Oct 07 2008
Driving Traffic To Your Blog
For the next several days we are going to take an in-depth look at driving new traffic to your Today.com blog. If you are one of those who are trying to drive more traffic to your site (and who isn’t?) here are a few tips to help you get some new unique visitors:
Once Is Never Enough
One potential mistake I see new bloggers making is that they don’t post often enough. With the knowledge that Today.com will only pay you for one post of 100+ words per day many of you may be satisfied with just writing that amount and leaving it at that. If you post twice a day though, you are making it more likely that the search engines will pick up your site more quickly and you’re giving the search engine more food to feed to potential visitors as well.
Keyword Usage
If you aren’t using keywords in your content then you’re missing out on an excellent opportunity to get more search engine traffic. The search engine robots (also called ’spiders’) search your content for keywords and serve web sites up on search results pages based on those keywords. Watch this blog for tips on making your blog more SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly over the next few days.
Watch Your Word Count
Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: While Today.com only requires you to write a post of 100 words to qualify for payment, your blog may be missing out on traffic if your post entries are less than 250 words. Some search engines will not index a post page that has fewer unique words than that. Let me explain:
The template of your blog contains content that is static - that’s to say that it shows up every time a page of your blog loads. As far as a search engine is concerned, all of that is content and since it doesn’t change, they are looking for the new unique content that you add by way of your blog posts to decide whether or not it will be indexed. The fewer words you have in your post, the less likely it is that it will be indexed.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to ask the Answerman!
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I am never entirely sure what separates a plain word from a keyword. Some terms are popular but they are also used a lot by other bigger sites that you will never out PR. Is there a strategy?
There’s actually a way that you can use some larger sites’ traffic to help you. We’ll be covering that in a couple of days so stay tuned!
another tip (hope ya don’t mind) link to other sites, this seems to be very big.
Don’t mind at all! In fact, we’re going to cover linking in a future post this week.
This is some very useful information that I am going to start doing myself for my blogs. Thank you so much for all the advise you give to us all.
This is all great info. I try and write at least twice a day. I had trouble with key words at first but I’m getting much better. I’ve just now been linking with other sites as well which is driving alot of traffic to my blogs.
Remembering to use keywords is just a matter of teaching yourself that it is an integral part of writing every post. Once you have that down it becomes second nature and you’re well on your way.
Thanks for the help. I’ll be watching for future posts. My daily unique visits are still in the 20s. Occasionally like yesterday I’ll get in the 40s (once in the 50s). That is not nearly what I need, of course. I use Google Keywords most of the time, but… I’ve only posted twice a few times - so I will do more of that. Again, thanks for sharing your knowledge.