How To Use Search Engines To Get Blog Traffic
Every time I review traffic coming to my blog, I see a lot of traffic coming from search engines. How do search engines bring traffic to my blog? Here is how:
– I come up with a post idea and write a blog post.
– I optimize the post for search engines and post it on my blog.
– The post gets indexed in search engines.
– People who have never heard of me before use search engines to find information. They see my blog post in the search engine, visit the post and read it.
Search engine traffic is very useful – if I look further into my statistics, I see that some people who come to my blog from search engines subscribe to my blog feed, subscribe to my newsletter and become clients. And search engine traffic is free – it does not cost me anything to get this traffic to my blog.
So how can you capitalize on this and bring free search engine traffic to your blog? Here is how:
Come Up With Good Topics For Your Blog Posts
It is not enough for people to find your blog posts using search engines. When they come to your blog, you need to convince them to stay and read. And this is done by writing interesting blog posts.
Optimize Your Blog Posts For Search Engines
Do research and find popular keywords that you can use in your blog posts. Then, use these keywords to optimize your post. Use a keyword in your blog title and use it in your blog post’s text.
Warning: do not use the keywords too many times in the blog text. A few mentions are ok, but too many will adversely affect your search engine rankings.
Get Links To Your Blog
Using keywords is not enough. In order to get good rankings in search engines, your blog must have other web sites linking to it.
There are lots of different ways to get links to your blog. You can participate in blog rolls and use article marketing and social networking sites and do many other things to get links to your blog.
Monitor And Make Changes Accordingly
Monitor your search engine traffic and analyze the keywords that search engines use to drive traffic to your blog. You may find keywords that you are not using yet in your statistics. Start using them to drum up even more traffic.
Keep refining your search engine optimization strategy based on what you learn in your statistics. Doing this will help you get more search engine traffic to your blog.
I discuss how to get traffic to your blog in the How To Get More Traffic & Readers For Your Blog Study Guide. Get it now at https://www.marketingsalad.com/blog.html
Biana Babinsky