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I’m sure a lot of people overlook this aspect but using Wordpress tags as keywords can take you to a place you’ve never been. Maybe not that drastic but it can definitely increase your search engine traffic as well as increase your earnings if you do it right.
What Are Wordpress Tags?
I have to explain this because I’m going to assume not everyone who uses Wordpress uses the post tags feature. I mean, when I first started using Wordpress, it took me a while to figure everything out. Plus, I didn’t think it would really help me as much as it did.
But if you’re writing up a post, you have a “post tags” feature on the right hand side (check out the screenshot below).
Basically, I try to put as many keywords, especially longtail keywords, within the post tags. And that’s what you should do too. Tags are essentially keywords for each page/post you create.
How Can Post Tags Increase Traffic?
The funny thing is search engines love tag pages. If you’re using Wordpress, each “tag” (which should also be one of your keywords) is its own individual page. So, let’s say you have 100 tags within your Wordpress blog, that means you have 100 pages potentially getting picked up by search engines.
And get this, a lot of my tag pages tend to get ranked higher than the actual post.
Let’s give an example, shall we?
You guys already know I have multiple blogs including iBlogtoBlog.com. Well, check out one of the posts in which I wrote about an online game and some cheats.
First, let’s check out how popular this keyword is by doing our keyword research. As you can see in the graph below of Google Trends, the straight line going up means a lot of people are searching for this term.
Now, if you simply search the term in Google, you’ll see my tag page and not the actual post as the first result (see screenshot below).
I know Google owns the internet but you guys have to remember there are a lot of other search engines besides Google. And quite frankly, you can get just as much traffic from all those other search engines put together than Google itself if you work it right.
So, How Exactly Do You Work it Right?
That’s a very good question. The two biggest things are the same ones to get ranked in Google: keyword research and building links. Those two are the main things you guys should focus on to get any traffic from search engines.
I already posted on how you can do both so I won’t repeat the entire thing on this post.
When you get enough links, just try to test out your main keywords by going to Yahoo.com and searching for your terms. If you see your post, URL or whatever on that first page, then you’ve definitely done enough. Of course, don’t settle for less, you should always try to build links for your website.
The more you build, the more search engines you find out about. But more importantly, the more search engines find out you. Well, technically, your website. 
Some Other Search Engines Besides Google
Just based off of one of my sites, these are the various search engines that I have gotten traffic from (in no particular order):
Search.com
Yahoo.com
Bing.com
AOL.com
Ask.com
Virgilio.com
Altavista.com
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It’s always interesting to check out other peoples’ stats for their sites so I figured I’d go over ways you can find out what keywords are my competitors using. Plus, you can also check out what these sites say about your own blog as well.
I’m sure you can analyze your own stats with Google Analytics or something equivalent but getting the inside scoop on other websites can give you a good upper hand.
Honestly, there are tons of different websites that analyze site stats but none of them seem to be fully accurate. But to be fair, I don’t think any site will ever be 100 percent accurate. These sites are meant to be for getting a good idea on what a particular site has to offer. Basically, to get a general idea on what the site brings in with traffic, revenue, etc.
I occasionally like to check out random sites to see what type of traffic they’re getting, how many backlinks they have, where are those backlinks coming from, what keywords they rank high for, etc, because I want to know where I should be at and I like to get ideas off of that type of data.
For instance, if I see a site that is doing great with organic traffic and rank for keywords with low competition, why shouldn’t I test out those waters to see if I can do just as good? And no, it’s not stealing. Most of the time we all have enough room for everyone to compete for.
Plus, it can also help me improve my own site.
Anyways, let’s get to what keywords are your competitors using and how you can find out that info.
There are plenty of ways on how to make money with Twitter and I know of a bunch. Though, some of them you have to watch out for because you may be considered a spammer and get your account deleted. And that’s a big no no.
A lot of people automatically assume that you need lots of followers to make money with Twitter but in actuality, you can still make money without any followers. Of course, it’ll be a lot easier if you have thousands and thousands of followers… but we’ll get to that in a second.
Make Money with No Followers
Wait, no followers? Yes, indeed. This isn’t my idea but a friend told me and should be how to do it and it seems to work fine. Though, don’t overdo because you will get banned just like my friend. Basically, you can do this one of two ways; the somewhat ethical and then there’s the somewhat unethical… that may or may not get you banned from Twitter.
The ethical way is to simply Tweet about the trending topics and make sure to include the specific tag. For instance, “#topchef” was on the trending topics list when I wrote this. You would just have to include that within your Tweet with a link to your post/site that relates to that topic.
Now if you go to the unethical part of it, there are a few things that can be done. With the knowledge above, you can create like 20 accounts and set them all up to send out Tweets automatically. Then you would do the same type of Tweet in all of them while including the trending topic tag “#topchef“.
So, I’ve been going with this mini experiment on “How to Get More Twitter Followers” and so far so good. And yes, everything is automated and yes, you can in fact get targeted traffic as well.
Update and Traffic Stats from Twitter
I first wrote the post at the end of May and about seven weeks later, I am currently following 1,293 and have 511 followers. Matter of fact, since my last update I haven’t done anything except update my status with two different links to my posts. And since then, I have gotten about 50-60 visitors that have stayed on my blog for about a minute and a half, the bounce rate has been in the 50s and the average visitor from Twitter checked out almost 2 pages/posts.
I know that doesn’t seem like a lot but some people have questioned if you could even get targeted traffic with this method. Well, if everything is automated and the only thing you need to do is update your status with a link or two, is it worth it? Definitely.
Does It Work?
Yes! A lot of people can get more visitors in a shorter time but since I’m doing everything automated, I want to do it slower to avoid getting caught and possibly have my account banned. The automated following has me following 1,293 over a seven week span which isn’t too bad. And I think I should stay under the radar, somewhat.
At this rate, next month I should probably double in followers and hopefully I’ll double (or more) in traffic.
Next Step: Turn Twitter Visitors to Subscribers
Now as I continue with this ongoing mini experiment, I’m going to try to combine two methods of mine together. Use Twitter (automatically) to get traffic and convert those visitors into RSS Feed subscribers.
There are plenty of ways of doing this and more than likely I’m going to try a few of them out. Obviously, my password protected posts have been great for me to gain subscribers so I’ll try to implement that strategy. Once I hit 1,000 subscribers, I said I was going to have a contest to celebrate so I’ll try to implement that as well. Finally (but not the last method), I will just try to have enticing titles and good content so hopefully they find it interesting enough to subscribe as well as be a follower.
Any questions or updates of your own? Let me know!
