Learn how to boost traffic to your blog with 5 simple to learn techniques.

Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, administer and update. Search engines love them too! But what is a blog without traffic?

Here are five simple ways to increase your blog traffic.

1. Build a list of blog services that you can ping
There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you’ve updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get traffic from them. These lists are available if you search Google or any other search engine for it.

2. Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or Google or bloglines, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let’s say 50 blogs listed on one page.

3. Update your content regularly
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It’s very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regularly.

4. Post in forums
Post in forums, but don’t spam them. Post something new and unique and then put a link to your blog in your signature. Use anchor text, not just your link. Example: Business Coaching Services versus http://www.coachwithjeremy.com/business-coaching.html. Don’t just post in any forum. For example if you’re selling books, post in forums that are about books. By posting in forums in this way, you will get one-way links to your site which are good for search engine position in search engines like Google.

5. Submit to blog search engines
There are many of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just Google for “blog search engines” and you should find at least 50 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description for your blog.

Follow these 5 easy steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic on your blog!

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Picture: Make sure you add one if you don’t have one on your profile yet. Headshot is best.

Personal Tagline: Write one, and update it. Click on the blue text, “What are you working on”  Maybe place your elevator pitch here?

Don’t Cut and Paste Your Resume: Describe experience/abilities.

Elevator Pitch: Make sure it is within your introduction section. You have 5 seconds to grab attention.

Specialties: This section is where you put your most important keywords for SEO, and searches within LinkedIn. Make sure you use variations of the keywords as well, so you will appear in LinkedIn searches.

Additional Information: Add websites, (customize it, don’t leave it as “My Website” and it can help with Google page rank) Add awards, passions, other abilities. Round out your profile.

Recommendations: Write them and request them.

Answer and Ask Questions: You will get more clicks on your profile when you ask thoughtful questions or give helpful answers. Establish your expertise and credibility in a field.

Add Connections: This boosts visibility and when people scan your profile, they will look to see who you know in common. If you know someone in common, your profile is often viewed in a higher regard.

Profile URL: Make a custom URL, to reflect your name or tagline. (Edit-’Public Profile’ near the top) You can then add this custom URL to your website or email signature.

Groups: Join groups that you wish to participate in their discussions. Ask questions and answer questions there. Be aware that many of the groups have turned into job boards or free advertising. So if you start a group, make sure to specify the rules/regulations. Starting a Group for yourself can be a great way to network and drive business as well.

Applications: There are some great new applications within LinkedIn that enable you to post presentations, travel information, attach your blog to your profile and many other ways to add depth to your profile.

Here is my profile as an example: www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyulmer

Do you want to take your Linkedin Profile and Linkedin Results to the next level? Contact me for a free consultation or learn more about my Linkedin Coaching program.

Jeremy J. Ulmer, Professional Coach, Sales Coach, Sales Mentor, Business Coach, Life Coach, Executive Coach