An Easy SEO Traffic Method For Your Online Business and Blog

Written by Emil Yau Friday, 10 June 2011 02:55

Every online blog or site needs traffic. That is the most important aspect for a successful blog. Without readers and customers, your blog will go nowhere. If your blog is personal, getting readers motivates you to blog more! If your blog is for business, then readers are potential customers and that is necessary for survival of your business.

Every online blog or site needs traffic. That is the most important aspect for a successful blog. Without readers and customers, your blog will go nowhere. If your blog is personal, getting readers motivates you to blog more! If your blog is for business, then readers are potential customers and that is necessary for survival of your business.

Here is an easy blueprint: 1) Set up a website. The easiest way to do this is with a blog 2) Write articles a.k.a. content and post to your blog 3) Post the articles to various article directories with links back to your site.

This method of getting traffic is called "Article Marketing" and is one of the tried and true effective ways to promote your website and get traffic.

Here are the steps in detail:

1) Set up a website.

You can use a free blog website as long as it meets your monetization needs. Popular free blog websites include typad.com, livejournal.com, blogger.com, and wordpress.com. There are some tools which can automate some blogging and marketing tasks in which case self-hosted Wordpress blogs tend to work better.

2) Write articles a.k.a. blog posts for your blog and website You will want to post at least one article per week to your blog. Preferably you will post twice a week, with one post being of high quality (your article) and the second can just be about something else. The more you post, the better

You can "drip feed" your posts too. This means you can write many articles ahead of time and then schedule them to post at intervals. For example, you could write fifty two articles in a few days and then schedule them to post once a week. Then when you go in and update your blog for the rest of the year it can just be something brief on current events.

3) Post articles to various article directories with links back to your blog or website

Besides posting the articles to your website, there are hundreds of article directories out there where you can also post your article. The advantage here is that you can post a link to your website in the author resource box of each article as well as in your author profile.

This is good for two reasons. The first is that people who read your articles on the various article directories now know where to find you. The second is that as search engines see more backlinks to your site it will increase your site in search rankings.

One important tip on this is to use targeted keywords as your anchor text when providing links in your resource box. This will tell the search engines which keywords you want to rank for.

That is the simple part of article marketing. As you get more experienced you will find other useful tips useful for you. As an example, ways to write your article titles to get people to want to read them. How to write your articles and resource boxes to get a higher clickthrough to your site. The different article directories to submit to is also something you will learn. Some get more traffic than others. How to utilize links back to your own site will also be something to learn. Those are all intermediate to advanced topics which you can learn about more once you get familiar with the basics of article marketing.

Good luck with your SEO traffic plans for your online websites and blogs!