Last Thursday was the latest (4th) of the Alex Jeffreys modules which was about Social Media and how to drive traffic to your blog.
Start time for me is at midnight and to make things a little more interesting we were out in the forest having a weekend family gathering (compulsory!).
So, a bit behind at the moment but the boss said no computer business this last weekend (you know how it is).
However, with the help of my old laptop and the G3 “dongle”, I managed to make contact over the high trees and join the Live Coaching call.
And I am very glad I did as the content of this call from Alex was first class.
This call was all about getting traffic using Social Media.
As we all know no traffic means no list and no list means no business, so this was definitely worth listening to.
First point made was that blogs do attract Traffic.
Suggested ways to build traffic are :-
- Show an interest in people
- tell them what you are doing
- tell people how to do it
- provide good content
- leave comments on other blogs
- provide value on other peoples’ blogs and get some of their traffi
- JVs
- get involved with Twitter
- use Youtube
- review other blogs.
Alex used the analogy of oil rigs and fish. Man made structures(oil rigs) attract small fish, which in turn attract bigger fish, which also attract…………….and so o
This was used to explain that traffic building starts small and builds up over time.
This is started by taking a look at other blogs in your niche and making VALUE comments. By adding your signature to your comments, which should include a link to your blog, you will also receive traffic in return, if your comments are VALUE COMMENTS.
You can also add comments to the “big blogs” as well but you must, yes you’ve got it, add VALUE otherwise your comment will just be deleted.
