To earn revenue from your blog, you need traffic - a lot of it. With a small flow of traffic to your blog, you will be destined to days and days of little to no earnings, and the possibility of your blog failing. But with a hefty flow of traffic to your blog, you will have the benefit of sunny days and a happier state of mind as your chances of earning money dramatically increases.
There are many ways to get traffic to your blog. Lazy marketers love the idea of only advertising to get traffic to their blog - which can be a good strategy - if you know your conversation rates and understand the math of your business. However if you don't, then you will have a few short days of comfort from all the traffic that your blog is getting, then the eventual shortage of traffic after all of your funds are depleted.
Luckily, there are tons of ways to get a lot of traffic to your blog that doesn't cost anything at all. And in this article, I'm going to share some of those ways with you.
Never do something if it doesn't make sense to you. If you see a competitor in your niche advertising someplace month after month, and you know that ad slot is expensive, don't automatically assumed that you can succeed doing the same thing. You have no idea what the mechanics of their business is, and what things they're doing behind the scenes to make their business profitable.
If you're not willing to do everything that they're doing to make your blog profitable, then you will have a tough time on your hand when your blog sales doesn't recoup your advertisement investment.
Many beginner bloggers and novice internet marketers make the mistake of assuming that free marketing methods can't bring a lot of traffic to your blog the same way that paid advertising can. I myself was guilty of this idea 5 years ago when I first got started, and I found myself spending endlessly on pay per click campaigns with very little sales - but eventually a failed business.
Everytime.
And this happened for 3 years straight, until I finally got with the program and built my business from the ground up. It doesn't matter how you get traffic. All that matters is if you're making enough income to pay your rent and bills. After you have the sufficient income to do that, if you want to be a guru of some sort, then I guess you have the option of doing so.
But you cant start the other way around and expect to see satisfying results. Therefore right now, I'm going to share with you 2 of the same free traffic techniques I used (and still use) to get traffic, and that benefit me greatly in my online marketing efforts. Here's my first free traffic method:
1) Article marketing
This method is great for generating traffic to your blog. What you do is you write articles that relate to your blog and submit them to the article directories. Preferably you want to write the articles yourself, as no one knows your business better than you do. But if you're not a writer, you can outsource the writing to a freelancer.
No matter what you choose, your articles should be extremely beneficial to your target audience. The benefit here is that at the end of each article, you get to leave your blog information in the form of an "author byline". This is how people will visit your blog. After you've written your article, you want to submit them to the article directories. Here are a few that I use myself:
- EzineArticles.com - Articlesbase.com - GoArticles.com - ArticleDashboard.com - Ideamarketers.com
This method is fantastic for generating alot of traffic to your blog. Here's the other method that I highly recommend:
2) Forum Marketing
Forums contain people in your target audience all in one central location. All you have to do is join the community and provide your valuable content and insights related to your blog. This is a great way to become an expert in your niche. The more valuable information you share, the more people will want to find out more about you and the more visitors you will get to your blog.
One thing you want to make sure not to do is blatantly advertise your blog on the forum. This is an absolute no-no in the world of forums and is the fastest way to get banned from one. Stick with helpful information and ideas and the traffic will naturally come. It's only natural that this will happen.
Using these 2 traffic sources can provide you with recurring traffic for years to come. I highly suggest you start using them today.
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