Peek-a-boo! I see you!
It’s a cute game to play with our sweet little babies. You hide, you come out, you hide, you come out. Oh, the laughter and fun!
It’s not a cute game when you’re talking about your blog – especially when you are trying to generate another stream of income with all your hard work and effort that you put into it.
My husband and I recently started helping businesses in our local area to create a more effective online marketing strategy. Here are five of the best things you can do to make sure your site is being found by readers …
Number One – Get your OWN blog!!! If you don’t own your domain name and your own space, then you don’t own the content either. They can pull the plug on you at any time – because it’s really theirs. Buy a domain name – it’s only $10 annually. Get it hosted – it’s only $10 per month. Now, you know that you own everything you do.
Number Two – Search for yourself. What do you want to be found for online? Search for those terms and see where you rank. An easy way to find your blog (if it’s not on the first page of the search results) is to use a tool called Rank Checker. You can install it for free and run many different keyword phrases against your domain name to see where you land.
Number Three – Keep participating in carnivals and posting comments on blogs (especially blogs that have CommentLuv or something like that enabled). This will provide backlinks to your blog and search engines will consider you to be more important. You can search for blogs that have CommentLuv enabled by searching for “your keyword here” “CommentLuv enabled” in the search bar. Just make sure to post something meaningful, not a “great post!” spam comment!
Number Four – Check out your analytics. Google Analytics is free and gives you a wealth of information about your blog traffic. FeedJit is another one. How are people already finding you the most? Create more articles about that subject and you’ll be found even more often. If there is something you aren’t being found for, start creating a series of articles about that subject.
Number Five – Use the power of video. It doesn’t even have to be a GOOD video. For example. Certainly not my finest hour, but it gets the point across and I’ve had almost 800 views and many of them have converted to buyers of which we get a percentage. You don’t have to be in front of the video yourself – you can pull together a slideshow of pictures, add in some text, and voila! you have a video. Now, just make sure to add in your website link to the description along with those keywords you want to be found for.
Keep up the great work on your blogs! If you ever need any help, feel free to contact me at “jennifer” @ “homegrownmommy.com” (The email address is disguised so that web scrapers can’t harvest and sell my email address.)
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Blogging truly is a lot of work… but it’s worth it in the end. I have dabbled in the idea of doing video for a few years now but still haven’t taken the steps to do so.
I think I just might need to hire someone to teach me because I get a bit confused when it comes to editing it.
Great pointers here.
All the best best,
Eren
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These are Great Brief Tips especially who needs zest in their blog career. Some are not that focused on their blogs, the more effort you sow, the harvest is sure!
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