Your Blog Won’t Survive Without Targeted Traffic, So Here’s How To Get It!
Everyone needs people to land on their website otherwise it’s pretty hard to make money. The only thing you have to watch out for is traffic that’s never going to convert. If you love having your ego massaged you could easily go out and get a hundred thousand visitors per month. Just look for keywords with huge searches that nobody wants to rank for. You’ll find they have absolutely no adsense value and will be for generic words that don’t mean anything. All those visitors will land on your site, but instead of making money you’ll just end up paying more in hosting costs.
The other option is to target traffic that you know want to find your website. They are somewhere out there in cyberspace just waiting for you to find them. Once they land on your website they will become a loyal follower and read all your stuff. They will also probably buy all your products, so you can see how important it is that you find them. We’re going to look at how you can find them without using the search engines, but bare in mind that each of these methods will improve your rankings anyway and you’ll get even more traffic.
Check out special forums
When you think about what a forum actually is it sounds like the perfect place to find traffic. People spend their own free time speaking with other people about a certain niche. You need to find forums in your niche and start making your presence known. You can’t just start spamming them or it won’t work. You’ll get banned and told never to return. You need to start leaving great advice for people to read and if they like you they will click on the link in your signature.
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Send out a press release
There’s going to be people that don’t read blogs. Not because they don’t want to, but because they don’t yet understand what they are and that they get updated all the time. You can find them through something as simple as news websites because they might read those. You can do that by releasing press releases of special articles you write on your blog. If news websites pick them up they will get splashed around everywhere.
Get a mention
A great way to drive lots of targeted traffic is by getting mentioned in a post by some popular blogger who has lots of traffic. The only way this is going to happen is by getting on their radar. For that you’ll need to take action on something they said and email them about all your fantastic results. They will be so happy they will tell all their readers about you and give you a link.
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Write a guest post
If you can’t get a mention the easy way by someone mentioning you, perhaps you’ll need to do it the hard way by writing the actual article and letting them publish it on their site. You obviously want to write a post for a blog that has your ideal readers as fans already because there’s much more chance of it being a success. Just email the blogger and ask nicely if you can write a post for their site, but remember that it always works better when they know you.
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Are comments still effective?
Blog commenting is still an effective strategy to attract some readers. It’s definitely not going to set the world on fire, but you will get some people coming through to your site. You just have to be careful about what blogs you post on. Don’t bother with the ones that attract hundreds of comments because no-one will find you. Also don’t bother with blogs that pump out rubbish information.
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This guest post was written by Ben, who is the managing director of SEO Positive Limited, an innovative search engine optimization company based in UK.
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Thanks for this Zac,
Targeted traffic is very essential to the building of a successful blog.
In addition to this, people considering starting blogs should do more of building well targeted blogs.
commenting is my favorite because i use it always for my blog and is doing wonder helping me getting more traffic to my blog. SEO should not be forget when we are talking about target traffic.
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So true, Without getting relevant traffic your blog won't survive and you need to use correct way to attract targeted traffic. You need to consistent and spread word about your blog, once you establish your authority then your would see good relevant traffic on daily basis and increase income as well.
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Nice review, using social media facebook, twitter, linkedin, G+ is grat way to promote your blog…
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Traffic is most important for any blog and i think these all ways stated here are good to follow. Specially, guest blogging and handy blog comments.
The press release is something I haven't really tried – – does it work well? Or is it more of a trick to get an extra backlink or two?
I'm a fan of using YouTube to gain targeted traffic. I really believe 2013 to be the Year of the Video and I want to do my best to capitalize on that.
Cheers, Zac!
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I know it usually takes time to build enough targeted traffic to make the site worthwhile. All these techniques you mentioned can really work, but you gotta have the patience to endure months of stagnant website traffic.
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I like this blog, it seemed to have a really nice design. The guy seems to know a lot about affiliate marketing.I have always been confused if I should start internet marketing or not.
Hey Zac,
It's very true that a blogger can't expect to effectively monetize their blog without highly targeted traffic.
I'd just like to add to your awesome post that every blogger should look to build and nurture a good relationship with at least 1000 true followers that's the most loyal followers of your blog who are always keen on purchasing a new product from you.
The latter is proven to secure that ever desired financial freedom based on an automated online business's regular cash streams. This is the key to creating and fully enjoying that internet marketing millionaires luxury playboy lifestyle of your wildest dreams.
This is just my 2 cents.
Thank you.
Bruno Babic
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