How to Market - 11 Free Ways to Use One Article to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
Driving traffic to your blog or website from your content is the name of the game.
Here are 11 free ways to use just one article to drive more traffic to your blog or website: 1.
Post your original article to your WordPress blog and hyperlink from your article to your lead capture page or affiliate sales page (I favor WordPress because you are in complete control of your content and promotional activity therein).
2.
Flag this new content to your existing list by adding an email promotion to the end of your autotransponder series.
In the email give a short teaser with a link back to the original article.
3.
Submit the RSS feed of your WordPress blog to 5 new directories.
To find the directories simply put 'rss feed submit directory' into a Google search and you will find RSS directory sites.
4.
Social bookmark your blog post at Onlywire.
com and Socialmarker.
com 5.
Submit your article to article submitters such as Isnare.
com, Articlemarketer.
com and most importantly to EzineArticles.
com.
6.
Make your article into a Squidoo Lens at squidoo.
com 7.
Make your article into a Hub Page at hubpages.
com 8.
Post your article to every social network you belong to e.
g.
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Better Networker, etc.
9.
Get backlinks from high ranking blogs.
Use blogsearch.
google.
com to search for for blogs relating to the keywords you are promoting in your article and start reading some of the posts.
Make intelligent, valuable comments in their blog and include a link back to your blog.
10.
Create a video covering the article content.
The video should be less than 3 minutes for a 'talking head' presentation and can be longer for a slide presentation.
Post to YouTube or TubeMogul with a link back to your blog.
11.
Create a podcast of your article content by reading the article and elaborating on the content.
then submit the podcast to iTunes.
If you can do that little lot with each article, you will quickly see the traffic rising to your blog and, following on from that, sales or leads from your linked sales/lead capture pages.
Here are 11 free ways to use just one article to drive more traffic to your blog or website: 1.
Post your original article to your WordPress blog and hyperlink from your article to your lead capture page or affiliate sales page (I favor WordPress because you are in complete control of your content and promotional activity therein).
2.
Flag this new content to your existing list by adding an email promotion to the end of your autotransponder series.
In the email give a short teaser with a link back to the original article.
3.
Submit the RSS feed of your WordPress blog to 5 new directories.
To find the directories simply put 'rss feed submit directory' into a Google search and you will find RSS directory sites.
4.
Social bookmark your blog post at Onlywire.
com and Socialmarker.
com 5.
Submit your article to article submitters such as Isnare.
com, Articlemarketer.
com and most importantly to EzineArticles.
com.
6.
Make your article into a Squidoo Lens at squidoo.
com 7.
Make your article into a Hub Page at hubpages.
com 8.
Post your article to every social network you belong to e.
g.
Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter, Better Networker, etc.
9.
Get backlinks from high ranking blogs.
Use blogsearch.
google.
com to search for for blogs relating to the keywords you are promoting in your article and start reading some of the posts.
Make intelligent, valuable comments in their blog and include a link back to your blog.
10.
Create a video covering the article content.
The video should be less than 3 minutes for a 'talking head' presentation and can be longer for a slide presentation.
Post to YouTube or TubeMogul with a link back to your blog.
11.
Create a podcast of your article content by reading the article and elaborating on the content.
then submit the podcast to iTunes.
If you can do that little lot with each article, you will quickly see the traffic rising to your blog and, following on from that, sales or leads from your linked sales/lead capture pages.
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