I was searching around researching for my new blogging product and I came across this great post from Seth Godin with 56 ways to get traffic for your blog.
Here’s the Top 10 that really stood out for me:
1. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now. 2. Announce news. 3. Write short, pithy posts. 4. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself. 5. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers 6. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you 7. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day. 8. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don’t bore your readers. 9. Write stuff that people want to read and share. 10. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
Blogging has become a regular part of life for many people. For internet marketers in particular, it is a great tool for finding new customers. One of the main reasons for using a blog is to drive traffic to an online business. it is low cost and search engines love the new information that is regularly updated. If you want free search engine traffic then blogging is one of the quickest and easiest methods you can use.
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You’ve heard about blog and ping to drive traffic to your blog, right? This is one of the main reasons that blogs have increased in popularity in the attempt to make money online.
Blogs are the easiest, most accessible content management systems available and because they are easy to update, search engines love them as well and reward regularly updated blogs with more frequent visits from the spider. Just run a search of any topic in any search engine and you’ll be greeted by blogs occupying the prime spots in the results pages. Also, submit your blog to a blog directory and more people will link to your blog as well.
Blog entries can also be converted into RSS feeds automatically. This means the content syndication is made easier if you’re using your blog to launch your content.
But blogs are not just an internet marketer’s main weapon to make his business successful.
By monetizing your blogs, they can become an income stream on their own, and an affective one at that. Given the traffic and the page rank that blogs command, it will be easy to imagine the earning potentials of these wonderful creations once they are optimized well for monetization purposes.
Here are 5 great ways by which you can monetize your blog to make money:
1. Use your blog in place of your sales page. You can actually pre-sell, or even directly sell, your products through the entries in your blog. This can be in the form of an announcement, or even a positive review or a strong recommendation. Since people are expected to flock on your blog, might as well create a channel by which you can instantly convert those visitors into paying customers.
2. Don’t have your own products to sell? No problem. Sign up with any affiliate program over at www.clickbank.com , www.cj.com, www.linkshare.com or www.paydotcom.com and you will be given an appropriate affiliate link. You can promote this affiliate link through your blog entries and you can earn some generous commission for every sale you will manage to refer. Best of all, you can join as many affiliate programs as you’d like. You’re not limited to just one program. Each affiliate program you will join will provide an income stream for your web log.
3. Integrate a PPC program to your blog. Enroll with AdSense or any other ad hosting services. You will get paid every time a visitor of yours will click on the ads that the service will display on your blog. And since you’re sure to generate a large volume of traffic for your blog, you’ll be able to win a lot of clicks and a lot of dollars to boot.
4. Find sponsors. If you want a surefire income, build the reputation of your blog by regularly posting quality entries. Once you have achieved at least 50,000 unique visitors per month, and a page rank of at least 4 (quite easy by today’s standards), you can sell valuable real estate in your blog to some willing sponsors. An easy way of sourcing out some sponsors is by advertising in www.adbrite.com and displaying your blog’s relevant stats.
5. Once you have achieved the reputation mentioned above, you can also sell links to other webmasters. Since your number of unique visitors will be high and your page rank will be desirable, your blog will be an important commodity for webmasters who are looking for quality links.
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I am sure that most of you are aware that blogging is one of the most effective ways to broadcast you message to the internet world. I had always been a bit sceptical because people seemed to include all sorts of info on their blog that was irrelevent to the message they were trying to get across. While your weekend at the beach or lunchtime coffee break might be interesting to create a ‘bond’ for a while, eventually your subscribers will realise that there isn’t much valuable information to be seen and will start to look elsewhere.
The other challenge of blogging is ‘how do I get my blog noticed?’ Well, you could spend a heap of money on the latest and greatest ‘blogging for money’ e-book or you could just use the leverage of Web 2.0 and the social networking sites to advertise your content. I have recently come across a great site at http://www.onlywire.com where you can link to your accounts at over 20 of the social networking and bookmarking sites.
Once you have signed up, OnlyWire will give you a list of the sites that they broadcast to and links to the sign-up pages. Just go to each page (now, I know this sounds like work, but trust me, its worth it) and sign up for an account at each of the sites. Once you have completed and confirmed your signup, just enter the username and password into your main OnlyWire page and whenever you update your blog, just post the one link to OnlyWire and they will do the rest of the work for you. You can save hours with just this one interface.
