Using Free Resources To Increase Your Blogs Traffic
Special guest post by Mike Paetzold
One of the best and easiest ways to get traffic to your blog is by taking advantage of the various free resources available on line.
Caveat: Your main or as I call it money blog needs to be on YOUR server and on a domain YOU own. You should be using a WordPress blog there.
Now that we have gotten rid of the caveat, lets look at some of the free tools that are available.
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Squidoo – my absolute favorite
For the purposes of illustration we will pick a topic and use a bad word in my vocabulary ass/u/me that you have done the research and found to have profit potential about Bumble Bees. (Hey I am old and bald bare with me here.)
You buy a domain, create your blog and start putting content there to draw traffic. You are posting at least daily to get started and more often if Bumble Bee is a very competitive keyword. (Yes, I know I just picked that and have no idea if it is a competitive word. Boo hiss on me.)
Now go to Squidoo and create a lens on your topic. Add your RSS feed to your money blog in as one of the modules and make sure that use at least 20 tags. (You did keyword research before you entered this market didn’t you?)
Go to Hub Pages, create a new Hub on your topic and add your RSS feed again. Make sure that you add tags here too. (For both of these you can do a quick re-write of your content to meet the content requirements. Do not use the same content on both sites or what you posted on the money blog.)
Create a Blogger blog using your main keyword in the title you sign up with and create a short post about the great article you just found that links to a specific post on your money blog with the keyword that post was focused on as your anchor text.
At WordPress.com and MSN Live you will be doing the same basic tasks except you will link to a different post on your money blog with the corresponding anchor text.
Once a week you will want to add something to each of these sites. When you visit Squidoo you can add a module or just add a few more keywords and re-publish the lens plus the rss feed from your money blog will be constantly updated.
Hub Pages will follow the same pattern as Squidoo. I usually add a new content module every other week.
Each week you will link to a new post from each of the free blog services with the anchor text for that post.
This allows you to take 5 minutes extra a day 5 days a week and keep a constant stream of links coming into your interior pages on a regular basis.
If you have a commenting and bookmarking strategy along with this you can easily increase the traffic and ranking to your money blog quite quickly with very little extra effort.
Mike Paetzold runs a variety of blogs in various niches along with products and coaching on using WordPress. You can ask your WordPress questions at his blog – WordPress Made Easy.
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Alex Sysoef is an IT Consultant, Internet Marketer and ProBlogger who shares his passion and knowledge of WordPress, SEO, Social Media and traffic strategies on his blog WordPress Howto Spotter. Connect on Twitter or Facebook
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I also do article marketing, it brings great results in several niches. In more competitive categories, a lot of articles are required though.
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Excellent article. A couple steps turned into a schedule, quick and simple for some real traffic…love it!
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Cool post, these services are awesome and a great way to increase traffic without spending a dime – especially when all are combined they create a tight and powerful network…
All the best
J
i think it's a little bit wasting my time, better focus on your own blog/sites marketing
I´m also a bit sceptic about this. Its no problem to have 1000 blogs – but who cares if noones comes and visits them ??
Your “satellite” blogs do also need promotion – which means that your efforts get splitted and diluted.
I have a squidoo and a wordpres blog, not doing too much for both of them – but seeing nothing happening there as well.
Certainly there are situations where it makes sense to go that way – for example if don´t want to get “burned” by Google for things which are not that nice if you get caught. But this is going more into blackhat, and nothing for the usual and meaningful blogger.
So probably better concentrate on one good site !
Andy,
There is nothing black hat about it. Totally legit and it simply works. Weather you choose to use it or not is up to you …. but the method outlined by Mike in this post – works. Plain and simple.
Alex
Alex,
clearly it is not blackhat to add 2 blogs like described. Only if you put it to the extreme which I have seen. People automatically generating 1000 websites…
My main point for me is more the lack of “power” for these sites in relation to the work to create and maintain them. From RSS-Feeds not too much is happening. And valuable fresh content is usually something for the “main page”.
What I´m a friend of is to have “related” sites dedicated to special topics. So for example if you speak about “cheese” you could have a second site especially about “french cheese”. These niche sites tend to rank very well in search engines for their key words.
Andy,
Any strategy can be abused and taken to extreme. Yes, it takes time to create those extra pages but I still agree with Mike – it is well worth it in the end, especially when you are trying to rank for specific keyword. It was described once as “conversation domination” and it simply works. Where your pages are filling the first page of Google search results so anyone going to those pages will still end up where you want them to be …
There is nothing blackhat about it and it is meant to create quality content on same keyword…
Alex
I agree as well that this a very workable and effective strategy for driving traffic. I am using a strategy similar to this and it is working pretty well for me.
Mike has laid out a very workable traffic strategy in a concise and easy to follow manner and I would recommend this method to anyone trying to ramp up traffic to their blog or website.
I think this is a great idea. I have already started implementing it with my own blog. I do wonder about the amount of work required for multiple keywords.
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Great article Alex. I have a question though. Are you against using something like pingPressFM to spam all of your link-building sites (i.e. Blogger, Live Journal, Tumblr, Twitter, etc.) after every new post for the sake of getting more inbound links? Is there a reason why you only link from one of those sites on every new post?
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I’m not
And currently in process of testing ping.fm as one of the options. I don’t think it is a spam since it is your own blogs, just on different platform. I agree that it might not be a 100% “white hat” method but time will tell…
Alex
This is a very systematic and clear approach. How about another post with the example of the “Bumble Bee” posts that would go on each site for some of us visual learners.
Thanks for a value added post
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I am using free online resources like Squidoo, HubPages and other to mostly build back-links to my sites. Do not expect to get a lot of sales from free resources, however they are very helpful if you want to build eBay affiliate “store” (BANS or phpBay Pro) and keep it alife in Google.
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i was just wondering how can u use blogger & wordpress.com to get more traffic.
after reading the post i can say its nice trick but tedious one given that u hav to write corresponding posts in each one
This kind of thing does work. The real trick is organization. It’s easy to set these ancillary sites up and it’s easy to update them–but only if you do a good job of keeping track of all the details for all of your sites.
Good advice.
yes, but before do article marketing, don’t forget to rewrite your article
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I have tried all the 5 free resources above and I have nothing but positive comments to it. On the list, I find blogger to be one of the most effective and also squidoo lenses.. You just really have to appear reputable to make it work all the way..
Also, twitter is free… And twittering is a thing you can to bring updates to followers which, in return, means traffic..