Guest Post Services| 3 Extremely
Effective (No-Cost) Ways to Get More
Blog Traffic
"If you build it, they're going to come."
No.
They won't.
UNLESS... you help them FIND you.
Just because your blog exists and you have told your mom about it (and she's told your Aunt
Sue; and that they both think it is so cute that you're doing this... this... what did you call it
again??), doesn't suggest that anyone else is aware that it exists.
Yes, it's "accessible" to many people, but if you do not draw your targeted audience to your
URL, you and your content are getting to be pretty lonely.
Blog traffic doesn't just happen.
It has to be led.
Here are 3 extremely effective, no-cost ways of building blog traffic:
Guest Post
I mention this one last, although I feel it's probably the foremost effective no-cost way for
building traffic. It's more time-consuming than the primary two, but definitely well worth the time.
Find highly trafficked sites in your niche that you simply respect and would really like to write
down for. Then determine if they take ​guest post services​ or contributing writers.
If they do, read their guidelines and take a while to review the sort of content that they publish.
What sort of voice do they prefer? What seems to be the standard length of their posts? Which
sorts of posts seem to elicit the foremost comments or shares via social media?
As with article marketing, your ​guest post​ (with a backlink to your site included), are going to be
available for people to read for years to return.
The main difference between the two is that when submitting to article directories, my
experience has been that most small to medium sites have picked up my content. this is often
okay because tons of them use my content and therefore the numbers add up pretty quickly.
But with guest posting, you are going to first make sure that the sites you're writing to have large
audiences.
Another big difference is that the majority of the times, these sites only accept original content.
So once I mentioned that this is often more time-consuming than blog commenting or article
marketing, it's because you are going to possess to spend several hours researching and
scripting this one original piece that you're going to be unable to use elsewhere.
But because these sites have such large followings, it's getting to be worth some time.
There are three blogs that I've studied that I would like to Guest Post for, and therefore the
largest one gets over 1,000,000 page views per month.
Say 3% of this audience reads my post and clicks through to my page. That's 30,000 targeted
visitors. Not a nasty number. Especially when considering that the post probably only took me
each day or two to research and write... and can still bring traffic for years to return.
Now does one see how Guest Post can reap you an insane amount of traffic?
As you'll see, building traffic takes some work. But with a couple of smart moves and tons of
repetition and persistence, you will get the numbers you're hoping for.
And there will be no doubt that the work was well worthwhile.
BLOG COMMENTING
I've read numerous books and articles on traffic building and most included blog commenting.
But, until now, I didn't believe it had been as powerful as people claimed it to be. Up until 4
weeks ago, I used to be just a lurker. I never commented on the content I read.
But I wanted to ascertain if blog commenting would actually work to drive traffic. So I started.
And now I'm an enormous believer.
To date, blog commenting has accounted for 7.06% of my new traffic. What's more, these
visitors stay the location for a mean of 12:58 minutes each session and skim (or a minimum of
look at) a mean of seven .18 pages.
Several have even subscribed to my weekly updates.
This demonstrated that they're high-quality traffic. the precise audience I’m writing for-the sort of
folks I would like to stay around. and doubtless will.
My time investment hebdomadally on blog commenting? About 45 minutes total (5-10 minutes
per post, per day). As of now, I post comments at three sites. They're all writing-related and that
they all receive excellent traffic.
What's also attractive about this is often that as long because the posts are online (which is
years in most cases), readers who see my comments will always have the choice to link back to
my site.
There also are some SEO (search engine optimization) benefits to blog commenting.
A few things worth noting: confirm when commenting that you simply always have something
specific to mention about the post. NEVER just spam a blog's comment area with "Great post!"
Or "Right on!" That'll lead others to think you are a spammer. (And uncool.) It certainly won't
earn you any friends... or the respect of other blog owners. (Your peers.)
Also, confirm that after you write your comment, that you simply re-read and ensure there are
not any typos. After all, you are a highly-respected writer now.
ARTICLE MARKETING
Article marketing is POWERFUL. it is also my second favorite as far as traffic building tactics go.
Article marketing usually consists of a writer submitting her articles to a directory that
webmasters visit so as to seek out free content for his or her sites.
When webmasters like your articles and publish one or more on their websites, your byline, a
blurb about you, your company, and a link to your website is usually included.
So whenever someone visits their site and reads your article, there is a possibility that they will
notice this information and click on through to your blog. (This is named a backlink.)
One of the beauties of this is often that your backlink will then appear on these sites indefinitely.
Most times, for several years. So years from now, that article that took you two hours to write
down will STILL bring you new traffic!
Out of the 114 sources that have brought traffic to WritersBreak.com within the past 4 weeks,
almost 100 of these sources were the direct results of article marketing and account for roughly
20% of this month's new traffic.
Now you see why I'm such a fan?