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How to Attract Visitors to Your Shiny Content

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in Uncategorized

Hi there!

When your blog is new, having merely good content does not guarantee that you will be “found”. Not many people out there have heard about you or your content, so you need to actively market it. Distribution is a vital step after crafting your shiny content.

Luckily, there many things that can help you to succeed in this second step of content-is-king strategy. Here they are:

1. Social Media

Fellas, having a good network in social media will make sharing your good content much easier. It is also a common thing for bloggers and copywriters to share their newest works to social networks. It enables their friends to visit the new content quickly and easily reap its value as well. It is a win-win deal, I believe.

Facebook is always good place to start. Your status update is perfect to share your new posts to your friends. Besides visiting, they will also be able to directly interact with your link via ‘like’ button and its comment form. The more friends you have, the more people will see your links.

Twitter is the newly popular media and many successful bloggers actively use it. You can easily share a link to your newest posts there on your 140 characters of tweet. People who follow you will see your tweet from their timeline (home) page or your profile page. They are your potential visitors.

2. Blog Carnivals

Blog carnivals are articles that contain many links from other bloggers in specific topics, posted in the hosts’ websites. Bloggers submit their articles to carnival hosts through a gateway, and only those who are relevant and good get linked on the carnivals. Each carnival has many editions, ranging from once a week up to once in three months.

The gateway where bloggers and hosts meet is BlogCarnival.com. You can submit your link there to earn more traffic. If the hosts approve your submission and include it on their carnivals, more audience is on your way.

If you want to see my favorite page on the gateway where you can easily choose date based carnivals to submit, click here.

3. Forums

Lads, if you find a forum somewhere that discusses the same topic as your blog, it is good to join and be active in it. Every time you post new threads or responding to other messages, you can leave your signature and link. There is a good chance that other active users on the same message / thread will visit your blog and ‘find’ your content.

4. Comments

Leaving backlinks on your comments can also invite potential traffic. For example, when you visit other blogs and read their posts, you can and should leave your link while you are expressing your response. Other visitors and commentators who are interested with your thoughts will check your website and your content. That’s why you better be unique, interesting, and of course, relevant.

Looking for search engine? I do not put it here for a reason. See, being indexed in Google is easy, but appearing on the first page of search results is much harder. You will need high pagerank for it. That would be harder if you are still a ‘nobody’. Therefore, it is good to stick with writing for humans, not search engines.

Alright folks, feel free to share your marketing technique on the comment section

Tags: Traffic, visitors