(Web blog) Web Marketing - 4 Things You Can Do On Your Site To Increase Your Traffic
No commentsBy Jackie Lee
Making your site attract traffic is one of the best ways you can use to drive traffic to your site. Of course there are plenty of things you can do off site, but why not start with these 4 on page techniques to drive traffic?
Keyword Research
If you choose good keywords to base your posts on you will find you attract very targeted traffic. You can make a large list of keywords related to your site and then choose keywords each time you are ready to post to write about.
Customize Your Blog
This won’t necessarily drive traffic to your site, but once you get them there it will help keep them there. A blog that is unique to you and your content is going to make people immediately believe your content is unique and worth reading.
Even if all you do is pick a theme other than the default theme you are on your way. You can take is as far as changing the header image, to having an entirely unique theme created just for your site.
Answer Reader’s Questions
Once you start getting traffic you will start getting questions. They will show up in comments, as well as your email box.
When you answer questions from your readers it makes them feel good, and when they feel good about you they feel good about your site. They will then tell their friends about your answer, and your site.
A trusted referral is probably the best traffic you can get. They will already be open to knowing, liking and trusting you, which makes buying from you even easier.
Create a Link List aka Linkbait
If you are blogging about your topic you probably know plenty about it, if not you can easily do a little research and find the information. What you want to do is create a list, the longer the better related to your blog topic. Start leaving comments on blogs, use this post in your signature on forums, just get people to your link list.
Linkbait is called this because it baits people into linking to your site to share this huge list with others. You can get untold amounts of links, quality links, back to your site by using this method.
If you start working on driving traffic from on page efforts the off page efforts will be even easier. If you customize your blog, do your keyword research, and answer questions you will gain favor of your readers. Create a linkbait post and you will find that good will and your quality content turns into quality links.
Stop by to create an effective web marketing strategy and learn to add building links to your web marketing plan.
Discover the Secret Steps to Success Part 2 of 4
By Dave Clocker
In part 1 of this article, I mentioned to you a mind-boggling blog I had the fortune to cross paths with. As I mentioned, it wasnt a particularly flashy blog, no interesting picture to grab your eyes and lead you in. Nevertheless, the message contained in it had a deep impact and it stayed with me. In the message, I learned some very valuable rules about achieving success in life.
The secrets hidden in Georges writing.
It’s about time! So you want to know the keys to success?. George accurately drove home the message about having balance in your life. He specifically used blogging as an example where he found himself getting caught up in the activity. For those who have blogged, it can be extremely time consuming. George stated that the activity of blogging had a drug-like control over him and he just kept going back for more. Anyways, George’s business began to decline until he awoke to the reality at hand. He questioned it, What’s going on? I would say, it’s more like, What’s not going on! As if he were awakening from a spell, he recognized that his real estate business was declining because he was spending too much time blogging.
What’s the big deal?
I already know that. Yes, you may know the importance of having balance in your life, but it may still be in your subconscious mind. Most individuals, has it happened to you where because you are immersed in a pressing life situation, you dont really have an accurate perspective of yourself from the outside? Your thoughts are not as clear. In order to live your life with balance, your need to section up the different parts of your life and know that each activity has its own space and time. So although blogging can be interesting and fun,you should not spend too much time in one activity at the risk of neglecting the other items in your life, like your family. It may be hazardous to your life if you let it.
Those just starting out in their career and even those who have worked for years can see the relevance of the takeaway concept.. Didn’t I tell you that at the beginning? This is more so for newbies as it can be used as a preventive measure for them to gauge before getting caught up and lost within the rainforest. There are only 24 hours in a day and we are what we do daily. At this point, you’ve impressed me if you have read this far. I am honored. Thank you.
You’ve read 1/2 of this 4 part series by now. I know there are those of you who at this point would want to back out and I completely know why you are doing so. When the going gets tough, it takes a lot of gall to weather through to the end. As I’ve stated at the preface, this is not an article for everyone. In writing this article, I have chosen to leave it this long for a purpose….a purpose that is concealed within this article.
Your forge ahead style is a great asset, and Ill take a brief break to cheer you on. (Not that you need it since you have already gone a long way and shown your inner drive, but here it goes). You’re doing great and almost near the end of this article! That’s it! Youve got that fire within you! Never ever give up!! Keep reading! C’mon! I believe in you! Don’t you quit on me now! Give me all you’ve got! I know you can do it! Never give up!!
You wont want to misspart 3 of this 4 part series where youll find out the one item in the ladder of success that many people have used everyday to produce lasting results.
There is an even better side to real estate than you may be aware of. Dave Clocker is a real estate investor who will teach you the Secrets That 99% Of The Population Will Never Know About How To Almost Magically Generate Wealth Thru Real Estate. He has taken these creative strategies and combined them into content-packed videos, exclusive reports, and teleseminars with experts. Check more out at http://www.RealEstateWayToWealth.com
Web Marketing - 4 Must Do Techniques to Drive Traffic
By Jackie Lee
As a blog owner you must know how to drive traffic. Traffic is an essential part of any website. Without traffic there is no opportunity to make money.
Most people struggle to increase their traffic, many get frustrated and quit. Don’t fall into that trap. Driving traffic is easy if you know how to do it. Follow these 4 techniques consistently and you will increase your traffic.
Reciprocal Blog Links
Ask bloggers who write in related niches to swap links with you. This is called reciprocal linking or also blogroll link swapping.
Reciprocal linking helps in a couple of ways. You can ask the blogger to use specific keyword texts in your link on their site. This will give you a powerful link on each and every page, post and tag page of their blog. The more links you have the better your site will do for the keyword in Google.
If the blogger is getting decent traffic you may also see traffic come directly from the blogroll link.
Bookmark Your Posts
Each time you bookmark your posts you give yourself another backlink. These are not the best backlinks as they are not keyword anchor text liniks, but all links count at least a little.
You also give others the opportunity to find your site when they search on a bookmarking site.
Bookmarking all the different sites can be time consuming, but there is software available to make it a little easier. You can try social poster, or only wire if you want to submit your site to many bookmarking sites at once.
Article Marketing
This is one of the best ways to build backlinks and drive traffic to your site. The more backlinks the better you do in search engines.
After you have written your post think of a few other related topics and write a quick article on those topics. You can then use your resource box to include 2 links to your site. These can and should be keyword anchor text links.
Then submit the articles to as many article directories as you can. There is software available to make this process easier, and there are services that will do the entire submission process for you.
Blog Directories
My Blog Log and Blog Catalog are two of the most popular blog catalogs. This is where you can submit your blog and interact with other bloggers.
They are also like a huge search engine for blogs. You can just submit a search and it will bring back all the different blogs in the directory that talk about that topic.
There are so many ways to drive traffic to your site. No matter how you decide to do it, you must do it. Your site will never make money if no one ever sees it.
Remember, small consistent action usually does more good than one grand action. Just choose a couple things to do and do a little bit daily and you will see your traffic increase.
Stop by to learn more traffic building web marketing strategies and how to put together a successful web marketing plan.
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