Increase Blog Traffic

Or Get Blog Traffic

Using Blog Comments

You can get blog traffic to go up dramatically within hours, days and weeks when you decide to use blog comments.

Blog traffic increase can mean a boost to your mood and in some cases even to your bottom line.

If you are just starting to blog and have no traffic at all you will get traffic to your blog for sure using this method. It produces results very quickly.

Blog comments are a great way to increase blog traffic at no cost to you, except of course you need to spend some time.

But if you like blogging you most likely also like reading what other people blog about. And when you read interesting blogs, commenting is not hard at all.

Blog Commenting Is A Part Of SEO Strategy

If you’ve read my previous post on blogging seo strategy you’ll know that I mentioned link building there. If you haven’t read it here’s the link: Blogging Seo Strategy.

By writing comments of value you can be reasonably sure that your comments will be approved. What is a comment of value? I’ve covered that in my other post on traffic which you can read (it’s covered under point #4) here: Get Traffic To Opt In.

How You Get Traffic To Your Blog Through Comments

I must admit that when I first heard about commenting in connection with getting traffic to my blog I was very skeptical. But I started to do it anyway. And I continue doing it because

I found that it produces results in at least three tangible ways:

1) You get blog links when your comments are approved

2) You get visitors to your blog that read your comments

3) You get comments on your blog from some of those visitors

And then there are some intangible and long term benefits

For example you’ll meet people and some of them you’ll become friends with.

That alone is a great benefit. But friends talk and that may bring you more visitors too.

There is a potential of future JV partnerships but we’ll leave that alone now.

Another long term benefit will come through the accumulation and aging of links which will help your blog to be placed higher in search engines.

This is the SEO benefit which starts early but takes more pronounced effect with time.

Ninety Eight Visitors From One Comment

Yes, I’ve received 98 visitors to my blog from just one comment. That comment was on a blog post that attracted a lot of visitors many of whom decided to visit my blog.

None of them left a comment but they spent on average 16 minutes reading what I had to say here. They kept on coming at the rate of 4 to 5 per day for three whole weeks.

A few days later a comment on another blog brought me 37 visitors over one week.

The traffic from both blogs started to pour in within 10 hours from posting my comments.

Not every comment will produce exciting results like these.

Sometimes it may take a couple of weeks or even months before a visitor arrives as a result.

But when such visitor spends half an hour reading on your blog I think even that is well worth it.

And to be sure, some comments won’t bring you any direct visitors at all.

But you’ll still get a link.

And some links are amazingly valuable and will bring you traffic for a long time sooner or later.

I may cover the kinds of links that are out there and their values at some other time.

What to do now?

1) You want to leave a comment on my blog whether you like this post or not and express your opinion.

2) If you liked what you’ve just read Digg it, Delicious it, Tweet it and Technorati it or use any other bookmarking of your choice.

The bookmark icons are further below.

3) Start practicing blog commenting on other blogs after making a good start here.

Thank you for visiting and for doing the above 3 points.

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SEO Strategy to Increase

Blog Traffic

SEO Strategy is necessary when blogging for money since it helps increase blog traffic. (You can also read my post Get Traffic To Your Website which touches on the subject of traffic).

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization and it is doing things that the search engines like. They include keyword research, keyword placement and links.

Anybody who is building a website or a blog should learn about seo and implement seo strategy. Yes, even the bloggers who don’t blog for money.

Not everyone who blogs likes the idea of blogging seo but I can’t imagine a blogger who wouldn’t want to increase blog traffic.

All blog owners want readers. And the more traffic there is the more readers there will be.

Why am I stating the obvious?

Because there are people who seem to be oblivious to it. They’ve never heard of it, never understood it or refuse to pay attention to it.

I know such people that I’ve met online.

Online Friendship

Here is an example of two people I’d never met in the flesh but became acquainted with them online and now we’re friends.

Both are blogging and both had been happily posting without regard to search engine optimization.

When I gently pointed out to them the fact, Jose from Notes On Blogging happily embraced it and went all out to learn everything about SEO and implemented as much as he could right away.

Ed (not his real name) on the other hand stubbornly refused to do anything differently and said he didn’t want to bother with keywords and just wanted to be himself.

I’ll let you guess who gets more traffic, comments and online friends.

Helping Fellow Bloggers

Many people are helping their fellow blogging enthusiasts.

I too want to help as much as I can and whenever the opportunity arises.

It’s always exciting to find new friends online through the existing ones.

When I saw the post on Petra Weiss blog encouraging bloggers to help her online blogger friend I didn’t pass the opportunity and took action as many others have.

I was intrigued by the text link Oes tsetnoc leading to Petra’s friend’s site.

The link above which you can check for yourself has to do with webmaster seo contest. You can read the post about it by clicking on the link. I found it interesting.

I have fulfilled the request placed there here and so can you if you are moved by it.

Learning and implementing seo strategy to increase blog traffic will help you as a blogger whether you’re blogging for money, for fun, online friendship or any other reason.

Why do you blog?

Do you do SEO?

Leave a comment.

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Email List Building is perhaps one of the most necessary and continuous activities for internet marketers. The money is in the list because the list is the heart of your business.

It is not so hard to start a new business when you already have a list of customers or potential customers, hot leads.

Opt In Email List does take time to grow. If you haven’t read the 3 posts about List Building Steps on this blog then I strongly encourage you to do so because the most important elements and basics are covered in them. Here are the links:

List Building Steps, Step 1-Get Autoresponder

List Building Steps, Step 2 – Make Free Opt-in Offer

List Building Steps, Step 3 -Get Traffic To Your Opt-in Form

Now that we have the nuts and bolts covered, we can proceed to what this post is all about:

Online Giveaways,

Speed Up The List Building Process

What are giveaways?

As you may or may not know, giveaways are organized events for the specific purpose of getting subscribers to your list at an accelerated pace.

Having an opt in form on your site and driving traffic to it is a good method but it is very gradual and slow. Prospects and potential customers will drip in slowly but surely.

Continual dripping is nothing to sneeze at but sometimes a rain shower can help fill the bucket much more quickly.

If you want to build your list faster, and who doesn’t, then participating in giveaways is a good way to do it.

Giveaways are fairly recent list building method and what is so great about them is that they are virtually free to the contributors of gifts.

They are completely free to those who want to obtain those gifts if they are willing to fill in their name and email address in order to get the gift they want.

What do giveaway contributors need?

Assuming that you want to participate as a contributor to a giveaway event, you’ll need:

1) Your own gift, (I’ll touch on the possible giveaway items later)

2) A good quality autoresponder to pull in the leads into your list.

3) Landing sign up page,

4) Support email address,

5) Gift image

Giveaway items you can use

You want your gift to be attractive and helpful in order for people to want to get it and be willing to give you their name and email address for it.

It is always much better if your gift is your own original product that you have created. You can quickly gain a reputation through these gifts and I bet that you want it to be a good one.

Many events accept giveaway items in digital form

It is the quality of your gift item that matters more than the size of it.

Therefore it is much better to have your own original report of five to ten pages than it is to have a 100 page knock off e-book.

Other good contribution items could be: audio package, video course, your own e-book, membership site pass, software, templates.

You may be able to come up with other gifts, always keeping in mind what people may need or want.

What to do next?

The above is not an exhaustive information on the subject of online giveaways. The purpose of this post was to give you an idea about what they are and how they could speed up your list building.

Get the free bonus below to learn more and to be able to take action now:

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Most of all I want you to tell me what else you want to find out about the subject

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What’s The First League of

Extraordinary Minds Panel

Like?

First Extraordinary Minds Panel of seven plus Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren really pulled it off. Hours of lively and captivating discussion on a twofold topic:

Getting Customers To Choose You Over Everyone Else,

Leveraging Credibility, Believability and Trust In Everything You Do.

Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren were taking turns in asking the panelists probing questions making it very interesting and engaging.

I must admit that I didn’t know much if anything about the staring participants in the session discussion aside from Rich and Jay except that they were recognized experts and capacities in what they do.

You can test your own familiarity (or not) with these outstanding individuals.

The 7 Panelists Revealed

Jack Trout – recognized world’s foremost marketing strategist who writes as well, his latest book is In Search of the Obvious,

Joseph Jaffe – author of “Life After the 30-second Spot” and the older and well known book Join the Conversation,

Kevin Hogan – the persuasion and body language expert and the author of a remarkable book “Psychology of Persuasion”,

Michael Bosworth – author of “Customer Centric Selling”,

Russell Granger – wrote “7 Triggers to YES: The New Science Influencing People’s Decisions”,

Bert Decker – of Decker Communications and the author of a very remarkable book “You’ve Got To Be Believed To Be Heard”

and to crown it all

Stephen M.R. Covey – trainer, consultant and “The Speed of Trust” author.

What To Do Now?

While it would be a lot of fun to share with you everything that happened during the first panel session it would just take too long for me to write and for you to read it.

I doubt that I could do it justice in writing. Hearing it live is just something else. I highly recommend that you to take the free trial offer which will allow you to attend the next several sessions of the League of Extraordinary Minds and see for yourself if you’d want to continue with the paid program.

You may already know that I’m no fan of following the crowd. But there is something to be said about the fact that more than 27,000 business minded people have already joined the League.

The first extraordinary minds panel was only a small foretaste of what is yet to come. Why miss on something so obviously beneficial, why not glean some wisdom now without having to pay for it?

Take the plunge to profit from extraordinary minds. You may be one too.

Rich Schefren & Jay Abraham will do all they can to make that a reality.

In case you’re not fully aware of who the above panelists are,

you can check on some of them by clicking on their names here:

Jack Trout, Joseph Jaffe, Kevin Hogan, Michael Bosworth, Bert Decker,

Stephen M.R Covey.

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World’s Most Respected

Business Advisers Join

Forces, Can They Alter Your

Life?

The league of Extraordinary Minds, so far 53 of them, has been put together by Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren with a view to help change and improve business as well as ordinary lives.

Previously unheard of undertaking that could impact your own life and my life in ways that have never been possible before, where people from all walks of life can gain access to the most influential, most recognized, most respected and the brightest business advisers in the world.

People used to have to pay thousands of dollars to get access to any single mind of the group. Now virtually everybody will be able to profit from their insights, experiences and accumulated wisdom. Now you and I can pick and choose the most precious gems from these multiple treasure chests of living knowledge.

We can now save decades of time, bypassing all the trials and errors these extraordinary people went through and get the diamond like mined, purified, condensed, cut and polished masterpieces.

And they are not just about business. They have transformed their personal lives too. they show this by their willingness to share and contribute their knowledge, expertise and experiences.

This is our lifetime opportunity

Nobody in any position in any place could have ever even dreamed of finding access to this caliber and quality of brilliant, prominent, famous real-life business, marketing and performance experts.

The first 9 expert panel discovery sessions are completely free, gratis. They amount to about 36 content rich hours. There is no selling in them. You decide if you want to continue after that.

What Would Andrew Carnegie Have To Say About Extraordinary Minds League?

You may have heard of or read about Andrew Carnegie, the man who commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview the most successful businessmen of their times. Based on those interviews he then wrote the famous book and the long running bestseller Think and Grow Rich.

What do you think Andrew Carnegie would have to say about the opportunity we have right now to access extraordinary minds?

Would he say jump on it while you can? What about Napoleon Hill?

Would You Listen To Top Brains To Sharpen Your Own Ideas?

You may be surprised when you meet with really cool people who are at the top of the heap. I’ve met a couple of people like that. I was astonished at their approachability. They actually made me feel equal to them. They didn’t put themselves on a high horse at all.

It was very stimulating and my own ideas were forming at an accelerated pace and degree. It was like my own brain was being sharpened by combining with their brain.

I’m fortunate to have had that experience. How will it be when it gets multiplied with the 53 minds and Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham?

I’ve been introduced to Rich Schefren and Jay Abraham by Alex Jeffreys.

I’ve been Alex Jeffreys student since the end of this July, 2009. Alex Jeffreys is Rich Schefren’s student and greatly admires his expertise.

I have definitely learned a lot from both Alex and Rich.

I can personally recommend them both to you. I have listened to and even took a training from at least one person included in the 53.

From what I know and have experienced so far I’m convinced that you and I should give ourselves the opportunity to see what the 53 extraordinary minds league can do for us.

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