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thomnel53
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2009 22:15
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I was wondering if you target specific keywords in all your blog posts or do you rely on pings and word of mouth to get traffic?
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westfam11
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# Posted: 7 Aug 2009 23:02
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I target specific keywords that I will be writing articles and pointing back to the blog.
I also ping my blog.
Becky
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getagrip
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2009 01:36
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Focus on both targetted keywords and getting other websites to link into you - a good place to start is article directories.
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2009 15:48
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Hi thomnel53,
I do light SEO but for the most part I rely on the reputation and value of my posts.
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thomnel53
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# Posted: 8 Aug 2009 20:20
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I guess I should have been more specific. Say you want to do a political blog or something along those lines, it's not always easy to find keywords in the topic you want to write about. What i was wondering is can you get decent amounts of traffic by just writing what you want and then pinging like crazy?
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# Posted: 9 Aug 2009 15:24 · Edited by: Newbie Shield
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Hi Thomnel,
No, you only ping when you make a new post or a significant update to an existing post else you'll get black listed.
You can't brute force anything. It's a lot less mechanical than most seem to think.
You either have to have a decent sized readership, use keywords with demand, or use PPC.
It helps tremendously if you know your topic well.
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Barb Thornback
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# Posted: 10 Aug 2009 03:52
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Thomnel,
Use this Keyword tool:-
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
e.g. type in Politics - there are many, many keywords related to politics.
Barb
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Singapoor
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# Posted: 11 Aug 2009 08:22
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My two cents thomnel...
Basically, content's always key. You can ping away or even pay for traffic, but at the end of the day, it's the content that'll keep things afloat even if you had a traffic genie intervene ever so often.
I say all of this because my main aim is to point out the fact that - for something like a political blog, or a movie blog, or a blog about cats, whatever - the goal goal isn't "traffic", the goal is actually consistent traffic. It's easy to get traffic in spurts but not as easy to get traffic that keeps coming back.
Provide content of a certain quality, in a consistent manner, that is relevant to the people whose eyeballs you're after and pinging to the hell out of your pages will start to seem like a silly idea.
And, btw - as Barb pointed out - it's probably easier than you think to figure out what exactly classifies as "relevant" to your market when it comes to thinking up new content ideas, even for somewhat esoteric niches. I hope that helps  .
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