Attract More Visitors To Your Blog - 9 Strategies...

Attracting more people to your blog is essential for improving your individual brand and monetizing your blog. In today's guest post, Korah Morrison shares her helpful traffic generation tips. Attract more visitors to your blog with these simple steps: 

1. The first method you may wish to think about is simple advertising. Advertising works and there are many methods you can use to advertise your blog--both online and offline. It will cost you a little bit of money, but its expense all depends upon how badly you want people to see your blog. 

2. You can try a guest post on someone else’s blog. This is where you add quality content onto someone else’s blog in return for their blog linking to yours. This will bring you direct traffic from the readers of the article who follow the link, and will help you to appear higher up in the search engine results pages. If you do wish to appear even higher in the search engine results pages you should consider the aspects of SEO. This is the act of making your blog post easier to read by the search engines, so that they list you higher up in their search results. Submit a sitemap to Google so that they list you in their search engine results. 

3. Do not be afraid to talk about it on social media. If you have followers or friends on social media platforms, then talk about your blog and encourage people to go and look at it. Talk about its topics and the angle you took on certain issues. 

4. Add a link from your email to your blog. Have one embedded at the bottom of your emails so that every single email you send out has a link to your blog from it. You may also add a link from your website if you have one. 

5. Allow people to link from your comment section, if you want them to comment and to keep coming back. Links are handy for rising higher in the search engine results pages, so people will happily keep coming back and commenting every week if you allow them to post links. 

6. Have an exciting or interesting title for your blog posts. A dull or boring one will not attract many visitors. Make sure that you write about the title you choose. Don’t add a title that is exciting and interesting if it has nothing to do with what your blog is actually about. Do not make your title misleading, but do make it exciting or interesting enough to grab people’s attention. Sometimes it is only the title of a blog that encourages people to even bother reading your blog.  

7. The use of social bookmarking. Put the plug social bookmarking. It is quite possible to get targeted traffic from these services. 

8. Compile lists. People love to read lists of any rules, tips, techniques, relating to important questions. Very convenient when all useful tips collected in one place. 

9. Commenting on other people's blogs. It is desirable to leave comments on popular blogs. And not just comment, but clever and useful comments. It could allow you become noticeable and get attention. Traffic from popular blogs is very useful. 

If you're struggling to generate traffic to your blog, consider these helpful hints.  Over time, by taking small actions in the direction of your goal, traffic will start to build.  Stick with it!

About the Author: Today's guest post is by Korah Morrison, writer on essay writing service and she likes to write about seo, blogging, social media and internet marketing.

How To Promote Blog Content

Ever since writing my latest book, Blogging Made Simple, I continue to get inundated with questions on how to promote individual blog posts and any new content that you or your company may produce.  As is always the case with new content or digital assets, you should publish to your website or blog first.  I would also advise you to use the "rel=author" tag to claim content as your own.

Once you've created your content, the next step is to promote it for maximum exposure and search engine optimization value.  Where do you start?  Thanks to Launch Grow Joy, you no longer have to guess.  They've provided this fantastic infographic (click image to view) which details 30 ways to promote your blog posts or any other digital asset for that matter.

The best place to start is by leveraging your social media accounts.  Start by developing accounts on all of the major social networks including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, and Google +.  Once the accounts have been established, let your clients know, post your social media icons on your website, and share them with your potential audience.  As you build a network, you'll continue to increase your reach and exposure.

After publishing to social media accounts, focus on bookmarking.  Stumble Upon, Digg, Reddit, Delicious, and Technorati are all effective platforms to link to your content.  In addition to publishing to social and bookmarking websites, don't neglect all of the other resources at your disposal.  This includes leveraging existing contacts in your database to spread the word.

Whether you maintain a client list or have emails for customers, pushing content out that's relevant to their wants and needs can pay huge dividends.  Not only will your customers appreciate this information, but they can share with others who are seeking similar types or resources.  The last piece is syndication.

Launch Grow Joy was smart to cover Syndication in their fabulous infographic.  Syndication is the process of taking your content and distributing it to other audiences who can benefit from your content.  Syndication is one of the ways that sites always seem to have a fresh source of daily content.  Repurposing content that adds value to a particular audience provides benefit to publishers and those seeking valuable information.

Don't just publish new content, promote it.  This is how to optimize the value of what you have to offer and continually improve your brand, reach, and revenue!

Make Money Blogging - Blogging Made Simple

It's finally done. If you want to make money blogging then Blogging Made Simple, the next book in the ".. Made Simple" series is for you.  Now available, Blogging Made Simple shows you how to grow your blog popularity and start making money.  Check out Blogging Made Simple on Amazon.com.

In addition to my previous books covering SEO, PPC, and Article Marketing, I wanted to share all of my secrets for building and managing an award-winning blog.  In this title, co-author Justin Freid and I share more than 10 years of combined blogging experience to help anyone develop a blog that gets results.

If you need help starting your first blog or making money blogging, then be sure to download your own copy of Blogging Made Simple (also available in paperback) from Amazon.com.

I'm really excited about this book.  Not only is it ideal for current bloggers, but it really takes you through a step-by-step process for developing a content rich blog quickly and easily that makes money, generates a large list of followers, and so much more.  Some of the highlights of the book include:

1. How to develop your blog from scratch using WordPress, Tumblr, and Blogger.

2. Optimization strategies to ensure your blog ranks well among search engines.

3. Traffic generation strategies to grow you list of blog followers and subscribers.

4. Secrets for monetizing your blog (while you sleep).

5. Outsourcing strategies for developing content and managing your blog.

Whether you're currently blogging or interested in starting your own blog, check out this guide to elevate the quality of your content, generate followers, or simply attract more income.  These powerful blogging secrets are yours for the taking and will show you how to make money blogging.  Download here.

How to Install a WordPress Blog

This past week I tried to install WordPress on a new domain via a "quick install" feature on Godaddy.com. Guess what?  It didn't work.  The good news is that with some back and forth with Godaddy support, I finally got the real instructions.  If you're struggling to install WordPress on a new domain, follow these instructions.

Installing WordPress using Go Daddy Hosting Connection is the easiest way to get WordPress up and running on your domain if it works (it didn't for me).

However, you can install it manually into your shared hosting account using the following instructions.

To accomplish this, you will need the following items:

-A compatible hosting account which supports PHP and MySQL

-Your FTP account login information. This includes the FTP User Name and Password for your hosting account.

-A MySQL Database for WordPress and the Database information.

-The latest version of WordPress which you can download from Wordpress.org

NOTE:This article assumes you already have a compatible hosting account and your FTP login information. If this is not the case, obtain these items and then return to the article.

The next step is to create a MySQL Database for WordPress.  No one ever told be this about installing WordPress but trust me - this is what gets your installation actually working.  Follow these specific instructions and you'll be up and running in not time.

-Log in to your Account Manager 

-Click Web Hosting.

-Next to the hosting account you want to use, click Launch.

-In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click the MySQL icon.

-Click Create New Database.

-Enter a description, WordPress for instance.

-Enter a user name and password.

-Specify your MySQL version.

-Specify whether you want to allow Direct Database Access.

NOTE: Direct Database Access is a less secure way to manage your hosted databases which most users do not require. If you do not need to access your database remotely, then you should not enable Direct Database Access. For more information, see Why Connect Remotely to Shared Hosting Databases.

Verify your MySQL database settings. If everything looks OK, click OK. It may take a few minutes to create your database. Click your browser's Refresh button to check if your database is ready.

Once you have set up a database for your account, you can find your host name information by clicking the Pencil icon next to the name of your database. Note the following items, as they will be needed later in the install process:

1. Host Name
2. Database Name
3. Database User Name

Now, you need to download the latest version of WordPress from their servers. This can be found at WordPress.org.

-Install WordPress

Unzip the file from WordPress, and then upload the contents of the WordPress folder to your hosting account using an FTP client. This directory can be stored anywhere in your account, in this example it will be in the root (http://www.coolexample.com).  NOTE: Do not upload the wordpress folder itself, only its contents.

Begin the WordPress installation by going to http://www.coolexample.com/wp-admin/install.php.

-Click Create a Configuration File.

Click Let's go!

Complete the following fields, and then click Submit:

1. Database Name — Enter your database's name.
2. User Name — Enter your database's name.
3. Password — Enter your database's password.
4. Database Host — Enter your database's Host Name.
5. Table Prefix — Do not modify this field, unless you want to run multiple WordPress installations.

Click Run the install.

Complete the on-screen fields for your blog's details, and then click Install WordPress.

That's it! Your WordPress blog is now installed. For assistance in the set up and maintenance of your blog, see the Getting Started with WordPress page at WordPress.org.  Also, be sure to search online for help from people who are experiencing the same issues you might be having with WordPress as a full site or blog.  Happy blogging!

For help with additional blog resources visit blogdash.