4 Tactics To Increase Your Blog Traffic THIS WEEK

Do you want more traffic to your blog?

Well, why wait? Don’t let grass grow under your feet. Here are some tips you can put to use THIS WEEK to bring more traffic to your blog.

Write a Guest Post.

Find at least one blog in your market, author a guest post and send it over.

You don’t have to ask first. Just do it. The worse that could happen is they say “no”, in which case you just send it to somebody else. Here are some tips on guest posting.

Increase Social Participation.

Go out and comment on other blogs.

If you do not already have a bunch of related blogs set up in your feed reader, do that right away. Then, start commenting when you have something to say. Do the same on Twitter and Facebook. You’ve got to be a part of the conversation to be noticed.

For this week, make a goal to post 20 meaningful comments or tweets per day. Or you could go crazy and apply Christian’s Power of 100.

Create A Piece of Link Bait

Link bait is a post written specifically to be attractive and thus spread virally.

Now, here are the keys to link bait:

1. Make it useful.
2. Make it so thorough that most other people would be too lazy to recreate it. Why? Because they’ll just link to you.

Classic link bait would include big lists (“50 Ways To XXXXXXXXX”) or huge lists of resources.

So, spend some time, create some link bait. Then post it and seed the content launch.

Performing a content launch is something I talk more in-depth about inside the Blog Masters training program. But, in short, you seed the launch then give it wings.

Hint at the content coming soon (much easier to do if you have a mailing list). Then, when you post it, blast it to your list. Simultaneously, inform other bloggers in your niche about your piece of stellar content. Give it wings by having the major social networks linked up so people can share your post.

If you can’t complete a piece of link bait and launch it in a week, then get started on it and launch it next week.

Get An Attitude

People respond to posts which make them react emotionally. Your job as a blogger is to push their buttons.

Realize that you can inform while also pushing buttons. Nobody is saying to go all “shock jock” on anybody, but at the same time, writing like a corpse isn’t going to make you popular.

So, get controversial. Show an attitude. Be funny. Tug at their heart strings. Show your personality. Review the concept of the pattern interrupt.

Remember, too, give your content wings.

With that, you have your homework for the week. I’m purposely limiting this post to items I think you can do in a week. There are plenty of things that should be done for long-term growth, but that’s for another post.

Be sure to report back!