Getting More Traffic To Your Blog

in Blogging, Marketing, SEO by Thomas Skavhellen on December 30th, 200811 Comments

So it’s about time I wrote this blog post as we are in the middle or soon in the end of a traffic competition in Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I’ve been working on some other things with my blog so I consider myself out of the competition or at least not in the top 10 of who is getting the most traffic. Even so I have a a number of steps that I work on that I want to implement into my daily and weekly blog work so that I can raise the traffic to this blog to new heights.

Before I go into the steps I must say that there is no easy steps to get a lot of traffic to your blog like super fast. Well, if you don’t count buying 10.000 visitors for $45 that clearly isn’t targeted and will not stay on your site for very long. The success of a blog is based on the readers of the blog. The more people that read the blog regularly, the more contents of the blog is spreading, and then in the mean time it will develop your blog bigger and bigger. The key to success is to build great content and a core audience. That’s why my steps for getting more traffic to my blog is a bit slower then most of the students that is part of the competition. I’m going for targeted traffic and building a relationship with my readers. It’s part of a branding strategy and this week it really seams to work, so let’s get to it. read more

Blogging Is Important For Business Owners

in Blogging by Thomas Skavhellen on October 9th, 2008No Comments

If you run a small company, you may find that the world of blogging for business owners is a world that you want to be a part of. Blogging is a great way to get the word out to consumers about your product or service, and it can even be useful for inspiring employee loyalty and helping you keep your workers at peak morale. If you are looking for a way to take your business to the next level, consider what starting a blog might be able to do for you.

Blogging for business owners has a lot in common with all other types of blogging, but it has its own unique pitfalls and strengths. The key to having a successful blog as a business owner is keeping your goals clear and concrete at every step of your blogging adventure. It can be all to easy to get sidetracked, especially if you are just learning about the exciting possibilities of blogging technology, but if you want your blog to succeed you need to stay focused. Write up a plan for how often you will update, how you will promote your blog and retain readers, whether you will feature photographs or video, and other aspects of your blog, and then stick to it with the same kind of determination that you used when you built your company.