If you wanna have more organic traffic for your blog, what you will need to do first is to get your blog SEO ready. If you do not know what SEO is about, it’s about getting your blog optimized for the search engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing etc). SEO is actually “SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION” in short.
There are a number of reasons that why you wanna get your blog with more search engine traffic
1. Survey has shown that most visitors come from search engines have higher tendency to buy or commit a sale or service on your blog.
2. If your blog carries some advertisements such as Google Adsense and Chitika Premium, visitors come from search engines will also tend to click more on the ads on your blog than what the returned visitors, frequent readers or those coming from social networking sites will do.
3. If you tend to acquire new customers or their email addresses (which can then use as follow-up and send them your promotions and products.) Visitors come from search engines also have higher tendency to commit the registration and giving you their emails. As visitors search on search engines and then come to your blog are carrying a hope. And if your blog offers something such as newsletter that can provide what they want, of course they will register their emails.
Then, How To Get More Search Engine Visitors/Traffic?
Basically, there are simply only two ways to get more search engine visitors: 1) You pay search engine advertisement network, such as Google Adwords, which displays your ads at the right hand side of the Google searched results. And you pay at a per click cost, when someone clicks on the ads. Please note popular keywords could easily burn you $20 per click, if you wanna have hundred clicks per day that may convert only 10-20% (or even lower) into sales, it’ll burn your pocket of at least $2,000 per day.
2) Therefore, in order to get more visitors from search engines, you have to work on the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your blog, and once you’ve done so, you must also continue to add more quality contents yo your blog. SEO ready is the first essential thing to get your blog more friendly, easily and quickly indexable by the search engines. If you’re on a Wordpress blog, you just need the two Wordpress plugins below and a simple setting that will get your blog more SEO ready.
The two Wordpress plugins are
1. All-In-One SEO pack – The All-in-1 seo pack can be downloaded here, which is a plugin that adds the appropriate page title (within the
2. Google XML SiteMap – The Google XML Sitemap plugin for Wordpress can be downloaded here, it lets your blog generate a new sitemap in XML format and also notifies the search engines’ crawlers for the pick-up of this new sitemap, whenever a new content is updated or added to your blog. If you wanna get indexed by Google as soon as possible, get this Google XML SiteMap plugin for your blog, and register for an account in Google Webmaster Tools, and submit your sitemap there. Your blog shall appear in Google index in a few days’ time. You can verify by typing site:yoursite.com in Google search box.
The one setting
The one setting that you need is to get the permanent URL of your blog post to be search-engine friendly. This can easily be done by going to your Blog’s Setting -> Permalinks -> Custom Settings – use custom, and lets the URL of your blog post is made up by the post title and a simple structure. e.g. /articles/%postname%/. Read more about it: SEO ready plugins for Wordpress blog
After you’ve got these three basic things done for your blog, you must then continue to add in quality contents to your blog then you will have more blog posts or pages indexed by the search engines, which will then bring you more you more traffic.
Tags: search engine optimization, SEO
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Great article and 100% correct!
All sites and Blogs need SEO if they want to perform well and the addons you mentioned are the best way to go.
In addition to this I would also reccomend Google Analytics so you can actually track what is happening on your site and make the necessary adjustments.