It might be a lonely time blogging if every day you logon to your stats and see that still there are no visitors arriving on your weblog. But, once they start to arrive and even better still you see regular visitors hitting your website from RSS feeds, you really know you have made it. Here is how.
Though I would never say that a high Page Rank alone will get you lots of visitors, the steps needed to get a good Page Rank will also help to build your traffic. But building Page Rank alone is no way near enough. You need a plan of action to supplement it!
Writing articles and guest blogging will help to increase your incoming links and people reading these may also then wander over to your website. But, these methods do not create the ongoing rush of visitors you need, unless you can get a really run away article success story.
What you also need to be doing is writing masses of unique content. But, even this alone will not work. Writing lots of content pages and posting articles and guest sites is getting there, but you need to merge the ideas to fully succeed.
To work this to its best, what you do is to research some related keywords for which there is a good amount of traffic. Then write an article or two based loosely about the keywords. Do not get carried away with stuffing too plenty of occurrences of the keywords into the articles, just include some mentions.
Then start to write batches of further articles around these same keywords. For example, I will write the initial article and then follow this up with a set of more detailed articles, each one exploring an aspect of the first article. These remaining articles, not the original article, are distributed to article sites and used as guest posts, rewritten slightly as required by the system they are being published to. All of these will typically allow two links back to my website, one of which is used as a link to the original article with the anchor text being either the desired keyword phrase, or something very closely related.
As for instance, if I decided to work on ‘How to start a weblog’, then I would write that as a post and publish it just to my website, then write 6 to 8 posts round the different aspects of starting a blog. These additional posts might be posted to my weblog, article sites and guest blogged.
These additional articles are what makes this system work. Because the initial post is unique and has potentially hundreds of other pages pointing to it, the value of the post increases and therefore the chance of the search engines sending me traffic increases more than only a stand alone blog posting.
It is loads of work! An initial post and then 6 to 8 supporting articles to be distributed, but if that is what it takes to drive large quantities of traffic to a blog then so be it! The distributed articles will help with the search engine optimisation of the page and also send some interested traffic over. And it is a rate that I might quite simply maintain for several blogs, each getting 1 main new article a month.
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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start My Blog . Call in if you need any help or advice with starting a blog .
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