You may not be asking how to trackback and that may be because you don't know the potential in using trackbacks... yet. However, this week we're going to be focusing on trackbacks. What they are, how you get them and why you would even want to think about them! What is a trackback? Trackbacks and pingbacks, from what I can tell, are about the same thing. It's wordpress software's way of notifying another site that you mentioned them over at your site. Each time you link to another site … [Read more...]
Guest Posting ~ What Others are Saying
Guest Posting is the new article marketing. Yeah, it's really that important. Instead of posting an article on a huge directory mixed in with thousands of other articles on your topic and about a million other topics you get to post an article to an eager crowd looking for the information you're offering. Please don't let whatever excuse you're using for not guest posting get in your way. You don't have to start with the biggest blog in your niche. You can start small and move up as you gain … [Read more...]
What You Need to Know Before Writing Your Guest Post
Once you've landed your guest posting gig there are a few things you'll need to know before you send your post to the blog owner. These little details will make you a great guest poster who is more likely to be invited back again. You want to make sure you make it as easy as possible for the blog owner ~ since this is suppose to make their life easier. Topic? What topic do they want you to write about? Now I suggest you have a few things in mind you'd like to write about ~ or a couple … [Read more...]
How to Become a Guest Blogger
Last week we talked about submitting your content to high profile sites. This week we're going to discuss one of THE very best ways to get targeted traffic to your site. Become a guest blogger. The benefits of guest blogging are pretty similar to the high profile content sites. You get to put yourself in front of a well established community. You have a blog owner ~ who wants to get traffic to HIS site, so he'll promote your post on his site, which brings traffic to your sites as well. … [Read more...]
Writing a Compelling Resource Box
Now that you're getting your articles up on some high profile site you need to be able to take advantage of the traffic those sites see. The best way to take advantage of the traffic possibilities is to create a compelling resource box (sometimes known as author's box) Right up front I'll admit, I'm not the best resource box writer in the world. However, I do have some tips you can use to play around and see what you come up with. The tips I would share regarding articles posted to … [Read more...]
How To Be Relevant In Different Markets
It's really easy to box ourselves into a corner. We start thinking "Oh, my blog is about this topic _____ [fill in the blank] so I have to find sites that are about that topic to post to". Not exactly. Today we're going to look at how we can be relevant in different markets, and yet tie it up in nice big bow to bring people back to our site. Of course your site won't be relevant to EVERY other site, but you can spread it out more than you probably think. Let's look at some possible … [Read more...]
Taking Your Promotion to a Higher Level
Writing articles to promote your site, get backlinks and traffic is a great thing, and it works. While submitting to ezinarticles.com is great, today we're going to take it to the next level. Today we're going to target some high profile content sites. What's a high profile content site? It's a site with a lot of traffic and popularity in your niche or market. In every market there are sites that allow readers to contribute ~ they may be a community site or a blog. This week your … [Read more...]
Choosing Blogs To Follow
This week the goal is to find 10 blogs in your niche or related to your niche to follow. This can be really easy right? Just go out there and pick some blogs. Yes, it can be that easy, but today I'm going to give you some tips about how you can choose blogs to follow so you can best leverage your time and effort. 1. Regularly and Consistently Updated You want to choose blogs that are active. This means the person (like you) is updating their content 3 to 5 times a week. You want/need … [Read more...]
Your Purpose as a Blogger
You may at first think your purpose as a blogger is to make money. It's not. That's just a byproduct of your purpose. Your real purpose as an authority blogger is to create relationships with your readers and other bloggers. This is sometimes where people realize they are not cut out to be bloggers. And that's ok. If you find this to be the case you may want to think about creating niche sites or product based squidoo sites. Blogging is at is very base a social endeavor. You need to … [Read more...]
Twitter Action Plan
But I don't want to talk about what I ate for breakfast!! We are NOT going to talk about what we ate for breakfast. (Unless you have a food blog lol). We as marketers are going to use twitter to build a connection, a relationship with our target market. We're going to build trust, we're going to build friendships, we're going to build traffic baby. So get over whatever preconceived notions you have about twitter and rest assured you do not have to tweet about what you had for breakfast or … [Read more...]
Let’s Get to Know Each Other!
Social media gives me the opportunity to get to know you better, as well as giving me the opportunity to share more of me than just the "internet marketing" side. I share multiple facets of me, and my life on social media, so if you choose to connect with me don't expect it to be 100% internet marketing... because it's not. :)