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Its much harder today to get your blog indexed and ranked in the search engines. At one time blog marketing was easy. If you created a post and submitted it to the social news or bookmarking sites it would get found and you would start getting some traffic. Today is just a different story.

So what can be done to be put on the fast track, get your blog found and start getting some real traffic? Well, there are the safe white hat solutions and then there are the black hat methods. I typically stay in the white to gray areas, but the ultimate decision is up to you and your own moral code and ethics. Lets get to the meat of the matter and list some sure fire solutions.

First off you want to save as much time as you can. We can do this by multiplying our efforts. There is nothing like working once and getting multiple positive results. So lets start with a post. When you write a post try to make it between 400 and 700 words. I know this is not always possible but for best results try your best to fit into these ranges.

This post now will serve multiple purposes:

1. Put it on your blog
2. Submit your article (post) to article directories
3. Work your post into a video or Power Point video
4. Put your post into a Web 2.0 site or community
5. Turn the post into a pod cast
6. Re- work your post into a press release
7. Then mark everyone of these actions with social bookmarking

Now most of these things are no secret, even know I have seen people pay for this information. The real trick is in the details of each one of these processes. You have to tweak little things in each one of these applications to drive any sort of real traffic to your blog.

Here are some of the little things that you need to pay attention to:

1. Use keywords or keyword phrases that you are looking to rank for in your titles
2. When linking back to your blog use your keyword or phrase in the anchor text not just the URL of your blog
3. Identify and use like or similar words that relate to your keywords in your text (LSI)
4. Brand your videos with your URL or page link that you would like people to visit
5. Tag your post or article whenever possible with your keyword or phrase
6. Do not try to sell something in the post that you distribute. Give something of value
7. Get familiar with RSS and how to use this to improve your traffic
8. Be sure to get backlinks naturally over time and not all at once
9. Avoid posting and bookmarking at the same time every day or on the same day consistently

These tweaks are just the tip of the iceberg and yes there are some little secrets that can help increase your visibility and traffic along the way. For now, if your are missing any of these steps, start putting them into action now. Every one of these tips could dramatically increase your traffic in a very short period of time if done correctly.

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