How to Increase Traffic to Your Artist Blog
Welcome to half two of "Why Every Artist Wants a Blog", a series showing how a successful blog can help you sell more art.
Currently that you have got successfully printed your artist blog and have tested your dedication to frequent blog posting, it's time to urge your blog exposure on the web. Using blog-specific on-line promoting techniques, you'll promote your blog to a target market and build quality traffic to it - for free.
seven Steps to Build Traffic to your Artist Blog
1. Go through Blog Directories
* A list of the top 35 blog directories with direct links to submission pages and inclusion requirements is obtainable at The ARTrepreneur. Remember that the method of submitting to directories is usually long and tedious, but can absolutely prove its come back on the time investment, especially considering that it's free online promotion for your blog.
* Create a record of submission document for your blog to keep track of submission dates, member registration info, etc. Several of the better blog directory sites need a reciprocal link or tracking script to urge listed, thus work with your technical support person to position a reciprocal link on the page.
* Make positive that the information you labor under the directories is consistent. Meaning, continually submit the same title and outline for your blog. The title you submit should be the title tag and meta description for your blog - both written using optimized copy made along with your blog's keywords. (See Half one of this series for tips on writing optimized copy for your blog)
2. Ping Blog Services
"Pinging" may be a approach of letting blog directories and search engines recognize that you have got updated your blog. By sending a ping to every service, you allow them to know that a new post has been published so they can come check you out.
3. Optimize every blog post for search engines
Obtaining visibility in natural search for a blog post isn't any completely different than getting visibility for a internet page. The same rules of "writing for search" apply - meaning keyword made titles, content length, optimized hyperlinks, alt tags, etc. Here are quick tips for optimizing each of your blog posts for higher rankings in natural search results:
* Determine your keyword phrase. Is it something people truly explore for? If not - phrase it differently. As an example rather than using "The Dorm Diet" for a title, you would possibly take into account "Lose the Freshman fifteen" since freshman 15 may be a terribly popular searched phrase.
* Blog Entries should be at least 300 words long.
* Your targeted keyword phrase should appear three-five times in the entry (once in the title, within the summary and throughout the blog)
* Use the keyword phrase in any hyperlinks you have got within the blog plus in any bulleted list.
* Use ALT tags for your images
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