Bloggers should realize the significance of blogging tools to generate traffic for their articles.
If you are a blogger, you would know that your articles could only be read if you can increase traffic to your blog.
If you are wondering how you could do this, here are tried and tested methods that you may want to adapt.
*Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools
Search Engine Optimization is a blogging tool which makes use of several methods to optimize articles of post.
One of them is to use significant keywords in an article to ensure that it gets a high ranking slot in the Search Engines Results Pages (SERP).
SEO increases your blog’s online visibility in the search engines. This method could generate traffic in thousands or millions of hits, if you discover the correct strategy.
The keyword density is considered in each article where posts shouldhave a keyword that surfers most often use to search for that specific topic.
The keyword density should be at least 1% to 2% but not greater, because Google fines articles or blogs with more than 2% repetition of words. It is tantamount to spamming the search engines.
Google could also fine your blog and decrease its Google Page Rank. SEO tools include several aspects of blogging that would seem complicated to the average blogger.
These are some of the tools used in SEO
1. Google analytics Tool
This tool is very powerful and significant. If you know how to use all the data obtained by the tool, you can generate tons of traffic to your blog.
Sign up your blog with Google Analytics and monitor your traffic, where your traffic comes from, what countries, what type of provider are they using, what are the most read topics in your blog, what are the most clicked ads and many more vital information.
Without Google Analytics, your blog can be likened to a ship without a captain. The tool provides everything you need to know about your blog’s data concerning traffic and advertisements.
2. Webmaster Tools
These are tools that could help you optimize your blog by providing you a means to submit your sitemap to Google search engine.
The sitemap is a blueprint of your blog; it will reveal the important contents of your blog. For MSN, you can also submit your blog’s URL so that MSN search engines can also index your posts, increasing traffic to your articles.
These tools can help you identify search engine problems encountered when your site is “crawled” by search engine spiders for new articles.
3. Backlink Checker
This tool would determine who links to you and whether it is a dofollow or nofollow link. It also shows the page of the site that has linked back to you.
Although the specific algorithm of Yahoo, Google and Bing are not revealed to online users, pro-bloggers have established that SEO is significant to attract traffic to your blog.
4. Rich Site Summary (RSS) Feeds Maximizer Tool
This tool will increase your RSS and your traffic too by sending rich content summary of your posts to various sites which contain the similar content as your article.
This would expand your online exposure and visibility thereby, increasing traffic to your articles.
*Social Web 2.0 Media
1. Facebook
Web 2.0 is any medium that is used online that allows user and site interaction. There are several Social websites online. Facebook is one very good example.
You can become a member of the site and allow the use of the Networked Blog application in your account.
This application allows you to automatically update your profile or application with your latest posts.
Links to your posts will then be displayed in your Homepage where your “friends” are allowed to click on the links so they could read your articles.
In this connection, it is imperative that you know how to create titillating titles that readers would find interesting enough to click your links.
You can also create a “Fan Page” at Facebook and allow people to interact with you about the different posts in your blog.
You could also allow users to like your Fan Page” as a way of inviting more readers. Posting links to your blog articles in your wall or your friends’ wall will direct traffic to your articles.
2. Twitter
Twitter is called “microblogging” because you can only write 140 words per tweet. It is one reliable way of promoting articles to your blog by tweeting the links your posts.
Just like in Facebook, however, you should also have a catchy title that would arouse online users to click on your links. However, do not tweet only the links to your articles.
Be a supportive “tweeterpeep” or member by RTing or re-tweeting other member’s tweets too. In connection with twitter, you can use applications that can connect to Twitter, like HotSuite and Twitter Adder to help drive traffic to your blog.
3. Free Articles Submission
This web 2.0 tool will help bring traffic to your blog because you can write an article, and submit it to these sites.
A link to your articles from your “Author's Information, or right after the article itself will invite traffic. There are several of these online sites, like Ezine.
There are still plenty of online tools you can use to increase traffic to your blog.
You need patience, determination and the ability to welcome and use new tools to succeed in your blogging quest.
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