- Get a good selling concept. Realize who your competition is, and offer a unique means of selling.
- Be patient regarding search traffic. Rely on social media in the meantime. Friend other bloggers.
- Expect about 10 views a day in the beginning until a reader with many more followers than you shares your content.
- Network on Facebook and Twitter most of all.
- Flatter and link to other bloggers. Consider an "Influential Blogger Roundup" post mentioning and linking to 10-50 leaders. These people will want to share your positive press with others. Grow with others as they become established for more traffic.
- Establish "fast buzz" - Combine a Top 10 list and quality "cornerstone" content. Write 25 top bloggers and ask for their strangest productivity tips. Keep it short and get your foot in the door. Briefly introduce yourself and your blog, mention 2 others who have responded, say you'd be happy if the blogger could just answer a simple question, and ask it.
- When starting out at least have a very popular post with a week's worth of cornerstone content backing it up. Promote all this with social media and email subscriptions. Shape your content to encourage signups.
Also:
- Keep creating good content to share. Test and optimize, link to old content, make access to your archive easy. Link to personal favorites on the right sidebar. Feature personal favorites in newsletters.
- Commenting has gotten weak lately but can still get you blogger and popular commenter attention. Choose your targets wisely. Forge relationships while giving out value.
- If you're at a plateau, increase your field of influence by reaching into other communities.
- Offer a high quality freebie ebook or blog post.
- Check out The Blogger's Guide to Facebook by Pat Flynn.
- Reach into email, podcasts, and YouTube.
- Continue to help people; stay ethical in helping first, selling last.
- Check out the Thinktraffic.net manifesto.
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