Blogging For Business Tip #10

I’ve been on several social sites lately where people have asked the question, “How do I gain traffic to my blog?” So as my Blogging For Business Tip #10, I thought I would include ten simple ways you can gain traffic to your blog.

1. Write quality posts all the time. Yep, I know, I’m a broken record. But regular content is really the key to building up your following. If they get there and you haven’t written in two months, or you only have 10 posts to go through, there’s no reason to stick around.

2. Now that you have blog posts, you need to spread them around the blogosphere. Connect your RSS feed to your accounts in Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

3. Stay active in your social sites, and your sure to find other bloggers that target similar audiences. When they create a new blog post, head over and make a comment. Not a, “great post” comment. Put some thought into it, and really add to the conversation. The comment will make people want to find out more about you, which they can do by following your link.

4. Find out who else is in your niche. They aren’t competitors – they are collaborators. See if you can write an article for their blog, and they can write for yours.

5. Give away some of your information as an ebook. If you write long enough, you’ll be able to combine some of your posts into an ebook. Use it as a free giveaway for other associations and groups.

6. Write a press release. Online press release services such as PRWeb.com can give you immediate exposure in hundreds – even thousands of different online sources.

7. Write a Squidoo. Squidoo allows you to create a lens all about your niche, and allows you to promote it in a variety of ways. Make sure you put links back to your blog.

8. Write a Hubpage. Like Squidoo, Hubpages is a writing area that allows you to provide quality content in an easy manner. Both offer you a great way to connect up to your blog, and open up your potential to a ton more readers.

9. Stand out from the crowd. If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, your blog will fade away. What can you do to put a new twist on things? You’ll gain more exposure if you capture attention by being different.

10. Talk about your blog posts on forums, q & a areas, and social sites. While you never want to blatantly promote yourself on social sites (that’s a sure way of getting kicked off) it is okay to link back to one if it fits the topic. So if I’m on a forum where someone has a question on how to choose a title for blog posts, I could provide a paragraph or two of information, and then link them back to my post, How To Name Your Blog Posts.

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