The Blog Traffic School Zone

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If you just started blogging, chances are you don’t have many readers, if any at all.

If you are wondering what you are doing wrong, and what you need to do in order to build and audience, this article with help.

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Why is it that some bloggers have all the traffic and others are lucky if they have about 10 visitors a day? You may write regular content for your blog but because no one reads it, you feel like you are wasting your time.

All blogs are not created equal. Guy Kawasaki started a blog and a few weeks after launching he had over 4,000 daily readers.  So what made him different?  Guy is a famous author and biz speaker, so he had the benefit of lots of other bloggers and media spreading the word about his blog for him.  And chances are you don’t have the same advantage as Guy.  I didn’t, I had to earn my blog traffic the hard way and jump from one training to another.

Do You Know How To Market?

Blogging is like starting your own print newsletter or “fanzine”.  First you put the hard work in, gather a collection of articles, images and other content and launch your new publication.  It’s soo sweet when this actually happens.

Once the first issue is ready it’s time to get out there and show it to everyone.  You won’t have a marketing budget or the benefits of a public relations officer drumming up free publicity for you.  But this is done easily and for free in the right ways. But in the beggining, yes, you have to do it for yourself to be able to spend your profits on your advertising, so in the end, your spending time doing the fun stuff, not the time-consuming stuff. 

You wear all the hats for you blog tho: author, publisher, marketer and public relations.

This is why a lot of bloggers fail, they think it’s soo hard.  You produce good content but you don’t know how to market your blog.

Most bloggers do not know where the best places are to drum up traffic and instead use “shotgun” tactics - haphazardly shooting for traffic all over the place using as many random methods as possible with no thought into exactly what is the smart way to get traffic, landing you on the first pgs of google and of the sort.

No methodology. No process.

Start at the beginning

So if you want to learn how to drive traffic to your already exsisting blog and/or to set up a money making blog and prosper, save yourself time and sign up now, and I’ll see you on the other side.

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The first step to build blog traffic is acceping the fact that you will have to *work* for your traffic.  No one is going to do it for you, except the other bloggers on the other side have been taught ways to help eachother drive traffic to your blog in exchange of you doing the same for theirs.  Your blog is your baby and you are a single parent, solely responsible for its growth.  Same goes for any biz,  but working from home changes everything.

Are you okay with that?  Do you accept the burdens?

Yes? Good! Okay, let’s move foward.

Blog traffic building begins, just like a magazine, by creating something worth reading.  You would never go out and hand out copies of your fanzine if it had only one or two articles in it.

Before we even talk about finding readers for your blog you have to ask whether the readers you are chasing will even read your blog once they get there.

Is your blog AMAZING?  Do you have great content?

Do You even know what great content is?

Take a good look at your blog and review whether your starting content is worthy enough to  capture and retain the attention of readers.  If you just switched the ‘on’ button for your blog then there is only one thing you need to worry about.  Forget the traffic dude, sitt down, get your writers hat on and start writing articles, it’s easy to find content out there to write about, but you need to do it the right way or you’ll get TAGGED by the authorities man.  Once taught how to write about stuff.. you’re all set.

If you haven’t done so already, cover at least these topics before properly launching your blog.. ok..

1.  Your About Page

Who are you?  What you are blogging about and why would a person want to read your blog?  What’s in it for them?

Talk about the BENEFITS for your readers, NOT the features of your blog.

2.  Your Contact Page

You need a contacts page because you want to make it easy for your readers to get in touch with you.  If possible, include a nice smiley picture of your face on your contacts page, to make your blog more personal.

Other possible contact details you might consider to include in your contacts page:

- Phone number (if you are comfortable with this)

- Mailing address (ditto)

- Skype, MSN Messenger or Google talk contact details

- A link to your Linked-In, Facebook or MySpace profile

- Your Twitter, StumbleUpon or Digg profile

You can place anything you feel comfortable making available to the public on your contact page.

Personable.. you need to come across as yourself and not some marketing company.  People don’t care anymore for companies.  All over the internet is not companies anymore, it personable and down to earth.. it’s way more ‘in’ these days.

3. Pillar Articles

I’ll discuss the concept of “pillar articles” in more depth in an upcoming article, but for the moment you need to start working on some nice, fat, juicy, meaty… right, you got the picture.. SOLID articles!  Something substantial.  Something worth reading and about facts that teach your audience about the subjects relevant to your blog topic.  Not just news reposts from other websites.  This is orginal from your mind.

So be creative, be interesting, and be inspirational, demonstrate these elements through your blog articles.

Laying The Foundations

Do you know what a pre-launch is?

A pre-lauch is what you need to do before you *launch* your blog.  You take certain actions right, and set up the foundations at your blog before you tell anybody.

So your purpose of a pre-launch is so you don’t go wasting your time marketing your blog to build traffic before anything is in your blog.  There’s no point trying to sell an empty book, right?

Don’t bother looking for traffic in the first month of blogging.  Your blog is online, but it’s better if people don’t know this until you get something there worth reading.  Once the content is in place and you finish all the pre-launch stuff, then you can officially “launch” and get the word out about your blog.  Whoop! lol

So get down, work on your pre-launch stuff and you will be ready and confident when you start to drum up your initial traffic that the new readers you get, will essentially stick around and not high tail it, or click away from your blog.

What Goes Into A Pre-Launch?

If you need help with your blog pre-launch and want to know what the step-by-step steps to take during the first month of creating a new successful blog, I have your way into a private blog training program you can join.

This hands on Mentoring course is called Blog Mastermind and provides a step-by-step guide to take your blog from zero to hero, explode your traffic and build a solid income stream, so you can quit your job and earn a full time income from blogging part time. 

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During the first month of Blog Mastermind it will provide you with step by step lessons that reveal the common mistakes most new bloggers make and how you can avoid their fate and launch your blog with all the right elements in place.

This has helped over 1,000 students successfully launch blogs.  Here’s some feedback received from one of the students and a video below.

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Where do I begin?  I started getting into the idea

of blogging from a friend of mine who earns a

decent living from running websites and the one

piece of advice he gave to me was to learn as much

as possible.  Whilst I have used many resources to

assist my blogging process, yours has been the

easiest to understand and the most informative.

–Andrew Weber, arsenalfcblog.com

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If this is the year you take blogging and making money from home seriously, and want to follow a proven system for creating a successful and profitable blog, then go to this website and read what Blog Mastermind has to offer -

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Talk to you soon guys!

Truly Yours,

~Tredi

“The Best Way To Be Sure Your Cup Runneth Over Is To Be The One Holding The Pitcher.”

~Gino Niccoli

 

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