Whether you are a new blogger or an expert webmaster, this simple guide could help you build traffic for your site. SEO and promotion is the most difficult part in running an online business and if you will rely only on paid advertising, you will end up as a loser (if you don't have enough budget). A successful blog always starts with free advertising combined with good promotional behavior. Before you continue reading this simple guide, asses yourself first and make sure you have the following.
1. At least 4 hours online time daily - Doing your normal online activity while promoting your site.
2. Resourcefulness - Discover new and useful ideas applicable to meet your goal.
3. Willingness to learn new ideas - You must be open for new ways and techniques in SEO.
4. Superb dedication and patience - Bringing your site on top of Google cannot be done overnight.
5. Positive mind - Losers never quit, quitters never win.
This hobby is proven to be effective, no money involved, and always have great outcome. Here, I am going to explain in details on HOW and WHAT you are going to do to promote your site on daily, weekly, and monthly basis.
DAILY ADVERTISING: Forum Posting, Blog Commenting, Directory Submission, Trafficswarm.
Forum Posting - 3 to 5 hours daily with 30 to 50 posts in at least 5 highly populated forums.This is very easy to do because while you are posting, you are also learning. Five posts in Digital Point Forum in a popular thread could send a minimum of 10 unique visitors to your site especially if your signature is attractive. Do not rush and enjoy reading others' posts before you reply and do not think you are posting just because you are advertising. You will get demotivated if you think like this. My top 5 recommended forums that have good signature spaces are Digital Point, Sitepoint, V7N, Dreamteammoney, and Namepros. These forums are dofollow and are applicable whatever type of site or blog you are promoting. If you have enough time or wanted to hire others to post for you, our Lists of Dofollow Forums could provide you wide selection of forums.
Blog Commenting - While you are browsing the forums, you might stumble into others' blogs and you might get interested in some articles. Make sure to leave a simple comment related to the article in every blog you viewed. Never put keyword as your name when commenting or the admin will mark your comment as spam. Do not after for the anchor text. This is for backlink and not for traffic. Blog commenting is proven to be very effective in link building and PR. I am not telling you to do this full time. Just post comment on some blogs of your interest. And if you don't know where to find these blogs; especially dofollow blogs, you may visit our Lists of Dofollow Blog Directories.
Daily Directory Submission - Submit your link to 10 to 15 link directories daily . I do not suggest to submit more than 20 daily because Google is not fool enough to index your tons of pages in in just one day. Google already noticed this. Bulk submission is not a good idea and besides, it's tiring. In order to stay on focus, make it consistent. Try to use this very useful guide in submitting your Blog to Directories Daily. Submitting your link to 10 or 15 Directories daily will take only around 15 minutes to do using this Link Building Guide.
Trafficswam Credits - Of so many traffic exchanges sites that I trtied and tested since 2003, Traficswarm is the only program I sticked with until now. So far, this is the most convenient way of promoting your site. Don't tell me that traffic from trafficswarm is useless. It mght be your site's content that is useless if you cannot convert visitors from Trafficswarm into subscribers. I can collect 100 to 200 Trafficswarm credits for 4 hours while at the same time doing all of the above methods. Clicking a link in your Trafficswarm Homepage very 20 seconds I think is not a very difficult job to do. Visit Trafficswarm to know more about this great program. Trafficswarm sends at least 15 unique visitors an a daily additional RSS subscriber daily to Myseoblog.net.
The above ways of advertising your site daily is just a part of my daily activities. Of course there's a lot but the above is my main pick. Addditionally, you may submit your site only to Social Bookmarking Sites the moment you have new articles. Social Bookmarking is not advisable to include in your daily activity. It will only consume your bandwidth without any good return.
WEEKLY ADVERTISING: Article Submission, Press Release, Message Groups/Forums, Classifieds
If you have a daily activity, you must also have weekly. You can do the following in any day of the week provided you have time. I am suggesting you to do this weekly because doing this daily is tiring and will result only to spamming according to the eayes of google.
Article Submission - It's up to you how many articles you can submit provided you are not submitting one article more than 5 times into different directories. You can do this daily but in order to stick to your daily schedule, do it weekly.
Press Release - Do the same with your article submission schedule. Press release does not have a proper schedule. You can submit a press release everytime you have a new article in your blog and if you wanted to promote it through press release. But then again, in order to mantain your daily schedule, do this not on regular basis.
Advertising in Message Groups and Advertising ofrums - This is what I am doing. I am advertising all of my links to the Lists of Free Advertising Forums every Sunday. This is done through a massive posting of ads into these forums advertising folders. Of course after a week, your ad disappeared on main page so you need to redo it on the next week. But you must continue on searching for similar forums and message boards. Message boards incluses MSN, Yahoo, Google, and other groups.
Classified Ad Sites - I will include Yahoo Answers here. Posting your site or ad into free classified ads weekly will increase your site's exposure. Posting your site daily in Craigslists is not good idea. Make if weekly or any day in a week.
MONTHLY PROMOTION
I could not really think of any method that you can do on monthly basis aside from Search Engine Submission. Yes, submit your site to search engines on monthly basis so that they could maintain your site in their lists.
There are a lot of ways to advertise your site and the above steps would probably answer to the most common questions in DP and SP like "How do I promote my Site?", "How to increase traffic?", "Where to advertise?", "Is free advertising effective?", Id forum posting effective?", and so on... There are always questions because there are thousands of people daily jumping into Blogging bandwagon and they don't know wanything about promotion and SEO. Others are just lazy and wanted some more easy and simple way.
Be sure also to analyze and monitor the outcome of what you are doing in orde to know if you are on the right track or not. These SEO Tools could help you on this monitoring.
Well, I hope the above simple steps could help you and I would really appreciate if you can post your result here after a week of following the Daily guide, especially in forum posting. To know the result of my forum posting activity, you can just take a look at the sidebar . before I forgot, maintaining a network of friends in Blogcatalog and Mybloglog is another great way opf having regular visitors.
