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Giveaway Alert: Driving Traffic to Your Blog
One of the most important things that you need to do, once you have your blog, is to drive traffic to it.
There are a few different ways to do this. If you are looking to drive traffic for free, there is article marketing, or you can build trackbacks and backlinks from other sites. The other way – which costs – is to advertise on other sites and blogs, by paying for banners and buttons on those sites.
What if I told you that there was a way, right now, that you might be able to get your banner on some blogs with high google page rank, AND it wouldn’t cost you anything. Would you be interested? I know I am!
TechMaish is hosting a contest on their site right now – and if you win, your banner will be hosted on a number of high PR blogs around the internet. If you are just starting your business, this exposure is priceless for your blog – and – you might not have the budget for it.
Check out the prizes:
Prize for First Winner
First winner of this contest will get 4 Advertisement Slots from 4 High Page Rank Blogs + FAQPAL.com.
1. One 125×125 Banner from JohnPaulaguiar.com (PR 4 Blog)
2. One 125×125 Banner from TechHamlet.com (PR 4 Blog)
3. One 125×125 Banner from Tricksdaddy.com (PR 4 Blog)
4. One 125×125 Banner from ThesoftHelp.com (PR 4 Blog)
Bonus:- One 125×125 OR 300×100 Banner from FAQPAL.com (PR 5 Blog Post Submission Website)
Prize For 2nd Winner
1. One 125×125 Banner from MyBlog2Day.com (PR 3 Blog)
2. One 125×125 Banner from TechCats.net (PR 3 Blog)
2. One 125×125 Banner from GadgetCage.com (PR 3 Blog)
Prize for 3rd Winner
1. One 125×125 Banner from eblogtip.com (PR 3 Blog)
2. One 125×125 Banner from NetChunks.com (PR 3 Blog)
3. One 125×125 Banner from BloggingJunction.com (PR 3 Blog)
What are you waiting for?
Enter now!
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Can You Be Found?
I had lunch with a former client back in the fall. He had started a business earlier in the year and had contracted a new web firm to design and launch his website. It had been up and running for over six months. His business was still in the early building stages and he wanted me to have a look at his site and offer some feedback.
Rather than go straight to his web address, I decided to go to google and enter the name of his business (which also reflected clearly what the company does) and the town the business is located in. What I found was a surprise and a lesson. He wasn’t on the first page, or the second…or the tenth. That’s when I stopped looking. Ten full pages of competitors – most of which were not in the same city as his business – came up, but not his business.
His site had been up on the Internet for months and he didn’t even make the first ten pages of google when I searched using his full business name – which is also his web address – and city. Not a good sign.
What went wrong and how can he fix it?
Well for starters, he needs to make sure that his site has been submitted to all the popular web crawlers. After submitting his site to these pages, he should be searching for any industry specific directories and add his information there as well.
These are the sites he should start with:
Google Local Search: http://www.google.com/local/add/
Google: http://www.google.com/addurl/
Bing: https://ssl.bing.com/listings/BusinessSearch.aspx
Local.com: http://advertise.local.com/
Open Directory Project: http://www.dmoz.com/
Yahoo! Directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/
Yahoo! Local: http://local.yahoo.com/
After he has submitted his site out to these pages – and any industry specific sites, he should start watching the engines for signs of his site. When it shows up, he should send an email out to friends and family (and anyone else he can corral into it) and ask them to search for his site via the search engines and page down until they find his site and click on it.
The independent clicks from a variety of computers will help move him up in the ranks. It’s a start.
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