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Mistake #14: Not spreading your opinion enough
People often think that your opinion isn’t worth much but commenting on
blogs can drive traffic on your site. Of course when you comment it needs
to be well thought out, structured, and needs to contribute something to the
discussion. That means you should not say something like wow this is
great take a look at my site. What you need to do is make detailed and
insightful comments that will draw people to read more of your writing. So
when people read the comment they will follow the link and go to your blog
and poof you have a new visitor to your sight.
Also writing opinion pieces in blog or forums would bring attention to you
and your website. Writing well thought out and informed opinion can spark
a debate on a topic where you can weigh in on your opinion. There are
several ways to leverage this into better traffic to your site, one is to pitch a
product that you believe in and also happen to sell. The other is to sell
yourself, as you show your expertise people might hire as one of their
consultants.
So spend as little as 10 minutes a day making these comments to help
build a reputation and drive more traffic to your site. Even if they don’t
result in sales you will be able to build experience on the subject and
become a subject matter expert.
Once you are a subject matter expert this ties into the next subject which is
Mistake #14.