How to easily structure a traffic pulling blog in 30 minutes or less?
How to do you create a traffic pulling blog?
I am often asked that question. You probably already know about blogging as a very effective tool for search engine optimization. To help you with structuring a traffic pulling blog, I decided to write this article.
Just how do you structure a “traffic generating blog”?
Basically, it consists of 2 simple things. Ability to index content and ability to reach and communicate with audience. If you remember, blogging was initially used by internet marketer as a indexing tool few years ago. Even then most marketer underestimated it’s ability and underused the tool. I wonder if you’ve already began to notice the fact how blogging has gone from just a fad to phenomenon.
1. Setting up your blog
Before you start blogging, you have to set up/install your blog. The easiest way to install blog on your website is by using Fantastico and wordpress combination. Most hosting companies have cpanel and fantastico installed for their customer’s ease. Fantistco will help you install wordpress blog in 5 minutes.
2. Setting up bare bone SEO structure for the blog.
After installation, you have to start with basic setting. Things like Permalink structure, which will define the links generation by the blog. You should also install few good plugins like “All in one SEO”, “google sitemap” plugin.
3. Using indexing tool properly
Indexing is done by pinging different services all over the net. Wordpress uses pingomatic.com to ping multiple services. What these pinging services do is that they let the search engines know of the updated content.
You’ll also find many websites, giving out a list of 60–80 different pinging services. Often you’ll find many blogger’s suggest you to add the list into pinging list of wordpress publishing. If you are dding that, then you should remove the pingomatic option and paste the links manually in it’s place.
Understand there’s 2 kinds of pinging used by wordpress. 1. The main ping when new content is posted. 2. Secondary ping whenever you do any kind of update on your blog (Editing existing post). If possible, you should check out few plugins (like ping optimizer) to avoid too many pinging possibilities. This will help you by not getting banned by ping services.
4. Ability to reach and communicate.
The most underused tool of blogging is it’s ability to communicate with others. People use blogging as indexing tool or ranting tool, but they tend to forget about the communication. Using blog will give you chance to connect with future prospects, readers and customers.
Think of it as tool to bridge gap of communication between you and your readers.
5. Promoting a blog.
If you’ve been blogging for some time, then you must have heard of one of the most popular myth that surrounds blogging is “Good content will bring readers”. Even with indexing tool and a great SEO tool, your blogging activities needs to be promoted to generate good traffic.
Connecting with others, article marketing and all the simple techniques can be used as promotion methods for blogging. Again, talking about promotion is bit out of scope of this article. We’ll discuss promotion in our future articles.
I’ll bet you’ll find it’s easier to promote a blog than a static website or a mini-site.
Article Marketing – How to Find Hot Stuff to Write Articles On
If you are an article writer who got bored to death by staring the blank screen of your computer then you need to perk up and start reading (and following) the stuff I am going to share in this article. The bane of every article writer is the ideas, they just don’t seem to be as forthcoming as they should. Right?
Here are 2 problems which you might be facing right now…
1. Ideas on what to write
2. Not sure if your article will be hot enough to get traffic.
Now get ready with pen and pad, you’ll surprise yourself with the ideas you can come up with.
The basis of Traffic getting articles is – People are looking for things to research or buy.
Now if you understand the above line, you’ll have no more writing problems. It’s all about writing stuff that people are looking for. You should be looking towards articles that people think are “hot” and “happening”. And this is exactly you are going to learn.
Now get this, everything that people get interacted with and get interested in will be searched in Google, Yahoo and other search engines. So it’d do well for you to be keep yourself updated on the latest happenings in your niche.
Online Set up -
1. Set up google alerts on the keywords from your niche. www.google.com/alerts . I highly recommend you to create a new account with google to receive alerts.
2. Check Google trends regularly http://www.google.com/trends
3. Use google blog search with your keywords to check what’s new happening in blogosphere.
Offline Set up
You are going to check your offline newspaper/magazines regularly to get ideas on what’s happening.
1. Newspaper.
2. Weekly magazine.
3. Monthly magazines.
This is just preparation about getting ideas for your articles. I’d be surprised (and angry at you) if you can’t even get 1 single idea to start working right now. So what are you waiting for, get cracking…
What Are My Secrets to Writing 10 Plus Articles Per Day?
As a reaction of what I am telling you now your awareness of your own writing skills will increase exponentially. You’ll be able to see how you can also write tons of article and get extra traffic, publicity and sales.
Have you ever noticed, how experienced bloggers or writers can churn out articles after articles without getting out of ideas? My Friend Andrew wrote 40 articles in 2 days as a challenge. I’ve personally wrote 28 articles in 2 days while preparing to launch a new content site.
One of the first thing I want you to do is., Forget about all your worries and concerns, as it shuts down the ability to see read and think. Being a worrywart will effect your writing.
Now as you feel more relaxed, I want you to focus and write an intention about writing an article. It can be simple intention like this “I am going to write a 500 words article about X Y Z”.
When you are relaxed yet focussed, your brain will work overtime to find answers to your intention. You’ll be surprised to see ideas coming out of nowhere and your fingers starts moving automatically.
One issue that you will have to handle in this phase is “idea overflow”. Now don’t laugh it up, I know you are thinking “Varun I don’t even have a single idea, I don’t have to worry about overflow”.
Like I said, When you follow this process of relaxed and getting focussed with intention, Ideas will flow. Of course, it’ll start slow but as you keep writing, ideas will burst out of your system. So you have to learn handling overflow. Let the ideas come and write them down in different paragraph as a symbol for the idea.
For example, my main idea for this article was “relax, intent, Focussed, flow”. 4 words that communicated all my thoughts regarding this matter.
The more you write, the better your ideas will flow. I appreciate the time you took to read this article. I believe you just need a little nudge from me towards the right direction.
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