Grow Your List Method 5: Blogging Blogging strategies and SEO methods to ensure the blog gets more traffic to maximize profitable list building!
The Money Is IN The List Many Blogs are not in the process of getting people to subscribe to their list. They are to busy trying to sell at every turn. What you should focus on is to get your visitors to subscribe before even thinking about making some money with them. It s called The Money Is IN The List.
Sustainable Long Term List Building Creating blogs can be a great option for list building for those who have more time and creativity. Instant Results? This is not for you! Like article marketing, this technique can take time before you start really seeing good measurable results, so don t be discouraged when this method doesn t show immediate returns. A great way to create sustainable long-term list building, and build your credibility and reputation. Do your very best to deliver great content first and foremost that helps solve your visitors problems., By doing so you will build Great Traffic, which gives you the opportunity to list build.
Stick To Your Plan Plans for list building with your Blog require you to plan well and stick to your plan. The hardest work is at the start. The first subscriber is always the hardest and most costly to get! List building through blogging gets easier once you have built momentum. Be Consistent!
Secrets To Successful Blogging Give Them What They Want: The most successful blogs focus on their target audience. Be Real Knowing yourself and your audience are extremely important aspects of successful blogging. Identify who you are as a blogger, what you ll be blogging about, and who your audience will be; these are key to a successful blog. Be Passionate Passion breeds passion. If you aren t enjoying what you re blogging about, it s difficult to be consistent, so blog about things you truly enjoy. Find a voice that you enjoy writing in and stick with it.
Blogging Secrets Create Meaningful Titles Titles are absolutely essential to blogging successfully: Every blog post title should give readers a reason to want to read the entire post. Write Consistently- Being consistent isn t just good for the blog, it s an absolute requirement for success. Updating your blog often with fresh content serves two major purposes: Search engines love fresh content and will revisit your site more often the more it s updated. Readers love new and fresh content.
Blogging Secrets Keep your site simple and clean! Its not time for flashy banners and buy now buttons. It is all about building a relationship with people through your content and your brand. Be careful not to give you readers to many choices of action to take focus on your main goal. Getting your reader to subscribe to your list Provide good relevant Niche specific, problem solving content. Remember that the purpose of content is to provide value to others. So ask yourself Do you provide genuine value, and is it the best you re capable of providing?
Your Writing Style The style in which you write your blog posts can greatly affect the readership of your blog. Write as if you personally know each person who is reading your blog. (research is important) My suggestion is to always be working towards building a relationship with your readers so they feel they "know" you. By taking this time for them to get to know you, and by you getting to know your readers, you will develop a loyal reader base for your blog. Be careful Think Credible Expert VS Friendships Show that you care, and are interested in your readers. This will develop loyalty and even help your blog go viral as your loyal readers point others toward your blog. Look at your Blog Posts from the perspective of your readers. Read them!
Their Needs Not Yours Never believe that your website visitor cares about you or your product! What visitors care about when they show up to your site is, does the content solve their problem. Your visitor takes one look at your website and turns around and leaves. Why? You designed your web site for your needs, not their needs. Here is something even worse to think about; After they leave they're going to one of your competitors' sites and buy something. A couple things to write down and place where you can see them as your building your website: The only reason my web site exists is to solve my customers' problems. What problems does the page and the content I'm creating solve?
Stop The Clever Tricks Make it clear to your visitors what your blog/site is about. Do not mislead them! If you want better results stop all of the cleaver little tricks. You want your visitor to find exactly what they came searching for. Don t use little disposable content just to increase page views and ad impressions. I find that content rich articles that really give some meat to the visitor are better at generating links and referrals and building traffic.
Squeeze Page Link In Blog Post One of the most effective blog list building methods is to add strategically placed and relevant links to your squeeze page. One of the most effective links to your squeeze page can be found within the text of your blog post. With the increased use of blogs you will find that blog readers are used to seeing links in blog posts. As long as the link has relevance for being there, leads to a relevant benefit for the reader, and offers a solution to their problem or need, you will find yourself with a higher click through a click through will often lead to a good qualified subscriber.. Very important; pre-sell the click through on your Link through your content
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Blog Post Link Process
WordPress SEO Download the following Basic SEO Plug-Ins for Wordpress and install them: All-In-One SEO- Automatically optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization) Google Sitemap Generator- Sitemaps are an easy way to inform search engines about pages on your blog that are available for crawling. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site. Sociable-Automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites!
All In One SEO Pack Plugin
Blog Post Titles Use main keywords that relate to your post in your titles To choose the best title, you must know which keywords your target audience would likely use to find whatever it is you offer in your sites content Beneficial keywords are closer to the beginning of the title 10 Tips to Maximize your list building List Building; 10 Tips to Maximize Subscriber Signup https://adwords.google.com/select/keywordtoolexternal
Content Structure Your articles on your site should contain your main keywords near the beginning of them. Articles should be broken apart with the header tags in between. You should try to include your main keyword once or twice in the first paragraph and place it anywhere that makes sense in the next paragraphs. Try to include your main keyword in the last paragraph of the article. Perfect Keyword Density is a Myth! Don t get caught up in keyword density with your articles at all. Write for humans and not for search engines and the search engines will appreciate your content. Write unique and relevant articles
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Creating Your Opt-in Form Step 1: Login to your admin of your blog Step 2 Click on widgets in the appearance section of the dashboard
Adding A Text Widget Step 3: Left click on a text widget and drag to your sidebire
Adding Autoresponder Web Form Code Step 4: Add Title Step 5: Add Autoresponder Web Form Code Step 6: Save Step 7: Close
Preview Blog Step 8: Preview Blog
AWeber's Web Form Widget For Wordpress
Digi List Builder http://www.digilistbuilder.com/ Exit Pop Subscriber box at bottom of page Subscriber box on each post Subscriber box on static pages Light box on page load Comment Form check box
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Guest Blogging For Traffic Trade posting blog content with another blogger. This is called "guest blogging. Build relationships with fellow bloggers and submit a guest post for their blogs. Remember, its all about your credibility and reputation. Giving your very best gives you the required traffic and of course a backlink. The better your blog, the better guest opportunities you will have!
Facebook Traffic Place back links to your blog on your profile page. Leaving relevant comments to other posts Don't just create your Facebook profile, page or group and then disappear. In order to be effective you need to actively update your status, share great content, join conversations, and engage with other people. By building relationships with your Facebook friends, you can indirectly grow your blog's audience. Place a Facebook ad- Facebook ads are fairly inexpensive, can be targeted, and can raise awareness of your blog
YouTube Traffic Enter your blog URL in your YouTube profile Use Annotations to enter your blog URL Add Blog URL on your slides you may record Say Your Blog URL when recording Enter your blog URL in description.
Leaving Blog Comments Leaving comments on other blogs is a method of attracting people to your blog. Each comment you leave has a link back to your blog. The effectiveness of leaving short little comments and adding your link back to your blog as a marketing tool is poor. These link send a trickle of traffic at best. A more powerful ways to use comments as a communication channel. For example, spend more time on each comment you make so that you add significant value to the conversation. Use comments to form a relationship with high profile bloggers. Form a daily routine
Leave Comments Seek out new blog posts in your niche market and make good, relevant comments on the blogs with a link going back to your website. http://blogsearch.google.com Reciprocal links can still provide some traffic to your website and also can give you some backlinks. The key is to only reciprocate with sites that are relevant in your niche market. A weight loss site should not do a link exchange with a dog breeding website for example. Keep it to a minimum and seek out sites that have a high Google PageRank to do exchanges with.
Forum Marketing Just like commenting, a few value-adding contributions to relevant forums with links back to your blog in your signature file will bring visitors to your blog. The more time and energy you invest in establishing a credible profile and adding value in a forum the more traffic you will send to your blog.
Do Interviews This technique works wonders. You interview a top blogger in your industry and then publish the article on your blog. The blogger in many cases will link to your interview to share it with his/her readers, Doing an interview you can t help but form a relationship. Interviews are easy to do. Easy way to create great content, get exposure from a top blog and form a relationship with a top blogger.
Article Marketing Write articles closely related to your Blog topic, submit them to article directories such as Ezine Articles Create a resource box and linkback to your blog. Apart from gaining a backlink, article submission also sends some good traffic back to the blog Focus on good Keyword rich titles and content Write good informative articles that leave your reader wanting to more.
Create Quality Content The best way to organically build backlinks to your blog is to create consistent quality content. Great quality content automatically generates backlinks when people quote, refer and discuss about your articles and posts. They all start pointing at you.
Thank You Thank You for joining me on this training. Blogging can be a great way for long term list building. As with anything else your best results will come from adding good consistent relevant value to your readership. Time to take advantage of using your blog for your list building efforts starting today if you have not yet done so.