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
- Post nearly every day on your blog; the more you post, the more readers you’ll have.
- If you have more than one blog and it’s appropriate, cross post to drive readers to each blog
- Write and submit articles to directories with links to the appropriate blog
- Write and post news releases online, about onece a week, with links back to the appropriate blog
- Provide links to blogs in email signatures
- Comment on other blogs
- 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)
- Thank people who post comments via email
- Put links to your blog in product than-you emails
- Put links to your blog on than you pages people see when they purchase your product and services
- Encourage people to subscribe to your blog in follow up email autoresponder messages
- Put blog links on LinkedIn profile, MySpace profile, Facebook profile and Twitter
- Put links to your blog in your ebooks
- Put links to your blog in your bios
- Tell people about your blog when you do presentations
- Encourage people to visit your blog when they sign up for your ezine so they can get even more free info
- Put a featured blog post with a link in your weekly ezine
- Pull blog feeds into your Facebook profile and other social networks
- Include blog links in signature blocks on forum posts
- Submit your blog to all the blog directories and search engines
- when appropriate, direct people to specific blog posts to answer their questions in discussion forums
- If you post videos on video sharing sites, include the URL for you blog in the description
- 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.
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