1. Keep Writing & Make Your Content Unique and of Good Quality
You need to keep posting new content because the more you’ll post the more your blog or site will get found out in the search engines. Frequently updated sites and blogs are most preferred by the search engines. So keep writing and keep posting from time to time. If possible post once every day but in case you are too busy to have it done, post at least one to two times every week.
But simply keep posting won’t help you as much as will posting quality content. Make your content informative, useful, and interesting. Choose what’s currently creating a buzz. Pick up proper keywords and have them in your post.
2. Use Keywords
Using keywords is important for your website as well as blog content. Proper keyword usage increases the chances of your blog posts or site page getting displayed in the search engines for specific keyword search. The best way to choose your keywords is to use some keyword research tool and pick up the most favorable keywords related to your post. There are several of them available for free like Google Keywords tool.
3. Choose Easy Domain Name
If you haven’t created a one already, you still have a chance to work on this point. Make sure that your Domain Name is not a big and complicated word play but an easy to remember simple set of words. Again, the best way to choose it is to choose a one which is related to the central topic with which your website or blog posts are going to deal.
And try keeping the name as short as possible as it is easy to remember such names compared to the longer ones. For example, one can easily remember a name like “Best-Blog-Writing-Tips” than some longer name like “Jerome-Martin’s-Best-Blog-Writing-Tips”.
4. Make your Post Titles Attractive
It isn’t very difficult task to do but of course needs you to work a little intelligently. Titles are what your readers come across at the very first. So need to be an extra careful about them. So keep them interesting, attractive, to the point, and if possible try placing your keyword in it. Go through other popular blogs in your niche and check out their post titles, this will give you a better idea.
5. Make your posts Search Engine Friendly
Pick up best possible keywords that suit your content and place them in your post titles, in the main body, links, footers, Meta tags, etc.
To make them more prominent, place them in Bold or in Italics. You can even think of using them in the file names. So you can have files like yourkeyword.html.
But you also need to know that over using the keywords is also disliked by the search engines so keep them in limit. For this the best way is to use synonyms of the keywords.
6. Guest Blogging
There are numerous Blogs that accept articles from guest writers and let them place their links in the article. Search out some blogs in your niche, write articles for them, and place the link to your blog.
7. Place your Blog & Site links in your Social Profiles
If you have profiles on social sites like LinkedIn, Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Simply place the link to your blog or site to your profiles on these social sites. This will send you traffic from the visitors of your profiles.
8. Submit your Blog or Site to the Search Engines
Every search engine and directory offers a special section through which you can send the link to your blog ad site. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Dmoz are the major ones.
9. Post Tutorials Dividing them into Several Posts
If information is useful but not complete in just one post, it will surely persuade the readers to come back again and again. So if you can post some kind of tutorial related to your niche, do that but don’t give all the information in just one post, instead post them part by part, this way your readers will keep coming back.
10. Promote through Forum Posting
Write interesting content for forums and place the link to your blog or site in your signature link, this will bring all the readers of the post to your blog or site.
11. Befriend other Bloggers
Befriending other bloggers will give you a chance to comment on their posts and place your links on their blogs by giving them the same authority on your blog. This will create a chance of their visitors coming to your blog.
12. Provide RSS Subscription of your blog
Providing RSS subscription of your blog to your readers will make it easy for them to read your posts and keep a track of all the new submissions made by you.
13. Pick the Latest & Hottest topics for your Posts
Keep track of all the latest and happening things in your niche. Do some internet searching, watch TV, listen to the Radio, or read the magazines and dailies related to your niche and keep yourself up to date with the latest and hottest topics in your niche so that you can include them in your blog post. This will bring in more readers.
You need to keep posting new content because the more you’ll post the more your blog or site will get found out in the search engines. Frequently updated sites and blogs are most preferred by the search engines. So keep writing and keep posting from time to time. If possible post once every day but in case you are too busy to have it done, post at least one to two times every week.
But simply keep posting won’t help you as much as will posting quality content. Make your content informative, useful, and interesting. Choose what’s currently creating a buzz. Pick up proper keywords and have them in your post.
2. Use Keywords
Using keywords is important for your website as well as blog content. Proper keyword usage increases the chances of your blog posts or site page getting displayed in the search engines for specific keyword search. The best way to choose your keywords is to use some keyword research tool and pick up the most favorable keywords related to your post. There are several of them available for free like Google Keywords tool.
3. Choose Easy Domain Name
If you haven’t created a one already, you still have a chance to work on this point. Make sure that your Domain Name is not a big and complicated word play but an easy to remember simple set of words. Again, the best way to choose it is to choose a one which is related to the central topic with which your website or blog posts are going to deal.
And try keeping the name as short as possible as it is easy to remember such names compared to the longer ones. For example, one can easily remember a name like “Best-Blog-Writing-Tips” than some longer name like “Jerome-Martin’s-Best-Blog-Writing-Tips”.
4. Make your Post Titles Attractive
It isn’t very difficult task to do but of course needs you to work a little intelligently. Titles are what your readers come across at the very first. So need to be an extra careful about them. So keep them interesting, attractive, to the point, and if possible try placing your keyword in it. Go through other popular blogs in your niche and check out their post titles, this will give you a better idea.
5. Make your posts Search Engine Friendly
Pick up best possible keywords that suit your content and place them in your post titles, in the main body, links, footers, Meta tags, etc.
To make them more prominent, place them in Bold or in Italics. You can even think of using them in the file names. So you can have files like yourkeyword.html.
But you also need to know that over using the keywords is also disliked by the search engines so keep them in limit. For this the best way is to use synonyms of the keywords.
6. Guest Blogging
There are numerous Blogs that accept articles from guest writers and let them place their links in the article. Search out some blogs in your niche, write articles for them, and place the link to your blog.
7. Place your Blog & Site links in your Social Profiles
If you have profiles on social sites like LinkedIn, Google Plus, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc. Simply place the link to your blog or site to your profiles on these social sites. This will send you traffic from the visitors of your profiles.
8. Submit your Blog or Site to the Search Engines
Every search engine and directory offers a special section through which you can send the link to your blog ad site. Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Dmoz are the major ones.
9. Post Tutorials Dividing them into Several Posts
If information is useful but not complete in just one post, it will surely persuade the readers to come back again and again. So if you can post some kind of tutorial related to your niche, do that but don’t give all the information in just one post, instead post them part by part, this way your readers will keep coming back.
10. Promote through Forum Posting
Write interesting content for forums and place the link to your blog or site in your signature link, this will bring all the readers of the post to your blog or site.
11. Befriend other Bloggers
Befriending other bloggers will give you a chance to comment on their posts and place your links on their blogs by giving them the same authority on your blog. This will create a chance of their visitors coming to your blog.
12. Provide RSS Subscription of your blog
Providing RSS subscription of your blog to your readers will make it easy for them to read your posts and keep a track of all the new submissions made by you.
13. Pick the Latest & Hottest topics for your Posts
Keep track of all the latest and happening things in your niche. Do some internet searching, watch TV, listen to the Radio, or read the magazines and dailies related to your niche and keep yourself up to date with the latest and hottest topics in your niche so that you can include them in your blog post. This will bring in more readers.
14. Create your own Podcasts
Sometimes your visitors may feel quite monotonous to keep reading on and on every day the same way and they look for some kind of change, making them listen to the information instead of providing them the stuff for reading every day, will work quite well. This change will surely catch their attention. So create your own podcasts in most expressive tone and pitch and place them on your site or blog.
15. Use Analytics to know your Traffic
Use some analytics programs like the one offered by Google, namely Google Analytics. This will help you help you track your traffic and you’ll get to know who your traffic is and where it is actually coming from. You’ll get to know about several other things also like which pages are most visited, what words or keywords got the most of your traffic, etc. And all this will help you work in the direction that promises better traffic and thus more success.
16. Write an eBook
This can be an incredibly useful idea. You can write an eBook either by combining some of your blog posts together or by picking up some new and popular topic. Once you are done with the eBook, you’ll just have to ask some website owners to place your eBook on their sites for giving it for free to their visitors. At the end of the eBook, place a link to your blog suggesting the reader to visit your blog for more information. You can also place your eBook in some “eBook Directory”, simply give a search to this word on Google and you’ll get hold of some of these sites.
17. Promote some Tools through your Article
Pick up some tools meant for Webmasters and Bloggers, which you find useful and worth mentioning. Simply promote them through your blog posts. If some bloggers or webmasters find the tools useful, they will surely like to share them and thus, they will link to your article, helping you gain more traffic.
18. Become an Expert
You might already be an expert in certain area; the only thing that’s missing is that nobody knows that yet. And if you are already not an expert, you might surely be knowing better about a certain field of topic compared to others. In that case, you’ll just have to improve a little in the topic and become an Expert. Place your photo and write about yourself on your blog, and mention in your blog about your being an expert in a certain field. This will help to popularize yourself and in getting more visitors.
19. Make Link Bait
Use some catchy stuff any kind of breaking news, a gossip or a controversy, or simply anything that has the power of catching others attention and use them as your Link Bait. This will get you a lot of readers.
20. Use Yahoo! Answers
It is indeed the best way to get lots of visitors to your blog or site, as you are going to provide a genuine help to people in general, they’ll surely feel like coming to you for more information and help. So, simply join Yahoo! Answers and search out the questions in your niche and answer the questions and place the link to your site or blog or to the particular post that is related to the question.
It is the easiest way to get extra traffic to your blog.
21. Post Content that Brings your Readers Back
Along with your regular articles, post such stuffs that have the power to bring your readers back. By publishing such stuffs you’ll be able to create a kind of community of your regular visitors. So try adding some kind of games, news, information, or simple questions or polls that completely involves your readers. Make them chat with each other, or offer some kind of prizes on winning a game, discussion, etc. This will make them come back to your post again and again.
22. Social Networking
Millions of people visit the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and so on. You too might be having your profile out there by now. In case you’re present there already, just go and create your profile on these sites and build your own community of friends belonging to the niche to which your site or blog belong. Post your articles or links to your site pages on your profiles on these sites, this will increase your readers and make you popular among your friends.
23. Go for PPC Advertising
Create special pages or tiny sites which won’t have any kind of distractions as you’ll need to take the total attention of your visitors toward the link of the affiliate products or some kind of form that they’ll need to receive in order to start up with a newsletter or some kind of mini-course.
You can also think of creating Google Adwords campaign if you own a blog or site which is already a source of good amount of income, as by redirecting all your paid traffic to a page offering a certain product will get you direct sales.
24. Try buying Ads in Newsletters
A direct ad sometimes fails to work well. Buying ads in newsletter can help you better. So choose a newsletter in your niche that has really large number of readers, and be sure that you need to capture the attention of the readers.
Keep in mind you’ll have to handle this tactfully, so instead of directly announcing your site, send the people to a page offering free report or some kind of mini-course or tutorials in exchange of their email address to which you can send newsletters telling them about your products, it will work much better.
25. Go for Viral Marketing
Try writing an eBook, but be sure to make it in two parts in such a way that reading the first part compels your readers to read the second part as well. Now offer the Part-1 for free and include a link to the discount coupon for the second part of the book, which surely you won’t be providing for free. This will work as an ad cum sale of your product. This will surely get you lots of visitors to your blog or site where you are providing the second part of the book.
26. Place your Signature in your E-Mail
This is again a great way to popularize your site or blog. If you have been into the business for quite sometime now, you must be having a large contact by now. While sending emails to those in your contact, add your signature including the link to your blog or site at the end of the mails. This will make them visit your blog or site. Again, if your mail has share-worthy things, it will make your friends and acquaintances to forward your mail to their friends that will further increase the chances of your site or blog being visited by several people.
Sometimes your visitors may feel quite monotonous to keep reading on and on every day the same way and they look for some kind of change, making them listen to the information instead of providing them the stuff for reading every day, will work quite well. This change will surely catch their attention. So create your own podcasts in most expressive tone and pitch and place them on your site or blog.
15. Use Analytics to know your Traffic
Use some analytics programs like the one offered by Google, namely Google Analytics. This will help you help you track your traffic and you’ll get to know who your traffic is and where it is actually coming from. You’ll get to know about several other things also like which pages are most visited, what words or keywords got the most of your traffic, etc. And all this will help you work in the direction that promises better traffic and thus more success.
16. Write an eBook
This can be an incredibly useful idea. You can write an eBook either by combining some of your blog posts together or by picking up some new and popular topic. Once you are done with the eBook, you’ll just have to ask some website owners to place your eBook on their sites for giving it for free to their visitors. At the end of the eBook, place a link to your blog suggesting the reader to visit your blog for more information. You can also place your eBook in some “eBook Directory”, simply give a search to this word on Google and you’ll get hold of some of these sites.
17. Promote some Tools through your Article
Pick up some tools meant for Webmasters and Bloggers, which you find useful and worth mentioning. Simply promote them through your blog posts. If some bloggers or webmasters find the tools useful, they will surely like to share them and thus, they will link to your article, helping you gain more traffic.
18. Become an Expert
You might already be an expert in certain area; the only thing that’s missing is that nobody knows that yet. And if you are already not an expert, you might surely be knowing better about a certain field of topic compared to others. In that case, you’ll just have to improve a little in the topic and become an Expert. Place your photo and write about yourself on your blog, and mention in your blog about your being an expert in a certain field. This will help to popularize yourself and in getting more visitors.
19. Make Link Bait
Use some catchy stuff any kind of breaking news, a gossip or a controversy, or simply anything that has the power of catching others attention and use them as your Link Bait. This will get you a lot of readers.
20. Use Yahoo! Answers
It is indeed the best way to get lots of visitors to your blog or site, as you are going to provide a genuine help to people in general, they’ll surely feel like coming to you for more information and help. So, simply join Yahoo! Answers and search out the questions in your niche and answer the questions and place the link to your site or blog or to the particular post that is related to the question.
It is the easiest way to get extra traffic to your blog.
21. Post Content that Brings your Readers Back
Along with your regular articles, post such stuffs that have the power to bring your readers back. By publishing such stuffs you’ll be able to create a kind of community of your regular visitors. So try adding some kind of games, news, information, or simple questions or polls that completely involves your readers. Make them chat with each other, or offer some kind of prizes on winning a game, discussion, etc. This will make them come back to your post again and again.
22. Social Networking
Millions of people visit the social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and so on. You too might be having your profile out there by now. In case you’re present there already, just go and create your profile on these sites and build your own community of friends belonging to the niche to which your site or blog belong. Post your articles or links to your site pages on your profiles on these sites, this will increase your readers and make you popular among your friends.
23. Go for PPC Advertising
Create special pages or tiny sites which won’t have any kind of distractions as you’ll need to take the total attention of your visitors toward the link of the affiliate products or some kind of form that they’ll need to receive in order to start up with a newsletter or some kind of mini-course.
You can also think of creating Google Adwords campaign if you own a blog or site which is already a source of good amount of income, as by redirecting all your paid traffic to a page offering a certain product will get you direct sales.
24. Try buying Ads in Newsletters
A direct ad sometimes fails to work well. Buying ads in newsletter can help you better. So choose a newsletter in your niche that has really large number of readers, and be sure that you need to capture the attention of the readers.
Keep in mind you’ll have to handle this tactfully, so instead of directly announcing your site, send the people to a page offering free report or some kind of mini-course or tutorials in exchange of their email address to which you can send newsletters telling them about your products, it will work much better.
25. Go for Viral Marketing
Try writing an eBook, but be sure to make it in two parts in such a way that reading the first part compels your readers to read the second part as well. Now offer the Part-1 for free and include a link to the discount coupon for the second part of the book, which surely you won’t be providing for free. This will work as an ad cum sale of your product. This will surely get you lots of visitors to your blog or site where you are providing the second part of the book.
26. Place your Signature in your E-Mail
This is again a great way to popularize your site or blog. If you have been into the business for quite sometime now, you must be having a large contact by now. While sending emails to those in your contact, add your signature including the link to your blog or site at the end of the mails. This will make them visit your blog or site. Again, if your mail has share-worthy things, it will make your friends and acquaintances to forward your mail to their friends that will further increase the chances of your site or blog being visited by several people.
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