Implementing SEO techniques into your blogging has the potential to generate a good amount of traffic for your blog when it’s done right, which can help to result in a higher Page Rank. And that is the ultimate goal of every blogger, isn’t it? Well, that and earning money for writing about what you know and love. By adding SEO into your everyday posts you’ll help to optimize your content and hopefully accomplish both of those things.

So how do you do that?

Today there are dozens of really great tactics you can use to bring traffic to your website.  The problem is that most marketers are getting caught up in “tactic overload” and not really making the money they want from their efforts.

We never had this problem in the old days before social media.  Before there were all these new places for us to market, we were desperate for new channels.  We only had search engines, forums, and subscriber lists at one point.

Now we have Twitter, Facebook, social communities, groups, fan pages, CPA networks, Facebook Ads, Adsense, media buying, guest posting, RSS feeds… it is a seemingly endless buffet of choices.

And marketers are trying them all!

If you’re fairly new to blogging, it can sometimes feel like you’re not getting anywhere with your blog.  You’ve got very little traffic, almost zero interaction, and not much hope it will get any better any time soon.

I started my latest blog roughly around October/November of 2009. (I think!) So around about six months ago.  Today it’s currently a PR 3, with an Alexa ranking of 478,175 and climbing.  In the last six months I’ve had roughly 22,165 visits and 57,129 page views.

Now that is fairly modest in comparison to many more established blogs, but I’m pretty proud of the traction I’ve gained so far and am excited about its continued growth.   And I feel there are a handful of simple things I did that really helped to propel that growth fairly quickly.

With so many conversations these days targeting importance of doing social marketing to promote your blog on sites like Twitter, Facebook,  FriendFeed I feel I have to talk about…

Importance Of Planning For Social Networks Failure

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In fact I think I should say INEVITABLE failure! And no, it doesn’t necessary mean that the site will go down but rather a more simple variation of failure – it will fail to deliver the results you are used to seeing right now and if you don’t variate your promotional efforts – it will drug down your blog with it!

Ever asked yourself a question: Just how sustainable is your blog? How would a Blog Neglect Impact Your Traffic? And by blog neglect I simply mean breaking your blog posting schedule, posting less or paying less attention than normal to your blog.

These questions are extremely important as they can be early indicators of just how sustainable your blogging business model is. We all know that consistent quality content is the key to getting ever increasing traffic but following this line of thought we also become dependent of number of page views. Dropping that number will have direct impact on your bottom line… if you don’t have anything else in place!

Bloggers all want the one thing. Traffic! It makes sense. When you first started out blogging you were probably hoping for thousands of visitors every day, dozens of comments and maybe even a bit of income, right? Well, in the meantime you might have found out that traffic is indeed a myth and your blog resembles a starving human stuck in the middle of the desert.

If that is you, then let it be known there is help at hand. You too can have a blog that pulls in thousands of visitors every day! Yes, every day.