Driving Traffic To Your Blog

How to Drive Targeted Traffic into Your Blog
Driving targeted traffic into your blog is the major Thing that will help your Blog to grow and fetch you some income, if you have a very interesting and well designed blog, monetized and fully loaded without getting traffic to your blog you won’t make any Money at all. So the answer to the question of how to drive targeted traffic into your blog isn't tricky, it's just not something people want to hear because it's simple and tedious.

So, you’ve got your Blog set up, found an irresistible gift to giveaway and created a too-good - to-miss one time offer. All you have to do now is to drive traffic to your Blog and the system will take care of itself, helping you to make money, build affiliates and snowball the initial traffic into hundreds and thousands of future traffic automatically.

The key here is that you need to put in the effort to drive the initial traffic. Without the initial traffic, nothing is going to happen.

Here’s how to drive the initial traffic to your Blog:

Go for the bulk traffic!
Since Your Blog is New, You will need to send Bulk traffic to it, because you want to see result FAST or you’ll quit! It’s not your fault. Most humans behave that way. As a start, you want to focus on getting bulk traffic, i.e. a lot of traffic in a short time. You want to quickly build a few hundred people to your list so that you will not feel like talking to thin air when writing your blog. The only form of free bulk traffic I can think of is Joint Venture. If you can JV with someone with a list, go ahead and do it. If not, move on to the next one.

• Joint Venture: This is One of The best ways to send bulk traffic to your blog, just lookout for someone who has an email list and seek a JV with him to send your link to his list, when that is done you will see a number of people visiting your blog, but before doing this make sure your Blog is well built and loaded with useful information that will make them want to visit your blog again, also have a way to let them subscribe to your Blog.

• Purchase one-time, periodic-rate advertisements: This can include radio advertisements, billboard advertisements, classified advertisements, E-zine solo ads, or banner advertisements. All of these advertisements will send a one-time surge of traffic to your site. From there, it is your job to “recycle” those visitors into members or repeat visitors.

• Contextual advertising: Google Adwords will allow you to specifically target your audience by selecting keyphrases and keywords, which, when searched for, will yield your ad as a “sponsored advertisement.” You can do this either exclusively on Google's search network (i.e. Google, AOL, Ask.com, Earthlink, etc.) or you can also do it on their content network, which is essentially any site that contains Google Adsense ads— possibly including your own.

• Paid advertising: Below are some examples of paid advertising you can use:
a) Paid to read emails programs - These programs typically sell thousands of traffic at low prices and really gets you traffic, I have personally used it to promote several affiliate products which earned me nice commissions compared to the advertising cost.
b) List building programs - These programs typically let you build a list for free but they also offer premium advertising service where you can post email ads to their members at a fee. For example, with an upgraded account with www.viralurl.com , you can post 3000 emails to its members every 3 days.
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Here are other ways to drive traffic to your Blog:
1. Natural search engine Optimization traffic: Search engine traffic is the best kind of traffic for Blogs using AdSense income as main source of income. These are people that come to your website and are in the “information-gathering” mode (whether it is information on where to buy a used car or how to make money online). These people are far more likely to click on your ads than your regular readers. Regular readers of any website (that shows adverts) tend to suffer from ad-blindness – their minds subconsciously begin to filter out any visual information they don’t need, and almost inevitably ads get blocked out.

You can get Search Engine Traffic by optimizing both onpage and offpage factors. Onpage factors include keyword density and place, titles, headers, and uniqueness and freshness of content. Offpage optimization includes exchanging links with other related sites. In order to maximize offpage optimization, you should seek out sites that have high PR and Alexa ratings and offer to exchange front page links. Also, make sure your targeted keyword is in the anchor text of the links they put on their sites.

2. Leverage on Article Marketing. Article marketing is a great way to promote a product, service, website or blog. The name says it all: article marketing means marketing yourself with articles and it’s easy to do if you know how. This type of marketing is perfect for bloggers because there is already a lot of content on your blog that can be transformed into marketing articles. Just get some of the themes or topics that you have on the blog and extend them into longer articles that can be used on the article sites online.

Here’s how to create a good article marketing article.
The Title: The title of your article is the most important part, because that’s what will grab the reader. The golden rule is to tell readers what the article offers and tell them quickly – within the first three or four words if possible.
The Body: Article marketing articles are used on websites and blogs, so follow the rules for writing good articles . Put the most important information at the top, keep sentences and paragraphs short and make good use of subheadings. And if you promise five tips, make sure that’s what you deliver.
I usually start with a rough plan which outlines my main points and then I expand on each of those points in a single paragraph. I don’t make these too long, as the average article marketing article is between 250 and 500 words long.
The Resource Box
The resource box is where you get to promote your product or service. It needs to contain your name, the address of your website, your elevator pitch and a call to action. The elevator pitch is a couple of sentences that say what you have to offer. It briefly answers the question ‘what’s in it for the reader?’ The call to action aims to get readers to your Blog to buy, join, signup or whatever you want them to do.
Where to Submit: There are hundreds of article directories, so the choice can be daunting. Some of the best ones I’ve used are:
• www.ideamarketers.com
• www.goarticles.com
• www.ezinearticles.com
• www.contentdesk.com
• www.articleworld.net
• www.articleworld.net
• www.articlebase.net
There may also be article directories specific to the niche you want to target, which may be a better option for some people. Alternatively you can use an automated article submission service to speed up your article submissions and also give you the maximum coverage possible for your article. www.submityourarticle.com is a very good service for those who are time limited.

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