Getting More FreeTraffic To Your Wordpress Blog

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By warner444


This is stuff I do for my blog

I have a wordpress blog as my main site and I research keywords I want to get searched on. I find keywords that are connected to what I write about.

Whenever I can, I use these and closely related keywords in the title and in the body of the post. Posting often helps a lot because The search engines love origional content like women love shoes.

Tracking which keywords people find you with is important. Are they finding you with the words that you want, the ones that relate to your main topics? You take the keywords that work best and use them more.

Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools are free tools you can use for this.

I also social bookmark my posts and ask friends do this for me too. I use this free site/tool to make it easier http://www.socialmarker.com/ . It is a little time consuming to set up because you have to create accounts in the bookmarking sites but after that it is pretty quick. I use delicious a lot and you can download all your saved links and put them in the other bookmarking accounts. Who knows some of these sites may not be there one day.

I just started using traffic exchanges so will see how that goes. I do get a little traffic from them. Not all are equal. Traffi Storm is highly rated and easy to use.

Recently someone said they post new posts at forums using keywords they want to rank for also since most all forums will let you have a link to your website in the signature file. Of course the post and forum have to be related to the general topic of your site for this to work. I haven't tried this but it makes sense .

Sites like mixx.com and propeller.com help too but you have to remain relevant in your posts, participate by adding friends and joining groups and must post stuff besides your own site or they will boot you off.

If you don't have a blog on your site now I suggest you add one because they ping and are searched a lot. just put it in a file like www.yoursite.com/blog. Write about stuff that goes on in your sites interest area. Comment on news in your field.

One last great way to get traffic is commenting blogs in your sites topic area. If you get Google Alerts you can have Google send you alerts anytime a blog mentions a keyword you choose, like scuba for example, then be the first to comment on that post and everybody who reads that blog will see your post and some of them will visit your website. This also builds your credibility as knowledgeable in your industry.

This is not everything that can be done but these are tried and true methods and all cost zero dollars and zero cents. I hope that helps a little

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Ryan Hukill  says:
5 months ago

All great basic tips for building traffic to your blog. Another way to build loyalty is by commenting and digging on other's blogs. Many times, they'll return the favor and over time, this will really help build credibility.

Marianne McEachern  says:
5 months ago

I love the pic!!!

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warner444  says:
5 months ago

Marianne: the squirrels use the bazooka for people sized nuts.

Ryan: people helping people works online just like offline my digg is http://digg.com/users/warner444 and if you comment my blog the link follows and your most recent post is put in the comment with a live link

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esocial  says:
5 months ago

Good tips. Can I add one? Make sure that pingomatic and google blog search are in your ping list.

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warner444  says:
5 months ago

esocial you are right, especially since pinging is automatic whenver you write a new post

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funride  says:
5 months ago

Nice tips, thumb up! I´m still geting started on wordpress and every help is welcome :)

I found your hub on digg ;)

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marisuewrites  says:
5 months ago

This helps tremendously and i do some of these but not all of these --- so I have some work to do.....thanks!!

jf  says:
2 months ago

I think help people online also help yourself, just like in real life.

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