Why Your Blog Posts Do Not Attract Traffic

coined by Microsoft founder Bill Gates in 1996 has been repeatedly challenged by experts in the SEO industry in recent years. Traffic, communication and the customer have all been touted as usurpers to the Internet marketing throne. The points made in each of those things’ favor are well and true, but I do have to remind readers that the arguments do not make the case that content should be forgotten.

I have gone through the same exasperating experience of writing my own blog that barely had any readers. For months, I wrestled with constant disappointment over little traffic, until I swallowed the bitter realization that it was my content that was the problem. I found ten factors that contributed to its overall weakness, and I’d like to share them to fellow bloggers who might be dealing with the same predicament.

1. Derivative Content - As much as I wrote for that blog, committing to a tight schedule to the best of my abilities, none of the posts I published had anything original to offer. Thus, I realized that there needs to be something in the article that makes it stand out among the rest. You need to give visitors a reason to keep visiting your blog instead of a hundred other blogs with the same content.

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6 Tactics to Write Posts You KNOW People Want to Read

Don’t waste your time writing the wrong blog posts. I’m about to show you 6 different ways you can write the exact content people are looking for.  Not only will this help you come up with all the ideas you need for new content, but it will also ensure that every post you write is a hit.

Lastly, these tactics will lead you to create content made to perform.  Each of these ideas will help you create posts that will perform well in the search engines as well as in the eyes of your readers. Now let’s get to business…

1. Search Meter

Search Meter is a WordPress plug-in that records all the search terms your visitors are using.  These are all of the queries that people search for with your site’s internal search bar. This is golden information because it’s the exact content that people visiting your site want to know more about. Watch for any common trends or popular topics being searched for and use this for your next blog post topic.  If you already have  content that people are searching for then make it more visible on your blog e.g. link to it more internally.

2. Google Analytics

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Top 5 Benefits of Writing Guest Posts

Lots of website owners and bloggers have started taking guest blogging very seriously and started including it into their overall marketing promotion plans. Guest blogging is a great way to build lots of high quality backlinks, traffic, authority for your business and build relationships with fellow bloggers, provided you apply the best practices in guest blogging. Still, there are many bloggers and webmasters who are unaware about the true value of guest blogging and they consider guest blogging activities just waste of time.

There are even some myths floating on internet about guest blogging like:

Guest Blogging is just a waste of time: it’s not true at all. I’m going to share the list of benefits you will enjoy when writing guest posts on other blogs in your niche.

Guest Blogging will reduce the flow of content on your own blog: It’s also not true. You should take guest blogging as an effort to market your blog among targeted audience of your niche. When you do guest posts on other blogs, there will be some blog owners who will be interested in writing guest posts on your blog as well. Content flow is not going to have negative impact due to guest blogging activities on your own blog for sure. As a matter of fact, this is probably one of the blog marketing practices that is within your immediate reach.

It’s really hard to find blogs for guest blogging: It’s not the case at all. You can easily find lots of blogs in your niche that accept guest posts with a little research on internet. And if you don’t want to do any research work on internet, here is a list of 100 plus blogs that accept guest posts and DiTesco, also has some of his own recommended sites here.

Submitting articles of less quality as guest posts: That’s totally BS. You should write your guest posts as if you were writing it in your own blog, perhaps even better.

Now let’s move ahead with the topic for the day. So here is the list of 5 benefits you will enjoy while writing guest posts for other popular blogs in your niche:

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