Saturday, February 7, 2009

Don't Know How To Get Traffic To Your Blog? Find Out Now

By Preston J. Davis

How are you going to get traffic to your blog? You can either write articles or use ads. The secret is in ranking high within the search engines.

If you want to rank high in the search engines you need to build up backlinks. The more the merrier.

The three top ways to get backlinks are from writing articles and manually submitting them to the different directories,getting pay per click ads and to straight out buy the links.

When you use pay per click ads you have to have a firm understanding of targeted keywords. If you target the wrong audience or don't pick highly optimized keywords you stand to loose a lot of money.

Buying links to your blog may seem like a good (and easy) way to get traffic to your blog but you have to buy quality links. The higher the Pr of the site is the better your blog will rank but the higher the PR the more the links are going to cost you. This can cost a lot of money because if the links are from low PR sites they will do you little good.

The links you buy need to be from sites that are related to yours. In the eyes of the search engines links from related sites hold a much greater importance. If a link is from a teeth whitening site and your site is about kitchen supplies then the search engines won't consider that an important backlink.

When you are article marketing the more articles that you have submitted the more traffic you will receive. Article marketing has two advantages. The first is that you can create content that will allow people to read it and click over to your site if they like what they read and second it gives your site backlinks.

Article marketing is also the cheapest way to get traffic. You can write articles and manually submit them for free. Usually when you submit an article you can use an authors resource box. This is where you can put your links to your blog. Most directories allow two links per article.

When you are article marketing you have two ways you can go. The first is much more labor intensive but it is also free. That is writing a new an unique article for every directory you want to submit to and then manually submit it. The alternative is to use an article submission site. If you get a good one they will send out unique articles and submit them for you.

If you choose to use an article submission site they will submit the articles for you saving you a ton of time. When you use an article submission site to get traffic to your blog you need to make sure that they are sending out unique articles to all of the directories. Not all of them do this and you will end up with duplicate content all over the web and the search engines frown upon such things. Search engines frowning equals very little traffic for you.

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