Top 12 Ways to Market Your Blog and Increase Web Traffic

If you want to attract visitors to your blog you need to market it on a continous basis. You won’t see any increase in web traffic if you just throw up a blog on the Web and expect it to get traffic immediately. Create a simple marketing plan first using the methods below, then stick to it.

Here are the top 12 ways to market your blog:

1. Add fresh content

You’ve probably heard the phrase “content is king.” This is because content is what the web consists of. Search engines
primarily spider content on web pages and information is what people search for. I try to add content to my blog at least 3 times a week to keep visitors and search engines happy.

2. Research keywords

If you have a business blog that has AdSense Ads or Affiliate Programs on it be sure to research your best keywords first
then integrate them into your content. You won’t attract search engines or visitors if you write on topics people are not
interested in (ie you only receive a small number of searches for that term). I use SEARCH IT for all my keyword research. It’s a free SEO tool that not only provides you with targeted keywords, but also shows what competing sites are doing to get good rankings.

3. Placement of keywords

Include your keywords in the meta tags (title and description tags) and within your content. Your title is the most important tag because visitors will read this first before your main content. The title also appears at the top of your visitors’ browsers.

4. Create an attractive headline

Write a catchy headline for each post. For example the headline of this post explains what you are writing about (Top 12 ways to
market your blog) and what benefit you receive (Increase web traffic). The headline needs to pull the reader into the content.

The other points are discussed in my next post……