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Work From Home Business Blog: How To Increase Blog Traffic? Use This Simple Technique

  • Make Money Online · 10 months ago
    Yeah you probably an increase in number of pageviews on those articles. By the way, where do your traffic come from mostly?

    Ben

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  • Pheak Tol · 10 months ago
    I like the featured post bit, I'm actually looking for a wordpress design that has the featured post on the template.

    Featured posts do help with building links, more views and readership as well.
  • Make Money Online · 10 months ago
    You can always add it manually if you really want.. Doesn't take alot of effort!
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Pheak Tol: Pheak, Ben is right. You really can't tell that I manually added it. And I don't know if there is a WP plugin for this as I've not seen.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas
  • Pheak Tol · 10 months ago
    =P
    i think wordpress has spoiled me, and now i look for plugins haha
  • online marketing consultant · 10 months ago
    Amazing tips. I've found that the best way to increase traffic to a blog is to do proper keyword research. The search engines will send a lot of traffic your way.
  • Marketing Business Review · 10 months ago
    Hi Peter,

    This seems a must try new technique to increse my traffic. I will implement this on my blog.

    BTW, Did you know how much time can a link take to show in website-grader or Alexa?
  • Make Money Online · 10 months ago
    Website grader update their stats more often than Alexa itself.. I always use that to check my current Alexa ranking!

    Ben
  • Marketing Business Review · 10 months ago
    Hi Ben,

    Thanks, in that case my Alexa its better than my Alexa bar it is showing me, Website Grader is telling me I have a Traffic Rank of 151,899 which it is better than 168,504 that Alexa is showing.
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Make Money Online: You're right about that. Alexa widget has been showing me the same stat for a longggggg time.
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    Peter
    Passive Income Ideas
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Marketing Business Review: Yeah Luis, just give it a try and we can compare our results as we go along. After all, it doesn't take much space on your blog right? You're an action taker man.
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    Peter
    Passive Income Ideas
  • Marketing Business Review · 10 months ago
    Oh you bet Peter. My Website grade improve it from 77 to 86 in about 2 or 3 days that I started to apply some of the techniques you talked about in your 1200 backlinks post. Thanks, its really awesome.

    Luis
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Marketing Business Review: Luis, At the moment, Website Grader has a problem and not showing the inbound links, which is the most important metric. In fact I just saw the message from this site that says: "We are temporarily not counting inbound links in the score. This is an important metric, and we are working on this issue. "
    I know it's been a few days as I check everyday.
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    Peter
    Home Business Blog
  • Marketing Business Review · 10 months ago
    Yes I see it now Peter Thank you.

    I got this message in Website Grader

    "We are temporarily not counting inbound links in the score. This is an important metric, and we are working on this issue."

    So maybe in a few hours or days more I´ll be able to see how many inbounds I have for real.

    Right now I have about 6 sites where I am in the TC, in most I am the First TC, but now I will look for more sites. I will use the list from Shanker to find more good sites to comment and read. I may end up learning a lot.
  • Sire · 10 months ago
    My blog has a built in 'most popular' and 'most comments' and where possible I also use links from within posts as I think that these links help to keep people on your blog and the longer they do that the more chance there is that they will find things that interest them.

    <abbr>Sires last blog post..Duncan And Norm’s Big Day Out</abbr>
  • Make Money Online · 10 months ago
    Hmm but Sire, have you noticed most comment or maybe most popular may not be the articles that you really want to feature?

    Ben
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Sire: Yeah, unless you have it somewhere but I've not seen any part of your blog that showcase some favorite ones besides your most popular and most commented ones.
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    Peter
    Online Business Ideas
  • Pheak Tol · 10 months ago
    @peter, i didnt notice it, you're just too good!
    @ben, i guess im just too spoiled! WordPress has all these plugins so I'm thinking "why not this?" haaha

    <abbr>Pheak Tols last blog post..Convert Keywords Into Money Making Links</abbr>
  • Stephan Miller · 10 months ago
    I usually use one bookmark category on my blogs as featured posts. That way I can just bookmark the post through Wordpress and have it show up in my featured posts widget instantly. I also have less featured posts show on each page then I actually have bookmarked and have them show in random order. That way they don't look like sidewide links which I have heard can diminish the value of each link.

    <abbr>Stephan Millers last blog post..Promoting Affiliate Products with Adwords on a Budget</abbr>
  • Sire · 10 months ago
    I've never really thought of highlighting my favorites. After all, what may be my favorite, others may not find as appealing.

    <abbr>Sires last blog post..Duncan And Norm’s Big Day Out</abbr>
  • Christopher Ross · 10 months ago
    Thanks Peter, I do a similar trick using keyword tag tracking for my blog. It allows me to link to similar posts that may interest my readers.
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Christopher Ross: Hi Chris, Thanks for dropping by and sharing your technique. What are some of the key benefits of this technique. Getting more organic traffic too?
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    Peter
    Work At Home Blog
  • Dennis Edell · 10 months ago
    Great stuff Peter. I've had featured posts planned ever since I started seeing how well popular post work. :)

    <abbr>Dennis Edells last blog post..Best Blog Review Winners!</abbr>
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Dennis Edell:Glad you like this Dennis. I've not seen it in our friends' blogs though, but I'm sure there will be more soon.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Blog
  • Asher Awesome · 10 months ago
    Hi Peter, that's a great point. Definitely one of the things that I have to get down to doing soon... Have put in a lot of blood and sweat into a couple of posts and it'd be a waste if my new visitors don't get to see them! *grin*

    <abbr>Asher Awesomes last blog post..Internet Marketing: Creating A Web Site That People Like</abbr>
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Asher Awesome: Exactly, but you should use the 'Recommended Posts' as well.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities
  • khaled · 10 months ago
    If you are getting results the technique is obviously working especially if you are getting top ten results. Its a good way of getting readers to visit older pages which are often forgotten about and keeping that part of your site visible. There is a random featured post plugin available wordpress.org/extend/plugins/random-featured-post-plugin/ (supported up to WP 2.5.1 and a featured post plugin impnerd.com/featured-posts not sure what version of WP its supported up to.
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Khaled:I've not seen such plugin that allows you to select your own keywords. You may be refering to complete post urls which is slightly diferent.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas and Opportunities
  • penguinbob seo blogger · 10 months ago
    That is a very smart way of doing it and definitely something I will try to use in the future.
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @penguinbob seo blogger: Thanks for dropping by and your comment.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Blog
  • Tony · 10 months ago
    Thanks so much for the tips. I haven't been paying much attention to my blog and don't even know the difference between featured and popular posts and how it can be useful!
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Tony: Thanks for dropping by. Well hope you get some ideas from this post.
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    Peter
    Work At Home Ideas
  • Blogging Tips · 10 months ago
    Nice work, Peter. I see that you are linking out everywhere on your blog to the point that you do so on your own comments each time with a different set of keywords.

    Yan

    <abbr>Blogging Tipss last blog post..My First Valentine Love Letter</abbr>
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Blogging Tips: Thanks for the visit Yan. Yeah I do link out a lot but I've always linked out on my own comments from the beginning. That may be a little excessive huh. I forgot how much more comments I'm getting now.
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    Peter
  • Doug Gorman · 10 months ago
    Love your blog Peter...I linked to this post on www.pipsnews.com in my new post. Keep up the great work Peter and don't forget me when you reach IM superstar status! :)

    Doug

    <abbr>Doug Gormans last blog post..Home Business Tips, Traffic Strategies, Goodbye 2008, and a Bag of Chips</abbr>
  • Peter Lee · 10 months ago
    @Doug Gorman: Hi Doug, I almost lost your comment. I found it in my spam folder. Thanks for including my post on you blog. Appreciate that. IM superstar? It's probably gonna be a long wait. Are you a patient man Doug.
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    Peter
  • Shannon Lilly · 10 months ago
    Very nice tips to more traffic!

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  • kernet · 10 months ago
    I used something similar but as my blog specializes in webdesign, instead of featured I'am displaying latest works as an articles on the top of page.. But anyway I must agree, this method really works!

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  • Ned Carey · 9 months ago
    Thanks for the reminder. I need to do this. As I read your post I went to my site to see if it was a feature included with Wordpress.

    I realize now that all I have to do is make a different link category, good tip.

    <abbr>Ned Careys last blog post..Great Marketing With a Sense of Humor!</abbr>
  • Nishadha · 7 months ago
    Very interesting post , not only it gives you some extra page views but some good google rankings , definitely will try this out :)
  • patrickkallie · 1 month ago
    I'm going to try this out and see what I can come up with, thanks for the great idea.