Blogs: Does This Work For Traffic?

10 years ago

Hi Josh,

Yes syndicating and guest blogging can work for you if you do it well. I have a free training on guest blogging here

I also run a community of bloggers that take part in blog syndication threads which work well. However you need to be constantly growing out your circle of influence and engaging with others in your niche and putting yourself in front of those audiences, when in forums, other blogs, doing webinars etc...

In my opinion you don't need to write blogs as long as 1200 words I do 750 tops and have done for a about 5 years and never had any issues. You don't need massive social media presence you just need to build it as you go.

It's about quality not quantity. Make sure you connect with other people in your niche on social networks. You will certainly be able to generate leads by doing this, so long as your free offer is what people actually want and you have your optins well placed on your blog.

Your best way of monetizing will then be from building your relationships with the people on your list, providing them with value and selling things.

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ColdWritingLLC

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshnano

The problem that I have is I'm terrible at promoting, and I don't have a massive social media account to help promote my blog or anything. What I wanted to k now is that with GOOD and QUALITY content that's as long as I'm having it be (1200 words minimum/1500 Max) could I pull in good traffic just from active and passive syndication?

My plan was once my content was indexed on my blog, submission to top 10-20 article directories for a little boost. Then find a couple of hot hitting blogs in my niche and get a good syndication going. Can I establish my monetized blog with traffic doing this?

I'm certainly no expert in this area but I can say from experience that you will definitely get at least some stream of views from syndication and, if you take the extra few minutes to pair it with keyword research, you can easily work yourself up at ~500 uniques a day. Certainly I'd imagine that you could even get that number a lot higher but like I said, I'm not expert and this is just based on my few month attempt at the same thing.

Now, whether 15,000 views a month is worth all that time and effort is obviously a much different story.

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Joshnano

10 years ago

Thanks for the tips, Beth!

I'm aware that I would have to be consistently getting myself out there, and I had plans to be talking to people in my niche everyday, getting my content out there. I know a lot of bloggers only write content for their one blog seldom (2-5 a month) but personally, I'd like to write content every few days so I have a good backlog of quality content.

I also thought that doing 1200 words would be a little better than 800 or so just because there's more to it. Like you said, I'm not focusing on quantity, but I want it to be REALLY good quality and have as much information packed as possible.

Traffic is my only concern, and I think being active in my niche with other blogs and what not will really help get me out there. I've never actually done it over Twitter/Facebook and am interested in that as well.

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awledd

10 years ago

Press releases would help a lot too. But surely this has to be a long term profit model.

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samkadya

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshnano

Hey Warriors,

I've been doing a lot of lurking and reading up on some of these great threads over the past few weeks, especially. I've ran into quite a few good threads by Alexa Jones, and her syndication/blogging threads. After reading and formulating my own ideas, I would like to know from you fellow warriors if it's possible to bring in traffic (and good traffic too) just through proper syndication and guest blogging?

My idea was to create a niche-orientated blog with WordPress (How original right?) and write my own content that would be between 1200 -1500 words in length per post. Start off my blog with AT LEAST 5 posts ready to go. The blog would be monetized with a landing page, opt in and building a list with giving away a free report of some kind.

The problem that I have is I'm terrible at promoting, and I don't have a massive social media account to help promote my blog or anything. What I wanted to k now is that with GOOD and QUALITY content that's as long as I'm having it be (1200 words minimum/1500 Max) could I pull in good traffic just from active and passive syndication?

My plan was once my content was indexed on my blog, submission to top 10-20 article directories for a little boost. Then find a couple of hot hitting blogs in my niche and get a good syndication going. Can I establish my monetized blog with traffic doing this?

You can build your social media presence slowly but surely. For my facebook page I promote my posts to countries such as India where it is cheaper to advertise than to the western countries. The more view you have the more attractive you become for the search engines. Actually two of my facebook pages are on the first page of google for their keywords.

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Bdotson111

10 years ago

Hi Josh:

Content + sharing or promotion = leads.

I sold my last business in 2005. While working through the non-compete months, I consulted on sales for professional services companies. One of the blog posts I write in 2007 still generates leads for me and remains the #1 or #2 pages viewed on my personal site. A few other pages I wrote on similar topics also are visited regularly.

If you'd like to see the posts, just reply here or PM me.

What helped get the traffic and have it still deliver leads? I posted comments on a highly ranked author's website linking back to mine and the posts have great info for professional services people.

And I wonder why I haven't monetized it....

Post great content, share it -- even if it is only to a few people -- and keep posting.

PS: all of my clients who take the time to post content see an increase in leads and sales. Most people don't stick with it though.

Bill

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dewayneboyd

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshnano

Hey Warriors,

I've been doing a lot of lurking and reading up on some of these great threads over the past few weeks, especially. I've ran into quite a few good threads by Alexa Jones, and her syndication/blogging threads. After reading and formulating my own ideas, I would like to know from you fellow warriors if it's possible to bring in traffic (and good traffic too) just through proper syndication and guest blogging?

My idea was to create a niche-orientated blog with WordPress (How original right?) and write my own content that would be between 1200 -1500 words in length per post. Start off my blog with AT LEAST 5 posts ready to go. The blog would be monetized with a landing page, opt in and building a list with giving away a free report of some kind.

The problem that I have is I'm terrible at promoting, and I don't have a massive social media account to help promote my blog or anything. What I wanted to k now is that with GOOD and QUALITY content that's as long as I'm having it be (1200 words minimum/1500 Max) could I pull in good traffic just from active and passive syndication?

My plan was once my content was indexed on my blog, submission to top 10-20 article directories for a little boost. Then find a couple of hot hitting blogs in my niche and get a good syndication going. Can I establish my monetized blog with traffic doing this?

Since you said "good traffic," then I would say your plan is very iffy. It's better to add more and more content over time using as many long-tail keywords as possible.

There's nothing wrong with your idea in and of itself as part of a marketing plan, except that your article length may be too long (in rare cases, maybe even too short). Getting tired of reading this 1200 to 1500 word BS on this forum. The length depends on how much you need to write to make an informative article. There is no correct number of words. My typical article length is less than 250 words and often less than 150. That's because my niche calls for that. 1500 words would be bordering on insanity, and no one would read it, anyway.

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Michael Shook 10 years ago

Longer posts does not mean better quality. If you write well and it sounds like you do, you will know when you are done writing a post. Having an artificial limit is not going to help you write better.

Some ideas are only going to need 150 words or maybe a nice image and even fewer words, and some ideas are going to need 1500 words to be done well. A couple of times a week is probably plenty, unless you have tons of rabid fans who will abandon you if you don't write more often, there are sites like that, too.

Blogging is about communication, expressing ideas and sharing, if you can do those things in an authentic way, people will notice. And find you and talk about you.
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10 years ago

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If the post is long then other elements should also be included to give it a natural look... the elements:

text
image (with caption, description, alt tag)
table (should be more than one according to where it is needed)
h1, h2, h3 and so one
highlighting important terms with bold, italic, underline
social share button
related posts (related products)

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JRJWrites

10 years ago

Originally Posted by Joshnano

I've ran into quite a few good threads by Alexa Jones, and her syndication/blogging threads.

*Alexa Smith.

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