As you know I always welcome questions about anything affiliate and internet marketing related here on AffiliateTreasureChest.com. This morning I got a great question from Catherine who has a new blog that doesn’t get a lot of traffic yet. She asks:
I would like to know how to drive traffic to my blog. I do use PLR. I am putting my first free report on it this week. Thanks for your help.
Great question and I’m sure she’s not the only one that could use more traffic to her blog. I know I am always looking for more ways to drive traffic.
Let me quickly cover some fast ways to get traffic to a new blog and then we’ll dive into specific traffic strategies in more detail in the coming days.
Getting Indexed
My first goal when I set up a new blog is to get it indexed quickly. Once your blog is indexed regularly you can start to rank for long tail keywords in the search engines. Here’s what I do to make sure I get indexed as quickly as possible.
1) Set up a Good Ping List – Take a look at my how to ping a blog post for directions and a list of ping services you want to add to your blog.
2) Set Up Permalinks – You want your permalinks to include the title of your post. Take a look at this blog post for example. Do you see how “how-to-get-traffic-to-my-blog” is part of the url of this page? You can set your permalinks in the settings of your blog. The token you want to use is %postname%
3) Blog Regularly – For the first few weeks it is very important that you add new content on a regular basis. A daily post is ideal, but even 3 new blog posts per week will work. You can use the wordpress scheduling feature to write everything on your own schedule and then have the posts go live in regular intervals (i.e. once per day or every other day).
4) Get A Few Links - Last but not least you want to point at least a few links to your new site to make sure the search engine spiders can find you. I usually write 1 or 2 articles and submit them to Ezinearticles.com
Social Media For Fast Traffic
Social media is excellent for quickly driving traffic to a new site. Use your existing twitter, facebook and stumbleupon accounts, or create a new one if your blog is in a completely unrelated niche. Make as many friends as possible, join some groups and participate regularly. It doesn’t take very long to build a nice little following on the big social media sites.
After you have a few friends and followers, start to occasionally link back to your blog, ideally to good content. Don’t try to sell them anything, just share information and on your blog invite them to join your list, comment etc.
You should see a nice little stream of traffic from this right away.
Guest Blogging For Fast Traffic And Powerful Links
Next, find a few good blogs in your niche. Start participating on the blogs by leaving well-thought out comments. Once the blog owner had a chance to get to know you a bit via these comments, email him or her about the possibility of writing a guest blog post for the site. Include one or two links toward the end of the blog post inviting readers to check out your own site.
Not only are you building strong incoming links with this technique, you’re also getting quite a bit of traffic once the blog post is published, especially if the blog your guest posting on is popular.
Aim to write and submit several guest posts per month for a nice steady stream of traffic.
Article Marketing For A Little Traffic Now and More Links
Last but not least, write a few articles per week and submit them to some of the big article directories including:
They will send you a little bit of traffic directly from the article directory, but more importantly you are building a pretty strong incoming link. As an added bonus, you can expect some extra traffic and links anytime another webmaster republishes your article.
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