How To Improve Website Traffic

Bloggers are always hungry to learn new ways on how to improve website traffic. Here is a simple and easy tip that can help your blog website traffic skyrocket. Its very easy and you’ll kick yourself for not thinking of it sooner.

Blogs are known for burying awesome content. Basically once your post is pushed off your front page, then you leave traffic up to the Google gods. Which is fine… if you run healthy blog, Google and other search engines will pick up your post content and send you a nice trickle of constant traffic. That’s how it works for me at least…

Anyway, forget about Google for a minute and lets look at a way you can increase your traffic. Here is one of the things I do and its very simple.

Pull up some older articles and posts that you have written a few weeks to a few months ago. (Who said old posts are bad posts???) That’s like saying Catcher in the Rye is a terrible book because its old. Content is content… and article submission is just that as well. Its all good stuff that has been buried alive.

Open up your older articles in edit mode. Scan your article and look for some nice paired up keywords.

Example: WordPress Hosting I get THIS, Get Free Traffic I get THIS, Make More Money I get THIS, etc..

When you find a nice keyword pair, copy those words to clipboard and then paste them into the Google Blogsearch bar. The results will give you other blog articles that talk about the keywords you talked about in your post.

Simply copy the URL of the blog post you found in Google Blogsearch and go back to your original post and hyperlink your keyword phrase to the blog post you found in Google Blogsearch.

Doing this will create a pingback or trackback and 9 out of 10 times it will make a machine readable link on the other blog post back to yours. Additionally, you are going to bring attention to yourself from the author of the newly created article.

If you do this on a regular basis, you will increase your traffic to your blog. Not only that, when search bots come back to your older posts to check for updates, they will see a new link and give your individual page more value.

GarryConn

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CypherHackz Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-15-2007 20:06:42 Comment #6588

Hi, I’m agree with your method. Doing the linkback will bring attention to the author like what you did to me. And thanks for the linkback.

 
Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-15-2007 20:08:52 Comment #6589

You are welcome!

See everyone… It works! :)

That is pretty cool!

Ok… I am ready to go on my 7 day vacation…

 
Steve Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-15-2007 20:26:06 Comment #6590

This is way I keep coming back to your site. Great info.

 
Sourav Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-15-2007 21:37:49 Comment #6592

Cool!

Hell of an idea…..

Great Info….

 
Michael Woo Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 00:06:19 Comment #6595

lolz.. u r right, old is gold and there are lots of old posts that can be reused :) .. thanks for the tips..

 
Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 00:26:16 Comment #6596

You are welcome. I am really glad you guys enjoy the tips and keep coming back for more. :)

 
Alexander Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 01:38:00 Comment #6597

@Garry,
do you really think it is a good idea ?
It brings you a few pingbacks and a few visitors, but doesn’t this dilute your pagerank ?
ciao
alex

 
Garry Conn Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 01:48:03 Comment #6598

How would this dilute your PageRank? Google places value on pages that provide resourceful information and that includes linking out to external pages. But, if you do feel it dilutes PageRank you can always slap a rel=nofollow on the link and that will fix the leak.

I would worry less about diluting PageRank and focus on providing a blog/site that is useful for your readers. If you do that coupled with complying with Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, I think you’ll be on your way towards having a very healthy and fast growing site. All in all, I think it is a wonderful idea to share external links with your readers. :)

Thank you for asking the question and I hope my answer helps.

 
The Monetizer Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 02:03:07 Comment #6599

Great tip here Gary. This is something I had never thought of or even seen before, so I’m going to test it out..thanks!

 
Alexander Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 02:12:52 Comment #6600

Thanks for your answer Garry: I’ll try your tip.
I just sent you a private message for a totally other question, please take a look and see what you can do.
I would REALLY appreciated. :-)

thanks
alexander

 
John Motson Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 07:11:09 Comment #6601

Awesome tip, thanks Garry, this is why I read your blog on a daily basis!

 
Symbian Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 09:22:38 Comment #6602

Do you think new link will give to you more attention from search bots?

 
Madhur Kapoor Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 10:03:15 Comment #6603

Wow Garry , this is a very innovative tip. This way you not only get more readers, you also bring more attention to your older posts as well.

 
Desty Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 11:00:01 Comment #6604

How about pluging in their trackback url into your article as a trackback?

 
Allyn Paul Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 11:46:59 Comment #6606

Dude, you are the BlogFather! Very useful info. thanks!

 
Alexander Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 11:58:48 Comment #6607

A tactic I use is when a social network comes up (in italian language there pops up a new Pligg base network every month) I submit my best posts.
It brings some more backlinks and visitors.

ciao
alex

 
Mark Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 19:13:22 Comment #6609

Love this idea, Garry. Take the weekend off. You’ve deserved it! :)

 
Mike Huang Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 19:18:34 Comment #6610

Interesting way to gain traffic to a person’s site, but in a way this is considered unfair. I think it is unfair because technically, this is cheating.

-Mike

 
YC Wrote a Comment:

Date/Time: 11-16-2007 20:51:50 Comment #6612

And Garry even looks like a BlogFather ;)

Great tip Garry – I think it’s great when people think out of the box a little. I’ll work this in and test it out.

Btw, have a good break! Pls let David know, no worries about the beta testing – hopefully you guys can work something out that’d meet the requirements for most!

 
Jon Roussel Wrote a Comment: Subscribed to comments via email

Date/Time: 11-20-2007 20:21:39 Comment #6694

Hi Gary,

You make some excellent suggestions in your post. Trackbacks and pingbacks not only help the other bloggers, they get your more links.

I sometimes here people say they do not know what to write. Well they could follow your suggestions and find some great ideas for new content by searching other blogs.

Jon Roussel
http://jon-roussel.com

 
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