How To Increase Blog Traffic? Use This Simple Technique

Peter Lee — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:38:08 +0000

You probably have heard and tried all the ways known to every blogger about how to increase blog traffic to your blog or website that you’d think this is just another one to add to your list. Of course not! If it is, I doubt, you’d continue reading it anyway. Time is too short for all the things we want accomplished on our blogs. I’m just introducing a very simple technique I learned that can get more traffic to your blog.

Featured Posts on your Blog

If you are familiar with my blog, you probably would have seen a ‘Featured Post’ I put up on this blog, something that looks like this:

Essentially what I’m doing is linking my work at home blog homepage with all these blog posts of mine but with a difference. On each of the 6 posts I selected a keyword phrase and all these anchor text links appear on all the 100′s of single posts on this blog. I then offer a short description of each post as the keyword phrase may not tell much. This technique works only on a WordPress Blog. That’s why having a WordPress blog continues to amaze me as I never stop finding new advantages I had not known before. So can you imagine the power this technique yields as your blog grows?

What’s the difference between Featured Posts and Popular Posts

My ‘Featured Posts‘ Section shows a short list of posts with just the keyword phrase and a brief summary. It is advisable to use posts that are different from Popular Posts. By doing so you actually present to your blog visitors more reading options and that helps to improve your page views and ultimately repeat visitors to your blog too.

Your ‘Popular Posts‘ show your entire post title that your blog visitors can go to and click the link to read your post if it interests him. It would be hard to expect someone typing a search term in the Search Engines like ” 200+ Passive Income Resources, Tips & Home Ideas” to land on your post. Well that’s where your ‘Featured Posts’ and how well researched your keyword phrases are that can make this possible. Also the fact that you have 100′s of posts with these keyword phrases definitely help in bringing these search engine hits to your blog.

The Key Benefits of Featured Posts on your Business Blog

it can be used as part of your existing link building strategy to obtain faster results
It increases your page views of your blog as it complements your ‘Popular Posts’ and ‘Must Read Posts’
it helps to increase blog traffic to these specific pages, improved page rank on these pages and hopefully your SERP (Search Engine Results Page)
Google bots loved it too…take a look at the screenshot below showing that one of my keyword phrases has been indexed.

How Featured Post Technique is helping this blog

Out of 6 featured posts which I’ve selected, 2 posts i.e. 2 keyword phrases I selected for this technique have achieved Google Top 10 (page 1 SERP).

My Final Thoughts

Personally I like this technique to increase blog traffic as it uses the linking and seo power of a WordPress blog which I’ve seen it work on many other experiments that I’ve done e.g. my How Blog Commenting Got Me 1200 Backlinks in 5 Days. A word of caution I can give is that achieving your result is a long term process so don’t expect to see immediate results once you’ve put up your Featured Posts. It’s not to be used to replace your link building strategy but to complement it and should be used concurrently if you wish to achieve your SEO top ranking results.

It also works better when your blog is not a new blog, has plenty of inbound links and you are constantly using deep linking on these featured posts. Here is a post I found titled “Get The Top Spot On Google” showing that this technique has been used by other bloggers to achieve some measure of success. Well get craking and start this easy technique to increase blog traffic.

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