Internet Marketing Journey November 2014 | Page 22

so that you can get traffic and make money from
your new blog.
Next we are going talk about some easy ways that
you can get traffic to your blog.
The simple truth is that a blog without readers is
pretty much useless. If you've been blogging for a
while and have only been getting a trickle of
viewers to your posts, you need to put a traffic
building plan into action.
Building traffic is just as an important skill to bloggers as writing quality posts is. Most bloggers are
terrific at creating content but don’t know a
thing about building traffic. Here is a quick guide to
the five most popular (and most effective) traffic
building techniques.
- Get social!

someone in your niche and share the results of the
interview with your blog readers. This will not only
help provide valuable content for your blog, but you
can also get more traffic to your blog. Likely, the
person who you are interviewing will publicize
the event on their blog and around the ‘net which
will bring more traffic back to you.
5. How to posts.
Like quick tips, how to posts help you provide valuable information to your readers. However, unlike
quick tips, these posts go into detail on a certain
topic. Some how to posts are even separated out
into two or three part courses. For ideas on what to
create how to posts about, look at the most frequently asked questions in your niche and develop
posts around those topics.
Section Four
We're winding down to the end of this short course.
But we still need to go over a few important topics

Social networking and blogging go hand in hand.
Your blog posts can be distributed across social networking channels in many different ways. Sign up
for Twitter and tweet about your posts as soon as
they are added to you blog. Update your Facebook
status with a link to you new blog posts. Submit
your stories to Digg.com, Reddit.com and
StumbleUpon.com. Remember that in order for social networking to be effective, you need to participate with other people on your list. If you visit their
links and respond to their updates, they'll be likely
to do the same for you.
- Get noticed!
Find blogs in your niche and start following their
posts. Make sure to add insightful and interesting
comments on their posts. Not only will the
blog owner take notice and visit your blog, other
commenters will visit your blog to get more of your
great insight into the topic. Don’t spread yourself
too thin with blog commenting, but make it a point
to comment on a few related blogs each week.
- Get good use out of your RSS feed!
RSS feeds are a way to syndicate your blog’s content so that it is sent to many different people in
their own blog readers or on their own sites.
Most blogging systems have RSS feeds automatically included but you