How to Attract Visitors to Your Blog or Website?

Hi friends,how are you going with those personal development stuff?I hope you enjoy the videos and ebooks that I recommended in the previous post. Though it is not really related to Internet Business but it teaches more valuable and important skills for us to achieve whatever we want to,for example to succeed in Internet Business. ;)

In today post, I am going to share how to attract visitors to your blog or website, or in other words:

How to Generate Traffic to My Blog or Website?

1. Article Marketing - submit articles to various online article directories.

Here are some article directory sites you can submit your articles for free:
• EzineArticles.com
• GoArticles.com
• IdeaMarketers.com
• SearchWarp.com
• ArticlesFactory.com

Here is the homepage of EzineArticles.com :
Before your submit your articles to the article directories, be sure to read each directory’s Terms of Service and make sure you comply with them. Read through some articles submitted to know how they are done.

Also, be aware that almost all article directories do not allow affiliate links on the body of the article. And some article directories do not all affiliate links in the resource box.

Keep your articles to between 400 to 500 words for better readibility. If you have a long article series, break your article into smaller articles and name them Part 1, Part2 etc.

Create a “resource box” and be sure you add your website URL in the “resource box”. Make your article persuasive enough to get readers click on the URL. Other website publishers who reprint your articles on their website are required to include your resource box information

Example : http://ezinearticles.com/?id=2384244

2. Video Marketing - submit video to multiple video sharing sites

Now there are hundreds of sites that allow you to host videos,however,you only need to submit to about 10-20 of them to get good results.If you submit to Youtube you might get a hundred views per day.But in order to get more traffic,you could either submit more videos or you could submit that same video to other video sharing sites.You have a choice of submitting to them one-by-one or using sites with software that will submit to multiple sites for you.

Youtube, as you know, is the biggest video site and gets the most traffic. So if you post to the site, you're likely to get into the search engine quickly. As a matter of fact,I use Youtube all the time (and a lot of times I get indexed into Google within a few days(just because Google values videos).

A lot of search engines value videos because they provide high quality content.Of course if you follow those guidelines,then you'd want to provide high quality content. Search engines cannot view your video so you will need to work on your video SEO(Search Engine Optimization) which I'll share about that in future post.

So with that said, increased exposure means increased traffic. The more sites you submit to,the larger amount of people will see your video and hopefully link to your blog or become future buyers themselves.

Example : (shown in previous post )

Click here to get better view

Marketing, like sales -- is a game of numbers.The more people you get the message out to, the better your chances of increasing traffic. So,

more traffic = more prospects = more conversions = more sales and of course = more profits

Of course let's not forget that your video and landing page(page that promote products) go hand in hand.If they are all not good, then you may get tons of traffic but very little sales or no sales at all.

While Youtube is the biggest hosting site with over 64 million videos a day and receiving 100 million views a day,here is a list of video sharing and video hosting sites:

Google video
Daily Motion
Flickr
Yahoo video
TubeMogul

TubeMogul has the service for you to post video to multiple sites at one time. You can submit to over 12 video sharing sites for free.

3. Submit blog to Blog Directories

When people search for blogs, a lot of times they look at Blog Directories. So not only are you getting traffic but you are getting one-way back-links.

Just by submitting your blog to about 4-6 different blog directories, it really helped you get indexed quickly into the search engines. Not only that, you actually get some good traffic as well.

Now if you don't know of any blog directories, I would recommend just by going to Google and typing in "Blog directories" or something like "Submit to blog directories". One that I would recommend is Google's Blog Search.

Go to: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping
As you can see there, you can submit your blog if your blog is not listed in their results. Another good site is http://icerocket.com. If you scroll down at the right hand side, it says "Submit Blog". You can submit your blog there as well.

Another blog directory site: http://blogsearchengine.com

If you just go to Google like I said earlier, you type in "Submit to blog directories", you'll find a lot of places that have the top 20 or 10 blog directories to submit to.Now,submitting to each and every directory is going to be very time consuming. I would recommend just submitting to the main ones. Just because it does not always mean by submitting to hundreds of blog directories will get you a lot of traffic back. A lot of times, you can submit to 5 or 10 blog directories but do it to the main and bigger ones and it will be just as good as submitting to a hundred of them.

Each time you make a post, use a service like http://pingomatic.com/ to submit your blog to various blog directories and update different search engines that your blog has updated. Use it only once per post.

OMG! I think there are too much things I want to share in just one single post! Let's continue again next time :)

Have a good day!

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