Increase Pageviews on Associated Content Using These Tips

Drive More Traffic to Your Associated Content Articles Using Blog Postings, Search Engine Buzz Topics and Effective Tags

You've written and web-published a great article on Associated Content, but what good will it do anyone if no one can find it?

Not only is it important to spend as much time (or more) promoting your articles as you do writing them, with the new bonus bucks contest on Associated Content - driven by pageviews - there's more incentive than ever before to increase the amount of fingers clicking your articles.

"Rest assured, if it is the type of piece that will attract pageviews, you will be paid accordingly," Associated Content's CEO, Luke Beatty, promised in an October 17, 2006 posting on the company blog, which touched on methods used to determine higher offers.

Gimme pageviews!
So how exactly do you build the number of eyes eyeballing your content?

In my article titled "New to Associated Content? Raise Your Clout Index!" I provided some basics tips to increase pageviews by using social bookmarking sites and such.

But since then I've learned a few additional tips that have helped drive more traffic to my Associated Content pieces, and again, I hope they do the same for you:

Give the People What They Want!
As I wrote in the New to Associated Content piece, I like to check Yahoo's Buzz Log for the most recent search terms that people are typing into search engines so that I know what people are looking for, not just what I want to write about.

Yes, it's good to cover subjects close to your heart or important political treatises, but the best kind of marketer checks consumers' desires and provides good information that satisfies their searchings.

One of my long-term editors told me that a good writer can write about any topic. Besides, readers might stumble across your more important topics whilst searching for puff pieces.

For example, on Friday, October 13, 2006, the Buzz Log posted an entry called "Will Brooke Hogan Be a Pop Star?" that included - which is extremely helpful - the actual search terms in quotes that Brooke's fans were typing into search engines. Two search terms, "fhm magazine brooke hogan" and "brooke hogan fhm" were specifically listed.