You can spend as much time as you like making your blog look attractive and writing great content, but if no one knows that it’s there then you’ve pretty much wasted your time. Building traffic is as important as writing quality content; if your blog is feeling lonely then here are five of the most popular traffic generation techniques you need to bring in the visitors.
1. Start socialising
Social networking and blogging go hand in hand. By blogging you are trying to start a conversation with other Internet users and your posts can be distributed across the net quickly and easily. Start by linking your Twitter and Facebook accounts to your blog so that every time you write a post the link is added to your Twitter feed or your Facebook wall.
Sign up with services such as StumbleUpon and Digg; by becoming a part of the communities there you will be able to introduce your blog to other members and then in turn they can share it with their friends.
2. Start commenting
Find other blogs in your niche and comment on their posts. You need to ensure that your comments are relevant and add value to the discussion. The owner of that blog will then hopefully come and visit your blog and leave a comment. Other readers of the blogs will also see your comment and may come and visit you too. Before you know it you will be a part of the blogging community.
3. Start syndicating
Your blog service should include an RSS feed as standard. This is a way for people to subscribe to your blog so that they are notified by email or by their feed reader service every time you update your blog. This is a great way to encourage people to keep coming back to your website so make sure you promote your RSS feed prominently on your site.
4. Start recycling
Another great way to bring in new visitors to your blog is to recycle your blog posts and turn them into articles. You can submit your articles to popular article directories and put your content in front of a whole new audience. You will then get new readers from the link to your blog that you included in your resource box.
5. Start filming
Another great way to bring new traffic to your blog is through video submissions. If you have a camcorder then you could make a short video of you talking through one of your blog posts. You then simply upload your video to sites like YouTube to encourage new visitors to your blog.
Yes, article marketing is very effective. And all these activities increase your ability to write them well and quickly.
It's quite amazing how quickly you can write a clear and informative article of a few hundred words when you've been constantly "training" in the blogosphere and social media.
.-= Matt@Article Marketing Blog´s last blog ..YouBundle has a good concept behind it =-.
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