1. WRITE VALUABLE CONTENT
Writing engaging articles on a regular basis that give your readers real value is one of the most effective ways to increase traffic to your blog. But this can cost you a lot of time and effort because you must ensure that every one of your articles is free from spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors. If you are not a good editor or proofreader, this can prove to be challenging. You can hire freelancers to check your work for you, which will prove to be costly over time when you consider the number of articles that you must write. But there is another more time and cost effective solution to make sure that your posts are ready to be published and that is to use an online editing software. If you are not a writer, or you just don’t have the time to write, there are many ways to fill your site with great content.
Writing engaging articles on a regular basis that give your readers real value is one of the most effective ways to increase traffic to your blog. But this can cost you a lot of time and effort because you must ensure that every one of your articles is free from spelling, grammar, or punctuation errors. If you are not a good editor or proofreader, this can prove to be challenging. You can hire freelancers to check your work for you, which will prove to be costly over time when you consider the number of articles that you must write. But there is another more time and cost effective solution to make sure that your posts are ready to be published and that is to use an online editing software. If you are not a writer, or you just don’t have the time to write, there are many ways to fill your site with great content.
HERE ARE SOME WAYS TO ADD CONTENT TO YOUR SITE
i. Ask for articles from other sites
If you come across an article that you really like, contact the person who rightfully owns the piece and ask if you could share it. You may have to rewrite it somewhat to avoid duplication.
If you come across an article that you really like, contact the person who rightfully owns the piece and ask if you could share it. You may have to rewrite it somewhat to avoid duplication.
ii. Use article directories to get content
This is similar to the above in that it’s free content. However, you cannot alter or edit the article in any way, and must, therefore, publish the article in its original form. In addition, you have to provide author’s bio or any relevant link to the person that wrote the article. EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com are two directories for finding content for your blog.
This is similar to the above in that it’s free content. However, you cannot alter or edit the article in any way, and must, therefore, publish the article in its original form. In addition, you have to provide author’s bio or any relevant link to the person that wrote the article. EzineArticles.com and GoArticles.com are two directories for finding content for your blog.
iii. Break up longer post or write smaller articles
iv. Conduct an interview with someone
After the interview, you could hire a transcriber to write it up.
After the interview, you could hire a transcriber to write it up.
v. Outsourcing
This is a great way to get content for your website. You could ask co-workers, friends, family, or your readers to contribute a relevant article to your blog. You could also hire a good freelancer at a great price from companies such as
This is a great way to get content for your website. You could ask co-workers, friends, family, or your readers to contribute a relevant article to your blog. You could also hire a good freelancer at a great price from companies such as
Fiverr
“Fiverr is the world's largest marketplace for services. A service offered on Fiverr is called a Gig. While $5 is a popular starting price for offers on Fiverr, tiered offers called gig Packages are also available in many different categories such as writing.”
“Fiverr is the world's largest marketplace for services. A service offered on Fiverr is called a Gig. While $5 is a popular starting price for offers on Fiverr, tiered offers called gig Packages are also available in many different categories such as writing.”
Upwork
A global freelancing marketplace that connects businesses and independent professionals. There are thousands of writers eager to produce content for your website or blog.
A global freelancing marketplace that connects businesses and independent professionals. There are thousands of writers eager to produce content for your website or blog.
“iWriter is the fastest, easiest and most reliable way to have content written for your website. You'll be able to post a project and 1000s of freelance writers from across the globe will have instant access to write your content quickly, professionally, and affordably”
2. USE SOCIAL MEDIA
Once you have written your awesome content and published your blog to go live on the internet, it’s time to get the word out on social media platforms. Some of the more effective platforms are facebook, twitter, google plus, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, especially if your site is image rich. Look for groups within these platforms that will promote your blog, especially your particular niche but don't over post as this may indicate spam and may get you banned. And make sure each post has social media buttons that are easily seen.
Once you have written your awesome content and published your blog to go live on the internet, it’s time to get the word out on social media platforms. Some of the more effective platforms are facebook, twitter, google plus, LinkedIn, and Pinterest, especially if your site is image rich. Look for groups within these platforms that will promote your blog, especially your particular niche but don't over post as this may indicate spam and may get you banned. And make sure each post has social media buttons that are easily seen.
Facebook pages to promote your blog
BLOGGERS WORLD!! Blog, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook Promotions
Promote your book, page, website, blog
Blog Passion Project
Promote your Blog
Promote Your Best Blog Posts
Promote your websites, blogs, fb pages
Share and promote your blog/website for advertising
Promote Ur Blog*Get Free Traffic*
Promote your Blog and Website
89TV The Group of Free Advertising Promote Your Blog and Sites
S4S - Promote Your Pages - Groups and website
Online marketing area - promote website & business
Google + communities to promote your blog
Blogging Tips Community
Blogging
Bloggers Network
Blogger Community on G+
Blog Community
Blog Community - Promote your Blog !
Blog Promotion
Blogger Community
Reddit
Reddit is an online forum for discussion, internet news aggregation, and a place where members of the community can submit links or their website/blog's content for reviews or rating from other members. The members are known to be tough but provide valuable feedback.
Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer-based social media community. If you are looking for exposure to your site, you could contribute answers on a regular basis and be seen as a valuable part of the community. This could give your site needed traffic if you provide links to your sites.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a social networking and microblogging website. Tumblr allows you to share quotes, text, video, music, and links in short forms, and users can follow other people's blogs.
StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon is a discovery engine that recommends content to users based on their preferences. Users can rate website content.
Digg
Digg is a news aggregation site. It collects the most relevant stories from across the internet and shares them with its users. Users can submit stories, blogs post, or links to be voted upon.
SlideShare
SlideShare is owned by LinkedIn. It allows users to upload files to share publicly or privately. You could upload your site's content in PDF or powerpoint for example.
3. EMAIL MARKETING
It’s important to have steady traffic coming to your site but you must have some way of staying connecting to or reaching your readers consistently. An email list allows you to do that. But trying to manage an email list and a blog at the same time can be challenging over time, so use an email marketing service. If you don’t have money to spend on email service and you are just starting your business, here are some good free platforms to help you manage your list.
It’s important to have steady traffic coming to your site but you must have some way of staying connecting to or reaching your readers consistently. An email list allows you to do that. But trying to manage an email list and a blog at the same time can be challenging over time, so use an email marketing service. If you don’t have money to spend on email service and you are just starting your business, here are some good free platforms to help you manage your list.
Mail Chimp
If you have 2,000 or fewer subscribers, you can send up to 12,000 emails per month absolutely free. No expiring trial, contract, or credit card required.
If you have 2,000 or fewer subscribers, you can send up to 12,000 emails per month absolutely free. No expiring trial, contract, or credit card required.
Campayn
Up to 500 subscribers and you can send 20,000 email per month with 1 follow up or autoresponder
Up to 500 subscribers and you can send 20,000 email per month with 1 follow up or autoresponder
Elitemail
Up to 500 contacts and it’s free email sending forever. No time limit. No credit card required.
Up to 500 contacts and it’s free email sending forever. No time limit. No credit card required.
Send email newsletters, special offers, and invitations. No credit card required. Up to 300 contacts and 4,000 Emails per Month
4. GET YOUR SITE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED (SEO)
This can get quite technical but the basis of SEO is the use of keywords that people are using most often to search for things on the internet. If you can use these words in your post, it increases your chance of having your page viewed by more people, and raise your rank in search engines like google. This can get your article or post to the front page of search engine sites. This, of course, drives traffic to your blog or website. SEO marketing has become big business and people spend a lot of money and time trying to understand how people are searching the internet. However, it can be overrated because no one can know for sure exactly what keywords people are using because it changes often.
This can get quite technical but the basis of SEO is the use of keywords that people are using most often to search for things on the internet. If you can use these words in your post, it increases your chance of having your page viewed by more people, and raise your rank in search engines like google. This can get your article or post to the front page of search engine sites. This, of course, drives traffic to your blog or website. SEO marketing has become big business and people spend a lot of money and time trying to understand how people are searching the internet. However, it can be overrated because no one can know for sure exactly what keywords people are using because it changes often.
6. USE CONTENT CURATION SITES
These sites gather information from around the web; organize it around particular niches, and then present it to readers. Add your blog posts to content curation sites to help you share your content with online followers.
7. EMAIL SIGNATURE
A great way to promote your site is to link it to your signature so that every time you send a message to someone, you are potentially getting free promotion for your site when someone clicks the link.
8. WRITE A GUEST POST FOR ANOTHER BLOG IN YOUR NICHE
9. FOLLOW OTHER PEOPLE'S BLOG AND MAKE COMMENTS
10. INCLUDE YOUR SITE'S INFO. ON YOUR BUSINESS CARD
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