Every time you make a post to your blog, you have an opportunity to get a flood of traffic to your site.  And, the best part is, even if your blog is brand new – these are strategies you can use to get results almost immediately.  You don’t have to wait for weeks while your blog gets high rankings in the search engines, and you don’t need to keep forking over money for pay-per-click traffic.

So, how can you do this?

Use RSS feeds

Many people get confused when it comes to RSS feeds.  All you need to do is take down the address to your blog feed and your comment feed and submit them to as many feed aggregators as you can find.  There are many kinds of software out there which can help you to easily automate this task if you don’t want to do it by hand.

*There is a plugin by Ed Dale called RSS Bomber that takes a post or a page and creates a single feed for each one on its own – giving you the ability to submit multiple feeds pointing to the same site.

*Another tactic you can use is to take the www out of the feed url and submit it as a separate feed.  The directories will look at it as a unique and completely new feed – giving you double exposure.

*Install the WP plugin RSS Footer, and configure it so that it will post a backlink in the footer for every post in your feed.  You will be getting a ton of keyword targeted backlinks every time you submit your feed.  And, guess what else?  Anyone who comes along scraping your site to steal your content will be giving you a great backlink to your site!

Use Social Sites to their Highest Potential

The first thing you need to do, is sign up with ping.fm where you will be able to associate all of your different social accounts like Facebook, Twitter, digg and many others.  Go ahead and add all of the ones you have, and create any new accounts you need.  You can register accounts just for the blog you are wanting to get traffic to.

The next thing is to make sure that all of your profiles include your blog address and that they are all in sync.  Now, whenever you make a new blog post, you can head on over to ping.fm and post an interesting snippet about your latest post that will be interesting enough to draw traffic back to read it.

You can get almost instant traffic, even to new social profiles that you have set up.

*Look online for the latest plugins you can use with WordPress that will update ping.fm automatically every time you publish a new post.

Give Love to Comment Luv

Comment Luv is a hugely popular plugin that people use on their blogs.  When you comment on a blog that has this installed, you will get a live link back to your own site.  The link that is shown displays the title of your latest blog post, so that every time you make a new post, the link where you left your comment will update with the new post title.

You can see a tremendous amount of traffic from this – especially if you have been fortunate enough to get your comment near the top, or right at the bottom of the post.  You will get a lot of exposure from that location.

Bloggers love this plugin too, because they know that it will encourage commenting on their posts, which in turn brings more traffic to their sites too.  So, you can spend some time finding some good blogs in your niche that are using Comment Luv, and make a point of leaving helpful, and meaningful comments on these blogs whenever you get a chance.  Have their RSS feeds updating to your iGoogle homepage so that you can see whenever a new post is put up so that you can get your comment into the top few spots.

You also want to make sure that when you write your blog posts, that you use compelling titles that will draw readers in.  You only get the one chance to get their attention, so make sure you give them something to make them want to click-through.

All it takes is a little bit of time to get things set up, and you will be bringing in floods of visitors to your blog in no time.

OK – for those of you who read my blog regularly, you likely notice from time to time lately that the look changes.  Yes – it is supposed to be doing that, because I am somewhat of a perfectionist when it comes to some things, so I have been trying new themes out to see how they look and feel.  So – don’t be alarmed if you come here one day and everything looks different than it did the last time!  I think I have settled on one design that I like, but feel free to leave a comment or let me know if you see one you really like, or even one that you really hate!

I am about to start reviewing a product that I am going to pick up today.  It is a higher priced product ($97), so I wanted to start going through it myself to let my readers see some honest feedback about how it works.  I have bought so many different products over the years, and some have taught me a little, some have taught me absolutely nothing but how to throw my money out the window.

New Case Study – Marketing Online

So I thought I would like to try doing something I haven’t done on this blog before.  I am going to get a product that I have heard very high reviews about, and I am going to start from scratch using the methods in it.  I will be completely honest in what I say about it – in fact, I have already spoken to the creator and told him I am going to be doing a review about it on my blog.
I am impressed so far – because I received a personal reply from him answering some questions I had about the product before I order.  Not many “guru’s” will do that – I have been around long enough (over 5 years) to know that for a fact.

I am not going to tell you what the product is yet.  I am going to pick it up later today and start going through some of the material.  I will post tomorrow with some of my thoughts.

This is something that will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about how to make money using the internet.  It is for those interested in affiliate marketing, blogging, SEO – really anything that has to do with marketing online.

Freelance Writing for Magazines Course

And, for those who have written to me to let me know that you are interested in learning more about freelance writing, don’t forget that you can now get a copy of the Freelance writing on the Web guide here.  But, if you are interested in learning more about freelance writing for magazines – then I have some good news for you too!

I know I had quite a few of you contact me saying you would like to learn more about magazine freelance writing.  Because I have been making money with freelance writing online for awhile now, I thought I would like to try being published.  The pay is WAY more for the work you do, and you can write about topics that are actually of interest to you.

I have been taking a course for the past few weeks with a freelance writer who has been published in many magazines, and who is well known in the freelance writing world.  I am going to do a review of that course as well for those who are interested.

So – that is what is in store on my blog for the next few weeks.  If you are wanting to share in the case study of the program I am picking up today, or if you want to be sure to catch my review on the freelance writing course, then I hope you will be sure to subscribe to my blog so that you can get updates!

I hope that we can all learn together – and I can share some of what I feel about the courses to help you out. I am looking forward to getting started!

**The following is an article which kind of explains a bit about becoming a blog consultant for offline businesses.  If you have been online for any amount of time, then you likely have some knowledge that even you don’t realize is in high demand in the offline world.  Taking that knowledge, and using it to help offline businesses is a great way for you to build a business that makes you very good money.**

If you have been online for any length of time you’ve been exposed to a blog in one way or another. In fact you’re probably using one yourself and understand the importance of a small business utilizing a blog for several reasons such as increasing traffic, building a relationship with your readers, etc.

Not all people are as fortunate as those of us that know the importance of blogging. Speaking on a local level if you’ve ever had a conversation with a small business owner who has a brick and mortar business you have probably come to the conclusion that some of them don’t even know what a blog is!

That’s where a Virtual Assistant who loves WordPress, has a creative side and doesn’t mind working mostly behind the scenes can utilize their services by becoming a blog consultant. Then you can start evangelizing to small business owners in your local community not only the importance of blogging, but the truth – blogging is smart for business.

So exactly what is a blog consultant?

It’s someone passionate about blogging. They love blogging in general but more importantly they understand the importance of blogging for small business owners and want to share that understanding with small business owners, especially on the local level.

So if you’re that VA mentioned above and are passionate about blogging and want to share that passion with others then be sure to check out Become A Blog Consultant. If you’re not a VA that’s ok too, this course was created for anyone who has a passion for blogging and wants to share it with local small business owners.

If you go here, you can watch a quick two minute video and see a real life client example and sign up for a 16 minute audio that will help you decide if this is for you.

Become A Blog Consultant