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One lesser Known Tip that increased my Traffic by 150%
By SEO Advisor | July 24, 2010
I started blogging in the beginning of the year 2008. My first blog was on a very specific niche in the careers market. Traffic was not too much and I kept struggling to get a few visitors to my blog. I read a hundred different books on getting traffic by commenting on other blogs, participating in discussions in various forums, article marketing etc. Nothing seemed to be working. Almost all ideas to get traffic seemed to fail. It was not that I did not see an increase in traffic. There was for sure an increase, but it was just a trickle. It was not enough for my blog.
In my experimenting at Internet Marketing, I was making some good money with my mini-sites and other affiliate marketing businesses, but I was a failure at blogging.
I started a second blog towards the end of 2008 focused in the Internet Marketing niche. This blog was able to attract some traffic to it, primarily because of the topic it was covering. As my quest to increase traffic to my blogs widened I stumbled upon things like Guest Posting. It worked. Guest posting got me considerable amounts of traffic. But that did not increase my traffic by 150%.
How I increased my traffic by 150% -
Guest posting had worked for me. Nothing else worked as much as Guest Posting did. My traffic increased considerably.
As I was guest posting, I noticed something special. There was something that I was doing after every guest post. As soon as my guest post got published, I wrote a linked article on the same topic that I had written the guest post on, at my blog. I knew that people would click on my links in my author bio at the guest post and come to my blog. I wanted to give them more information on whatever they were reading so that I can establish credibility. While I published this post on my blog, I also made a reference to the guest post that I had written.
Unknowingly I was promoting some other blog in an attempt to promote my own guest post.
This struck me.
This meant that other guest bloggers, who wrote posts for various blogs would also be working on promoting their guest posts and thus the blog.
My Tip to increase traffic – Invite Guest Posts
This is where I decided that I would invite guest posts on my blog. Guest posts gave me fresh content with a newer perspective from a new author. My readers enjoyed this change and referred more people to my blog. At the same time, the guest bloggers also promoted the posts that they had written at my blog. That gave me a stream of traffic which just did not die until about a month. My articles were able to retain at least a few of these new readers who became my subscribers.
A few of these new readers became guest bloggers at my blog again. I kept supplementing this traffic with newer posts from guest bloggers and it worked just like geometric progression.
The cumulative effect of this saw my blog traffic grow by 150% in a matter of 35 days.
You can start by adding a “write-for-us” page at your blog. Make the links, “Do-Follow” to get better results. Join forums like “My Blog Guest” in order to get guest bloggers.
There could be another 1000 ways of getting guest bloggers to post at your blog. Pick one or, a combination of a few of them and increase the traffic to you blog.
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