Increasing Traffic

For all you bloggers out there, I am going to post a list of 5 tips I find are useful in increasing traffic to your blog. Now this was an assignment for a class, but I think I did a very good job and I think these tips can really be helpful.

1. Use Google hot trends: Google Hot Trends gives you a list of the top 100 words currently being searched for using Google search engine. If you can somehow find a way to implement the keywords into your blog, it will allow your blog to come up in the search results, thus increasing traffic to your blog.

2. Use Google Keywords Tool: Google Keyword Tool is helpful in telling you what your competition is doing. For example, if your blog is on hotdogs, you would type in the word hotdogs and then click “get results.” A list of other keywords associated with hotdogs will come up, such as “kosher dogs” or “turkey dogs.”

3. Use Google Webmaster Tool: According to Google, Google's free webmaster tools provide you with an easy way to make your site more Google-friendly. They can show you Google's view of your site, help you diagnose problems, and let you share info with us to help improve your site's visibility in our search results.

4. Use Negative Keywords: Negative keywords help to target a more specific audience. For example if your blog is on a writer named Tom Bobama, but you don’t want people searching for Barack Obama being directed to your site, then you can use Barack Obama as a negative keyword. You can do this with the help of websites or by adjusting the html of your specific blog by customizing the settings.

5. Do not use doorway pages: Doorway pages are designed for robots only, not humans. Search engines like to index human friendly pages which contain context that is relevant to the search. While these can be helpful for businesses, they are not helpful for blogging.