Increase Your Blog Traffic by Writing Guest Posts

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One of the best way to monetize a blog is through traffic.  Whether you have affiliate links on your blog that create some small income for you or if you are trying to attract advertisers – traffic is the key.  Traffic not only increases your sales, conversions and adsense clicks – but it also raises your Alexa ranking.  Many prospective advertisers will look at your Alexa ranking to determine if your blog or websites is getting enough traffic to make advertising with you worth their time.

So how does one get traffic?  You could spend time commenting on other popular blogs while leaving a link to your blog or website.  In my opinion, this is a waste of time and there is such a small percentage of readers who will take the time to visit your blog from a comment.  Unless you are making very relevant comments that really grab the readers attention – chances are slim of that reader clicking on your link.

I have found a better way to get traffic to my blog and through guest posting.  For example, my target niche for the Residuals and Royalties blog is the”make money online” niche and it is very competitive in nature.  I seem to fluctuate between page 8 and page 30 in the Google search results for this term.  That low of a ranking is no way to gain search engine traffic.

Fortunately, I have built a friendship with the blogger who sits atop the Google rankings for the term “make money online“.  His name is Alan and he really knows SEO.  Alan allows me to write guest posts that are relevant to the make money online niche and he randomly puts these posts live on his blog.  I can usually tell when Alan has posted my article because my traffic skyrockets.  Below you can see a sample graph of my traffic stats.  Can you tell which day Alan posted my guest post? 

In return, when I am writing a guest post for Alan I try and include his target keywords which are also “make money online” and “make money” – this helps him maintain his number one ranking on Google.  No matter what  your blog’s niche is – it would be a good idea to contact the top 2 or 3 blogs in your particular niche and ask them if they accept guest posts.  Be sure and ask if they will allow an anchored text link to your blog – otherwise writing a guest post without links would be a waste of time.  If you can create a guest post at least once a week, you can really increase your blog traffic and hopefully gain some repeat visitors to your blog.

You can check out Alan’s blog here: Make Money Online

You can see my recent guest post for Alan here: Guest Post

If you too have had success with guest posts – please let us know by commenting below.  If you have any tips for those who want to create guest posts please provide details.

Best regards,

Michael-John Wolfe

Tags: Make Money Online, Residual Income, Royalties

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