Blogging TIPS #5:
This week I will show you some ways to get traffic and make money from your new blog. Some Easy Ways to get Traffic to your blog ... The simple truth is that a blog without readers is pretty much useless. If you've been blogging for a while and only getting a trickle of viewers to your posts, you need to put a traffic building plan into action. 'Building traffic' is just as important a skill to bloggers as writing 'quality posts'. Most bloggers are terrific at creating content but don’t know a thing about building traffic. The 5 most popular (and most effective) traffic building techniques ... 1. Get social! Social networking and blogging go hand in hand. Your blog posts can be distributed across social networking channels in many different ways. Sign up for Twitter and tweet about your posts as soon as they are added to you blog. Update your Facebook status with a link to you new blog posts. Submit your stories to Digg.com, Reddit.com and
StumbleUpon.com. Remember that in order for social networking to be effective, you need to participate with other people on your list. If you visit their links and respond to their updates, they'll be likely to do the same for you. 2. Get noticed! Find blogs in your niche and start following their posts. Make sure to add insightful and interesting comments on their posts. Not only will the blog owner take notice and visit your blog, other commenters will visit your blog to get more of your great insight into the topic. Don’t spread yourself too thin with blog commenting, but make it a point to comment on a few related blogs each week. 3. Get good use out of your RSS feed! RSS feeds are a way to syndicate your blog’s content so that it is sent to many different people in their own blog readers or on their own sites. Most blogging systems have RSS feeds automatically included but you can add a lot more functionality to your feed by using a free service like FeedBurner.com. With FeedBurner you can add things like sharing the feed via e-mail to your feed so it will pull in new readers and encourage
previous visitors to come back to the blog again. 4. Get articles in directories! You may think that by being a blogger you can ignore article marketing. However, you can get a lot of traffic to your blog by tweaking some of your popular blog posts and adding them to article directories. You can post your popular posts as articles with a link back to your blog in many different article directories. Not only will you get a valuable backlink but your article may also be used by ezine owners which will bring you
more traffic. 5. Get backlinking! Speaking of backlinks, you should work to build backlinks to your blog through several different means. By creating backlinks to your blog, you’ll improve your blog’s ranking in search engine results. You can get lots of traffic from search engines if you are within the first group of search results for your keywords. These simple ways of building traffic can be used over and over again to help build traffic to your blog and increase your readership. That's it for today's lesson. NEXT WEEK: Don't forget to check your Inbox for our final blog marketing chat: 'How to actually start making money from your blog.' Until then,
Daniel Moore
The Sales Creator Community.
PS. If you haven't got your 'Free Facebook Fan page' yet ( $297 of value ) - click here. We will show you how to use it to drive more traffic to your website and generate more sales.
This week our own Ten Minute Marketing Solutions Fan Page has broken the 1k at 1002 'Likes' and so has SalesCreator at 1025l! They are just basic pages at the moment - wait till we really jazz them up!
|