Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic? Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.
1. Use a Headline Generator
What is a headline generator? This is a tool which allows you to type in your keyword and press enter after which time the generator will spit out 50 - 100 ideas for compelling titles for your new blog (it is also a great way to brainstorm for blog ideas). You will find people will click on your blog far more willingly if the title holds an attractive, promisingly useful idea or solution for them!
2. Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or google or feedly 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. I have a list of these popular pages on my website plus the buttons which link to them. Users can then easily add my blog to their news reader members area.
3. Update your content regularly
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It's very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regularly. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What's too many? 10 or more.
4. Post in forums
Post in forums, but don't spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don't just post in any forum. For example if you're selling art services, post in forums that are about art and photography. Don't post in car forums if you're selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like google or yahoo.
5. Submit to blog search engines
There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just google for "blog search engines“ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.
6. Share your blog on social media
It is so easy to share your posts on social media nowadays. Simply copy the URL of the blog and Facebook will usually automatically fill in the rest of the details including picture and any description associated with your blog post.
Follow these 6 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don't forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself.
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