Getting good traffic to your blog doesnt just happen. It takes some time and some effort.
Submit guest posts at other blogs. Few experienced bloggers can resist the appeal of
good free content. But most new bloggers simply don’t take advantage of this, because the
first few weeks after the launch of their blog are so hectic that they don’t have time to write additional posts for someone else’s blog.
With a little planning, however, you can overcome
the time crunch and pick up some great links. Save up a half dozen good posts and submit
them to related blogs as a way to introduce yourself and your blog to their audience.
(It’s usually better to only do this when the blogger is actively seeking submissions;
you probably shouldn’t submit posts unasked-for.) Of course, link back to your own
blog in the "author’s bio" at the bottom of the post. It’s not good form to submit
the same article to multiple sites, so don’t cut corners here; instead create a good
unique post for each submission you make.
Ask friends for feedback on your site. The blogging world is largely comprised people
who consider themselves somewhat entrepreneurial, and as a result, bloggers tend to respect
(and want to help) people who are out there trying to start up their own site. By asking other bloggers to give you feedback, you put them in the role of expert. Not surprisingly, this
technique usually does provide some valuable feedback from people who have experience,
if not expertise, in running a blog. But in addition, by putting your peers in the position of
expert, you dramatically increase the chance that they will follow your launch and drop
you a link once you get off the ground. - also, have your family
and friends leave a few comments on the site to create some activity early on.
Include tons of outbound links in your posts. As a new blogger, your target audience is other bloggers. They have the links that you need to get to the top of the search engines and to get in front of other readers. So a big key is getting other bloggers in your niche to notice you. A good
trick is to use website referrals to your advantage. Almost every blogger checks their site referrals list on a daily or weekly basis (which tells them the last page a visitor was on before they landed
on their site). They use this list both to track new links and to see who is talking about their site.
By putting a lot of outbound links in your posts to other blogs in your niche, you can start to raise your profile. When your readers click on those links your site will appear in the referrals list of the bloggers you link to. This is free marketing for you. When other bloggers see your site in their referrals list they will often visit your site and are also much more likely to return a link to you.
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