by Virginia Gaces

Created on: August 13, 2011   Last Updated: November 19, 2011

Bloggers should realize the significance of blogging tools to generate traffic for their articles. If you are a blogger, you would know that your articles could only be read if you can increase traffic to your blog. If you are wondering how you could do this, here are tried and tested methods that you may want to adapt.

*Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tools

Search Engine Optimization is a blogging tool which makes use of several methods to optimize articles of post. One of them is to use significant keywords in an article to ensure that it gets a high ranking slot in the Search Engines Results Pages (SERP). SEO increases your blog’s online visibility in the search engines. This method could generate traffic in thousands or millions of hits, if you discover the correct strategy. The keyword density is considered in each article where posts should have a keyword that surfers most often use to search for that specific topic.

The keyword density should be at least 1% to 2% but not greater, because Google fines articles or blogs with more than 2% repetition of words. It is tantamount to spamming the search engines. Google could also fine your blog and decrease its Google Page Rank. SEO tools include several aspects of blogging that would seem complicated to the average blogger.

These are some of the tools used in SEO

1. Google analytics Tool

This tool is very powerful and significant. If you know how to use all the data obtained by the tool, you can generate tons of traffic to your blog. Sign up your blog with Google Analytics and monitor your traffic, where your traffic comes from, what countries, what type of provider are they using, what are the most read topics in your blog, what are the most clicked ads and many more vital information. Without Google Analytics, your blog can be likened to a ship without a captain. The tool provides everything you need to know about your blog’s data concerning traffic and advertisements.

2. Webmaster Tools

These are tools that could help you optimize your blog by providing you a means to submit your sitemap to Google search engine. The sitemap is a blueprint of your blog; it will reveal the important contents of your blog. For MSN, you can also submit your blog’s URL so that MSN search engines can also index your posts, increasing traffic to your articles. These tools can help you identify search engine problems encountered when your site is “crawled” by search engine spiders for new articles.

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