How to increase your blog traffic - October 25th, 2007
Getting relevant traffic to your blog is as important as generating great content for it. Since WordPress is a favorite blogging platform for many bloggers, I thought it would be valuable to share some of the most common advice on how to increase the traffic for wordpress blog.
The permalinks structure
It is always better to have your title in the URL rather than some default dynamic urls. For example, http://www.yourblog.co.uk/increase-traffic-in-Oct-07 is always better than http://www.yourblog.co.uk/index.php?id=567. To change your permalinks structure, you need to login to your Wordpress admin panel and click Options -> Permalinks.
Keywords title and content
Using keywords in your post title is important, your titles makes a big difference when your blog post is being ranked for a particular search string. You also need to use keywords throughout your post. Concentrate on the first paragraph then use variations of your main keyword throughout the rest of your post.
Interlinking
One best way to keep visitors interested is to show them other content on your blog that may be related to the post they are currently reading. Link to your previous posts from your new posts whenever you get chance and use your relevant keywords as anchor text.
Incoming links
To participate at Related Forums and Blogs would be a great way to bring quality incoming links. Let people who are interested in your industry can easily find your blog through those large online communities.
Ping Other Sites when updating your Blog
Pinging other sites allows other sites to get updates from your blog much sooner and automatically when you make a new post. To have your blog update other sites when you update it, login to your Wordpress admin area, select Options > Writing and copy and paste the links under “Update Services”.
Lili
SEO Programmer
