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Four Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
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Four Easy Methods For Getting Free Web Traffic To Your Blog
A blog without readers is pretty much worthless. If you’ve been blogging for awhile now and have only been getting a trickle of readers to your posts, you need to put a free web traffic system into action. Learning how to create traffic is as much of a necessary skill to bloggers as writing quality posts is. Many bloggers are excellent at creating content however know very little about building traffic.
This is a quick guide to the four most popular (free and most successful) traffic building approaches.
- You Need To Be Social!
Social networking and blogging go hand in hand. Your blog posts can be distributed over social networking sites in many ways. Sign up for Twitter and tweet about your posts as soon as they are published to you blog. Update your Facebook status with a link to your new blog posts. Submit your posts to Digg.com, Reddit.com and StumbleUpon.com. etc… It’s also important to remember that in order for social networking to work, you’ll need to participate with other people in your social community. If you visit their links and respond to their updates, they’re more likely to do the same for you.
- Make Sure You’re Noticed!
Look for blogs in your niche and start following their posts. Always contribute informative as well as useful comments on their blog posts. Not only will the blog owner notice you and visit your blog, other commenter’s will also visit your blog to find out more about you and your related site. There’s no need overdue commenting, but make it a point to leave comments on several relevant blogs each day.
- Get Your Message Out There!
RSS feeds are a good way to syndicate your blog’s content so that it’s sent to a variety of people in their own blog readers or on their own sites. Most of the blogging systems have RSS feeds automatically included, however you can add extra features to your feed by using a free service like FeedBurner.com. With FeedBurner you can add things like sharing the feed via e-mail so it will pull in new readers and encourage previous visitors to come back to the blog again and again.
- Syndicate Your Blog Posts!
As a blogger you may think that there’s no need for article marketing. The truth is that you can get a lot of visitors to your blog simply by re-writing several of your most popular posts and adding them to article directory sites. You can convert your favorite posts as articles with a link back to your blog to many different article directories. Not only will you get valuable one-way links but your articles are often picked up by others who will publish them on their own blogs which will bring you more traffic.
These four ways of starting your free web traffic system can be used over and over again to help build traffic to your blog and increase up your readership.
Profitable Blog Steps For Affiliate Marketers
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If you’ve been working online for any length of time I’m sure that you’ve heard people saying that Affiliate Marketing is the easiest way to start an online business.
Here are some of the reasons that Affiliate Marketing is considered “easy”
- You don’t need a product
- You don’t need customer support
- You can earn a sizable percentage of the sale
- You don’t carry inventory
So basically all you need to do is drive traffic. Now on the surface that Sounds great doesn’t it?
Well then why do over 97 percent of affiliates fail?
Is it because the majority of affiliates are lazy and don’t take action or is it because they’re not taking the right action. I believe it’s a combination of the two that results in over 97% of affiliates not making money.
Yes, Affiliate Marketing is an easy way to get started online, however driving traffic to an affiliate page is not enough to see consitant profits. Take the time to learn about Affiliate Marketing and set up your “system” and you’ll soon be in the 3% of affiliates making money.
Mike Paetzold, just released his new audio video course that will help you do just that.
It’s a 10 module plan to walk you through how to set up a successful affiliate marketing system and get you profitable quickly.
It covers…
- Introduction to Affiliate Blogging Secrets
- Blog Building: Research and Choosing Topic
Then it continues with more intermediate and advanced tactics for you to use in your Affiliate Marketing business.
- The Free Bait Method
- Create A Viral ‘Infection’ With Resale Rights Reports
When going through the videos it’s best to do them in order as they build on each other. Mike aso includes an MP3 version as well as a trascript of each video.
It doesn’t matter if you are brand new or are an experienced affiliate marketer; Profitable Blog Steps can help you get what you want from your online business.
Profitable Blog Steps has just launched and Mike is giving a discount for action takers but only for the first week Check this out today and save $20 but only until the 9th of June.
7 Blog Ad Networks Worth Checking Out
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Once you’ve built up a nice readership for your blog, and you are beginning to see a steady stream of search engine traffic; one of the most important considerations is how you will monetize your blog. The good news is that there are a wide variety of blog ad networks to choose from. Let’s take a look at some of the best.
1. BuySellAds
BuySellAds is a great choice if you haven’t been successful with pay-per-click ad models like Adsense. When you sign up with BuySellAds, you’ll enter your blog information and wait for approval. BuySellAds will automatically retrieve your Alexa Rank, Google Page Rank, and other statistics to display to advertisers. Then you’ll name your price per month to display a banner ad on your site. Advertisers will be able to easily check out your website and decide if they would like to buy a banner ad. BuySellAds takes a 25% commission of the total ad cost.
2. Technorati Media
Technorati Media is the largest social media advertising network and the 3rd largest blog media property. Technorati has long been one of the top destinations for Internet users wishing to find the best and most relevant blogs on a wide variety of subjects. When you join their ad network, they’ll find the highest paying ads for your blog based on your content via a CPM (cost per 1000 views) model.
3. BlogAds
BlogAds is a relatively small network, but they represent some of the biggest names in blogging, like Perez Hilton. One of the biggest advantages to BlogAds is the amount of customization. You can specify the size of the ad you want, and you can even adjust the colors of the ads to match your site. The ads you sell will be based on a monthly fixed charge – not on impressions or clicks. You can reject any ad you wish, and BlogAds takes a 30% commission.
4. Sponsored Tweets
If you are already supplementing your blogging efforts with Twitter, then this can be a great way to get a few extra dollars. All you need to do is register your Twitter account with Sponsored Tweets and set your prices to begin receiving offers. You can charge both on a tweet-by-tweet basis and also on a per-click basis. Kim Kardashian reportedly gets paid $10,000 per tweet, so there is definitely a market here if you have a sizable number of followers.
5. Google Adsense
You may have heard about the Google Adsense network, and you have no doubt seen Google Ads on other blogs. The best part about the Adsense program is its simplicity. It is easy to be accepted into the program, and Google will immediately begin showing ads to your visitors related to the content on your blog. Depending on how valuable your keywords are, you can earn several dollars per click.
6. Amazon Affiliate Program
Another hugely popular advertising network that is easy to join is the Amazon Affiliate program. You can select products to display on your blog, or you can let Amazon choose products automatically based on your content. Every time someone buys something from Amazon, you will receive a percentage of the sale price. The best part is that you can earn even on products you didn’t explicitly advertise. If you recommend a book, someone might go to Amazon and buy an expensive flat screen television.
7. Payperpost
Payperpost is an ad network that brings bloggers and advertisers together. Once you list your blog, your statistics, your price per word, and your price per link; you’ll be able to field offers from advertisers who would like you to write a blog post about their product or service.
Every blog is slightly different, and there is no one best way to monetize it. Your best bet may be to try several of the above networks to see which one has the greatest potential earning power for your blog. Stick with the one that works, and discard the rest.
This is a guest article from James Adams, a blogger working for a UK based store specialising in HP 337 ink and other supplies. Read more of his work about print design and media on their blog, the CreativeCloud.
