The holy grail of blog based revenue is passive income.  Passive income created from a blog is based upon traffic and their actions; what brings the traffic to create this passive income is, of course, quality articles or content.  There are times when, despite your best efforts, you cannot find or make the time needed to create quality articles for your blog.  An accident, an illness, holidays, or other life events come into play when it comes time to start the writing process.

SEO — Post Level

While your readers won’t have any new articles to consume while you’re on a writing break (either mandatory or by choice), you can still have search engines bring visitors.  To have search engines bring traffic to your archived articles, you need to do the prep work while writing the article in the first place.  The use of keywords is a must.  A good starting point would is for your chosen keyword to have a 10% saturation for your articles.  In other words, if your key word is make money online, mention those words 10 times for every 100 words.

Use Great Plugins

Using the All in One SEO Pack for wordpress blogs gives a great starting point for your SEO needs.  Also use a sitemap for Google to help the spiders get a good look at your site’s contents.  Alot of blogs use the Related Post plugin to give readers access to archived articles, but a great SEO use of the plugin is to pass along internal linkage to articles, helping increase their possible Page Rank.

All in One SEO Pack

The most used options in the SEO Pack plugin, atleast for me, are the title field and keywords.  While you should already be packing your keywords at a rate of 10:100, it doesn’t hurt to have your keyword and some secondaries inserted into the meta tags.  Creating a different title for SEO allows for a more focused keyword laden title for the page; your article title can still be creative to catch readers’ eye.

Passive Income from Archived Articles

As I’ve mentioned before, search engine traffic has the best chance to create revenue through advertising clicks.  If you have done your job while writing the article with

• Keyword placement
• Page Title
• Meta Tags
• Proper wordpress plugin usage

Following these guidelines should help increase your articles’ chances of bringing in that coveted search engine traffic, and create more income for you.  Creating something that you only have to do once, but once created continues to bring in revenue long after you have forgotten it is the very definition of a source of passive income.

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