The success of your blog depends on the amount visitors you receive. The traffic strategies mentioned below must be implemented on a consistent basis to work effectively. Select one that works best for your niche then become an expert on it.
5 advanced strategies to attract blog traffic
1. Create videos of your articles
Not all people like to read content in its written form. Many prefer visual and audio presentations. To convert your articles into videos either read them in front of a video camera or create slides of them.
After creating your video distribute it to video sharing web sites to attract tons of new visitors that wouldn't normally read your articles.
2. Do teleseminar presentations
You can use your blog articles to hold your own teleseminar. Google "web conferencing software" to find software to run your teleseminar. String a series of related articles together to present to your audience. Make an announcement on your blog, joint venture partners and newsletter subscribers about your teleseminar. Be sure to mention your blog URL several times throughout your presentation to gain lots of new visitors.
3. Use Social bookmarking
Social Bookmarking refers to web based applications that enables you to store bookmarks online instead of in your favorites or bookmarks on your computer. The immediate advantage of this is that you can access your bookmarked sites from any computer or mobile phone.
To make it easy for visitors to bookmark your posts download and install the "I Love Social Bookmarking" this for Word Press. This plugin currently supports the bookmarking sites: Blinklist, Bloglines, Blogmarks, Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, Furl, Ma.gnolia, NewsVine, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati.
4. Set up an autoresponder
It's well known in Internet Marketing you need to touch base with a visitor several times before they act (ie subscribe to a newsletter or buy a product). An autoresponder enables you to automatically build a relationship with your visitor over several days or weeks by sending them new information.
Instead of only contacting them once and losing them forever you have the potential to create a life long relationship. The most robust and well known autoresponder service is Aweber. They even give you a free test drive or get started for $19.00 a month.
5. Pay Per Click Marketing
Pay per click advertising is a great way to get instant traffic to your blog. Your ads can be immediately displayed on the first page of the search engine results pages. You pay whenever someone clicks on your ad. The key to making a profit is your return on investment (ROI). For example if your product price is $100, your cost per click (CPC) is 10 cents and you sell 1 item for every 100 clicks your profit will be by $90.00.
After creating a successful campaign on Google AdWords, do the same for Yahoo and MSN.
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Herman Drost is the Certified Internet Webmaster (CIW) owner and author of: Professional Web Site Design

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