This can get a bit technical, and luckily there is some free software available that can optimize your blog settings for you.

Whenever you optimize technical aspects of your blog, it’s always a good idea to have your specific audience in mind. Any method that just optimizes for search engine rankings would not be effective in the long run if it didn’t also improve the user experience of real visitors to your blog.

Besides engaging content that your audience wants to read, you can also gain a lot by cleaning up the layout of your blog and adding some user interactive features.

These features can demonstrate to the visitors that other like minded people have found your blog worth visiting and coming back to. You can add this kind of “social proof” by using plug-ins that show the most recent visitors, or the top commentators on your blog.

Another great plug-in is listing your most popular posts, and you can configure this to show either how many views or how many comments the most popular posts have, or both.

All these will help your blog to gain momentum in attracting targeted visitors.

In addition, you can also add features that invite your visitors to share and/or rate your content. Again, interactive sharing functions work best if they have some form of social proof built in, such as a counter that shows how many other visitors have shared this post etc.

The free software you can install to optimize your blog settings is here: Free SEO Blog Software and Training.

Blogs are ideal for getting lots of traffic because the search engines love them, and they integrate well into the web 2.0 and social media networking sphere.

If you post engaging and quality content on your blog, and then use some interactive tools that make it simple for your visitor to engage with you, to reply, comment, ask questions… …that’s when you get folk to come back ( more traffic ), to inform their friends about your blog ( more traffic ), and to keep your blog in mind ( far more traffic. )

having said that, blog traffic getting starts with great content. Great content is what pulls people to visit your blog, and I would like to say two crucial factors that will help you gain momentum quickly with great content.

First, your visitors will stay on your website longer, because great content keeps them reading and even going to different pages on your blog so they spend even more time and you get more clicks.
2nd, with great content it is easier to engage your visitors. They may lave comments, bookmark your posts, retweet your posts, and subscribe to your blog – either by email or RSS feed.

All this makes MORE traffic out of any quantity of traffic you get, and that gives you momentum. Another reward of this is that great content – and the two effects that I mentioned above – will help your blog’s search engine ranking for relevant keywords. And not only that, engaging content and engaging interactive features will build your relationship, start conversations, and help you shape your message to your market.

For some more great examples on interactive tools and plugins for your blog, visit Blog Traffic Getting – Engage

And so it goes op – the wealthy get richer and the poor get poorer. Get rich with rich, valuable, engaging content, and your blog traffic getting concerns will be a thing of the past.