Three Easy Ways to Market your Blog and Get Good Traffic
Want more traffic for your blog? I’m sure you do. However, you also want results from that traffic. You want “good” traffic, traffic that does something for you when it gets to your blog. What you want your traffic to do varies - perhaps you want your visitors to buy a product, visit your online store, or click on a link.
So although the Web 2.0 social-networking traffic generating methods can be effective, they usually fail the “good traffic” test. Your visitors from Digg zoom through your blog, and vanish, like ghosts. They give you a boost in traffic, but it’s a useless boost.
This means that before you start promoting your blog, you must decide what you want your traffic to do when it arrives at your blog.
Make a list of what you want your traffic to do.
Once you have your list, give these three traffic-generating methods a try. These three simple methods will bring you targeted traffic: that is, good traffic which does something for you.
Craigslist - free and useful if you’re selling something on your blog
If you’re selling something on your blog, Craiglist is for you. Craigslist will bring you traffic that’s looking for whatever it is you’re selling. Although you probably won’t get a flood of traffic, that traffic is targeted. They want what you’re selling, so it’s good traffic.
US Free Ads - targeted, inexpensive traffic
US Free Ads is a classifieds site which is becoming very popular with bloggers. There are two types of membership: a basic membership, and a premium membership. You want the premium membership, which is very cheap compared to other types of advertising. You can place as many ads as you wish, using HTML and images to get attention.
WebWire gets you on Google News with minimal expense
I’ve recently started using the WebWire press release site. The cost of releases is low, and you get onto Google News. The traffic you get from WebWire is extremely targeted, so it’s good traffic.
Try these three methods for generating good traffic: traffic which does something for you when it arrives at your blog.
James 'Make Money Online' Mann | March 5th, 2008 at 12:41 pm #
Thanks Angela
I certainly agree with you on the Digg traffic being somewhat useless. I have kind of given up on that type of traffic.
I am going to give these three traffic generators a go and see what I get for results.
Andy MacDonald | March 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pm #
Another great post from you Angela.
I think the other method of targeted marketing you could try is to make use of signature files in your emails, forums, anywhere you post your name you should also post your blog url. I find i get a lot of traffic from signature files, and it tends to be good traffic too!
Yuwanda Black | March 5th, 2008 at 11:35 pm #
Hmm, have to give Craigslist a try for getting traffic. Have used it to hire freelancers and in five years have posted to the “Services” section a couple of times, but maybe it’s time to revisit this.
Used USFreeAds for a while and started off liking it, but my ads got buried too quick to keep on top of it, so abandoned that.
To get into Google quick, I just submit my pages directly. Press release sites are definitely useful though.
Great ideas.
Yuwanda
Elaine T | March 6th, 2008 at 8:47 am #
Thank you. That’s great ideas which i could take on. Keep it coming please.thanks and appreciated.
cheers,
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Internet Marketing Joy | March 6th, 2008 at 5:21 pm #
Stumble Upon works for me in generating traffic to my sites. ..really useful and fun to use.