differences between organic and paid traffic? When you attract blog traffic through organic methods you are looking at focusing on generating targeted visitors by writing articles and blog posts centered around well researched keywords and key phrases, typically long-tailed key phrases. Keyword research is a skill that you are going to want to master when working on organic traffic methods. You want to find key phrases that are searched for, but without too much competition.

Another thing you will want to keep in mind when to attract blog traffic by writing articles is the implementation of good SEO techniques. SEO or search engine optimization is simply a term coined by the industry that has to do with making sure your posts, articles and site are "optimized" or "designed" to receive favorable results from the search bots and search engines. This is not something you are going to learn overnight, but it is a skill that you are going to have to learn inside and out. There is on page SEO and off page SEO and a quick search on Google will reveal techniques for you to study and employ.

Article marketing may be one of the favorite methods I use to attract blog traffic and I like to post articles on respected and popular sites like EzineArticles.com and similar article directory sites. You will want to make sure that these sites are at least moderately strict in terms of submission guidelines and author requirements and you want to only submit original content written by yourself. Let's face it, if you are a want to be blogger and you are having a tough time creating unique and original content, you may want to look at doing something else for a living.

Other organic methods to attract blog traffic might include guest posting and commenting on other blogs. You will want to do this after you've been around a little while and found other bloggers in a similar, or the same, niche. You do want to ensure that you are posting on well read and respected. You may also want to post and comment on forums, post links to your articles on social media sites. Creating content for hubpages.com and squidoo.com are other methods to attract blog traffic and also give your site a boost of credibility.

These are just a few methods that you will need to learn in order to attract blog traffic that is targeted for your specific niche or program. Using the methods to attract organic traffic are not only going to help you generate a lot of site visitors, but also have a tendency to stick around for a long time. Articles can stick around for years once written and they still contain links back to your site and will still be sending visitors to your blog. In the end, you want to learn and employ all of the techniques and methods that are available to attract blog traffic and visitors so that you can establish your blog as being a credible site within your niche.

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