Most people have a nice blog all set up and are diligently posting useful information every single day for their target markets to enjoy but guess what? The target market is not even getting this useful information to read let alone enjoy it! Why? What happened? What can you do about it?

Well writing and updating your blog daily does not mean people will automatically receive this information! A blog, just like any other website, needs to be promoted in order to drive traffic to your blog and to get people to read what you are posting everyday! So here are a few things that you can do to start getting traffic to your blog for Free!

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Sick of adwords, directory submissions, social bookmarking and various online traffic generating methods? well don’t be, since those methods really work. However right now im not here to talk to you on them, I’m going to write about something different, actually totally opposite. Offline marketing!

Most people spend countless dollars and time on online marketing. Not that its not important, but most bloggers or webmasters are missing an important aspect of Marketing. How often have you thought of promoting your website or blog to the outside world without the internet? I myself never thought about it until a few weeks ago, and trust me that move was very rewarding.

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People tend to dislike blogs with stale and uninteresting content. Bloggers often face a challenge of continuously adding new and interesting content to make their blog a happening site for people to visit. Below are some tips for the bloggers to overcome this challenge and find new sources for getting ideas about new and interesting content.

Browse The Internet To Know What Is Talked About

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One of the biggest challenges webmasters face is bandwidth theft and the problem is that many internet users are unaware what hotlinking is.

Hotlinking, also known as bandwidth theft is direct linking to a web site’s files. When you link to an image on someone else’s server instead of saving the image to your computer and uploading it to your blog you are stealing that websites bandwidth.

Most websites have a limited amount of data transfer (or bandwidth) allowed. If they go over this limit, it costs them extra. Stealing bandwidth therefore unnecessarily increases the cost of hosting. Also, with many hosts limiting the amount of bandwidth a site can use monthly, their site could be shut down for exceeding bandwidth quota.

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Monetizing Your Blog Part 2 - Visitors to Your Blog
By Simon Hemmings

I published Part 1 regarding Blog content and how to retain the visitors.

Today we look at Visitors who are the life of our blogs without them we would rant to ourselves

Visitors.

Put simply without visitors, traffic or hits to blogs, in most cases is a waste of time.

All the gurus online give us all sorts of suggestions as to the best way to gain traffic(visitors) from picking the right blog URL, to submitting our blog details to different directories.
As mentioned in my first blog, to get traffic can be summed up as “ Become Known”

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The difference between a successful blog and one that fades into nothing is in the number of readers visiting each day. If your goal is to create a large source of income from your site then attracting more visitors is key. This means that you need to increase both your new or unique traffic as well as regular readers.


Create a Loyal Readership


RSS Feed

This is one of the most basic pieces of the blog puzzle which creates a stable group of visitors reading each of your daily postings. An RSS feed notifies your readers that you have created another article and made a new posting on your blog. The RSS feed will also help create a stream of income as more visitors mean a higher page ranking and better search placement.


Social Networks and Engines

There are a number of social bookmarks and other networks available for blogs to utilize. Using a small piece of code on your website, each of your posts can be bookmarked, shared and voted on by readers around the world. Some blogger favorites are Digg, Technorati and Del.icio.us.


Friends and Family

When starting any new business you should first have the support of your family and friends! Let them know that you’ve started a blog and get them to visit on a regular basis. While this will increase your readership immediately, they can also support you by book marking your postings, referring their friends and talking about it with colleagues.


Increase New and Unique Traffic


Search Engine Optimization

The old saying, “it’s easier to keep a customer than find a new one” truly fits on the web. Attracting new visitors will be through a combination of regular postings, great content and search engine optimization techniques. When creating a new article, think about who will be visiting the site and what they will be searching for. Decide upon your main keywords and use them throughout the body of the post.


Niche Marketing

This technique requires a little additional work but it will pay off with a huge amount of traffic. By looking for optimized search terms with low competition you can direct a huge amount of free traffic to your site. The best part about niche marketing is that everything you do costs nothing and the traffic you receive will be hungry for what you’re offering!


Final Thoughts

Each of these tactics takes some time to implement on your site. The important thing to remember is that any source of residual income can only run on auto-pilot after the preparation work is done. By using these techniques within your blog strategy, you will find that your traffic will increase significantly and your increased income will follow!

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What is a blog? Not only that, but what are blogs used for? If you don’t know the answer to that, where have you been for the last three or four years? The word blog is short for web log, and is strictly a record of the changing content of your website. People who were interested in the content of your site would register to receive your blog, and would be informed whenever a page on your site was updated.

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If you are trying to sell things on the Internet and you do not have a blog you are putting yourself at a disadvantage. Would you go to play golf without a putter?

Your competition is blogging and they are beating your pants off every day with ease. A part of blogging is submitting your articles to social directories.

Here are 4 reasons social marketing must be a part of your Internet business.

1. Social marketing is a popular way to get information. Directories like Digg and Netscape are quickly becoming the choice of people all over the world as a way to keep up to date on what is going on.

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Increasing web site traffic is appealing to all of us who have web pages or blogs, or for those of us who promote affiliate programs. I will be showing you a few ways to increase your web site traffic with out spending a lot of money.

One free way to increase your web site traffic is to create a blog at Blogger.com or to create a lens at Squidoo. Both can be up and running in less than an hour and Squidoo also has a revenue sharing plan. Squidoo can be quite addictive and you can create an unlimited number of lenses. I will discuss lenses a little more in an upcoming article.

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So many top bloggers complimented over the use of server-based wordpress as the platform for blogging. In fact, there is even a statistics to prove that top 100 blog earners use wordpress in contrary to Google blogspot. So, other than multiply, a free blogging platform interweaved with member network, I join the wagon too.

My personal experience – it isn’t WYSIWYG (What You See Is What Your Get) as proclaimed. It isn’t that user-friendly as that of Microsoft word. It really takes me quite a while. My experience of trying to do alignment, spacing, paragraphing, changing of font and colour with wordpress is quite a turn-off.

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