These days, you will not have any difficulty making a blog on WordPress. This is exactly why it’s the chosen platform for many.

However, if you are serious about making WordPress beneficial, then you have to come up with a way to get the search engines to bring you traffic. There are a lot of things that you have to fine tune in order to the SEO on your WordPress blog right. However, there are a few areas that exist that you will have to pay more attention to than the others.

This article is supposed to let you see that there are some things that can be done to help make your WordPress blog beneficial when it comes to SEO.

Create Amazing Content: Believe it or not, this is an area where lots of WordPress sites are lacking and it often costs them in terms of points with the search engines. If you’d like the search engine spiders to like you too, you need to impress them while simultaneously creating great content and attracting high quality backlinks.

While this is a simple thing to understand and do, not many manage to actually do it. So the first and foremost action that you should take is to work on your content so that you are able to get the most out of your WordPress site. Link to Valuable Content: Do not be scared to point out other resources that could prove to be valuable to the people who read your site.

Linking to amazing content on other sites and blogs just goes on to show your confidence in your own content, and that you aren’t scared to let your visitors click away from your site. Search engines analyze websites and give more credit to sites that link to other authoritative resources. Your ultimate aim should be to make your WordPress blog/site to be a highly useful so that you make a strong impression on the search engines and as well as your human visitors.

Create Permalinks: The urls of your WordPress blog has a lot of info that the search engines need to analyze your webpage. These urls have the keywords that you wish to get high rankings for. You should ensure that the url is modified to reflect the format that the search engines need to rank your site properly.

This will make sure that your url does not contain a long sequence of digits or numbers that go on forever. Also, this is neatly laid out with your keywords in it. You can have your urls adjusted to permalinks by modifying your WordPress settings in the panel. This make the most recent changes that need to be done to your WordPress blog in an instant.

This article lets it be known that it is not that difficult to optimize your WordPress blog for the search engines when you make a few adjustments. There’s simply a lot that you can achieve out of your WordPress site by focusing on the SEO factors and getting them right.

Search engine traffic is very important for this process to work. You cannot get around this because this is the only way to get large amounts of traffic at no charge. So when you make the needed adjustments and learn the concepts, you will discover that the search engines will rank you higher. At this point, you can use your WordPress blog to your advantage.

I was sitting down watching tv this week when I thought ‘why not do a detailed killer traffic strategy’ for attracting thousands of visitors to your website on a regular basis week in and week out…

I went off and noted the seven main areas to include:

-    High-Profile Article Marketing
-    Forum Marketing
-    Ebook Syndication
-    Video Marketing
-    Viral Pushes
-    Ad Swaps
-    Paid Advertising

Wether you want to build a list of promiote your site i’ll out line the strategies do follow to enable you to do this. SO lets go and out line what you need to do.

** High-Profile Article Marketing

Within the internet Marketing arena we all know that article marketing is one of the best ways to drive highly-targeted traffic to your website. However, if you re-focus your efforts towards high-profile article marketing can generate 10x as much traffic as standard article marketing.

Don’t waste your time submitting your articles to bulk standard article directories when you can submit to the more specific targetted top websites and blogs in your target market.

If you have a blog about sports then we need to be submitting our articles to sites such as http://bleacherreport.com/ which is one of the most popular sports websites online today. What if your website is all about weddings and wedding related servcies then you should be submitting articles to sites such as http://www.favorideas.com/submit-wedding-articles/

How about if your niche web site is all about parenting, you could submit articles to http://www.momsnetwork.com/submit-articles.shtml

How about if your niche web site is all about about finance, you could submit articles to  http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/submitarticle.html

Do you see a pattern emerging here? We need to be submitting your articles to a targetted audience of readers to gain massive amounts of traffic for your articles. So use the very popular websites for submitting articles to gain this massive traffic.

Here’s a list of very popular websites that I personally submit articles to. The list below is a gold mine for building a list of thousands of subscribers. If you published just ONE really good article every day to the following websites, and had a good call to action in your resource box that sent people to your squeeze page, then you would have a highly responsive list of AT LEAST 1,000 subscribers by the end of the month.

http://sitefling.com/blog/steal-our-traffic-be-a-guest-poster-today/

http://www.associateprograms.com/authors/register

http://www.site-reference.com/submit.php

http://moneymakerinfo.blogspot.com/2008/12/im-looking-for-guest-bloggers.html (This site ranks #2 for “make money online” and they are looking for guest bloggers!

http://www.tutorialized.com (Submit your articles in the Marketing or SEO sections. This site will send traffic directly to your blog or website. So you will need to have a website set up to submit your articles here. But they can drive hundreds of visitors to your site.)

http://mashable.com/writers/

http://www.searchengineguide.com

http://www.evancarmichael.com/Author/partnerLeads.php

http://www.isedb.com/db/pages/Contribute-Articles-to-ISEdb.com

http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/become-an-npt-guest-blogger/

http://www.imnewswatch.com

http://www.carlocab.com/get-featured-for-free/

http://www.bloggingtips.com/write-for-us/

http://www.sitepoint.com/about/writeforus

http://www.zeromillion.com/involve/

http://www.promotionworld.com/submit/submitcontent.html

http://www.lifehack.org/about/contribute

http://www.copyblogger.com (a very popular IM blog that accepts guest bloggers.)

The following is a list of sites where you can syndicate your articles.

http://www.instablogs.com/write_article.php

http://blogcarnival.com/bc/ (Submit all of your articles to blog carnivals for extra traffic.)

http://www.gather.com/

http://www.nowpublic.com/

http://www.scribd.com/

** Forum Marketing

Forum marketing is another excellent strategy for building a list of subscribers and sending tons of traffic to your website.

Forum marketing is a highly underrated, but extremely effective strategy for building a list of subscribers, driving highly-targeted traffic, and establishing yourself as an authority in your particular market.

Forums put you directly in front of your target market, making it a goldmine for driving thousands of highly targeted visitors to your website.

But keep in mind here that the key to successful forum marketing is to become an active participant in the community. Your first priority is to deliver lots of value. And that means posting highly valuable content in the forums and helping people with their questions.

Once you’ve become a trusted member and delivered some great value in your posts, people will naturally want to learn more about what you have to offer.

This is where your signature link comes in…

You’ll want to use your signature link to send people to your squeeze page where you can build your list of subscribers.

Here’s an example of a good signature line:

“Find out how to get front-page Google Rankings in 24 hours with my FREE Google Mystic 2.0 Video series… http://www.yoursqueezepagehere.com ”

The key here is to entice them with some sort of benefit to get them tocome to your website. Keep your signature file short and to the point.You should only be promoting one page in your signature file. Don’t confuse people with multiple options.

Also keep in mind that it’s the value of your post that drives people to look at your signature. If you provide people with extraordinary value, then they will naturally want to check out more of your content.

So focus on providing value. One extremely valuable post is worth 10x more than 20 average posts.

Here’s a list of the top Internet Marketing Forums:

http://www.warriorforum.com/

http://forums.digitalpoint.com

http://www.ewealth.com/

http://www.v7n.com/forums/

http://www.internetmarketingforums.net/

http://www.clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum/

http://forum.abestweb.com

http://ablakeforum.com/index.php

http://www.namepros.com/

http://www.webmaster-talk.com

http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/

http://www.whydowork.com/forums/

http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com/forum/

http://www.promojunkie.com/forum/

http://www.netaffiliatetalk.com/

http://www.affiliates4u.com/forums/

http://www.dnforum.com/

http://talk.iwebtool.com/

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/

http://www.forumforwebmasters.com

http://www.webmaster-talk.com/

http://www.conqueryourniche.com/forum/

http://forums.seochat.com/

http://forum.affiliatebot.com/

http://www.siteownersforums.com

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/forum25.html

You can also use the Warrior Forum to quickly build a large list of subscribers by posting free WSO’s. http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/

You can also build your list by posting free offers on the Digital Point Forums as well (in the Buy, Sell, and Trade section.)

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=24

Another great place to post your offer and build your list is http://marketplace.sitepoint.com

You can create free reports to give away on these forums simply by combining a collection of your article into a free PDF report. By re-purposing your articles, you will be able to generate even more traffic and subscribers.

*** Always be looking for ways to re-purpose your content. There are a TON of ways to get extra mileage out of any type of content you create online.

See you in part 2 of the killer strategy guide.

If you liked this post then you would also enjoy our FREE article domination strategy –>  Dominating Article Strategies

Phase one of the article submissions is complete for two of the keyword phrases.

The articles are around 300 words in length and contains the key phrases in bold at the start of the article and repeated 2/3 times during the full article text.

The signature (anchor text) of the first article is the first keyword phrase linked back to our sites blog.

The signature (anchor text) of the second article is the second keyword phrase linked back to our sites blog.

The first submission has been submitted to ezine. I will use the same strategy and post the same articles that have been re-written to goArticles tommorow.

What we are trying to establish here is to get some good high PR rankings from at least 2 high trusted and established article directories for the same keyword set phrases. Our keyword set we are initially testing here contains 2 keyword phrases, so we are writing 2 articles per site and submitting both of these to our targeted article directories.

We have linked the first keyword set of articles to our main blog page. The second set to be submitted to our second article directory WILL deep link to our targeted blog article post and NOT the top level site.

More to come soon.

Steve

The Traffic Mystic System has been developed to combat the indexing updates that are ongoing within the search engines. These updates are focusing on de-indexing and removing link to site that are classed as not ‘content’ worthy and that do Not provide a fresh host of content on a regular basis.

Links from poor sources are also being used to re-rank your site (lower the rank) and in many cases these links are being severely devalued and removed. This means that in a lot of cases your search position in the search listings will drop dramatically. Lots of people have also found themselves removed from the top 1000 index altogether.

Just think about this for a moment.. you have spent the last 6 – 12 month gaining lots of links from article directories like:

• Ezinearticles.com
• goarticles.com

And with these sites being around PR6, you have gained some solid link backs to your own site and as a consiquence you have had your site rank increased and your search engine position increased and gained a lot of new traffic to your site.

You have also gained some good links from some web 2.0 sites like squidoo from pages you have created and socially bookmarked.

So your linking is building up nicely and your articles are in place via your multiple directory submissions but then you check your site and notice that for the last few days your traffic has dropped off!!!

You go and check your site and find your article submission links have vanished and so has your rank and your search engine top 10 position.

Well this is what is happening to thousands upon thousands of sites and it can also happen to you.

We have tested this system over a 3 month period over a number of different site types. We have tested the strategy with:

• Build a Niche Stores
• PHPBay Stores
• E-commerce stores
• Squeeze pages
• Static pages
• Blogs

In each case we have gained top 10 rankings for our keyword phrases within 4-6 weeks. In 90% of the time we have gained a top 3 ranking within 4 weeks and all of the sites links have been permanent. This includes the article links to our Build a Niche Store / PHPbay and Ecommerce stores, which have been specifically targetted by google and yahoo and had their links removed.

The Traffic Mystic Strategy enabled these links to become permanent and the links will Not be removed due how they have been impemented.

I will cover the strategies that I have used in comming posts so please add our RSS feed and bookmark us for updates.