Health and Fitness blog having trouble getting traffic

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My blog is about 5 months old and I'm still having trouble getting traffic



The only way I can get traffic is if I make comments on other blogs, mostly newspapers and magazine.

Should I be optimizing for key words in each of my posts or try to optimize my home page?

Any ideas?


#blog #fitness #health #traffic #trouble
  • Profile picture of the author James Foster
    Ya, it would be recommended to do proper on-page and off-page optimization.

    You might want to check out Free SEO Book: Read SEO Fast Start by Dan Thies Dan Theis gives away a very comprehensive book about learning SEO
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  • Profile picture of the author rimam1
    Fitness Contrarian,

    I have a site about isometric exercises that gets a steady 100-150 visits per day. It's the 5th result on Google for the term "isometric exercises" and it only took me 3 weeks to get there.

    You need to pick a keyword phrase and optimize your site for those keywords (title tags, link text, etc.) Then focus on building links back to your site via:

    1. blog comments
    2. forum posts
    3. article submission
    4. guest posting
    5. Angela's links
    You'll be amazed how fast you shoot up in the rankings if you have a plan. Holler at me if you need help.

    Thanks,
    Raza
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  • Profile picture of the author SEOExpert104
    I get lots of visits from Ezine Articles, they are a great directory, just choose a nice topic on Health/Fitness and write an article on it and post it to Ezine articles with your link.

    Just try to use 1-2 anchor texts for your site, I got mine ranked on Google on 1st page for "Work out Plans" and it's only 5 months old! I get around 50 UV from Bing alone....
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  • People respect authority. If you have some kind of real world credentials then you can create a brand that people will respect.

    If not... write a book and get on Oprah.
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  • Profile picture of the author warrior49
    Ya, I would work on proper anchor text, instead of what you have in your signature.
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  • Thanks everyone.

    Is anchor text hyperlinked words that you click in your articles ?

    Best - Mike
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