How to Increase Blog Traffic in a Jiffy

Some bloggers’ idea of how to make a blog get more readers or traffic is to just keep on posting quality content. Ok, this might be true in some way. However, there are other methods to improve your chances of making your blog earn more traffic. I’ve written about them on one of the blogs I temporarily work on, Just Make Money Online.

Here are four tips that will make a highly visited blog dream come true.

1. Improved link building method.

One can start doing link building if the blog is already filled with useful content or great-to-read and even easy-to-recall blog posts. Start getting links by reviewing other blogs and linking to other blogs (use trackbacks to make sure you alert the blog owner).

2. Use long tail keywords. Research for those keyphrases, which are actually what people use or key in in searching for information using search engines. SEO (search engine optimization) tools like Sitemeter and Google Analytics can be used to get to those keyphrases. Write about them.

3. Optimize your titles and URL’s. Don’t make your readers guess what the blog post is about. Get straight to the core but make sure there’s still that factor that will make visitors read the whole blog post.

4. SEO your image. The title tag of images can be optimized to contain relevant keywords. You can also use a Google service that can help in making your images help you in your SEO efforts - enhanced image search.

Other ways to lead traffic to your blog is submitting your top blog posts to social bookmarking sites such as Digg, Reddit, Netscape, and StumbleUpon.

Read more about these Blog SEO tips.