How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog by Improving Quality of The Content Already Published

If you're a blogger like me, then you're probably always looking for ways to get more traffic, more readers and more interactions on your blog. There's countless sites that offer SEO tips and endless articles and information about various things you can do to help your blog and your content appear in search engines when people search for certain keywords and phrases.

Most blogger think that they need to create tons of posts everyday to get their blog popular and seen in search engines. And while posting content frequently to your blog is indeed very important. One thing that most blogger over look is going back and improving the existing content that has already been published and indexed by search engines.

Taking time to go back and edit and add to existing content already published is an excellent idea because you're adding to quality content that's already indexed. And once the page is re-crawled and re-indexed with additional quality content; only good things can come from that.

Also sending out a notification (i.e. email, social networking site, etc.) to your followers and readers about the updated content on a page is helpful too because that generates a nice burst of activity and likely some additional comments too. This activity shows search engines that your content is fresh, updated and useful to people.

NOTE: If You Don't Have Followers or Readers Ask Your Friends To Visit - Incoming hits to your blog, pages, and posts are all tracked by search engines. Just having one person visit and read your posts can significantly impact and improve the positioning your content ranks in search results.

Even sending a simple email to a friend asking them to visit a blog post you recently edited can have a huge impact. And it's simple to do, doesn't take any time and most importantly assures you the highest call to action will occur. Here's an example:

TO: John Smith
FROM: FlyKiller
Subject: Blog Post I Updated Recently And Want You To Read
BODY: Hi John, It's your buddy FlyKiller. Last week was a lot of fun at the pool. I hope we can all get together again soon. I have a blog post I published 4 months ago that I recently updated. You may remember reading it before. It's the post I wrote about that cattle ranch I discovered in Texas. Well, as it turns out that ranch was actually haunted! And to prove it I've added pictures to the post. Come check it out! Here's the link: (Insert the direct link here)
Your Buddy,
FlyKiller

So that's my little piece of blogging and SEO advice for today for anybody interested in improving their blog and increasing organic search engine traffic to it. If you have some blogging and SEO tips that you would like to share; feel free to leave a comment below and share your tips with everybody who reads this article.

My Google Analytics Account Has Been Activated

This is very cool. I discovered a program that Google offers called Google Analytics. It's available for all kinds of different websites but it's very simple to use here on Blogger. All I had to do was go into my Blogger settings and add my analytics ID number and instantly I can now view how much traffic my blog gets. I am even able to track the stats in real time.

Here is a screenshot example. I'm the only visitor on the blog right now! Maybe that will change soon? 

As you can see in the screenshot above, I can track traffic in real time. I tested this by visiting my blog and at the same time watching the Analytics screen. And sure enough, the moment I visited a post an orange dot appeared on the map! Pretty cool!

What are your thoughts knowing that right now as you are reading this post, I am tracking that you are doing it? I'm also tracking your location. I also know what type of device you are using to read this. And I know how long you have been here on the page reading this. I also know where you came from before you came to this page. And I will also know which page you leave from. If you come back, I will also know that too. I am able to keep track of how many times you have visited my blog and how often you come here!

Sounds pretty scary right! Well the good news is that I won't be able to figure out your name or your personal identity unless you provide that voluntarily or accidentally in a comment on one of my posts, or when sending me a message, or when sending me a direct e-mail. So even though I'm am able to track so much information; I won't be able to figure out who you are unless you do something stupid on my blog or provide me with information that you shouldn't.

The point is this: I love statistics; especially stats about my blog and the data my blog will generate when people visit it. I value and respect your privacy; and I expect the same from you. If there ever is a problem, keep in my that your IP address is also being logged. It's not too tricky for a guy like me to use data like mentioned above coupled with information that you have either accidentally or voluntarily provided me and figuring out who you are. So, just mind your P's and Q's and I think everything will work out fine! :P