Creating a blog is not enough for success in blogging. You need to feed contents in it on regular basis. Next, you have to market your blog all the time for rising traffic on your blog. I think it’s pretty much easy if you do something daily for promotion of your blog.
Whatever is the niche of your blog, it always needs your own community to market them. Writing amazing contents is only first step, but driving more traffic then more lead, more conversion and hence more money should be your ultimate goal, right? This post is all about how to get more and more traffic for any type of blog.
Some posts are easy to market while other posts on the same blog are not easy to market. Some post may become viral on Facebook while some on twitter or in organic search. Marketing individual post is better way than treating whole blog posts in the same way.
Best Way to Market Your Blog.
P.S here are some actionable steps you can take to market your blog successfully. Only you will need are: awesome blog posts and optionally people who can help you.
1. Build your own community
Each blog runs, grows and stays in blogosphere basically with the help of its own growing readers and because you write great contents. Whenever you publish a fresh content these people get noticed, read, comment and share your contents so they are extremely important and essential for you.
If you are blogging for business then building a strong and highly satisfied community of your own blog can boost conversion rate. Create problem solving contents related to your niche and ask for some action related to your business.
Building your own community is not easy task, it takes time and lots of effort. First most important step is: remain active, write right content on right time. Exchange something valuable for their contact information. Send them personalized emails of every new updated using a suitable email marketing services.
2. Focus on Organic Traffic (SEO)
Organic traffic is actual traffic that any blog deserve, it takes some time but once you have such type of traffic it will start showing you amazing results. Lots of people are doing same thing as you, so be smart to deliver something unique, something great that people will love.
Best way to leverage organic traffic is, use SEO and make your blog search engine friendly. Write regularly, share that matters and usually searched on Google.
3. Social Media.
Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Pinterst are full with millions of active people all the time, so they have great potential to take your blog to the next level. Social sharing also make your blog hotter and magnetic to new visitors.
Use your professional social accounts and pages for your blog promotion. Don’t share just your contents, share everything related to your blog. Add social sharing buttons on your blog, ask closer one to share your blog in their network.
Social media in not limited to Facebook or twitter, you should also try other social website and even offline social network in your city, college or university. By the way, inform as much as people you can
4. Paid Search
People are searching billions of thing across the internet, most of them use google then Yahoo-Bing. Paid search can help you to appear on the top of search result along with your main rival, but how to use this is more important than simply using it.
Please don’t use it if you are just a blogger who want to make money. It’s best for business blog, because they usually have marketing budget. So, if you are blogging for your business, use some bucks to promote your blog.
5. Paid Social Traffic
Just like paid search its way of promoting your blog on social sites like Facebook & twitter. Again its great way to hunt new reader for your business. If you have some extra budget, use social media advertisement to boost traffic of your blog.
6. Paid Advertise
Not always recommended but pretty much helpful to get high quality traffic from the place you want. Again do it only if you have extra budget to take your blog to the next level.
Some more Advance Techniques
7. Republish your blog Posts in some other ways
Republish your blog posts in some other ways like, PDF, slideshow or videos etc. This a another best way to get links from others. Share some grate information that other bloggers can use as data and proof in their blog post. Most of them will add link back to your website, hence you will get natural backlinks too.
There are many ways to republish your content, but Infographics, Slideshow and videos are very effect and evergreen to hunt extra attentions toward your blog.
8. Outreach.
Outreach is simply making professional connections with people of your kind. This is very powerful way to make a great professional connection with like minded people. Tell other bloggers to share your contents with their audience. You can ask this for something in exchange.
Moreover, if you start outreaching, most of the bloggers will ignore your request. It is just because they don’t know the benefits of mutual wining activities. May be you have sent your request on their bad time, so send another one more politely. Again if they ignore, its ok to move on for another awesome bloggers.
Conclusion:
May be I ave left something more important that you know. So, please don’t forget to add then in comment bellow. Actually I wanted to make it brief, so I did not explain things in detail. By the way, these are very common and of course effect ways to market your blog. Use these techniques along with tips suggested by other bloggers to take your blog to the next level.
After all you need traffic that convert, so avoid any other bad guys way to market your blog. Some people may provide you thousands of traffic for few bucks, I think that is ridiculous and non sense way to promote a blog. Keep everything natural and be smart. Lastly, can I do anything for your blog?
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