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Now there are a lot of blogs out there and that means competition. A lot more competition everyday. And you want your blog to be a popular and successful one. Well you could say that you want some traffic to your blog. So, right now I’ll tell you about some stuff that could get you some traffic.

First of all, we all know that people love free stuff! Yeah you can’t say that people don’t like free stuff. People will even take the crappiest thing, if its free. So, I think you know what I’m going to say. Yeah give some free stuff to people. Now it doesn’t have to be something big or like something that you will have to ship it to them. Give them something like a template, fonts, scripts, e-books and there are tons of stuff that you can give them. People really appreciate free stuff. Well sometimes there might be an exception. Lets not talk about that.

You want your blog to have it’s own domain name which is pretty easy to remember. Now of course, it would be pretty difficult to remember a long URL and you can also say that it is a negative side. And you want to blog about something particular. But then again it’s not always possible, like I blog about a lot of different things but they are somewhat related. But try to stick to a general topic like technology. Where you might write only about cameras or you could even talk about cameras, cellphones, computers, etc. But I would also suggest that you don’t blog on stuff like dragons. Because you wouldn’t really have a lot to right about them.

Another thing that you could do is, comment on other blogs. Now I’m talking about comments which are relevant to the post and not spam. When you comment on other blogs (especially popular ones), people might like your comments and then visit your blog if there is link. Or you could even provide a URL to a post that you wrote and it’s related to the post on the other blog(s).

There are tons of things you could do. But what really matters is that if your content is good or not. Your blog has to provide the best information on the topic that you write about and not just be a good one.

This is probably the biggest mistakes people make in SEO. Maybe even in daily life in some ways. The thing is that people want traffic to their site. Actually lots and lots of traffic. They dream about having a million visitors every month. But what’s the point of it? I mean why would you want a million visitors to your site? Well it’s not like someone will pay you if you get a million visitors every month or something. Sounds kind of weird, doesn’t it?

Okay for example you are selling something. I don’t know what you are selling but you are selling stuff online. And you want a lot of people visiting your online store. But what’s the point of getting a huge amount of traffic if no one really buys your product? Like they visit your site and just go away. Yeah do you get it now? You want a good quality of traffic. Don’t think about quantity. You want people who will buy your product (it’s called target audience, I think). You could get like 10 people on average every month that buy your product rather than a thousand visitors just visiting your site. So, which one is better?

Now I just wanted to let people know about this. Well think of it like the basic concept behind SEO. Okay I’m not going to tell you how you could get a good quality of traffic. You know the answer already, but all this time you probably were thinking about getting lots and lots of traffic. I suggest that you look for quality, not quantity when you really want a successful site and not just a site with tons of visitors.

Okay making your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized can be easy and effective. Just a few plugins, tips and tricks can get it to appear on search engines faster than usual. A site running on any kind of software is actually a bit more difficult to make it search engine optimized unless that software was made while keeping SEO in mind.

WordPress does give you the ability to customize your permalink which is good if you want to make sure that your visitors can remember it. But you need to do a little more than that to make your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized. I would first suggest that you install a plugin called All in One SEO Pack which optimizes your titles for search engines, adds meta tags, etc. It really makes your blog search engine friendly.

Search engines like Google lets you give XML sitemaps to them. A sitemap helps search engines navigate through a site and index it. So, I would suggest that you install this plugin called Google XML Sitemaps which automatically creates sitemaps of your blog. Another thing that would help is FeedBurner which notifies search engines when you post and it even has some great features like tracking your subscribers, letting you add social bookmarking buttons, making your RSS more compatible, etc. You would also need to install a plugin named FeedBurner FeedSmith which is needed to work with FeedBurner.

Those are just one of the great ways you can make your WordPress powered blog search engine optimized and one little secret is that Google loves blogs. I’m telling this because I’ve noticed that if you have a search engine optimized blog and your posts get indexed few minutes after you have published it while it takes days, weeks or even months for a site to appear on Google.