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.
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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.
You are welcome!
See everyone… It works!
That is pretty cool!
Ok… I am ready to go on my 7 day vacation…
This is way I keep coming back to your site. Great info.
Cool!
Hell of an idea…..
Great Info….
lolz.. u r right, old is gold and there are lots of old posts that can be reused
.. thanks for the tips..
You are welcome. I am really glad you guys enjoy the tips and keep coming back for more.
@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
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.
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!
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
Awesome tip, thanks Garry, this is why I read your blog on a daily basis!
Do you think new link will give to you more attention from search bots?
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.
How about pluging in their trackback url into your article as a trackback?
Dude, you are the BlogFather! Very useful info. thanks!
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
Love this idea, Garry. Take the weekend off. You’ve deserved it!
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
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!
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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