3 Quick & Easy Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog
Here I would like to share with you some easy ways to increase traffic to your blog. These are seriously quick and simple methods of generating traffic, while doing very little of work. If you got a blog, then spending a little of your time on this will be very useful. Also these are quite interesting traffic tactics, because while you are doing work, you are also interacting with others, finding friends, building relationships. So it’s fun!
1. Blog Commenting
Leaving comments on others blogs is a perfect example of how to get free and targeted traffic. Of course, you can’t compare the amount of traffic you get from someone’s blog to SEO visitors, but still, those people who visit your blog, can subscribe to your RSS feed or join your list. If they really like your blog, then they will let others know about it, and you will get even more traffic in the long term. The point here is not get backlinks (Wordpress blog comments are “nofollow” by default), but to attract readers of other blogs to your one using an attractive name in the comment. Think about what people in your market want, and you will easily come up with a simple blog comment headline (your name). Make sure you use this method on popular, top blogs in your niche, so you can get maximum traffic. Just do a search on Google, like “make money online blog” or “weight loss blog”, to find a blog for your niche, and then start commenting! The last thing to mention about this is that you should always try to leave valuable comments. Don’t just say: “Useful post” or something like that. Informative and interesting responses always attract more attention.
2. Forum Posting
Posting on relevant forums is my second method of easy ways to increase traffic to your blog. This is actually very similar to blog commenting, but here you will be leaving responses on popular niche forums. So first what you need to do is to find a forum, which is related to your blog topic. For example, in my case it would be Digital Point or Warrior Forum or NicheChoppers. To find the forum you need, search for “your niche + forum”, i.e. “forex forum” or “psp forum”. You get the idea. Once you’ve found the forum, and have registered, make sure you create an attractive signature. All forums allow you create a “signature”, which is a few lines of text, that will appear under each post you leave. So every time you post in a thread, your signature will be displayed, and will attract visitors to your blog. Format your signature to use different colors and fonts to be more noticable. The key in this tactic is to write in the signature something, that everyone on that particular forum wants. For example, in a forex niche, everyone wants to know how they can make thousands of dollars trading forex from home, without losing the trades. Not the greatest headline, but you know what I’m mean.
3. Writing Articles
Well, articles don’t really have to do anything with building relationships or finding friends, but they are definitely a quick way to increase traffic to your blog. You don’t need to write long articles. In fact, if you can spend 10-15 minutes and write a 250-350 word article, then submit it to EzineArticles or some other article directory, you will notice a bunch of people coming to your blog. Short articles are easy to write, and you can literally get instant traffic, but the problem here is that articles “die” pretty quickly. Unless they rank on top of search engines, you will usually get some visitors once your article goes live, and then in a few days time or a week, it won’t produce any traffic at all. So you got two choices here: either you have to write articles for long-tail keywords to maintain top rankings in SEs for long-term traffic, or if you are too lazy for that, then you will need to be constantly writing few random articles a week to keep the visitors coming.
There you go. Simple and quick ways to increase traffic to your blog or a website. I personally don’t write many articles, but I love blog commenting and forum posting. Getting tons of traffic is vital to make money blogging, so if that’s your goal, then get to work! For those, who need more info about how to make money with blogs, you should check out Atomic Blogging.
Top 3 Affiliate Marketing Forums Reviewed
There are many affiliate marketing forums on the Internet, but I personally stick with only 3, which in my opinion are the best. Actually, two of them are the biggest ones, and the last one is a rapidly growing newcomer. Forums are great not just for buying/selling stuff, but they are a perfect place, where you can communicate with other fellow marketers, get advice, help newbies, and much more. If you are thinking that a forum is just a business, or backlinks source, then you should change your mind. So let’s start off with the “daddy” of affiliate marketing forums, which is Digital Point.
Also known as “DP”, this forum is the biggest and the most popular AM forum on the Internet. It has over 230k registered users (at the time of writing this), over 1 million of threads, and there are usually about 1000 people online. Pretty impressive stats, but more important is whether the forum provides any value and how it is managed. Since I started Internet marketing, this was the first forum, that I’ve registered to learn about making money online and how to market on the Internet. It’s definitely an excellent place to hand around, despite that stupid questions are often asked by beginners, but seniour members are always there and they are helpful, whenever you have any questions to ask. It’s been more than year now, that I am a member on Digital Point Forum, and to be honest, I’ve learned tons of new stuff there, and I believe I helped others, when they needed me. Overall, I really like DP, and I regularly visit them. Probably the only thing, which I don’t like about DP is that their mods and admins are “too lazy” to solve particular problems. They just don’t want to mess with anyone, and simply issue infractions to those, who is talking too much or behaving not the way they like…To be on the safe side, make sure you learn the rules, and don’t make the same mistakes twice.
To register on Digital Point forum, please click here.
As far as I know, this is the first Internet marketing forum ever created. It was created back in 1997 and has been one of the “biggies” since then. Compared to DP, Warrior Forum is less active, I would say. However, for some reason, I feel that the audience is generally older and more educated on WF. You don’t usually see responses there, like “haha, lol, that’s funny” or “wtf roflmao”, which often happens on DP. I think, the main difference between WF and DP, is that Warrior Forum seems to be more tolerant and serious, while DP is just straightforward type of people, who easily get on with each other. I might sound retarded now, but that’s what I think about these two forums. It’s up to you, which you want to choose as the best, however, DP is my choice.
For those, who want to register at WF, please click here.
This is the newcomer, that I was talking about in the beginning. I started to hang around this forum since summer 2008. At first, it was just an empty forum with 3-4 guys chatting about different stuff sometimes, but now it has over 1k members, and usually 100 people online. The important thing to say about NC, is that members there are not just random people gathered together. Originally, this forum was like a small “family of affiliates”, who were promoting Norb Czufis’s products (Forex Tracer, Efficient Planet, and others) - the guy behind the forum. However, things have changed a bit since then, but Niche Choppers is not one of those cold forums, where everyone is on his own. Here everyone acts together, and we do our best to help the family as much as possible.
If you think you can be a proud member of the family and provide value to others, then you are always welcome to register at Niche Choppers. To join now, please click here. Also there is a VIP membership on NC forums, and if you contribute sharing something special and useful to everyone, then you will be rewarded.
Well, that’s pretty much all I wanted to say about affiliate marketing forums. We are now in fresh-new 2009, and it’s a great time to start working towards your Clickbank goals, and any other things you would like to achieve in this year. The forums above are a vital part of Internet marketing, and I would highly recommend you to visit them at least few times a week to see what’s happenning in online business world.
How I Am Going To Make Money Online In 2009
Recently, I’ve shared with you my Clickbank goals 2009, and now here I’m going to explain how I will make money online in the all-new 2009. Of course, just setting up goals is not enough, because you need to take action to achieve what you’ve planned. So in this post I’ve decided to explain my 3 main methods, which I will be using to reach my current target of $1000/month in profit.
1. Yahoo Search Marketing
Eventhough, that I don’t usually do much PPC, I’m planning to do YSM heavily in 2009. I believe that Pay-Per-Click marketing is the fastest way to making money online. I have to admit, it’s not the easiest one, but it gets simpler, once you become more familiar with it. Also I have quite a lot of PPC experiece from the past, so I won’t be too hard for me. You may ask why YSM, not Adwords? Well, a lot of effect on my decision has had Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots guide. After reading that ebook, I’ve finally agreed that Adwords is too complicated for affiliate marketing, and YSM is much more friendly for affiliates. I haven’t come to this conclusion immediately, but because I’ve done Adwords in the past, I clearly understand what the author is talking about. In 2009 I’m planning to launch and maintain 3-5 profitable campaigns. I believe that’s enough to make at least $1000 a month in profit. Once I achieve that, I will expand to other niches, or I simply might increase the budgets of current profitable campaigns. So YSM is going to be one of my key money-makers.
2. Bum/Article Marketing Method
I’m a big fan of article marketing, and I find it quite easy to write 3-5 articles a day. It doesn’t take much time to write them, and if done correctly, they will be making autopilot money for you in the long term. For this method, I’m going to use EzineArticles only, because that’s my favorite, and probably the best article directory on the Internet. My article marketing plan is simple. I will be concentrating on various niches and targetting many different long-tail keywords. Articles are hit and miss, so in order to be successful in article marketing, you have to write A LOT of articles. Of course, quality over quantity, but often the second is more important. I will also be using landing pages, because I believe literally every niche converts better with a pre-sell, and hopefully in few months time, I will have lots of articles ranking #1 for tons of long-tails in Google. Purely profit sales are lovely!
3. Blogging
And finally the last method, which I will be using in 2009 to make money online is blogging. I started my MMO4I blog back in June 2008, which is about 6 months ago, and to be honest, I haven’t made much money with blogging. However, I think that in blogging, making money is not the priority. It’s more important for me to provide value and be consistent with what I’m doing. Originally I started this blog not because I wanted to make money online, but because I wanted to have my own, little place on the huge Internet, where I could share my thoughts and exprience of affiliate marketing, and educate others to become better at it. In 2009, I’m going to pay more attention to blogging, and use more efforts on improving and optimizing my blog. So stay tuned for more great posts and quality reviews.
Happy New Year!
I guess, this is going to be my last post in 2008, so I would like to take the opportunity and wish you a Happy New Year. For some of us 2008 was a super year, for others it was rubbish, for the rest is was an educational one, but I think we all learned something more from the past year. So let’s use our skills and knowledge, which we’ve gained to make our lives better in 2009. I wish you all the best, and I’m sure you will achieve all your goals in the upcoming year, IF you take the right actions towards your targets. Once again, Happy New Year and I’ll see you in 2009!
The Hottest Niches For Christmas & New Year
I’m going to be straight here. The hottest niches for Christmas and New Year are: weight loss, forex and make money online niche. I know that previously I wrote a post about how to make cash on Christmas holidays, where I suggested that it’s better to promote physical products during this period, because that’s what people buy A LOT. That’s still what I would recommend you to do. However, some people are so addicted to promoting info products, like Clickbank stuff and such, that they only want to work on that. So if you are one of those affiliates (actually I love info products too), then here’s the stuff that really works with Clickbank at this time.
Weight Loss
People want to lose weight throughout the whole year, but only a small percentage of them actually do. They procrastinate all the time, saying “next week”, “next month”, etc, and they never get started. So when the New Year comes, they start thinking about what they’ve achieved, and when they realize that they haven’t lost a single pound of weight, they seriously promise to themselves to start losing weight. People are already in the perfect mindset, and all you need to do is just recommend them the right product, such as Fat Loss 4 Idiots, Everloss or anything else you think would be appropriate.
Forex
One of the hottest niches for Christmas and New Year is also forex. Basically, all the 3 niches, which I’m talking about here sell perfectly during the year, but they sell even better during this period. Forex is actually rapidly growing market with amazing products and huge commissions. The average forex product pays about $40 per sale, but the problem with forex stuff is that it’s very often refunded. So what you can do to avoid refunds? Probably the best thing I can suggest is NOT to oversell the product on your landing page. The sales letter of forex products are already hyped up, so normally you just need to get the customers there, and the merchant’s website will do the rest. You could also experiment with direct-linking here. Products such as FAP Turbo, Forex Tracer and Forex Killer are easy to sell.
Make Money Online
As you probably guessed, this is one of the most competitive, but at the same time most profitable niches on the market. It doesn’t matter what time of the year it is, because these products will always sell. People will never stop willing to make more money, so even if you try to sell a make money product to a person, who wants to get his/her ex back, you might be successful (however, it’s not the best idea to do so, lol). In this niche, it’s important to find the right keywords, which is often pretty hard, because of competition, but the products in this niche are in most of the cases great. Current “biggies” in this niche are: The Ultimate Search Engine Loophole, Yahoo Cash 4 Idiots and Blogging To The Bank 3.
So above you got the hottest niches for Christmas and New Year period. I know that today is the Christmas Day (Merry Christmas everyone!), so it might be a bit late to start setting up your campaigns, however, you still got a week or so left. Also in many countries people celebrate the “Old New Year”, which is on the 13th of January, so the first week of January could be profitable for you as well.
If you are going to get organic traffic from Google or other search engines for your campaigns, then knowing SEO is vital. One of my all time favorite ebooks about SEO is Brad Callen’s The SEO Mindset, which is a must-read guide. Check out my review of it here.
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