You hear a lot of professional bloggers talking about ways to increase blog traffic, but the methods they presribe take a lot of time to do.

Often they will tell you to make contact with other bloggers and make yourself known to them. That way they’ll comment on your blogs, or at least become aware of you.They will also advise you to link to other bloggers’ post. This will increase their awareness of you and your site because these bloggers know who is linking to them.

Those are all great tips, but if you want to increase website traffic without having to do a lot of time-consuming work there are some easy things to do that will get you more traffic.

On-page optimization tip-

It has been my experience that it only takes a few quality backlinks to get your domain name highly ranked if you’re using good keywords in your domain name.

Prior to building a new site, you should be aware that a keyword-rich domain name is one of the most powerful search engine optimization aspects for a site. You should take this into consideration.

For example, if you own a domain name called bluegreenwidgets dot com, you can rank well for the term bluegreenwidgets with only a few backlinks.

The second most critical on-page optimization factor on your site is the site’s title itself.Here you are advised to mix in a variation of your domain name, but use two sets of keywords for the site’s title.

In the example being used above the domain name bluegreenwidgets will have the site title of Blue Widgets - Green Widgets. The reason you want to do this is to gain maximum benefit from your on page factors and not just give your website the same title as the domain name.

That’s a good tip that will get you more traffic and ranking with less effort, just by making a few changes that take 15 seconds to do.

Blog writing tips-

It’s diificullt to write a lot of good content to a lot of sites all the time, especially if you are doing some niche affiliate marketing in some niches you don’t know much about.

Writing when you feel the urge to do so, and writing with authority and passion, is the secret here.Unless you know something about your niche topic, you obviously can’t write with passion and authority.  The solution to this is to get free website content and to learn more about your niche by reading the newspaper and watching some television.

If you picked a niche that is related to a very popular and general topic, then you will find plenty of information from newspaper, magazines and telelvision if you become tuned in to this content.  Then all you have to do is write about what is popular right now relating to your niche topics.

Daniel Mcgonagle has more blog writing tips for you at his blog, so please drop by and leave a comment there