It’s all about traffic.

Without traffic (visitors to your site/auctions/etc.) you can’t have customers… so, the premise behind blogging is to increase your traffic.

One of the best ways I have found to increase traffic to a website (even your listings on eBay) is to have a blog… and here is why. Search engines absolutely love blogs! They love them because the content is frequently changing and fresh. Every time someone posts on a blog, not only does the main webpage change (ie., demonstrating an updated website), but a new page is added to the website (ie., fresh content) too. What has made blogs so popular, however, is that they are so simple to use!

If you can write an email, you can post on a blog… it is really that easy!

Once the blog is set up (also easy as following directions), you just type in your post title (like an email subject) and post content (like an email body)… hit the ‘publish’ button, and you are set!

I’m not going to get into the ‘how to’ for blogging – there are resources all over the net for that…

(In fact, you can get your hands on a short report I put together that answers the top 10 questions for blogging here.)

But, I do want to share with you some of my own experience with blogging.

I have a website that I built a couple of years ago – took me about 45 minutes to set up. This site is purely a “VRE” site. It has nothing to do with eBay – it is a “Virtual Real Estate” site… meaning that it is a site that has real, valuable content on it… but, it has ads sprinkled throughout to bring in a revenue. The site is www.SnacksForToddlers.com – and the original idea was to add a couple of new snacks every week or so (taking no more than 5 minutes) so that it was ‘morphing’ and producing good search engine results from being frequently updated.

It\u2019s all about traffic.<\/p>\n

Without traffic (visitors to your site\/auctions\/etc.) you can\u2019t have customers\u2026 so, the premise behind blogging is to increase your traffic.<\/p>\n

One of the best ways I have found to increase traffic to a website (even your listings on eBay) is to have a blog\u2026 and here is why. Search engines absolutely love blogs!<\/strong> They love them because the content is frequently changing and fresh. Every time someone posts on a blog, not only does the main webpage change (ie., demonstrating an updated website), but a new page is added to the website (ie., fresh content) too. What has made blogs so popular, however, is that they are so simple to use!<\/p>\n

If you can write an email, you can post on a blog\u2026 it is really that easy!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Once the blog is set up (also easy as following directions), you just type in your post title (like an email subject) and post content (like an email body)\u2026 hit the \u2018publish\u2019 button, and you are set!<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not going to get into the \u2018how to\u2019 for blogging \u2013 there are resources all over the net for that\u2026<\/p>\n

(In fact, you can get your hands on a short report I put together that answers the top 10 questions for blogging here<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But, I do want to share with you some of my own experience with blogging.<\/p>\n

I have a website that I built a couple of years ago \u2013 took me about 45 minutes to set up. This site is purely a \u201cVRE\u201d site. It has nothing to do with eBay \u2013 it is a \u201cVirtual Real Estate\u201d site\u2026 meaning that it is a site that has real, valuable content on it\u2026 but, it has ads sprinkled throughout to bring in a revenue. The site is www.SnacksForToddlers.com \u2013 and the original idea was to add a couple of new snacks every week or so (taking no more than 5 minutes) so that it was \u2018morphing\u2019 and producing good search engine results from being frequently updated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-for-traffic"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jennihunt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}