This guest post is by Ben Jackson of SEODiscovery.org.
You're a blogger.
You want traffic.
You know between nothing and a lot about SEO?
Perfect.
Most people are intimidated by SEO and just as many have no clue what it's all about. This is exactly why corporations waste thousands upon thousands of dollars every year on useless SEO practices that produce lackluster results—they don't understand what is happening! Well here is my proposition:
Whether you already understand SEO or know nothing about it, I am going to present a strategy to you right now that will have you getting lots of links and traffic to your site, and here's the kicker…
You won't even realize you're building links! You can follow this process, concerning yourself only with creating great content and establishing a great reputation in your niche, and the links and rankings will follow.
Enough talk. Let's get to it!
One of the only SEO tactics that is actually considered to be white-hat is link bait. Link Bait is a piece of content or feature on a site that is especially appealing and worthy of attention. Visitors like what you've shared so much that they link back to you, thus "link bait". You do the work upfront creating something awesome and then sit back as the links pour in for you. This is also referred to as natural link building and is 100% white-hat.
Step 1. Create your link bait
We are just getting into the entire promotional/SEO campaign we're going to be developing and this is by far the most important part. You need to have something really great to share and you need to use the magic word—it needs to be FREE (always capitalize FREE). I'm sure we all know already that people love posts with lists: Top 10 Article Directories, Best 5 Tips for Weight Loss, and so on.
You want to create really usable and exciting content for your niche. Compile a few lists together into one...
