When writing blog posts, make sure the title to each post has your main keyword in it. Put it as close to the front of the title as possible without making it look too silly. In addition, include your keyword a couple of times in the article, but don’t make it unnatural sounding. Also use synonyms and other related words as well so as not to appear to be keyword stuffing, which is heavily frowned upon by Google.

Google has something called “page rank”, which is Google’s way of determining the authority of a particular page. A high page rank often means a higher ranking in the search engines, which leads to more traffic. Things considered are whether your keywords are appropriate for your content, number of backlinks, how often you update your site, and many other things. High page rank will also attract more blog comments, which will lead to more content, more authority, and more traffic. Just be sure to watch out for spam comments. That is one of the bad things about having a high ranking blog. But I’m sure we will all happily deal with the nuisance of spam blog comments if it means that we have a popular blog with tons of traffic. I know I will.

Also, something to keep in mind when writing blog content is that search engines don’t like duplicate content. So if you have a blog article and you submit the same article to tons of article directories, you have a potential problem. Why? Because the search engines don’t want the same content showing up over and over again in the first page, so the highest ranking site typically gets credit for that article on the first page, and that site might not be yours. So it helps to change your blog articles enough when you submit them to directories so that they don’t show up as duplicate content.

One of the best things about blogs is that the search engine spiders love them. They’re easy for spiders to navigate because they’re primarily text in most cases. There’s not a lot of code to stop the spiders and send them to another site. So, blog pages are indexed quickly, and each post is considered to be one page. Therefore, the more you post to your blog, the greater the number of pages. The more pages you have, the higher your page rank will be, and the higher your blog will rise in the search engine results. That means traffic.

Try to make sure your posts have a call to action to entice people to click and visit your squeeze page. Also, make the anchor text a keyword you want to rank for.

These are just a few tips to get you in the right direction in blogging for traffic. Follow these tips, and be sure to post as often as possible, and you’ll see your traffic grow and your list building efforts will be benefited greatly.

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One thing that makes people uneasy about blogging is that it requires a lot of writing, and many people don’t think they can write. Well, lucky for you, you don’t have to be a great writer to start a blog. If you can speak in coherent sentences, you’re fine. Just write the way you speak. Don’t worry about using elegant language or big vocabulary words. Just be yourself in your writing and you’ll be fine, even if you writing skills aren’t high level. People will appreciate the authenticity and it makes you appear more down to earth and approachable.

Also, if you are blogging about a topic that people are passionate about, they will read your blog based on your passion and knowledge of the topic. So if you know what you are talking about, then readers will read what you have to say and they will subscribe to your list. So put that limiting belief that you need to be an excellent writer aside. There are bloggers who speak English as a second or third language who make thousands of dollars a month and even more than that blogging.

First, be sure that the keywords for your blog get enough traffic each month to justify your time. So do extensive keyword research before you set up your blog and squeeze page to make sure the market is healthy.

Another issue people have is finding content for your blog. The more content you write, the more traffic you will get over time, because the search engines love regularly updated content. So this is a crucial issue. What did we do when we wanted to find information about a topic before the Internet was around? We went to bookstores and libraries. Lucky for us (at least for the time being), bookstores and libraries are still around. So if you want to find content for your blog, become knowledgeable about the topic of your blog. Get books, magazines, visit museums, etc. Do anything and go anywhere where you can learn more about the topic of your blog. If you are going to blog regularly about a topic, you need to become knowledgeable, and eventually an expert. So get started and you will have all of the content that you need.

In addition to using your own head, there are other options for content such as private label rights products and article directories. Also, you can feature a post from a guest blogger.

If you really don’t want to write, you can just hire the job out to someone else. You can get articles written for about $10, more or less depending on the level of quality that you want. Be careful about paying too little for articles, because you get what you pay for. If at all possible, get a writer who is already familiar with your niche.

These are some of the key techniques to get more traffic to your blog, which will result in more squeeze page traffic as well for your list building efforts. Check out the next post for a continuation of this topic.