Blog it the traffic will follow?!
Recently when I read an article from Can Blogging Create Passive Income? by Kenneth Koh, he did mention a point that I think worth while posting here,
Many years back, when the idea of internet marketing first started, there was a myth that says “Built it and traffic will come”. ‘it’ refers to a website.
People started building different kinds of websites, only to realize that their websites are only visited by ghosts.
Years later, history repeats.
The concept of blogging was introduced and everyone starts to blog. The myth now becomes “Blog and traffic will come”.
So how do you drive traffic to your blogs?
step 1:
Submit Your Blog to Technorati - a blog search engine
http://www.technorati.com/.
Step 2:
setup automatically ping services after your post is published
Get a full list of the ping services
to set up if you are wordpress, Login as admin
then settings -> writing -> update services.
Just copy and paste the list that you’ve found above
and press “saves changes”
Step 3:
Submit your intereting blog posts to social
bookmarking sites like Digg.com, Stumble Upon,
Delicious, Propeller, and Reddit.
Keep your title compelling and also write a short
description about your blog post.
E.g, Recently I have enabled my blog to have “do follow”
comment. If I want to submit the blog post, I will
write something like
“Gain backlinks from my blog by comment 5 times!”
We all know the benefit of do follow comment link,
I have enabled it and with definetly getting more
traffic. I am constantly building backlinks and it will
definitely gaining Page rank and traffic so start comment
now!”
step 4:
Submit your blog to some blog directories such as blogCatlog,
bloggeries and join their groups and discussions.
After you comment and made some post, leave your domain their
as signature
Step 5:
step up helper blogs on Xanga, wordpress, blogspot and link
back to your main blogs.
Step 6:
submit your articles to articles directories like Ezine articles,
goArticles, Articles Dashbroade, article base and link with your
main blogs in your author bio.
Step 7:
find a list of relevant blogs and comment on it.
There are other methods as well like submit your blog
Rss feed to feedburner, some Rss directories and increase
it blog traffic.
The above steps should keep you going
for a while
