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Why Can’t I Get People To Visit My Blog?

Guest post by: Andy Acciaioli

Article Overview: A major problem that most of we bloggers face is how to get people to visit our blog. Frequently added fresh blog postings will keep visitors coming back but you should develop blog marketing techniques to get traffic to your blog.

Why Can’t I Get People To Visit My Blog?

A better question would be: who knows about your blog?

Frequently posting quality content to your blog will get people to keep coming back for more. However, the problem with most blog owners is to get people to their blog for the first time.

Think of your blog as a retail store. The product that it offers to a specific market is useful information that they cannot find anywhere else. Like every other retail store in order to get customers through the door – or in your blog’s case in order to get online visitors – you have to apply marketing techniques.

Notice I said marketing TECHINQUES not a marketing technique.

You have to use multiple marketing programs simultaneously. For example, share a daily link to your friends on Facebook. Join groups or like pages that focus on similar themes to your blog…since they already have a number of “likes” to their page, chances are you can get this traffic over to see what you can offer them.

Use a service like OnlyWire that will blast out your latest posting to various other blog information websites.

I use Twitter to tweet about my daily postings.

Another useful tool is software to blast your new postings over the internet in the form of an RSS feed or to send them to social network bookmarking websites.

Provocative banner ads also produce traffic for me. I say provocative because you have to break through the banner clutter that is all over the internet. Your few words of copy on your banner should not only attract attention but should get people to click on the banner to find out what in the world you mean by such a statement.

Putting all of these blog marketing pieces together is a chore. I feel as though it is worth it as it produces thousands of visitors to my blog each month. But just as important, it is very difficult and time consuming to create fresh daily posting content, why not get the word out so you can reap the benefits of your effort?

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