In continuation with this guide, under part 2, we will look into some more additional guide to get your blog to your reader.
Post your blog to business directories
Business directories is still an effective way to get backlinks and small amounts of traffic. Since there are so many business directories, you may want to do a Google search to find one. In the mean time you could also go to either one of the following:
Post your blog to classifieds directory
Although classifieds work better for business or service-based websites, but you can also drive traffic to other types of sites. Classified website provide a common way to easily make posts for free, and reach large amounts of people. Below as some of the available classified website:
Search Engines
This is probably one of the most difficult ways to market a site, but also one of the most popular ways due to the fact that the traffic you get can be extremely targeted to exactly what your site offers. If you’re selling a product and are looking for a high conversion rate, this method become very important. For wordpress, I recommend “All in One SEO” and “Google XML Map” plugin since I notice that my blog post get listed at Google within 24-48 hours.
Word of Mouth
This is a very basic and old school way of marketing but it really is effective. All you have to do is just spread the news about your new site or blog and let them do all the work! One more thing, be sure to have business cards on hand to give out to anyone you speak with.
Pay per Click Advertising (PPC)
PPC advertising can cost a decent amount of money and requires your site to be well designed thus converts well. However, it can be a very powerful marketing tool when done right.
Banner Advertising
Banner advertising is simply creating a very alluring banner design in the amount of space specified. Some sites don’t let you create animated banners, but if you have a very intriguing static banner on a good site it can get you traffic for sure. The best way to do this is to manually search for websites and blogs related to your site and contact them for a banner exchange.
Text Link Advertising
Text link advertising is usually cheap and can bring in lots of traffic but not specific. It’s best to look for sites that directly related or have similar theme to your website to buy text links. If you are just looking for tons of traffic, you can go to major text link sites that offer spots on very large websites.
Print Advertising
Print advertising can be very expensive, but is especially useful when advertising in a specific location, during trade show or at other location. You could also drop off business cards or flier’s at local stores and start offering your services to local people.
In conclusion for part 2 of 3
While writing a good blog posts that others think very useful, actual benefit of the article or blog post can only be materialize when it reach the intended readers.
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The most powerful method is still the “Word of Mouth” or known as Viral marketing! But you must have good content that spread worthy, be it funny, useful or a collection of interesting stuff…
When it start to spread, your traffic will jump high!
@18 Extreme Powerful Blog Traffic Method: I agreed with you, most of the time, we focus so much on online advertising yet we forget about offline advertising which if use properly can give a considerable amount of traffic.
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