4 WAYS TO INCREASE YOUR BLOG TRAFFIC

One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.

If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.

Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).

First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)

Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).

Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work.

If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:

• create a giant list of resources,
• write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,
• find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or
• write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially

When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: “Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”

Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)

Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:

• commenting on other blogs in your niche,
• linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and
• interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.

Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.

Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)

The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:

• letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),
• letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,
• getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,
• getting some friends to Twitter the article, and
• posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.

If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.

Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)

Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:

• a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it
• a post informing your readers about a news in your niche
• a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion
• a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers

While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.

7 WAYS TO PROMOTE YOUR SITE

The reality is that most of those successful websites were pioneers on their niche, hence why they became popular without spending money on advertising. Now a days the market is crowded and you have thousands of websites and blogs even for small segments. As a consequence paid promotional techniques are becoming an important factor of any successful marketing strategy.

Below you will find 7 ways to promote your website or blog with a bit of money. You can use them to generate raw traffic, improve your search engine rankings, gain visibility on your niche and so on. Despite the initial investment most of those techniques will pay off on the short to medium term. If you are expecting to make money with your website there is no reason to assume that you will not need to spend some as well, right?

1. AdWords: Google make billions of dollars every year from the AdWords-AdSense combo. Why is that? Because they work. Adwords is probably the most efficient method to generated raw traffic for your website. In order to get started you should create an account, add lots (by lots I mean hundreds if not thousands) of keywords that are related your site and set the maximum Pay-per-Click rate at $0.01. After that raise the rate by $0.01 every week or so until you start getting the desired amount of daily clicks. Notice that at lower bids the keywords will be reported as “Inactive for Search”. Do not worry about it, it just means that your ads will not appear on the search network (Google’s search results), but they will appear on the content network (websites of people that use AdSense).

2. Site-Specific AdWords: if you pay attention to the AdSense units you will see that most of them have a link titled “Advertise on this site”. This feature enables AdWords advertisers to create customized ads that will be displayed only on specific websites. Those ads work on a CPM (cost per 1000 impressions) rather than a CPC (cost per click) basis, but they can generate a good amount of very targeted traffic since you will be in control of where the ad will be displayed and of the message. You can get even better results if you use some creativity when designing the ads, click here for some examples.

3. StumbleUpon Ads: StumbleUpon is a very innovative social bookmarking site that allows users to discover great websites by using a browser toolbar. When the user clicks on “Stumble” he will be delivered a website that people with similar interested rated positively. The user is also able to give positive and negative ratings to any website that he visits on the Internet. StumbleUpon also offers advertising campaigns, called StumbleUpon Ads, where you can deliver your website directly to those “Stumblers”. It costs $0.05 per page delivered, but since the websites that appear on StumbleUpon usually have a high quality it is very likely that part of that paid traffic will convert into regular readers.

4. Text Link Ads: if you are trying to increase your search engine rankings to leverage organic traffic you should consider buying some text link ads. While those text links can also generate direct traffic the biggest benefit you will have is an improvement on your search rankings, specially if the links are placed on authoritative and relevant websites. There are several places to buy text links, including specialized companies like Text-Link-Ads and Text Link Brokers or online forums like Digital Point‘s market place.

5. Direct Banner Sales: most established websites sell banner ads or sponsorship plans directly. Those advertising deals usually are structured with weekly or monthly fees, regardless of the number of impressions or clicks that you will get. Despite this characteristic a banner placement can represent good value for money because apart from the direct traffic you will also create visibility and brand awareness. Readers of the website where you will display your banner will associate the message on the banner with your site or blog. Should they come across that banner or message two or three times it is very likely that they will get curious and decide to check what the buzz is all about. Another advantage of banner placements is the fact that people will unconsciously think that the author of the website endorses your content or product.

6. Sponsored Reviews: buying some sponsored reviews is a good way to kick-start a website. They will bring backlinks, traffic and RSS subscribers. There are many market studies confirming that “word of mouth” is the most efficient way to capture people’s attention, and that is just what you get with sponsored reviews. You can either pay a low price (sometimes as low as $5 per review) to get a large number of reviews from small sites or you can focus on large players (which can charge several hundreds of dollars for a single review) that are authorities on your niche. The best way to purchase sponsored reviews is through sites like SponsoredReviews.com, ReviewMe or PayPerPost.com.

7. Blog Networks: there are several blog networks founded around a traffic exchange principle. Basically you create an account for you blog and you earn credits by surfing other members’ blogs. Afterwards you can use those credits to make people visit your blog or to display your banners around the network. The interesting part is that most of those blog networks allow users to purchase credits with money, and the price is really convenient. You should be able receive hundreds of visitors or to get thousands of banner impressions for less than 10 dollars. Some blog networks that sell credits include Blog Explosion, Blog Soldiers and Blog Advance.

TRAFFIC FROM YOU-TUBE

YouTube is a video sharing website that we can upload and share videos on the Internet. Right now, YouTube is owned by Google, so it’s free and reliable to upload and share your video to the world. By the way, when your video gets more and more popular on YouTube, you will get more and more traffic to your website. Why? And How?

Example if you have a video show about your products on your website and post it to YouTube, then you try to get more traffic to your video in YouTube by posting it on blog or other social networking sites. If your blog and social networking sites have 300 visitors go to visit your video, this will increase the video’s pop­u­lar­ity on YouTube to go up.

YouTube has mil­lion videos and most of them only get a few views. So when you have 300 peo­ple view your video, this will boost your videos rank­ing suf­fi­ciently enough that it get’s pushed to the top of the video charts in its category. When your video gets more thou­sand views, you will receive more popular and will caused other peo­ple in YouTube to start watch­ing it.

Instead of hosting your video on your website or blog, you can post your YouTube’s video to your website or blog by using the embed link in YouTube. Just copy the code in the “Embed” and paste it to your HTML code, it will be like you host on your website or blog and you can change the size of video to display as well. By this way, you can get more popularity to your YouTube’s video.

How to Create a Video and Drive Traffic to It

1. If you are using Windows Xp, you can use a program “Windows Movie Maker“ to create your own video and post it to your YouTube account.

2. Don’t forget to choose a good title for your video and also leave some description. You should choose some appropriate tags (like keyword) and a category for your video in YouTube.

3. At the end of your video, don’t forget leave the information about your website and leave a link back to your website.

4. Submit your video in YouTube to your social network such as Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon and more…

5. Submit your video to your new Blogspot (blogger.com) and don’t forget post your blog to StumbleUpon and OnlyWire.com.

6. View other videos that relevant to your website’s content and leave some comments on it. So you don’t have to make own videos you can still have traffic. But you can drive a little traffic to your site. Because it’s easy for other webmasters to do so.

TRAFFIC FROM TWITTER

Twitter is a free & fun social networking service for friends, family and co-workers communicate, send and read all messages from the following people in a list that we call “Tweet”. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters. In Twitter account has follower and following members, only followers can see your tweet.

Users can send and receive tweets, SMS (Short Message Service) or external applications. By the way, Twitter is also a good way to generate free traffic to your website or blog easily up on the number of your followers. So if you don’t have one, please hurry up to sign up now!

Tips to Get Auto Traffic from Twitter

SingUp with Twitter is easy, but get traffic from twitter is a bit hard that you should learn step by step to improve until you can get 100% auto traffic to your site. Below are the best tips with nice tricks to generate traffic:

– Twitter Account: You should choose a user name that is easy to remember and refer to your website or blog. In your account, don’t forget to put your link, your picture’s profile (logo of your website), Line Biobackground (in setting). If possible use image that show your website address and profile to build more brand to your site. and change your

– Followers: Traffic from Twitter it depends on the number of your followers. It takes time to build up a big list of followers and cultivate a relationship with them. If you want a huge number of followers, you can search people who have the same interest with you and then follow them. If they are interested, they will follow you back. Twitter allows you to follow only 2,000 people (up to the follower ratio), but this figure will increase when your follower number reach more than 1,800 and you can follow more 110% of your followers. Ex: if your followers have 2,000 people, you can follow more until 2,200 people.

Ratio: 100% followers = 110% following

– Relationship: Don’t use Twitter to only promote your website. But you must be active and you can tweet on comments that were sent to you from previous tweets with your link back to your website. If you have a lot of followers, then your chances are greater for people to visit your website.

– Displays RSS Feed to Twitter: With this way, every article you publish in your blog will automatically be displayed in your twitter account. So your Twitter followers could notice them.

Twitter Connects With Other Apps

– Twitterfeed: TwitterFeed is a useful service that you can feed your blog to twitter, facebook and others apps easily in order to increase your reach.

– MySpace: MySpace account link to Twitter account. When you update MySpace, it will update automatically on Twitter as well. In MySpace account, click “My Account”, select “Sync” and confirm connection to each other is done. You also can link back from Twitter by Twitter widget.

– Facebook: Facebook Apps can let you update Twitter and Facebook together. This means that your Facebook and Twitter can see your status each other.

– Widget: Twitter Widget let you connect Twitter to your website, Facebook and MySpace. It’s an effective way to draw more interesting from your readers.

– LinkedIn: LinkedIn is also a popular social networking that let people view your Twitter on your LinkedIn profile. To connect LinkedIn with Twitter, just click here and you’ll be asked to log in. Then click on “Add your Twitter account” and follow instruction on screen. Now you’ve configured the Twitter settings on Linkedin, you can now update Twitter directly from Linkedin by selecting the Twitter icon.

After follow all above tips, you will get 100% auto traffic to your website. About the other tips to connect with other social networking sites, we will update soon. So please come to check this web page frequently to reach your goal.

TRAFFIC FROM BLOGS

Traffic from blogs is a technical to get free backlinks to your website. We encourage you to build more blogs to post about your website content (keywords) to drive fresh backlinks (traffic) to your website.

Blogs have become more increasingly popular at the end of 2007, there are more than 112,000,000 blogs and many internet users now only search for blogs. Blog is a website content management system with additional functionality such as comments, trackbacks, social bookmarking and RSS.

Blogs get spider faster than websites and all blogs are linked together in a group, so many people start setting up blogs related to their business to drive traffic to their website. They can use their blogs to write content, and answer quick questions to their potential customers.

Natural Backlinks

If you need many more backlinks for free, just sign up a blog and then post some interested contents that relevant to your website. Join your bog with other blog (such as wordpress and blogspot) and social networking.

WordPress is a free and best choice for business blog that you can install directly into your website’s domain. Social bookmarking is all the rage right now and having a blog will allow you to more easily take advantage of social bookmarking traffic. Starting a blog related to the theme of your website will draw huge traffic to your main website.

Online forums are great places to network and meet other people who share your common interests. What many people don’t know is that forums are also great places to bring targeted traffic to your website.

Before you can start using forums to pull in traffic to your website you’ll first have to find a forum that is relevant to the theme of your website. Most forums allow you to receive traffic by permitting you to use a signature file within each of your posts. Your signature file contains a link that directs people to your website. Like link exchanges and blogs, most forums a free to join.

GET FREE TRAFFIC

Get free traffic it means you can get visitors to visit your website or blog freely without paying anything. Right now on the web there are million tricks to get free traffic to your website or blog. But some ways may cause your website or blog has been banned or penalty by search engine. Especially from giant search engine is Google. So how to get the right way to build free traffic to your website or blog without getting any barns or problems from the search engine such as Google, Yahoo, MSN or others?

Getting free traffic online is easy but it’s not a day process and it does take time and dedication but it is worth if you seriously want to earn money online. Please remember that when you start building traffic to your website or blog “build everyday 1 backlink to your website, 1 month you will get 30 backlinks and 1 year you will get more than 350 backlinks”.

One of the best tricks is submitting your website or blog to a biggest search engine is Google and it’s free. With this way you can bring in hundreds or even thousands of visitors per day freely to your website or blog. When you submit your website or blog to Google, please try to wait patiently while Google index it. It can take a few months. But in this time you can build more backlink or update your articles or you can do the same way by submit your website url to Yahoo, MSN, etc.

Don’t just wait for seeing your website or blog index by Google or other search engine. But you can do many things for your website or blog such as building more backlinks from doing some comments on the other forums or some web directories (but don’t forget to leave your url there).

Get Free Traffic System

1. To get list in search engines, just submit your website to dmoz.org
2. Submit your website to Search Engines and web directories:
Google: http://google.com/addurl.html
MSN: http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Yahoo: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
or http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
40 search engines: http://submitexpress.com
Top 20 search engines: http://addme.com 
Search Sight: http://searchsight.com/submit.htm
Arakne Links: http://www.arakne-links.com/submit.php
Info Tiger: http://www.infotiger.com/addurl.html
Sonic Run: http://search.sonicrun.com/freelisting
Web world: http://www.webworldindex.com
Submit Biz: http://www.submit.biz
Skoobe: http://www.skoobe.biz
Dramba: http://www.dramba.com
Directory Storm: http://www.directorystorm.com
A1 web directory: http://www.a1webdirectory.org
Cyber Web Search: http://www.cyberwebsearch.com
Cuil: http://www.cuil.com/info/contact_us/feedback/crawl_me
3. Sign up your website with free traffic’s credits http://trafficswarm.com (don’t buy credit and don’t use this method if you are using Google AdSense). Not recommend.
4. Sign up with some social networking sites such as Facebook.com or MySpace.com
5. Sign up a Twitter account if you don’t have one http://www.twitter.com and connect with your Facebook & MySpace.

6. Sign up a blog with wordpress.com to join with http://www.tweetmyblog.com to instantly transform your Twitter account into a traffic hurricane to your blog! Don’t forget leave some backlinks in your blog to your website
NOW ENJOY!!!