The first thing I check on the internet when I wake up is usually the statistics for our blog sites using Google Analytics. It’s quite exciting to see when a new blog I’m trying to promote is growing in terms of the number of visitors. It’s even more exciting to see that the visitors  stay for at 3 minutes to even 20 minutes at a time and visit quite a number of pages on the sites. It gives me a rewarding feeling! The more visitors my site gets, the higher my earning potential from advertising networks such as Google Adsense!

The thing is, there’s a “secret” about how to get more visitors from search engines, but it’s really a no-brainer. Now I decided to share that with you for free. I’ve done this technique over and over, and I’ve found over and again that it really works.

Here it is:

Write articles that will make people STAY. To be more specific, your goal should be for your readers to stay at least 1-3 minutes on your article. The longer they stay the better it will be for you. Now, it doesn’t have to be an article really, it can be a video, a picture, or anything you can place that can make your visitor stay.

Ask yourself the questions:

–is there anything on my site that does not help me achieve that goal?

–is there anything I need to add to my site (i.e. a comprehensive navigation to the different sections of my site or blog, more good articles, interesting videos, and so on.)

–is the design of my site helping to keep the visitor’s interest and does it allow him to see the important parts of your site?

–if someone I don’t know comes to my site, what reason will he have to stay?

If you can just focus on this one thing alone, then you are on the road to success.

Secret # 2

This next secret which I will share to you is not really a secret. People in the business of building sites or blogs are generally aware of something called Search Engine Optimization. For now, it will be enough for you to know that it’s about getting links to your site so that search engines frequently crawl it. I would suggest that you type “free directories” in Google and submit to several of those. Bookmark your sites on Delicious, Digg, Technorati, and other social bookmarking sites. I usually spend a day of doing this when starting a new blog, then I just focus on getting my visitors stay 1 to 20 minutes and the search engines will NATURALLY drive more visitors to my sites.

If you’re interested about search engine optimization though, I do have a site where you can read more about it and download a free e-book : SEO Guide.

The tips I just shared with you are good for Get Paid to Blog Opportunities as well as Get Paid to Advertise opportunities such Google Adsense and TribalFusion.