The 8 How-To Tips for Building Traffic to Your Blog
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your sister, father, girlfriend and best friend about your new blog but that’s about as far you went when it comes to finding readers.
Here are the top 8 techniques new bloggers can use to find readers. These are tips specifically for new bloggers, those people who have next-to-no audience at the moment and want to get the ball rolling.
It helps if you work on this list from top to bottom as each technique builds on the previous step to help you create momentum. Eventually once you establish enough momentum you gain what is called "traction", which is a large enough audience base (about 500 readers a day is good) that you no longer have to work too hard on finding new readers. (Now, this blog has a 1000++ readers, are you one of them? If no, Join us now!) Instead your current loyal readers do the work for you through word of mouth.
Top 8 How-To Tips
8. Write at least five major "pillar" articles. A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn’t news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
7. Write one new blog post per day minimum. Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.
You don’t have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
Is There A Career For Blogging?
This post is summarized from the Daily Blogging Tips. Photo by Depts.
Stashing away from full time job for blogging is an active bait for many of the starter blogger. Unfortunately, very few actually end up reaching that level, and that too after much privation. The cardinal key is consistency and patience. The pressure of incessantly churning out new content must be dealt with equally fortified persistence.
To really earn a range of full scale income, you have to build up the momentum and this article will discuss some points to show you the way:-
Organizing multiple sources of Income
This is vital to realize that by just advertising in your blog, you’ll not be able to really power up your income stream unless your blog is hugely popular for some reason. For example, talk about some niche topic in your blog just like what ProBlogger talk about making money by blogging.
Thus, the best deal is to develop some other source of income using your blog. For example, introducing some affiliate programs in your blog. You may earn up to 5 digits income just depends on affiliate sales. Check out How JohnChow achieve that with his blog. You can also sell premium contents as another way to add some extra income flow. All these together if effectively combined, can generate some good money over the time flow.
Dealing it as a Business
To generate a consistent financial stream, you must treat your blog as a business instead of a hobby where you can invest your time in an irregular fashion. Save plenty of time for your blog to work on it, you may feel a problematic at first but with time everything will take off smoothly. Beside these, you must be willing to reinvest some part of the money back into improving your blog. It will open more opportunity for higher revenue. This a crucial part and you must take this step into high consideration.
Managing Multiple Blogs
If you have more than one blog, then you can naturally generate more cash flow. However, having said that, it may sometimes become too onerous to manage all the blogs at a time, in that case, you should concrete the position of one blog and then concentrate more on the other blogs.
A Different Approach
In this approach, you will blog for another blogging side. The advantage is not only you can get the extra income. If your contents are good, you can actively make friends with other bloggers and gradually build a network of contacts, which is indeed very important.
So these are few of the tips to give your blogging dream-start.





