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7 No-Fail Strategies to Increase Traffic to Your Wordpress Blog
| Guest post by: Donna Gunter |
Article Overview: How can you quickly get up-to-speed about strategies and tactics to use the make your Wordpress blogs work hard for you to bring more traffic to your sites? What you want to drive to your blog is targeted traffic, not any old traffic. Here are 7 strategies you can use to increase traffic to your Wordpress blog:
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7 No-Fail Strategies to Increase Traffic to Your Wordpress Blog
Now that I\'ve become a devout Wordpress fan after years of being a naysayer, I\'m trying to quickly get up-to-speed about strategies and tactics I can use the make my Wordpress blogs work hard for me to bring more traffic to my sites. Some of the strategies I\'ve learned about have to do with how I create posts, while others incorporate the use of specific plug-ins to help me better optimize my blog for traffic.
What you want to drive to your blog is targeted traffic, not any old traffic. Lots of traffic does you no good if it doesn\'t fit your target market profile. How many times have you visited a site and realized within seconds that it wasn\'t what you were seeking? Make sure that any optimization strategies you undertake drive the right kind of traffic to your site -- the kind of traffic that wants the information, resources, services and products you provide.
Here are 7 strategies you can use to increase traffic to your Wordpress blog:
1. Create keyword-rich categories. Keywords aren\'t just for use in content. When used in categories, the category name can also play an important role in driving traffic to your blog. Use the Google external keyword tool to help you determine the best category names for your niche or your target market.
2. Optimize each post with the All in One SEO Pack. (link to wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/ ) This plug-in asks you to complete a title tag, meta description, and meta keywords for each blog post. You\'ll want to incorporate your major keywords into each section. One way to do this is in the title, where you use the pipe character (|) to separate your keyword phrases. In the title, use no more than 3 keyword phrases.
3. Set permalinks. The default Wordpress setting designates a page number to each new post. This does you no good at all in terms of SEO for your blog. Instead, in the Settings menu, go to the Permalinks option, and set your postname to %/postname/% in order to have your keyword-rich post titles appear in the post page name, or permalink.
4. Optimize permalinks with the SEO Slugs plugin. (link to wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-slugs/ ) This plug-in removes unneeded words like \"a\", \"an,\" \"and\" and \"the\" from post titles when Wordpress creates a permalink from your post title and leaves only your keywords in the permalink.
5. Optimize images with keywords. Titles and alt image tags also play an important role in SEO an driving traffic to any web site. Use the SEO Friendly Images plugin (link to wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-image/ ) to give your inserted images keyword-rich alt image text and titles.
6. Create sitemaps on your site. Sitemaps helps both your visitor and the search engines better navigate your site. For the search engines use, the Google XML Sitemaps plugin. (link to wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/ ) The CoreTweaks plugin ( link to wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-automatic-wp-core-tweaks/ ) lets you create a static sitemap on your blog for your visitors. This plugin provides many more functions as well, so explore it thoroughly when you add it.
7. Optimize post titles and post content. Incorporate a primary keyword phrase into the title of each of your posts. Then as you write the post, begin the first sentence with keyword-rich phrase. Optimally, each post should be between 250-400 words long.
Try to incorporate each of these 7 strategies into your Wordpress blog, and watch your traffic dramatically increase!
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About the Author: Donna Gunter RSS for Donna's articles - Visit Donna's website Donna Gunter, author of "Get More Clients Online: How to Get 95% of Your Clients from Internet Marketing" and founder of OnlineBizU.com, is an Introvert Business Success Coach who helps introverted independent service professionals stop the client chase and create online businesses that drives clients to them. She accomplishes this by teaching them how to successfully market themselves and their businesses online without sacrificing their introverted souls. Would you like to learn the specific Internet marketing strategies that get results for introverts? Discover how to increase your visibility and get found online by claiming your FREE gift, Introvert Marketing Toolkit, at ==> http://www.IntrovertMarketingToolkit.com Click here to visit Donna's website   Ezine Marketing How to Triple Your Ezine Optins With a Squeeze Page How to Create Your Target Market Profile 5 Step Introvert Guide to Getting More Clients from Your Industrys Top 20 Influencers 5 Ways to Use QR Codes to Increase Your Online Visibility Internet Marketing for Introverts Use Your Gifts to Attract All the Clients You Need |
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- That's great GT! What method did you use to put up the Entrepreneur Blog Network in your Wordpress Blog?
We're always looking for the easiest methods to help bloggers who are not techies get involved.
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- Hello All,
It's time for me to get serious about a blog - which I have definitely been resisting. I've read some posts here in the forum that suggests Wordpress Blog is the best and it's interactive. I am currently set up on blogpspot.com but haven't been active for a long time, so it's not problem for me to switch. Where do I begin with Wordpress and after I make a blog post can anyone comment back? Can I monitor the comments? How is Wordpress different or better than blogspot.com?
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- Jen, I like the Blog and just posted a comment to one of your articles. From my experience you need to implement some sort of SPAM capture tools. i use them on my Blog and it's been a life saver as I'm getting hit by spam atleast 5 times a day. I use Wordpress and they have plugins like Captcha and SPAM Karma installed.
Re: Poll: Blogger or Wordpress Blog?
- Blogger is a good place to start blogging simply because it is so easy to set up a blog and go.
However, Wordpress has a lot more to offer. I recently set up a membership site in about five minutes flat on a Wordpress blog on one of my websites. I haven't had time to develop it yet, but the point is, you can do that sort of thing on Wordpress but not on Blogger. That is just one example of the versatility of Wordpress.
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- It's worth building a network of blogs for traffic generation. These can include free services like Wordpress, Blogspot, Blog, Squidoo, Hubpages etc
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