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Post edited 10:06 am – December 8, 2011 by Watson Inc

Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz said:

Financial Samurai said:

One thing I recommend folks do is try and write one Whale Post a month that becomes your landmark post.  Once you have the Whale Post in place, you can highlight a couple other good posts from your archives and it becomes a virtuous circle.  Over the course of a year, you'll then develop 12 really well-written posts and create a lot of traction.

The other part of the equation is just time.  It's really after the 1-1.5 year mark where I've noticed a consistent jump in traffic.  Imagine what you can do if you stick with it for 5-10 years!  Treat blogging like brushing your teeth.  Gotta do it regularly everyday, and it just becomes second nature.

Best, Sam

 

 

Time is a huge factor. I personally know the owner of Universe Today – one of the biggest astronomy blogs. 3 years ago he averaged 3,500 visitors per day. Today he is well over 100,000 per day.

Wow, it's hard to even contemplate 100,000 per day. That's an awesome example. I appreciate you sharing it. BTW , imagine if HE sold 3 years ago for the going rate then.

Knowing your keywords beforehand is always helpful. While keywords do not influence my personal finance and investing topics and arguments, they do influence wording choices. It is not always obvious how people search, so it is worth checking when you write.

There is a very lightweight way to do this. Once you have decided what to write about and have a written or mental outline, then go to the Adwords keyword tool. Spend just a few minutes running "exact phase" trial keywords related to the subject of your post. Then, favor the higher frequency search terms, when you write.

After writing a post, I keep my quick-and-dirty keyword list visible during final editing. In many cases, I have found that the descriptive phrases that I use naturally when I write are not optimal. For example, I write a lot about investment costs, and I instinctively use the descriptive phrase "low cost mutual funds" when I write. However, this is a suboptimal choice from a keyword perspective, because 10 times as many Google users will be searching for "no load mutual funds". So during final edit, I just change "low cost" to "no load" a few places in the post, and this significantly increases my potential exposure to SE traffic.