Effective Blog Marketing to Boost Sales and Subscribers
Use these Tips and Techniques to Market your Blog and build an army of loyal subscribers As with anything in Internet Marketing; a product, a website, a blog, or a seminar, the tactics in which you can use to market each one of these are very similar.
There are literally hundreds of ways that you can market your blog and although very time consuming the hard work will pay off greatly in the form of highly targeted traffic.
I use lots of different marketing techniques to get my blog seen by as many people as I can, some more successful than others.
Here are some of the main ways you can market your blog.
Spend time on these because if no one is viewing your blog you will not have a successful blog at all, instead you will have a dying business model that started out so well.
• Article Marketing - I personally love using articles as a way of marketing my blog.
If you are a blogger, article marketing should come naturally to you.
At the end of the day you have decided to start a blog because you enjoy writing, which is exactly what articles are.
I recommend that you write articles with quality information on a regular basis and submit them to Article Directories such as this one, EzineArticles.
EzineArticles is the most popular and indeed the best article directory when it comes to search engine rankings.
Writing an article with a catchy title can result in a huge increase in traffic because Google loves EzineArticles and it is not rare to rank #1 within a few days of submitting your article.
Once someone has found and read your article they will hopefully have enjoyed what they read and therefore click on the link back to your site at the bottom of the page.
• Video Marketing - A recent discovery of TubeMogul has made this form of blog marketing so much easier.
Tube Mogul is a service where you can sign up and submit your one unique video to up to 20 different highly trafficked video streaming websites at the click of a button.
When you create your video I personally think it is best to create a tutorial using Camtasia so that you are providing your viewers with valuable content that they can act upon straight away.
Once you have created the video you will need to put a link back to your blog in the video and in the 'description' section so that people will be able to visit your blog if they have enjoyed what you have had to share.
As well as receiving traffic through that link this will also help you gain quality backlinks.
Backlinks simply put are links that once clicked 'link back' to your site.
The more backlinks your website has, the higher your search engine rankings.
As you can see Video Marketing really can kill two birds with one stone in terms of traffic generation.
• Twitter - As I have said previously Twitter is a whole other post and I could write for hours about what to do on Twitter to increase your traffic and success.
I will eventually get round to writing a detailed post regarding the do's and don'ts on Twitter but for now I will just brush over them briefly.
Simply put, Twitter is a great way to broadcast your new posts, pages, products, seminars and joint ventures and I have achieved a great deal of traffic by doing so.
Many Internet Entrepreneurs will pay great respects to Twitter when talking about traffic generation and many will put it second below Google as there biggest traffic source.
One thing that I certainly do not recommend is to advertise affiliate links on Twitter.
Tweets about affiliate products will only annoy people and result in a huge amount of people to un-follow you.
The reason for this is because affiliate marketing on Twitter is like an 'easy option' and a bit of a cheat really, not only does it not work but it requires very little effort form the so called 'Internet Marketer'.
Real and highly successful affiliate marketers such as Ewen Chia will construct a niche website advertising their affiliate products.
Although a lot more time consuming, when you have up to 10,000 of these niche websites circulating the Internet they can generate a 6 figure income.
If you want to learn more about Twitter and how exactly it can help your online business check out 'Twitter Power' by Joel Comm - A great read for the budding Blogger and Internet Marketer.
If you want to start taking Blogging and Internet Marketing seriously and honestly think it is something you would like to learn more about check out my Internet Marketing Blog where everything is explained in great detail to get you on the right path to online success - Click Here for more information.
There are literally hundreds of ways that you can market your blog and although very time consuming the hard work will pay off greatly in the form of highly targeted traffic.
I use lots of different marketing techniques to get my blog seen by as many people as I can, some more successful than others.
Here are some of the main ways you can market your blog.
Spend time on these because if no one is viewing your blog you will not have a successful blog at all, instead you will have a dying business model that started out so well.
• Article Marketing - I personally love using articles as a way of marketing my blog.
If you are a blogger, article marketing should come naturally to you.
At the end of the day you have decided to start a blog because you enjoy writing, which is exactly what articles are.
I recommend that you write articles with quality information on a regular basis and submit them to Article Directories such as this one, EzineArticles.
EzineArticles is the most popular and indeed the best article directory when it comes to search engine rankings.
Writing an article with a catchy title can result in a huge increase in traffic because Google loves EzineArticles and it is not rare to rank #1 within a few days of submitting your article.
Once someone has found and read your article they will hopefully have enjoyed what they read and therefore click on the link back to your site at the bottom of the page.
• Video Marketing - A recent discovery of TubeMogul has made this form of blog marketing so much easier.
Tube Mogul is a service where you can sign up and submit your one unique video to up to 20 different highly trafficked video streaming websites at the click of a button.
When you create your video I personally think it is best to create a tutorial using Camtasia so that you are providing your viewers with valuable content that they can act upon straight away.
Once you have created the video you will need to put a link back to your blog in the video and in the 'description' section so that people will be able to visit your blog if they have enjoyed what you have had to share.
As well as receiving traffic through that link this will also help you gain quality backlinks.
Backlinks simply put are links that once clicked 'link back' to your site.
The more backlinks your website has, the higher your search engine rankings.
As you can see Video Marketing really can kill two birds with one stone in terms of traffic generation.
• Twitter - As I have said previously Twitter is a whole other post and I could write for hours about what to do on Twitter to increase your traffic and success.
I will eventually get round to writing a detailed post regarding the do's and don'ts on Twitter but for now I will just brush over them briefly.
Simply put, Twitter is a great way to broadcast your new posts, pages, products, seminars and joint ventures and I have achieved a great deal of traffic by doing so.
Many Internet Entrepreneurs will pay great respects to Twitter when talking about traffic generation and many will put it second below Google as there biggest traffic source.
One thing that I certainly do not recommend is to advertise affiliate links on Twitter.
Tweets about affiliate products will only annoy people and result in a huge amount of people to un-follow you.
The reason for this is because affiliate marketing on Twitter is like an 'easy option' and a bit of a cheat really, not only does it not work but it requires very little effort form the so called 'Internet Marketer'.
Real and highly successful affiliate marketers such as Ewen Chia will construct a niche website advertising their affiliate products.
Although a lot more time consuming, when you have up to 10,000 of these niche websites circulating the Internet they can generate a 6 figure income.
If you want to learn more about Twitter and how exactly it can help your online business check out 'Twitter Power' by Joel Comm - A great read for the budding Blogger and Internet Marketer.
If you want to start taking Blogging and Internet Marketing seriously and honestly think it is something you would like to learn more about check out my Internet Marketing Blog where everything is explained in great detail to get you on the right path to online success - Click Here for more information.
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