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A common way to promote your service or product is to create a blog that is related to your product or service. Blogs are very popular because they are easy to install, manage and update. Also, search engines love them too because of they have lots of content. However, a blog is useless for promoting your product or service unless it has significant amounts of traffic. Please find five quick and easy ways here to boost traffic to your blog so that you can generate those big sales.
Step 1: Submit your blog to search engines. The are myriad of search engines, many that list only blogs. If you Google for “blog search engines”, you probably will find 20 or more of them. These blog search engines will help to increase targeted traffic to your blog. A few basic points to remember: write a good title and a good description. By writing a good title and description, visitors will easily find your blog and click on your links.
Step 2: Update your blog content frequently. A major key to improve your search engine ranking is regular updates. If you post regularly, it is quite likely that you will generate targeted traffic from search engines. A good rule of thumb is to make at least 1 new post per day to your blog. However, be careful as too many updates per day can harm your hits and search engines position. More than 10 post per day is probably too many updates.
Step 3: Post in Forums, but never SPAM them. A typical strategy is to post something relevant and interesting and include a link to your blog in your signature. Be sure to post in forums that are aligned with your blog content, don’t just post in any forum. For example, if you are selling photo blockers for your license plate, post in forums about vehicles or travel. Don’t post in music forums if you are selling computers. Posting in forums creates 1-way links which enhance search engines positions, particularly Google, MSN or yahoo.
Step 4: Develop a list of blog services to ping. There are many blogs services that you can ping. Pinging means that you notify the service that you have updated your blog. In turn, you gain traffic through the updated listing in these services. There are a list of 50+ blog services that you can ping on my site. This should be more than enough to provide an initial jump in traffic to your blog.
5.Add buttons to popular news readers What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo, Google or bloglines etc., which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let’s say 50 blogs listed on one page.
By following these simple steps, you will definitely increase the traffic to your blog. Traffic is the first step to getting the sales that you seek. The main guideline is that you update your blog with fresh original content that you have written yourself. Who knows, if you do it right, you might be able to quit your day job eventually.
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I saw a link to this post on Twitter and thought I\’d check it out. While I agree with the suggestions you made, these by themselves do not necessarily increase blog traffic. There are 2 real KEYS to increasing blog traffic. They are:
1) Have a SYSTEM that you can use daily that gets both backlinks to your blog and improves your search engine ranking, and
2) Build relationships with your audience through your blog\’s design, your posts, and your follow up!
What these two keys together mean is that you need to have a purpose for your blog. It needs to serve your readers — even moreso than serving yourself! You don\’t want to have tons of ads that send people in dozens of different directions. Be clear on the action you want your readers to take!
Every post should indeed promote something that makes you money. But, it shouldn\’t be a hype filled promotion. Give valuable content and then show your readers a resource that they can use to help get bigger results, faster results, or better results. (In other words, give them something that helps save time, make money, save money, or fills some other emotionally compelling need.)
You need to have a process that you follow for every single post! You need keywords placed in the RIGHT places (HINT – that means focus on only 1 keyword per post! You won\’t get ranked for more than that anyway!). You need to have a formula for writing the post that serves the reader. And, after you post to your blog, you want to have a system that gets your new post shown in the RIGHT places so that the search engines will rank it highly.
The current Google Algorithm doesn\’t really like having tons of links from a similar type of site (i.e. if all you do is social bookmark your post, it isn\’t going to improve your search engine rankings). What it wants is to see that you have both INTERNAL LINKS (links from your post to other places on your site), EXTERNAL LINKS (links from your post to other websites that use the same keyword), and INBOUND LINKS (i.e. backlinks — links that come into your post — not just that come into your blog!) that cover a variety of \"creatives\" and a variety of \"platforms\". o
\"Creatives\" are text, images, videos, slideshows, and audios. \"Platforms\" are forums, blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, blog directories, rss directories, article directories, etc.
Following these tips not only gets you more traffic, it gets traffic that is likely to convert!
Keep this in mind — who cares about having lots of visitors? If those visitors don\’t convert into buyers, you\’ve done all that work for free anyway!
Set your goals not on getting more visitors to your blog — that\’s the easy part! Instead, set your goals on getting traffic that builds lists and traffic that turns into sales! That\’s what makes for a lucrative business!
NOTE: I share my system for building relationships using blogs — a system that not only drives tons of traffic but also gets that traffic to buy! — totally free in my 30DayIMChallenge.com. I\’d love to help you get results from your blog too!
Gina Gaudio-Graves
\"The JV Queen\"
Dean & Founder, DirectionsU.com
Your website looks really good. Being a blog writer myself, I really appreciate the time you took in writing this article.