Google SEO How Important is Your Traffic From Google?For those of you just starting out, this may not be the article you are looking for. However, if you are a long-term blogger that has been doing it for awhile, you may be interested in tracking how much of your traffic is coming from Google.

Remember firstly that traffic must come from multiple sources. Never keep all of your eggs in one basket. If Google were to drop your blog, then you would be out of luck unless you went at your marketing from many angles. But to this day, Google is my biggest traffic supplier and the amount of traffic they refer grows every single day.

Your ultimate goal should be to get a minimum of 5,000 unique visits per month from Google (low amount) which is realistic when you have hundreds of articles published on your blog. If you opted for the larger articles, then you should be able to land more Google traffic with less articles. That’s how it works because Google simply loves content. If I had a chance to start over, I probably would have posted less of the smaller articles, and more of the larger ones. Luckily, I have tons of both types and they all bring me traffic from natural search engine rankings.


Many people don’t understand the logistics of blogging, and what makes it work over time. It’s not just the fact that you are establishing relationships with other bloggers and general readers. That is a very important aspect of growing your blog, but it’s just a small piece in the big picture.

What makes a blog grow easier over time is the search engines that bring you traffic. Why? Because as your blog grows with more content, your blog has more entryways for search engines to refer traffic. Consider your blog to be a house that is constantly growing and creating more doors. The more content you create, the more doors you have. You may end up being ranked for keywords and phrases that you would never have expected to bring you traffic.

The key steps to growing your Google traffic is:

  • Create Content Regularly – It goes to reason that if you are going to be a successful blogger, you need to create content on a regular basis. Anything done differently can be considered blog abandonment. Work hard to establish a schedule for writing articles. This used to be a tough job for me back when I started because I looked at it as a job. Now that I have been doing it since forever, it just comes naturally. It is just something I do to make my days entertaining.
  • Opt for larger articles – It is ok to write small 300-500 word articles if that is all you can crank out. But if you want that search engine traffic to come sooner than in 2 years, then you need to work hard to make your articles between 1,000 and 5,000 words each. You can easily do this by talking about the things you wrote about in more detail. Explain why they are important, why you like them, how to do them, etc. Help yourself extend a post with a list in the middle of it. Break it up with pictures or videos to make it more entertaining to both you and your reader.
  • Use tags and categories – The more tags and categories you have, the more content and doorways you have on your blog. Make sure your tags and categories can be indexed and followed. They are NOT duplicate content, but rather an extension and filing method for your articles. Don’t be afraid to create multiple relevant blog tags or categories and using multiples for a single article. It will only work in your favor.
  • Google loves Twitter and Facebook – So should you. It’s smart to assume that the more Twitter posts and Facebook shares pointing to your blog, the likelier that Google will assume your content is relevant and make it appear higher in the natural organic search results. That’s one reason why you should take your social networking seriously. It may be about the initial traffic at first, but as a long-term blogger, you will learn that those relationships will ultimately make or break your organic search traffic.
  • Keyword Research – As I previously stated, you never know what keywords and phrases will end up bringing you traffic. However, that does not mean that you do not have to try and target certain keywords that are relevant to your blog. Work on your keyword research, and find out what is popular. Don’t assume that because there is a massive number in competition, that you can’t receive that traffic. When you build up a blog with lots of unique content, you can easily compete with the big guys and steal some of their traffic. Better yet, we can call it shared traffic because those readers will consider you to be one of the gurus too.
  • Diversity in brand – Did you think that EzineArticles and Associated Content were only good for backlinks and direct traffic from article marketing? You were wrong. There is a thing that is a ‘secret sauce’ to local search engine marketing. It is about saturating the market with your brand. The more you can get your brand out into the front, the likelier you are to get that targeted traffic. For instance, if you have your blog ranked #1, your EzineArticle #2, and a review site #4 in Google for the same search term, then the reader will most likely click on one of your links, and ultimately your blog. That’s because they assume that because you are on multiple sites, you must have the most relevant information. When I do local search marketing for my clients, I work hard to get their brand on article sites, review sites, press release sites, and their onsite search engine optimization at the same time. In the end, they are likely to get the customer, and I am likely to keep my search engine marketing client.
  • Blog SEO – Probably the obvious out of all of the things that I mentioned here. But I have come across some blogs that still don’t even have permalinks setup. Dynamic URLs are not cool, and neither is the lack of a plugin like All-In-One-SEO-Pack which can do all of the meta tags for you. Fine, you are not an expert at search engine optimization, but that doesn’t mean you can’t learn the basics and get your blog search engine friendly. Do a little blog seo research, and get yourself on track for Google rankings. You will thank me later.
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