Step 2: Blog Traffic Generation

Traffic Generation

Traffic generation is the most important variable in your equation of money making with adds. If you don't have traffic, then no one clicks your adds and you don't make any money. There are a few steps that will insure traffic to your blog.

Content: This is what I meant when I said what you write about and how much you blog can actually pay you. Content is what brings traffic and keeps people coming back. It's simple, you write interesting things and they'll come. How do you write interesting articles?

1. Write about things you know a lot about. If you're writing a blog for fun, or keeping an internet diary or family photo album, it's probably not the best blog to try an monetize. Write in depth details about your job, where you've traveled, or how to make crafts or gadgets.
2. Niche Categories: If you've searched and found this blog, I'm sure you've found this information already. Niche categories are very specific categories that have a lot of followers. If you make crazy pot holders and people love them as much as you do, that's a great niche to capitalize on.
3. Tutorials: I love tutorials! Especially good ones, and so do so many people who could bring traffic to your blog if you make really good tuts. I'm 3D hobbyist and I love sites like BlenderCookie.com and BlenderGuru.com and all of that great open source information. And they have easy 1 million + individual traffic a month. Image your Page CTR and eCPM with 34,000 clicks a day! (1,000,000/30)

Social Networking: EVERYONE, including my great grandmother and her dog, seriously her dog, has a FaceBook or Myspace or Tweets regularly. You can create a Page for free on Facebook. A Page is something you can make public and anyone can come to see it. Thing about a page is, you post links to your blog, and it brings you massive amounts of traffic. This is due to someone “liking” your page which tells everyone that they're friends with about your page. In turn, tells them about your blog. You probably have more knowledge of social networking and Facebook and this text block has probably been pretty silly to read. But the simple fact is that it's amazing traffic. I have 30 friends on my Facebook page and I posted a link to my 3D blog (bwcreations.blogspot.com) and it received 70 individual page impressions in one day. Image your Page getting even 100 likes from people with an average of 100 friends. That adds about 10,000 potential views. Do the math, then do the work. Make your blog a FaceBook page..Tweet about it. Do the work you feel relative to the amount of money you want to make.

SEO: Search Engine Optimization is also very important to traffic generation. When you Google something, the first link that appears receives a crazy amount of traffic due to just being the top link for that search. People pay a lot of money for “professional SEO services” when can be as simple as a few steps.

1. Keywords: Think of keywords that have to do with the subject you're writing about. Go to Google and type them in and when you do so, look at the number of search results and try to find the combination of key words that has the least amount of results. The number will still be very high, it's the internet, but you should be able to find some that have considerably less results. And those keywords are the ones you capitalize on. Try to incorporate that exact phrase into your article, make the title of you article include those keywords, and then add the keywords to your tags. Google has a lot of fancy things that work very hard to optimize searches for its users, and the prior steps will really help you to optimize your blogs for search engines. But there are some things you need to steer clear of. When you add keywords that have nothing to do with what you're blogging on and are just there for Google, it will get you pinged. There are so many other tiny tweaks you can and should do, for a list visit: http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/how-to-seo-your-site-in-less-than-60-minutes/593/ and read through it as well.

Another congrats is due, this is the first major step in getting traffic to your blog. Remember, great content, social networking and any networking (including other blogs, that comes later), and search engine optimization. These simple things will fast track you to success!