Increase Traffic To Your Blog In Ten Steps
The personal blog is the marketing center for many in Multi Level Marketing and Network Marketing. The blog serves a variety of functions including, advertising products and affiliate programs, providing information, and most importantly, attracting associates to our business. Therefore, the success of our business is greatly determined by the amount of visitors to our blog. The following ten tip are proven ways to increase traffic to your blog.
1. Provide New Material The content you offer must be original. New and unique articles are valuable to your readers and they serve to establish you as someone who has expertise in your field.
2. Include Content With A Plan Of Action The information you provide should include action steps that can be taken immediately and the resources to do it with. Use affiliate programs that provide tools and training or have them opt-in to your own trainings. The content should be motivation for them to begin your program.
3. Write Like You Are Talking To A Friend One of the important functions of a blog is to personally brand you and allow your visitors to get to know YOU. Include articles that are conversational, as though you are speaking one on one with your reader. Let your personality shine through in your writing.
4. Be Trust-worthy Advertise and support products and affiliate programs that you have used and believe in. It’s important that you truly like and would use the product or service yourself. It’s not worth loosing a new down line member over a small commission.
5. Continual Posting You will be ranked higher and more often by search engines if you are making contributions to you blog regularly. Ideally you make a new post at least once each week, but 3-4 times a week is better. Search engines will like it and it will keep readers coming back for more.
6. Specialize Choose a segment of your business and learn it very well. This will give you the ability to discuss it with greater knowledge than most people. This allows you to provide useful and unique information as well as create respect and trust for you.
7. Post On Forums Forums are places on the Internet where people interested in a specific topic gather to discuss and ask questions. Find forums related to your business and post content that informs and educates. It will create awareness about you and your business with people already interested in your field. Don’t forget to provide your URL or RSS feed somewhere in the post. You can find forums related to you business by Googling “my biz” forums.
8. Include Links within your blog You can include a link in each post on your blog to another post or page on your blog. This is a no-cost and easy way to get Google and others to index your site faster and more often. Each of these ten steps may increase your traffic a small amount but when they are all combined, you will see a significant difference.
9. Post Comments On Other Blogs Go to other sites and blogs, preferably ones with high traffic and related to yours. Post relevant and informative comments. These will provide links back to your site.
10.Use A Website Value Calculator Web sites like these determine the effectiveness of your site and can provide some valuable information. These sites are constantly sampled by search engines and will provide valuable back links to your site. http://www.cubestat.com and http://www.worthbot.com are sites to try.
Start now applying these ten steps and your traffic will certainly increase.
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