Social Media Strategies For The Nub
Once you start to grow, you will inevitably come to a point where traffic slows and you need to take things to the next level. In order to break into the next tier of success you must find new ways to bring readers and traffic to your site. Here are some tips to do so:
1. Get Around The Blogosphere
Pick blogs that are not overloaded… Once you find them start to really read and leave valuable comments behind. You will see that people will have a much better reaction to your blog and a nice chunk of traffic will develop if you branch out to enough blogs. Keep in mind that you don’t want to spam, and the blogs you find should be within your niche or topic.
2. Submit Guest Posts
Develop quality posts for other blogs in your niche. Chances are the visibility will come much quicker when your post is on high traffic blogs. Pick blogs that have a tendency for high backlinking, commenting, and spreading of content. Not only is it good for the blog owner for your content to perform, but you will reap traffic rewards as well.
3. Free eBook = Crack
People love to get free eBooks that are usable. Develop an eBook around your niche and then come up with a way to give it away. Such as signing up for a newsletter, commenting, or whatever. I would sway to the side of getting more readers in return of giving the eBook away.
4. Create Better Content
Once you have a large amount of content you will easily be able to tell what type of content performs well for your site. Most of the time you will find that posts that took time, and have a lot of details do the best. Not every post you write is going to perform as well as you thought, and some may perform way beyond expectation. Learn what quality content is for your site, and focus on creating it.
5. Keep Your Popular Posts Updated
This one really applies to lists and other resource like posts. After some time you may notice that you still get a lot of traffic to certain content and people are really using it. This is an example of content you should update. Keeping things current will draw even more traffic and use as the resource grows and becomes more popular around your niche.
6. Give People A Reason To Come Back
While not everyone will like your blog, a lot will need a reason before they return. Contests always do well but sometimes you nubs are not able to hold them. Simply give away your free eBook to everyone or create valuable content. If you convert people into subscribers and bookmarks, you have a much better chance of seeing them come back.
7. Get On Some Forums
Start up some nice forum posts, and get discussions going on various forums. After you have build up a large post base, put a link in your signature. Another quick and easy way to get some starting traffic. This method will not bring you 100K a day, but it will quickly get your blog or website started.