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Blog Traffic Primer: Using Content for Visibility


When it comes to getting traffic to your blog, nothing can replace the content. The more unique content a blog contains, the more page views you will get. Your blog’s RSS feed helps too.

Let’s see how you can make the most of your content.

1. Plan Your Content, and Create Content Daily

The more content you create, the more traffic you will get. This is the reason that A-list blogs post many times a day. Some of these major blogs produce 10 or more articles each and every day. Of course they have a staff of writers, but it shows you that if you want a high-traffic blog, you need the content.

Therefore, plan the content that you will create for your blog each month. When you plan in month-long chunks, you can vary the content, so you can target varying keywords, and can appeal to different sections of your audience.

2. Create Site Personas, and Write for Them

Think about the traffic which arrives at your blog. Each person is an individual. Large sites think in terms of personas — different personalities who arrive at the site, and have different needs.

For example, let’s say you have a dog training blog. To start creating your personas, think about who these people might be: your audience will include people who’ve just purchased a new puppy, people who are having behavioral problems with their dog, and people who just like to read about dogs — they may have a dog or they may not, but they like information about dogs.

Without thinking terribly hard, you managed to create the basis of three personas. Flesh out these personas, by thinking about: each person’s income, whether he has children, whether he lives in an apartment or a house, and other demographics.

Once you’ve created the personas, it becomes much more easy to write content — you’re thinking about people as individuals, and you can write content for each persona.

3. Promote Your RSS Feed

Have you been promoting your RSS feed? Many bloggers forget about their feed. However your feed is the most valuable possession you have when it comes to getting traffic.

Add your blog’s RSS feed to as many blog directories as you can find. You’ll get traffic and over time this traffic will increase.

When you’re looking for ways to get traffic to your blog, think about your content first — your content can be a literal goldmine for you.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today – you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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Running out of ideas for blog posts?

I’ve just been scanning my feed reader. Some of my favorite blogs haven’t been updated in months.

That’s always a danger when you’re writing a blog; you lose interest in the blog because you run out of ideas.

Here’s the solution: learn something new.

What would YOU like to learn?

Over on my fabfreelancewriting.com blog I’m now offering podcasts and videos. This opens up whole new blog topic areas for me. I also need to learn new applications, and put my learning into practice. Learning new stuff helps me to see old topics of writing any new way; it’s also rekindled my enthusiasm for the blog, and for writing in general.

Let’s see how you could put this strategy to work for you.

If your blog was about cooking, for example, why not take a cooking class? You could also interview cooks, write restaurant interviews, or add “wine” to your blog’s categories and start writing about wine.

Almost any topic you’re blogging about, will lend itself to the “learn something new” strategy.

So learn something new today. Blogging will be fun again and you’ll create fresh new content and will get new readers too.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today – you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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Posting secret of top bloggers

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What’s the secret of the top bloggers? Posting frequency may be the most important.

Blogging takes commitment, and if you want to create a top blog, you need to post often and well.

State of The Blogosphere: The More You Post, The Higher You Rank reports:

“Blogging is a volume game. The more you post, the more chances there are that someone else will link to one of your posts. (Technorati rank is based on the number of recent links to your blog). The majority of the Top 100 blogs tracked by Technorati post five or more times per day, and a full 43 percent post more than 10 times per day. Meanwhile, 64 percent of the 5,000 blogs ranked lower than 600 post two to four times a day, which is still a serious commitment.”

Could you match the top 43 per cent of blogs and post ten or more times a day? That’s a serious commitment. Assuming that it takes you half an hour per post, that’s five hours a day spent blogging, which means that your blog is a full time job.

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