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23 Ways To Get More Traffic To Your Blog

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Every blogger wants more people to read their blog, but not every blogger knows how to do this.

Sure, you can get readers to your blog when you have already established some notoriety for yourself, such as writing a best selling book like The 4 hour Work Week by Tim Ferris.  Maybe you have somehow gotten masses of people to a website through some special offer like Zac Johnson did. Or you could be a popular blogger like John Chow who now has such wildly successful friends that they sit around discussing how they can’t live on $10,000 a month income anymore.

The question is, how do you get people to read your blog when you are first starting out and you don’t have these incredible stories to tell people?

Well, the answer is given to us by Denise Wakerman, co-founder of The Blog Squad. She has been assisting professionals and small businesses to use marketing strategies on the internet to improve their businesses.

Here are her 23 best tips to get more traffic to your blog

  1. Post nearly every day  on your blog; the more you post, the more readers you’ll have.
  2. If you have more than one blog and it’s appropriate, cross post to drive readers to each blog
  3. Write and submit articles to directories with links to the appropriate blog
  4. Write and post news releases online, about onece a week, with links back to the appropriate blog
  5. Provide links to blogs in email signatures
  6. Comment on other blogs
  7. Write posts with links to other blogs and mention the blogger’s name (if they’re watching Google Alerts then they know you’ve posted about them and will usually visit your blog)
  8. Thank people who post comments via email
  9. Put links to your blog in product than-you emails
  10. Put links to your blog on than you pages people see when they purchase your product and services
  11. Encourage people to subscribe to your blog in follow up email autoresponder messages
  12. Put blog links on LinkedIn profile, MySpace profile, Facebook profile and Twitter
  13. Put links to your blog in your ebooks
  14. Put links to your blog in your bios
  15. Tell people about your blog when you do presentations
  16. Encourage people to visit your blog when they sign up for your ezine so they can get even more free info
  17. Put a featured blog post with a link in your weekly ezine
  18. Pull blog feeds into your Facebook profile and other social networks
  19. Include blog links in signature blocks on forum posts
  20. Submit your blog to all the blog directories and search engines
  21. when appropriate, direct people to specific blog posts to answer their questions in discussion forums
  22. If you post videos on video sharing sites, include the URL for you blog in the description
  23. Most importantly, write informative content using keywords that will be picked up in organic searches

When planning strategies to get more traffic to your blog, be sure to make a commitment to yourself to post as frequently as possible and to provide your readers with some fresh new ideas. They’ll be glad you did.

Next post: Getting People to Comment on Your Blog Posts

A Great Idea Is Only The First Step For Your Online Profitability

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Whether you are looking to improve your blogging development, or are looking for more effective ways to monetize your website, the key to building and maintaining a site that will capture the interest and attention of the blogging community is by finding your niche.

Find and fill a unique need in a way that no other web site does. You’ll then be able to build a lasting readership among web surfers. Once you have discovered a niche, you will still have a lot to do, but finding your place in the constantly evolving blog world is the place to begin. It can be tough to distinguish your blogging web site from all of the others.

Every great blogging web site starts with a great idea, and you can’t build a successful site that will last without one. There are many great sites aimed at today’s bloggers, and competition for the attention of this growing demographic is fierce.

To make your blogging web site unique, you will need to offer something that no other site is currently offering….. or you will need to do the same thing that an already popular site does, but in a more relevant way.

One way to discover an ideal model for your blogging web site is to look at the sites that have successfully captured a blogging audience already.

Then determine how you can adapt some of these existing strategies.

You will also need to add a unique selling position to your project in order to stand apart from your competition.

The most successful websites that consistently do the best in today’s market are the sites that have the “personal touch”. The fiercely individual surfers who are bloggers are a demographic that responds best to personality, so consider how you can give your site a unique and attractive feeling by lending your own voice and sensibility to your site’s design and content.

Once you have a great idea for your site, have pinpointed a special niche that you are well equipped to fill, and have infused the site with personality, the next step is figuring out how to get the word out to bloggers.

In the long run, a great idea just isn’t enough to propel your blogging web site to success. You will need to draft a smart and realistic marketing plan in order to draw readers to your site. Once you hook a blogger, your great content will keep them coming back, but it is vital to get that first glance or your site won’t have a chance.

And, once again, the key to any online success is TRAFFIC.

Without traffic, you might as well just be writing to your Mother (which at this time of year is also a good idea).

Always be aware that traffic doesn’t just happen; but is the result of some pretty serious marketing efforts on your part.

Oh sure, the search engines will find you….eventually; and you will get some traffic from paid advertising….usually very expensive traffic.

So what works? Quickly? Most effectively? And most affordably?

You may start by asking yourself, “How did I get to this blog?”

Check back regularly to find out. Bookmarking this page right now could prove to be one of the better “get traffic” decisions you make.

Or better yet, the very bottom right hand corner of this and all of our pages contains an RSS link. Just click the button and relax. You will automatically start receiving any and all updates.

Till next time,

Fred

Free Guidebook to A Few Tips To Improve Your Credit Score

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Your credit rating can be your most valuable asset or your most annoying hindrance. The fact still stands that you can not live comfortably without having a good credit score. There is no way to avoid the issues of your credit score, one way or another your credit score report will become a topic of discussion. Whether you are making one of the two biggest purchases of your lifetime or you are applying for a job in the financial market, you will need to have good credit.

A perfect credit score is something that is fairly easy to achieve but a little harder to maintain. Everyone starts with a good clean slate. Maintaining that clean credit however is difficult to stay on top of, especially during tough economic times. The good news is that if you find yourself falling behind on your credit, there are a few simple steps that you can follow to help raise credit score for the 3 credit bureaus.

The first thing your would need if you are trying to get a higher credit rating is to get a free copy of your free triple score. A copy of your credit report will bring to your attention what you need to do in order to raise your credit score. Once you receive your report, make sure that all the information is correct. Any inaccuracies in your free report can affect your credit rating. A thorough investigation should include checking for accounts that are not yours, accounts that are reporting incorrectly, and even personal information such as addresses.

If you do not have any bad information to investigate with Equifax,Experian, or Transunion, then your next steps should be taking some simple measures to raise credit scores with the 3 bureaus:

Pay Your Bills On Time:

It is much harder to do but it is very necessary that you pay your bills on time, even if you only pay the smallest required amount. Creditors mainly look at you current late payments in determining you credit worthiness, so if you have been late in the past, you can improve your rating by paying on time. Six months of steady payments can raise your score tremendously.

Lower Your High Limits:

The percentage of credit availability to credit balance can cause great damage to your credit score by as many as 100 points. You may be being on time but if all your credit cards are maxed out, a creditor assumes that you don’t have much money available to acquire new credit.

Do Not Close Unused Credit:

Do not terminate any open unused accounts, credit cards or revolving credit accounts due to lack of use. You may not have any plans on using these cards, but if you close them, the good credit history will be removed from your account causing your credit score to drop. Older more established credit looks better than newer credit accounts.

Avoid Filing For Bankruptcy:

Filing for bankruptcy can elimate all your debt in some instances, but the negative aspects to your report damages to your credit will remain for at least 7 years. Bankruptcies look especially bad because it shows that you chose not to pay your creditors at all.

Refrain From Making Unnecessary inquiries:

One inquiry can be responsible for bringing your credit down a few points. Although one inquiry will not be too adverse on your credit score report,but several inquiries can add up and become the difference between being approved for a loan or not. If you notice any inquiries that you did not authorize, you can dispute these inquiries to help raise credit score points.

Improving your beacon score can easily be attributed to following these simple steps. Maintaining your credit score however must be a major priority. You must stay on top of your credit score by getting at lease two credit check report annually and or making sure that you have some sort of credit protection.

More Info On Good Credit Report Score

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Bankruptcy is an option but the laws have changed and it is not always the best way ahead. It is often the case that credit card debts have increased over a period of time because of a number of pricey emergencies that needed paying for. Others are in that situation because of overspending and poor financial planning, but whatever the grounds for being in debt there are some ways of credit card debt relief. There are no instantaneous solutions and your credit card debt relief will take some time to achieve, and not finally over until the debt is cleared.

Good Credit History

There are many establishments providing the service of credit card debt relief today with adverts on the radio, TV or press on a constant basis. It is always wise to be careful about committing to anything that is heavily promoted without knowing exactly what you are getting yourself into. Credit card debt consolidation companies must be of concern to the Federal Trade Commission because they are warning people about the practices of these companies. Often, when trying to sort out your credit card debt, you end up with poor credit anyway and those establishments that promised to help you may have ended up hindering you.

Getting your credit card debt relief procedure started is the most important thing to do although it may take some time to kick in. Contact your credit card company and discuss your situation, sometimes, they may be able to help you and lower your interest rate or payments. The credit card establishments can, at their discretion, put into effect a package that won’t have any ill effects on your credit in the future. You can also speak to a credit card guidance service and they can be of great help to consumers for a low fee or often no fee at all. It is often the case that they just sit down and go through your budget with you and spotlight ways to save money and sometimes arbitrate with your credit card company for you. It never hurts to follow the advice of these professionals as credit card counselling service establishments will know exactly if what you plan to do will affect your credit ranking. Don’t be afraid to get hold of them because they can supply a large amount of guidance that could help find you some credit card debt relief.

Home Loans and Credit

If possible, arrange an appointment with your banking company who may be able to release some equity in your home to help with your credit card debt relief demands but this will only be possible if you have a steady income. Nonetheless, this will mean having another large monthly repayment to help with your credit card debt and of course, your house is at stake if you default on a mortgage payment. Part-time jobs or any way of finding an extra source of income can help to supply you with some credit card debt relief. Numerous families have spouses who work several lines of work just to put food on the table and assist in reducing credit card debt. Many may not be a permanent state of affairs, just a temporary one until you get enough of credit card debt relief to live comfortably again. Finally, the most important piece of advice is to cut up the credit cards because if you want your credit card debt relief to mean anything, you must not repeat the situation you have found yourself having to deal with, again!

Discover More – Can You Really Make Money In A Free Business Opportunity?

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Are you frustrated by all these websites that use the word free. Do you, like me, feel the word free has to be one of the most overused words in the home business niche. It seems that everyone has a free this and a free that to offer you. So consider this, can you really make money in a free business opportunity.

The short answer to that is, yes you can. Here is how you can do that and we will use affiliate marketing as the business model.

Did you know you can join almost any affiliate marketing program for free? In a matter of a few minutes you can be set up with and affiliate i.d. number that is coded into an affiliate website.

You promote this affiliate website and whenever you make a sale you earn a commission. Your cost to do this is nothing but the time it takes you to promote your free affiliate website.

Before you think you have died and gone to heaven there is a couple of things you should know.

1. Getting traffic to your affiliate web page for free is harder than it sounds. You will have to work hard and master traffic generation methods such as classified ads, article marketing, forum marketing, blogging and so on.

2. Using the affiliate web page given to you by the merchant you are representing is a hard way to make money. If everyone is selling the same product with the same affiliate web site how do you make yourself stand out!

3. A person needs to be followed up with over and over before they buy. This is true both online and offline. Very few people buy much today without thinking it over.

If you promote your affiliate website you are sending traffic to a page that gives you no way to follow up in the future. Your visitor comes to your page, looks it over, and leaves. You have wasted your efforts for nothing.

So how do you get around that? You create your own web site and send visitors to it. You create a landing page and capture names and email addresses into and autoresponder. This is known as building a list and really does work.

Another thing you can do is create a pre sell page where you give a personal testimonial on the product you are selling. This will help you make more sales than the competition who is using the same old affiliate sales page.

So as you can see even affiliate marketing can go from being free to costing you a little bit of money for website hosting and an autoresponder such as aweber. This is still a very little cost compared to setting up a traditional business.

I guess that is why affiliate marketing has become so popular on the internet. I certainly make some very good monthly residual income from affiliate marketing and if you get a chance you should check out Info Product killer which my review can be found on MoneyMasterOnline.com