5 Secrets to Drive Online Traffic to your Blog or Page

5 Secrets to Drive Online Traffic to your Blog or Page

Have you ever wondered or ask this “How do I Drive traffic in my blog or Fan page?” It’s the most asked question since we all want to drive traffic to our sites without spending that much on paid advertisements.

But for the not so versed, what do we mean by “drive traffic”. It’s the ultimate goal for most people specially those who want to share their ideas or for some its business. Simply put it, “drive traffic” means views, usage, ratings or popularity. Think about a famous music video or movie in youtube.com, let’s say “The secret video” most videos have at least 100,000 views. Meaning people all around the globe has viewed that item 100,000 times; it creates so much online traffic that it’s so popular that even if you do a Google search, the item appears. That is our GOAL, to drive traffic! So how do we do it??

What I am going to share is what I have learned from online research, feedback from people as well as personal experience.

To sum it up, there are 5 items that you can use to drive traffic in your site, blog or pages.

1.  Social Media
2.  Social Bookmarking
3.  Blog Comments

4.  Forums

5.  SEO

So first of all, Social Media. This is no longer a stranger for all of us, actually Social Media’s like Facebook, Twitter, linkedin and youtube has been used and capitalize by so many big companies that it is proven already how powerful it can be repeatedly. Take a look at some establish companies using the power of Facebook like Pepsi, coke, pizza hut even schools  and resorts have their own Facebook page that has millions of followers. You know what’s the best part? Most of these social media’s if not FREE are cheaper compare to the traditional advertisements!

So how do you do it? Most Social Media are FREE so take advantage and create your own page or accounts and keep this in mind:

          a.  Be Unique. Design it base on your brand

 b.  Make it interactive and FUN
 c.  Always remember to Add value to your friends or followers. Don’t just focus on your sales pitch 100 times a day
 d.  take advantage of different tools available
 e.  Don’t Spam

Social Bookmarking is more on giving, sharing or “bookmarking” the relevant links to your sites so that people can find you. I checked the trend for Social Bookmarking and there are a number of recommendations like Digg or StumbleUpon. My advice is to pick one or two, stick to it and see how the feedbacks come in rather than juggling all of them at once.

Blog Comments and Forums for me focus on one thing, Building relationships. This 2 are similar in approach since you will be investing some time to build rapport, establish trust and value not only to you but to the community as well.

Some tips about Blog Comments and Forums

          -     always ADD value. Remember, your building a relationship so avoid nonsense comments or sale pitches just to add your name in the community

-          Don’t do your Social Bookmarking here unless there is a separate thread for that

-          Respect other peoples post and or ideas

-          Use your name when interacting with the community

-          Always put value on your comments so that it attracts attention

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is a functionality available to blogs that helps you and the people find your ideas. Samples are

          -     Keyword search

-          Tags (words related to your post)

-          Naming Images or pictures

In most cases, like in Blogger, there is a built in SEO function and step by step procedures to help you so don’t be lazy in reading the FAQ’s. It’s there to help you.

So that’s what I can share with you today and I hope that it can help you further improve your online marketing may it be for business or for that personal goal that you were able to share an inspirational idea to someone.

Oh by the way! As my mentors always tell me, Great Ideas and Learning’s are useless (pardon the term) if you procrastinate and don’t put it into action. Those items above are proven methods by hundreds if not thousands of people, its time you prove it as well.

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Cheers!