Showing posts with label Visitors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Visitors. Show all posts

Monday, August 8, 2011

Attracting Visitors To Your Blog: Free and Easy Tips To Follow

So, you have a blog. The problem is you don't have enough readers. Maybe you're paying to post great content: maybe you write it yourself. If you aren't getting the attention you need, here are a few helpful tips that will increase your blog traffic and get some eyes on your updated content. Best of all, they're free and easy to do!

Visitor Attraction Tip #1: Networking. Here, it can be as simple as getting out to meet your neighbors. And I'm not talking about the people down your street. Who's in your niche? Who is in the social forums? Get connected to people you might relate to by posting in relevant forums and making friends. Don't forget the relatives. Email all your friends and family your new blog.

Visitor Attraction Tip #2: Be a Blog Reader. A great blog writer is also a blog reader. What's your competition? How can you succeed like they are? Scoring a post inside a popular blog can get you really high traffic wise: look into being a guest blogger. Comment on blogs that are inside your topics. This is a great way to get noticed by people who might be interested in what you have to offer. It's free and easy and it works. However, the only catch is to give out comments that actually read more than "I agree!"

Visitor Attraction Tip #3: Link Love. Blog owners (other than yourself) watch their blog like a hawk; they'll notice immediately if someone links to them. This will lead to a lovely friendship. Be aware of other opportunities your readers might be into; instead of getting them to stay on your blog, talk to the people they are going to.

Visitor Attraction Tip #4: Promote. You'll never get around this one. Without promotion, I hate to say it, you're really going nowhere. Put your blog URL on every place that will get noticed. Think about flyers, business cards, letterheads, and a link in every email you send out.

Visitor Attraction Tip #5: SEO. Here's another one you can't ignore if you want the search engines to pick up on your blog. Whatever niche or subject you're into, your blog content should be optimized so that someone searching for a relevant keyword on your topics will come eventually to your blog through Google. Don't go crazy with the keywords, but incorporate them at a good density in each post.

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Friday, August 5, 2011

37 Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog

This list came together as people in my Marketing Group were sharing what works for them. These are tried and true ways to help you to get more visitors to your blog. I am sure you could keep adding more ideas to this list. If you have anything you would like to add, please let me know. I would love to hear from else you are doing. We'll start another list.

1. Use descriptive key words and write about them

2. Keep your website/blog updated - 2-3x per week

3. Do a newsletter

4. Participate in forums or groups, like LinkedIn, Quora, Ning

5. Submit to bookmarking sites - Stumpleupon, Delicious, Digg

6. Cross promote other people in your community, exchange articles, be a guest writer

7. Put your websites in your email signature

8. Have a contest or promotion

9. Use Social Media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

10. Be a guest blogger, include your website URL

11. Send out invitations to your site for feedback or for your events

12. AdWords

13. Build relationships by staying in touch, ask them questions

14. Write a book, ask for people's contact info or post it on Scribd

15. Write press releases

16. Create a Facebook Fan Page to direct visitors

17. Twitter to direct traffic to your blog website

18. Join other groups where your customers hangout

19. Take advantage of share buttons and services like Ping fm

20. Get listed in Google's Local Business directory (Google Places)

21. Upload a presentation to Slideshare with a link back to your site

22. Profile people on your site and ask for comments or links back

23. Do Video's of your products/services and upload them to other video services

24. Upload pictures to Flicker

25. Subscribe to newsletters/blogs about marketing to get more ideas

26. List yourself in Craigslist, Kijji and other free ad sites

27. Get valid links to your site from targeted traffic

28. Have more call to actions

29. Offer a free e-book or gift or report

30. Write great content that people want to return to and share it

31. Be an expert by writing for E-zine promote your specialty or expertise

32. Write comments (make them a real, not just this was a nice post)

33. Post videos on YouTube and link back to your website

34. Use Bookmarking services such as StumpleUpon, Delicious, Digg

35. Add social media buttons

36. Learn more about SEO

37. Use Video more often on your blog or to grow your contact base

You can reach Mari-Lyn (Hudson) Harris at http://heartatworkonline.org/, where she writes "How to's" about Relationship Marketing, Marketing and Social Media. Besure to subscribe to her Marketing Magazine and get a Free copy of her Social Media Strategy e-book.


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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

37 Ways to Get More Visitors to Your Blog

This list came together as people in my Marketing Group were sharing what works for them. These are tried and true ways to help you to get more visitors to your blog. I am sure you could keep adding more ideas to this list. If you have anything you would like to add, please let me know. I would love to hear from else you are doing. We'll start another list.

1. Use descriptive key words and write about them

2. Keep your website/blog updated - 2-3x per week

3. Do a newsletter

4. Participate in forums or groups, like LinkedIn, Quora, Ning

5. Submit to bookmarking sites - Stumpleupon, Delicious, Digg

6. Cross promote other people in your community, exchange articles, be a guest writer

7. Put your websites in your email signature

8. Have a contest or promotion

9. Use Social Media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin

10. Be a guest blogger, include your website URL

11. Send out invitations to your site for feedback or for your events

12. AdWords

13. Build relationships by staying in touch, ask them questions

14. Write a book, ask for people's contact info or post it on Scribd

15. Write press releases

16. Create a Facebook Fan Page to direct visitors

17. Twitter to direct traffic to your blog website

18. Join other groups where your customers hangout

19. Take advantage of share buttons and services like Ping fm

20. Get listed in Google's Local Business directory (Google Places)

21. Upload a presentation to Slideshare with a link back to your site

22. Profile people on your site and ask for comments or links back

23. Do Video's of your products/services and upload them to other video services

24. Upload pictures to Flicker

25. Subscribe to newsletters/blogs about marketing to get more ideas

26. List yourself in Craigslist, Kijji and other free ad sites

27. Get valid links to your site from targeted traffic

28. Have more call to actions

29. Offer a free e-book or gift or report

30. Write great content that people want to return to and share it

31. Be an expert by writing for E-zine promote your specialty or expertise

32. Write comments (make them a real, not just this was a nice post)

33. Post videos on YouTube and link back to your website

34. Use Bookmarking services such as StumpleUpon, Delicious, Digg

35. Add social media buttons

36. Learn more about SEO

37. Use Video more often on your blog or to grow your contact base

You can reach Mari-Lyn (Hudson) Harris at http://heartatworkonline.org/, where she writes "How to's" about Relationship Marketing, Marketing and Social Media. Besure to subscribe to her Marketing Magazine and get a Free copy of her Social Media Strategy e-book.


View the original article here