Increase your blog traffic

Well after my first post yesterday I realised that I have fallen into a really common blogging trap...

I wrote my content and then tried to work out how to get more people to read it - Doh!

Luckily I read an article by Racheal MacGregor (http://rachaelmacgregor.com/how-to-increase-blog-traffic-overnight-in-3-easy-steps) that has put me right - for example no one is going to search on "how I came to be here?" - I see that now. 

I did say yesterday that I wasn't going to pretend to be an expert and maybe some of you will read this bit before making the same mistake yourselves - if you want to get more blog traffic make sure you have titles that contain keywords that people want to search for.

Also if you are using Blogger there is a change to your template code so that the post title and the blog title are reversed so that Google (which tends on only look at the first 62 characters) lists you higher.
The easiest instructions I found for this are http://www.corenetworkz.com/2009/07/how-to-optimize-blogger-template-for.html
(top tip - be careful that the ' in the code don't get turned into &apos - it catches lots of people out)

And finally be sure to put some keywords on your blog to help people searching on the blog site itself.

So now, armed with this new found knowledge, I'm heading off into the fray once more my friends!

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