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Increase Your Blog’s Page Views 10 Ways

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.

2. Use articles as static pages. You can reprint articles on any topic for free by visiting one of the many article directories like http://www.articlecontentprovider.com/articlesubmit/ Then refer people to read the articles that relate to the post you are making. You could even add one article as a new page every time you make a post.

3. Refer to other posts you have made on your blog or on another one of your blogs while posting. This gets the reader to click over to previous posts. You can even decide your posts by browsing previous posts and deciding which one to follow up on. Those archives are not to be lost and forgotten. Its great material, (you wrote it right?), so use it.

4. Create a page that links to your favorite posts that are timeless. You browse your old posts, find posts that you want readers to find easily, then build a links page with those posts directly linked. Then add a link to that page from your front page. Call it favorite posts or whatever and you will benefit by those that click through and follow those links.

5. I’ve posted here before about the “more” tag. You write your post as normal, then decide where you want to break the post up onto a new page. You put the more tag in and readers have to click to a new page to read the rest of the story.

6. Write once per week special projects. These are a series of articles on a particular topic. You will be offering it once per week giving readers a week to comment on it, then have them hanging on for next weeks special post in the series. Each time add links to previous posts in that series.

7. Using your content from your other websites or blogs is also a great way to get more pageviews for all of them. Use the target new tag and refer to material on your other blogs and websites. It will open a new window leaving the current blog open while they visit your other website or blog. You can quickly double up your pageviews while also introducing your readers to your other websites and blogs.

8. Make a list of 10 previous posts and the links to those posts. Make a post in your blog about 10 things you want your readers to know and read in case they have not done so before. At your suggestion they will at least go see if they have read those posts before, increasing your pageviews once again plus bringing old material to new readers. That also lets them know they should browse the archives for things they have missed.

9. Using that same list of 10 posts or a new one, visit other blogs on your topic. Find posts that talk about something similar to one of those 10 posts, then instead of adding a link in your signature to the home page, make a comment there and refer to the post that is similar and that contains helpful information to that blogger and their readers. You will also be increasing your link popularity while doing this. Do not spam the link. Make sure it actually contains useful information. Don’t be trolls or spammers and you will end up with new readers and more page views for your blog.

10. Do not stop being creative. Use the tips in this article, plus invent some of your own ways to interlink your blogposts together. Create pages. Don’t just post and forget. That content is valuable, use it. Do not make people search your blog. They are lazy and busy. Bring it to them. That is just good customer service.

I hope this article helps you learn there is more to blogging than just writing a post once in awhile or even daily. If you employ the tips I just gave you into your blog I guarantee you will increase your pageviews which in turn will increase your revenue if using an ad program in your blog.

How Long Should A Blog Post Be?

When Seth Godin became an evangelist for blogging, he advocated short posts. He still writes that way. But his posts are full of wisdom and good graces.

Nevertheless, there are plenty of bloggers who write long posts and they provide great insight into their topics every day. That’s great. A blog post has to be as long as it needs to be to get the point across. But it need not be any longer.

So how long should it be?

Not long. But it’s entirely up to you. You’re writing it so write it your way.

But if you have a ghostwriter write your blog for you then find out what the minimum and maximum number of words are going to be in their blog posts. Here at Blog Content Provider, our posts are typically between 250-500 words each. We sometimes write longer posts, but we rarely write shorter. We believe in delivering value.

How Do You Make Boring Blog Content Exciting?

Nothing is boring. Eveything is boring. Depending on who you ask, _______________ is boring. So how do you get some excitement into that blank you just filled in?

Well, there are no right or wrong answers when it come to creativity, and writing interesting blog content is a form of creativity. Understandably, some content is inherently more exciting than others. But everyone has a different excitometer. One person may thing scantily clad bathing beauties is exciting. Someone else may think computer hardware is exciting (though I can’t imagine who). But what matters the most is how you write, not what you write.

Even pin up girls can be boring if you don’t write well (unless all you have are photos). Computer hardware can bore even the greatest enthusiast if the writing doesn’t capture them head on. So what do you do?

I think the key to writing interestingly about content that can ordinarily be boring boils down to two things:

• Personality and writing style
• Relevance

I can’t help you writing style. That’s yours. You either develop it or your don’t. But you have to put your personality into it. Many an average writer has increased her readership just by doing that alone.

Relevance. That’s a different story. I can help you there.

The key to making your blog content relevant is to picture the one person your blog post applies to most sitting on the sofa, or the train, curled up with his laptop and reading what you are writing right now. How would you talk to that person? If you were sitting across the table from him telling him what you are about to tell him through your blog post, how would you do it? What phrases would you use? What anecdotes or supporting stories would you use?

There is no substitute for relevant context. Make your reader understand why what you are writing is so important, and do it with your own personal style.

How To Benefit As A Guest Blogger

Guest blogging has become one of the best ways to promote your own blog online. Similar to article marketing it does have its advantages with slight differences. First and foremost, you aren’t submitting one article to several sites at once. With guest blogging, you submit one original article to one blog and see if it is accepted. If so then you don’t want to send it out anywhere else. If rejected then you might rewrite it and submit it elsewhere.

There are several benefits to being a guest blogger.

1. As always, you get a link back to your blog. If you are guest blogging on a high authority site then that link could count as a valuable link for you
2. You can also get a big boost in credibility. If the blog you are guest writing for is a high authority blog written by a person with a lot of credibility then the readers of that blog will see your relationship as something of an endorsement from your host.
3. Of course, you’ll always get some traffic from a well-written blog post on another blog. More traffic will always be in your favor.
4. Increased exposure in the marketplace. Getting your name into as many places as possible is a must in today’s online business climate. Guest blogging does that well.

To really benefit from guest blogging, it helps if you have something to offer those you are guest blogging for. Read their blogs and comment from time to time. Understand the types of content that they use on their blogs and tailor your guest post to their audience. That will go a long way to making you more credible among your host’s readership.