You built your online MLM blog … and no one came. What a total bummer!
Luckily, there are 3 simple steps you can take to bring more traffic to your blog. And when I say simple, I do mean simple. Even the least geekiest MLMer can do this. Really. Trust me, I’ve seen it happen.
Online MLM Blog Promotion Step #1: Ping It
This is a simple step that most beginner bloggers don’t know about. Pinging is a service that let’s blog search engines like Technorati know that you have a new post on your blog. Every time you post something new to your blog, just ping it. By pinging your blog, you send the message out to multiple blog search engines.
This helps because once you ping a search engine, it will crawl your blog and include new entries in its database. And while your blog may not have much prominence on the web, search engines like Technorati do. That means when someone searches for a topic you have been writing about, they may not find you directly, but they probably will find you via a blog search engine. Instant recognition!
There are multiple pinging services out there, and almost all of them are free. Pingomatic and Pingoat both work well. You just program in your blog name, link, and rss feed, as well as choose the search engines you want to ping, and hit “Go.” You then bookmark the resulting page (the page that shows up after you hit the “Go” button). Then, the next time you post to your blog, just go to that bookmarked page. It prevents you from having to re-program all your blog data each time.
Once you have programmed your blog data into a pinging service, it takes about 3 seconds to ping your blog each time. Three seconds to instant fame. Now that’s simple. Do it now, before you forget.
Online MLM Blog Promotion Step #2: Tweet It
When you write a good blog post, tweet about it on Twitter. Or program your blog feed to automatically tweet about it. Either way, spread the word about your blog post to people in who follow you. This helps bring people who are interested in your writing to your blog site.
Assuming that only people who are interested in what you have to say are following you, by tweeting about your blog post you are speaking to a targeted audience. This audience is more likely to “click through” to your blog than the general internet audience. Again, this helps you be found in an ocean of blog posts (1 million blog posts are published every 24 hours). If you do this step manually, it takes a maximum of 5 seconds. Definitely a worthwhile effort.
Online MLM Blog Promotion Step #3: Post to EzineArticles
EzineArticles is the most popular article directory on the web and, without a doubt, can drive a huge amount of traffic to your blog. Of course, you have to have good content, which means content that is truly useful, usable, practical, helpful, or humorous for this to work. You also have to follow the editorial guidelines VERY carefully.
Submit your best blog posts to EzineArticles. Be sure to provide solid keywords and a catchy description to go with your article. Also, write a strong bio for your account and fill out your profile completely. There are guidelines on how to do all of this on the EzineArticles site. Follow their guidelines and you will be surprised at how many people not only read your articles, but then click through to your blog to read more.
3 Simple Steps for Online MLM Blog Promotion
These steps are very, very simple to do. But you have to do them consistently for them to work. Day in, day out, do these three steps for every worthy blog post and people will find you. It isn’t as hard as you think.
Being found online isn’t about heavy effort, it’s about consistent effort.
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Hey Steph,
These are excellent tips to increase the readership and visitors on your blog. Another great way to get additional readers it to form partnerships with other bloggers in your niche and increase traffic to each others blog. You promote them and they promote you. Participating in forums can also be very helpful if you do it on a consistent basis. After all, most of your target market is already participating in and reading forum posts. Thanks for sharing Steph.