Many blog owners, and website owners for that matter, spend a lot of time trying to increase their traffic volume. Some blog owners dream of that front page on Digg, or getting a post that goes viral on StumbleUpon. The problem is, if your blog has been created for the purpose of generating some blogging income, this viral traffic will rarely generate much income at all.
You best blogging income resource is already there. Your current visitors. This is where you are more likely to generate incomes, particularly those coming to your blog from the search engines. What you should be doing is considering ways to leverage that existing traffic into an income stream.
There are several paths you can take at the same time. The first is to determine how searches are finding your pages. What search phrase or keywords are being used? From this information you can rework your content to increase it’s value to the reader. More importantly, placing your income generating model in the most the appropriate place along with a good call to action can increase your conversions.
You have the traffic. You have your blogging income stream. It is a matter of bringing the two together. As you refine your content you will find these visitors staying a little longer. They may then follow links to other pages of interest. Leverage your existing traffic whilst working on standard SEO principles to increase your search engine rankings. That traffic is far more valuable than most of the social bookmarking traffic.
