Google gives the little guy a list boost with getting traffic

December 16th, 2009 Kevin Quinlan

Today I was doing some searching on google and found in the bottom sections for News results and Blog Posts near the related topics section on page 1. I did a little searching on how that gets populated and found that basically if you have a blog that is well indexed (read, not brand spanking new) your new blog posts will show up there if your keyword was within the search criteria.

This does not mean your post will remain on page one for a long time at all but it could result in a nice little spike within your readership each time you put out a new post. This goes back to consistency I suppose. The more you post, the more potential and time you will spend on page one of a search result which could translate to increase readership. The whole point of SEO is to get on page one so that once you are found, the quality of your content can retain a reader. This new little feature gives you an edge in getting some traffic.

For the news part, if you have a blog that is posted on by many authors you can qualify for the news section of google. You just need to post at a certain pace and have more than one author on your blog. If you qualify for that you can submit your blog here to try and get it listed so that your blog posts can picked up as a news source. If you get that, there is a whole other world out there for getting traffic as then you might be able to make the most of google news alerts but more on that later.

Next time you post, go to google and search on the keywords of your blog. See if it is working for you. If not read up on what you are doing wrong. This is a pretty cool feature you should try to take advantage of especially if you have a blog that is not high ranked but has been around for a while.

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Google gives the little guy a list boost with getting traffic

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