Get Traffic To Your Wordpress Blog - Getting Started Part 9
May 18th, 2008 by admin
This is the final part of the Getting started series. In parts 1 to 8 you’ve learnt the following:
Part 1 - Getting Started
Part 2 - Choosing A Profitable Niche
Part 3 - Setting Up Your Web Site
Part 4 - Installing A Wordpress Blog
Part 5 - Configuring Your WordPress Blog
Part 6 - Finding Content For Your Wordpress Blog
Part 7 - Monetising Your Wordpress Blog
Part 8 - Adding An Opt-In Box To Your Wordpress Blog
And so to getting traffic … Free Traffic!
Where can you get free traffic from to your new blog? Here are just a few places …
- The Search Engines … Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc …
- Your RSS Feeds …
- Article Marketing …
- Blog Comments …
- Social Sites …
To start getting traffic, you need to blog every day, even twice a day if you have enough content. A good way to put a blogging plan together is to build a keyword list of say 100 keywords in your niche, and then aim to post about one or two of them every day.
I use Keyword Elite to produce my keyword lists. It gives me more than just a keyword list. It returns hundreds or thousands of keyword phrases related to any niche, and for each keyword phrase it tells me how many searches each one gets a month, and how many web pages are competing for it. So I can choose keywords that are not to competitive that will bring me some traffic … not a ton of traffic, but some traffic … there is no point chasing high traffic keywords that you’ll never rank for! If you’re going to produce 100 posts, each one doesn’t need to pull in many visitors for you to soon have several thousand visitors per month …
Part 6 of this course showed you how to find and generate content for your posts … what I would advocate is that you post around specific keywords like we’ve just discussed.
Regular posting on specific keyword phrases will get you search engine traffic over a few weeks from the search engines …
Wordpress produces an RSS Feed that you can submit to RSS Directories … your feed address will be: http://yourblogname.com/feed … what I suggest is that you go to a site called Feedburner.com and burn your feed there. Burning is easy, they give you a step by step guide on doing it, all you need to know is your feed address … once you’ve burnt it, your feed will appear in their feed directory, and everytime you post to your blog, they will notify a bunch of directories that you’ve posted automatically!
I also suggest you get a copy of RSS Submit. RSS Submit is software that will submit your RSS Feed to 70+ directories in seconds … it’s cheap and so easy to use!
To learn a whole lot more about getting free traffic from your RSS feeds, read this post …
You’ll be really surprised how much traffic your feeds will bring you !!
Article Marketing is a great way to drive traffic and links to your site (which will help your pages rank in the search engines). To learn the ultimate article marketing strategy, read this post on Sexy Article Marketing …
Another post worth reading is Having A Traffic Orgasm … when you read the post, make sure you go and get a copy of Dean Hunt’s free report … if you use his tips when you write your articles, a lot more webmasters will re-use your articles and spread them across the internet ….
Submit to social sites … to be successful at pulling in social site traffic, I really recommend you read Dean’s report above … his tips will make your articles more popular on the social sites such as Stumbleupon or Digg … use Social Marker to submit your “best” posts to the social sites and directories …
Finally, find high traffic blogs in your niche using Google, and simply go and comment on their posts … the link from your comment to your site will bring you traffic … try and leave 10 - 20 comments on other peoples blogs each week … they don’t need to be long comments, just relevant … these comments are quick and easy to do and will bring you traffic …!
All these methods will bring you traffic pretty quickly …
- choose your keywords carefully for your post titles
- post regularly, daily if possible
- submit your rss feeds to lots of rss directories, burn it at feedburner
- change some of your better posts slightly, and submit them to article directories, I strongly recommend “SubmitYOURArticle.com.”
- write several “quality buzz” posts each month and submit them to the social sites using SocialMarker.com
- comment on other people’s blogs in your niche …
These basic methods will work, and will work well!
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