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...]
How to Set Up Autoresponder Campaign
You've hopefully written your free report and have uploaded the report to your hosting account (server). Now you're ready to set up your autoresponder campaign to get this whole thing going. Before you begin you'll have to have an autoresponder. There are some free autoresponders out there ~ I highly recommend you invest the money to get a quality paid autoresponder. The free services may be free now but it will cost you in the long run. At some point you're going to come to a place … [Read more...]
Upload Report So You Can Share It!
Image by Funchye via Flickr Hopefully you've made some progress with your free report. Heck, maybe you've even finished it! Now it's time to figure out how to share it with your readers. How to Upload Your Free Report If you are using your free report to build your list you'll be sharing it via your autoresponder. However, before you can do that you'll need to have it hosted somewhere. This means you'll need to upload it to your hosting account. When you upload it to your server … [Read more...]
Free Report Writing Tips
Writing a free report is something that can benefit you and your blog in many ways. You can use free reports to build your list, build your traffic, as a lead in for an upsell. There's tons and tons of things you can do with a free report. Here's the rub. A lot of people start to FREAK OUT when they think about writing a "free report". A lot of stuff comes up. "I don't know enough." "Who would listen to me?" "I can't write a report." "I don't have that much to say." "Well, yeah, that … [Read more...]
Weekly Blog Challenge #5
This week there will again be 2 pieces to the challenge. 1. Publish 3 posts to your blog this week. (Good quality content/pillar articles) 2. Create and upload free report to build your list. We'll be going over the steps to create your free report this week so don't panic if you don't know what you're doing ~ we'll work through it together. :) As always when you finish the pieces of the challenge stop back by and leave a message so we can stop by and check out your site! … [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. :)