A Traffic Generating Strategy with Quick Results
I can assure you SEO works, but it takes time to get it right, and to actually witness noticeable results especially for new websites. I was very excited when I started my blog and had a great momentum going, but there was one thing that always brought me down:the traffic stats from Google analytics.
I’m sure you know this feeling, to pour your heart and soul in writing contentcreating backlinks and after a while when your checking your stats…15 users visited your website?!?
Right? Well what I found out is the key to keeping motivated and keep the momentum going when your starting out is to see quick results. Just listen to this podcast episode of Pat Flynn interviewing Corbett Barr from ThinkTraffic.net and you’ll know what I talking about. Link to Pat Flynn’s podcast
I’ve also written a post on how to jump start traffic to a new blog with social media, you might want to check it out…but not just yet.
The fact is that social media can actually deliver quick results when it comes to traffic. All you have to do is build a community around yourself, of like-minded people who have an interest in what you’re putting out there.
The strategy is quite simple actually, let’s take Twitter for example.
The first thing you should do is to find out who are the most influential people in your niche.
Start following those people. After that go through their followers and start following them, when you start it’s recommended you don’t follow more than 200 people a day.
What you will notice is that after 2 or 3 days a lot of the people you followed are starting to follow you back. After these 2 or 3 days you will then start to unfollow the people who didn’t follow you back and repeat the process again.
The fact is, this is the easiest way to get a lot of followers on Twitter in a relative short amount of time, and the best part is that these people are most likely to have the same interests you have regarding the content they read and share.
As a blogger most of your time should be spent writing content and coming up with new ideas for posts. Growing a community of like-minded people around your content takes up a lot of your time, that’s why the best thing you can do is to automate this process.
I often find my self spending hours on Twitter or Facebook, when normally I should be writing posts for my blog.
Automation will free up a lot of your time and also drastically speed things up.
I know a lot of people dismiss automation when it comes to Twitter because there have been many cases in which Twitter banned people who used services that automated their activity on the social network.
But as long as you don’t over do it, and the most important thing, don’t spam people with your messages everything will be ok.
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