Do you want to increase your blog traffic? Have you been told that it is difficult work and think it will take weeks? Do you believe that in the time it takes you to read this article you can increase your traffic drastically? Read on for a surprise (and it costs nothing)!

Get More Search Engine Visitors
The easiest way to increase your website traffic for free is to increase your search engine traffic. To do this, you can increase your popularity with the search engines or you can increase the opportunities for the search engines to send you traffic.

In other words, if you increase the amount of content on your blog, then there are more chances of the search engines finding search terms that are relevant to searches people are currently making and therefore they are more likely to send you visitors.

Instantly Increase Your Search Engine Appeal
Great – but how do you increase your content by 3, 4 or even 20 times the current content? You can buy articles, pay for writers or upload general spammy content. But none of these are likely to give you that many benefits.

What you need is a way of increasing the content of your blog automatically, but through providing useful content that you have control of. And this is the simple trick. How can you generate multiple unique copies of your blog in minutes? The answer is staring you in the face, until you think about it.

Create Foreign Language Copies Of Your Posts
Have you ever considered translating your website? What if you could automatically generate copies of your website in French, Spanish, German and a host of other well used languages? It sounds far fetched and hard work.

But there are plugins available for WordPress that will do this automatically! I installed one of these a few weeks ago and it has gradually gone through my entire website and used translation tools to create copies of the pages in other languages. Each of these language pages are available on the site through pages with links to them, as per the other pages.

My Own Success Story
And now, the search engines have started to trawl the new pages and are even sending me traffic from searches in other languages! Currently there isn’t much foreign language traffic arriving on my blog, but it does account for about 10% of the search engine visitors.

The plugin I used took about 10 minutes to find, download and install and display as a widget on the side of the blog. 10 minutes’ work, and now about 10% more search engine visitors. Obviously, it takes time for the search engines to fully cache all of the new foreign language post pages, so this result could get even better over time.

I am sure that the translations are far from perfect, but if people are interested in the content, then I could still be providing the information that they need and they will get something out of it. Maybe they will become regular readers as well, which would be fantastic!

So, if you want to increase your blog traffic for free in the next 10 minutes, my tip for you is to grab a translation plugin and watch what happens!

What is site flipping and how could you earn money through it? Are there any alternatives and drawbacks?

Website flipping is simply the creation of a new weblog with the intention of selling it, hopefully for a profit!

There are numerous reasons for doing this and equally loads of reasons why people may want to buy a website. So how is it done?

Well, to start with, it helps if you can find not only a good site name but an admirable blog name. A name that really stands out and probably includes your preferred keywords is a good idea. This adds value to the weblog straight from the start.

And then you need to start building your weblog. You could either flip a site very quickly, once it is established, or hold onto it and sell it when it is a really respected site. It depends on your interests and why you are flipping. So people are merely interested in the creative, getting it going process. They enjoy setting up the site, building the initial reputation and so on, but maybe cannot be bothered running it permanently. Match these up with those that do not know how to get a weblog started and are just interested in running a website and you have a match to flip a site between!

To build your weblog you need to start writing original content and posting it often. You are preparing a product for sale and that product is not merely a domain name with WordPress installed, it is a website with content and a readership. So write quality content, buying in freelance writers to help you build your content if you need to.

You must also look at gaining traffic to the blog. There are a huge variety of tricks to use, from article writing to commenting on other blogs. Or you might like to guest post to other sites or you may merely write some outstanding posts that other bloggers really like and want to link to and show to their readers.

You also need to plan to get the best cost, so install Google Analytics, which is a good system that is widely accepted. This will track your visitors and you can use this as a evidence of your volumes of traffic. It is this that will really add value to your work.

So, when you are ready to sell, how much is your blog worth? The answer is, as much as someone is willing to pay for it. With lots of traffic, a good Page Rank and quality content, this might be a good amount. Look at sites let’s say websiteoutlook.com to get a valuation on your weblog and blogflippingtips.com if you want to find out more around the process and how to get the best value from your weblog.

Then, where do you sell it? Well, you could use services as for instance Sedo to merely sell the domain name, and you might consider it worth while listing the domain name there once it is up and running, even before it is ready for a sale. But websites as for instance flippa.com will allow you to create an auction for your blog once you are ready to sell it. There are small charges involved, but if you have worked hard with your blog then a good reward should await you.

So, get flipping that weblog then create some more!

Are you investing ample of time and effort writing articles? Do they be successful? Are they a waste of time? Have you ever measured what you get back from them? I have, and I can share with you my results.

With so loads of site owners putting a load of effort into writing articles, what evidence is there that this technique actually does any good? Well, the aim is new targeted traffic arriving onto your website, and for this we might have direct traffic and search engine traffic.

Direct Visitors
Direct traffic will arrive in the form of people who have read our articles arriving onto our sites. Given the time and effort it takes to write an article (not that much, really), then a handful of visitors per article would be good. Though you have to pay someone $10 to write each article, as long as the subject of the article is closely related to your site, they will be targeted traffic.

Looking at my most successful article of last month, in the 3 weeks since it was published, it has been viewed 376 times, producing 24 clicks in excess of to my website. Those 24 targeted visitors would have price a fortune through PPC systems, so I am quids in there. And that is only 1 reprint of the article, which has also be reprinted by some of those readers.

Search Engines
But what about the search engine benefits? Well, that article has just been about for 21 days, so it is too early to see any changes, but I also did a batch of articles 15 months ago on a new keyword phrase. That phrase was one that I had not worked on before and since then, I have left alone.

Before I worked on it, my websites were nowhere to be found on the terms. After a handful of articles I had reached 2nd and 3rd position on Google with 2 separate websites. And then I left them alone and didn’t do any further work on the term.

Well, 15 months on and occasionally I still check the keyword phrase and a couple of related phrases. It has become a benchmark of mine – the web sites still hover between 2nd and 4th places on the first page of Google, occasionally one will drop further down and then make a quick climb back to these positions.

So, for the sake of maybe a dozen articles submitted to a site that specialises in distributing them for SEO benefits, my two sites made it to a good search engine position and have remained there ever since. In fact, on one of the alternative names, I am now even in top position.

My experience is good
My experience of article writing is that with certain sources you could get ample of people reading your articles and then visiting your website and other sources could really improve your search engine rankings.

What over that could you want? Article writing really does be successful!