If you apply this little tip about common sense marketing, I promise you can see a spike in traffic to your site. If you run a Hyperlocal Blog or a Community Website, I’m going to give you a very easy SEO Tip for your hyperlocal blog that will definitely increase traffic to your site. It requires you to be a little proactive and you must do a little bit of work a month or two before your expected traffic arrives.
It’s actually quite simple. If your community has an event scheduled such as a Holiday Festival or a Parade, you should be acting right now. Go ahead and write a couple articles and build a some links a few weeks before the event. The people who live in your community will start searching the event 2 or 3 weeks ahead of time and if you are proactive, you will receive the benefit of extra traffic for those weeks. Guess what? All of those people who have never visited your site will find you for the first time. This is a great strategy to market your website. This is also just common sense marketing and if your event is an annual event, you will already be in position to capture the majority of traffic the following year.
Make article SEO and common sense marketing an ongoing process.
As the traffic starts to trickle in early, go back and edit your articles and build new anchor text links with the phrases and keywords that you are being found for. Add appropriate tags to your articles. I would also make a youtube video pointing to your site. Using Youtube is powerful SEO and can deliver a lot of traffic to your site. If you stay on top of this process of using a little common sense and SEO on your website, you should see a significant gain for at least a little while. I wish you some common sense success with this SEO tip for your blog.