7 tips on how to write traffic attracting killer blog posts/articles

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Alex129, Jan 31, 2009.

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    Many of us wonder what to be done to attract high quality traffic. The most important is, ofcourse, writing attractive articles which can make your site famous and ultimately increase site visitors. So, i will mention tips to write traffic increasing blog articles.


    Tips to write Killer articles:

    1. Good knowledge and research:

    If you want to write an informative article, the first and foremost thing is good knowledge about article topic. So, select your article topic such that you can provide a fair good amount of knowledge to your readers from the article. I don’t say that you should be genius about the topic…but should have fair knowledge. This is also important as you have to answer queries raised by site visitors. You can use Google to achieve required knowledge. This is research part.

    2. New content:

    This is the crucial and i personally feel, the most important for any article to become killer and famous. Why?… I’ll tell you. If you have new informative content, site visitors would readily share it over various social networks and directories, making your site famous. Thus, it is new content that is important. New content implies you can even add your own experiences in your articles

    3. Language:

    Keep your article language reader friendly. I found this as one of main secrets of many successful bloggers. Just read any article at say “Problogger” , it is the Darren’s language that makes the article so captivating. Also, avoid slangs and sensitive words in your articles. Also, test out your spelling mistakes. This matters a lot as lot of spelling mistakes brings frustration and thus leads to failure of our goal. I accept, that even i am a bit weak at this.

    4. Use lists:

    Using lists in your articles helps reader to easily scan your articles. This not only saves time but also makes it readable. I will not talk much about this over here as i have written an article How to increase site traffic by lists. Just check it out.

    5. Develop your own addicting style:

    If you will succeed at this, i will say your sitemeter will be bombarded by thousands of hits each day. Develop your own style of writing articles which will make your readers addict and force them to return to your site again. This will help you in building loyal readership. But, take care that this style will give joy to readers. This usually is achieved as time passes and your experience in blogging grows. I recommend you to read various articles written by Darren at Problogger. I have even achieved my style by following and researching his style.

    6. Be positive and hopeful:

    This thing, i found, not considered by many bloggers. While reading the articles, always focus on positive aspects. I mean, give your readers a feeling of hope and positiveness while they reading your articles. Let them feel inspired while or after reading your blog posts.

    7. Add your personal experiences:

    I have mentioned this in second tip as well. Mentioning your personal experience helps in removing an alien/stranger gap between reader and the writer. This helped me a lot in achieving good readers cum friends. But, while adding your experience, just remember that this personal experience will be used by your readers to evaluate your persona. So, be careful.

    8. Don’t include all information:

    This may sound to be contradicting. Right? But, this is important to attract visitor interest in your article. Ask your visitors to share their views and tips by commenting. Now, if you have included all tips in article, there will not be any comments as visitors find their tips mentioned in article itself. Thus, their personal involvement decreases. So, leaving out simple points/tips helps in increasing comments and visitors involvement.

    So, thats it. As said above, if you have your own views about killer articles, please mention it over here. I hope you find this article useful in writing a killer article.

    Enjoy Blogging…..
     
    Alex129, Jan 31, 2009 IP
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  2. manish.chauhan

    manish.chauhan Well-Known Member

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    Nice tips...thanks for sharing..:)
     
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    Really great post thanks for sharing...
     
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    chillingbreeze Well-Known Member

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    Good ones :) But if you're writing for your own blog, it is great to give maximum info you can. When it comes to writing articles for directories, that's indeed a good idea to keep some info that would draw readers to your website.

    Cheers!
     
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    Wow great tips such a use full info!!!
     
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    Great Tips !!
     
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    Thanks, that's really going to help.
     
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    Good info. I would put content on number 1 spot. If your content isn't interesting then everything else isn't going to make a difference.
     
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    Hey guys, by saying "Do not include all info ", i mean you can skip those points which you think even any normal blogger can know, points which are very common...Afterall, such common points are having less worth in quality articles.
     
    Alex129, Feb 6, 2009 IP
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    Nice Tips. Thanks For Sharing Tips.
     
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    nice tips but you said "7 Tips" and wrote '8'
     
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    Thanks for sharing all this point. I learn a lot and infact very useful to all.
     
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    Superb Tips
     
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    good content always matters plus seo work also matters
     
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    Yeah, it's nice to see all the useful and helpful tips in the same post..Thanks for sharing such a amazing information..Goo Job Webmaster........

    hire seo expert
     
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    Thanks. I am going to write an article right now using a list and will compare its performance with my previous articles which so far have not included numbered points.
     
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    Thanks for the great post. Very useful.
     
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    I like 8. Don’t include all information: :)
     
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    #19
    I like the info except number 8. I feel that there's always going to be more than what you write. To think that you know everything about a subject and make a note of it in an article is not realistic.

    For example, you said nothing about using header text to help with reader scannability.

    Cheers.
     
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