Guest Blog Your Way to Success (Easy Traffic)

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Hey Warriors,

Since I am new to the forum, I wanted to start off with sharing some of my knowledge with everyone. When I first started in online marketing, I was just like every IM newbie...broke. I did not have much to spend on media buys, PPC, PPV, Etc... I tried doing the whole SEO process, but found out that I am not very good at it and I hated waiting to see if my sites would even get indexed.


After failing many times with SEO, I needed to get creative... So here is what I did to get some fast traffic results. I partnered with blog owners in my niche that had good relationships with their readers and with the search engines. I contacted over 25 blog owners that were in my niche and offered to write for them in exchange for a link to my site (a related blog article). The articles were all unique and SEO ready, so many of them jumped on board. Within days of submitting my articles, I was receiving consistent traffic from my partners.


The best way to think of this traffic generating process is what's in it for them. They get fresh unique content while you get some traffic from their site. Not a bad deal.


Here are some tips when following this traffic generating technique:

  1. Research niche keywords
  2. Write articles based on the keywords
  3. Make your articles enjoyable/helpful to read
  4. Add pictures to your articles (make sure they are optimized for SEO)
  5. Don't add affiliate links! Add links back to articles on your blog that relate top your post on that blog.
  6. Build a solid relationship with the blog owner. Ask him/her if they would like you to submit your articles to a couple social bookmarking sites for additional traffic.
  7. Ping every article as soon as it is published
  8. Rinse and repeat
This is one if the easiest ways to generate fresh consistent traffic that I know of. The best part of this method is that your article will be online FOREVER. Just think about that. If you write one article each day, that is 365 articles in a year. Even if each article only brings in 100 new visitors a month, that is 438,000 fresh eyes to your site. Hope you see the power in relationship building.


Good luck,


Mike
#blog #easy #guest #success #traffic
  • Profile picture of the author Broyde
    Why is it that other blog owners in your niche did not look at you as a threat? It seems to me that having a guest blogger on my site who has a competing business would work against me. Or is it that your business complemented theirs?
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingQA
      Originally Posted by Broyde View Post

      Why is it that other blog owners in your niche did not look at you as a threat? It seems to me that having a guest blogger on my site who has a competing business would work against me. Or is it that your business complemented theirs?
      I haven't really had any issues with this. If the articles are written properly and if you are bringing value to their readers, most blog owners won't have a problem. Since you are not directly promoting your site, there really is no harm.

      I forgot to mention to look for blogs that have an "About the Author" section. If the blog owner doesn’t want you to add a link to your site in the article, you can add a link in your author bio.
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    • Profile picture of the author jpsween88
      Originally Posted by Broyde View Post

      Why is it that other blog owners in your niche did not look at you as a threat? It seems to me that having a guest blogger on my site who has a competing business would work against me. Or is it that your business complemented theirs?
      I do guest blogging all the time, and preach this strategy to all beginners. If done correctly this can mutually benefit each party. It help with natural SEO link building as well as drives traffic to both sites.

      Some people also have problems finding good unique content so guest blogging is a great way for people to get content as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
    This works in many niches but not the MMO niches. Think about it .. no leverage.

    If I offer a jv .. most will just try to find my affiliate program.

    Offering commissions on a product gets the same treatment.

    Plain and simple .. I will scare most of my competition. Honestly .. once I get their members on my list, they probably should have been scared. Not just me but any good marketer.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingQA
      Originally Posted by Troy_Phillips View Post

      This works in many niches but not the MMO niches. Think about it .. no leverage.

      If I offer a jv .. most will just try to find my affiliate program.

      Offering commissions on a product gets the same treatment.

      Plain and simple .. I will scare most of my competition. Honestly .. once I get their members on my list, they probably should have been scared. Not just me but any good marketer.
      I see your point, but I am going to have to disagree. This is why you do not promote an affiliate product right of the bat. Promote something like a free report where you can then in turn build a relationship from that person's traffic. Once you have established a relationship, promote whatever affiliate product you like. That is the smart way about using this method. I have personally done so and it does work. Even in the in IM niche.
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      • Profile picture of the author Joseph Pragasam
        I think guest blogging is really a good way to bring traffic back to your site. In order to do that, your guest blog post must give the readers value. If the post is about self promotion or promoting affiliate products, then this tactic won't work.
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      • Profile picture of the author Troy_Phillips
        Originally Posted by MarketingQA View Post

        I see your point, but I am going to have to disagree. This is why you do not promote an affiliate product right of the bat. Promote something like a free report where you can then in turn build a relationship from that person's traffic. Once you have established a relationship, promote whatever affiliate product you like. That is the smart way about using this method. I have personally done so and it does work. Even in the in IM niche.
        I can promise you any internet marketer with a following worth targeting will not offer you a guest post .. let you offer their traffic a free report .. and expect nothing but the content in return.

        You might get someone who has a little traffic or someone who doesn't understand leverage at all but try your method on someone getting real traffic.

        It is easy to get a guest blog on someone's site who is getting a hundred or so unique a day .. try it with someone pulling in over 2500 or so a day .. they will laugh at you. But ...

        I have been doing this profitably for over 14 years now. I can write about almost any subject in the IM niche. Have been payed rather good money to write ghost post for people.

        I have been payed over $100 for less than 500 words for content for others on here. Several times.

        This is a huge marketing forum. I have several free reports to give away to anyone's traffic reading this. Want me to place free, original, unique content on your site in return for a fee report to your readers?

        I will even lower the bar of entry. All you need is a consistent 1000 unique a day. I must be able to qualify traffic before we make a deal. Understand. I will be placing your traffic on a list I market to. I will do everything in my power to assure this traffic they do not need to look any further than me to get all they need to make money online.

        Bet I don't get any serious takers.
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        • Profile picture of the author seohallmark
          Guest blogging add values to our link building campaign, I see not only we can build quality links, but you can also drive targeted traffic that buy your products or sign up your offer. All we do is target relevant niches and post SEO optimized article which helpful to readers, so they eventually click your links.

          Not only these benefits, one of my client improved their page rank from PR1 to PR4 in 3 months by just guest blogging on quality sites.

          So guest blogging is highly recommended link building strategy after Google Penguin.
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  • Profile picture of the author ronorr
    I think the guest blogging is a great idea and I have had other smart people tell me the same thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author movemaker
    This is a slow technique but it def does work in the long run. Justin Brooke who is a traffic king uses this.

    Everything stated above is def accurate.
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  • Profile picture of the author writeaway
    That makes a lot of sense if the blogs you're targeting get decent traffic. Also, their owners must also be very tolerant of blog posts based primarily around SEO keywords. I use a different tactic. I focus on READABLE and ENGAGING content while keeping SEO elements intact. It's a WIN WIN WIN situation. The readers win because they get engaging materials that push them to participate more in the blog's community. The host blog owners win because they get 100% original content that engages their readers. I win because BRAND the readers while getting some sweet backlinks for my clients.
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    • Profile picture of the author MarketingQA
      Originally Posted by writeaway View Post

      That makes a lot of sense if the blogs you're targeting get decent traffic. Also, their owners must also be very tolerant of blog posts based primarily around SEO keywords. I use a different tactic. I focus on READABLE and ENGAGING content while keeping SEO elements intact. It's a WIN WIN WIN situation. The readers win because they get engaging materials that push them to participate more in the blog's community. The host blog owners win because they get 100% original content that engages their readers. I win because BRAND the readers while getting some sweet backlinks for my clients.
      Exactly! Go for quality and provide true engaging content. The SEO aspect should not be the main focus. Every post you create must be a WIN WIN WIN.
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  • Profile picture of the author cs.marketer
    I would focus more on pleasing the reader rather than pleasing the search engines. Yes if you SEO your article up to the eyes balls, you'll have an advantage of a few extra visitors BUT I would rather keep the reader so engaged so they have no other option but to click my link at the end.

    Great idea though, and I truly believe everyone should start with guest posting (if their quality of writing is up to standard) even if it was just to network with other people in their niche.

    after all

    Networking is vital in business
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  • Profile picture of the author raffman999
    Guest blogging works. If you get your post on the right site you not only get a good backlink, but contextual, pre-sold visitor traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author Randall Magwood
    Guest blogging is cool, but you have to find different sites or blogs to write for. I like simple article marketing better though.
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    • Profile picture of the author marco005
      Hi,

      Does the guest blog post method works great to promote affiliate products?

      Also you put a link in your article (if is allowed) direct to your product review presell micro page?

      best wishes
      marco005
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    It is easy to get a guest blog on someone's site who is getting a hundred or so unique a day .. try it with someone pulling in over 2500 or so a day .. they will laugh at you. But
    I do it all the time with people who are getting 5,000+ visitors a day but not in the IM niche.

    Does the guest blog post method works great to promote affiliate products?
    I can't see many bloggers allowing you to put direct links to affiliate products.
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  • Profile picture of the author marco005
    Hi,

    No not put the affilliate direct link on guest blogs. The most allowed to put your link to your own site. And on your own site you have a good written product review who has the affiliate link within?

    I think this works with micro niche sites(1-5 pages) as also for bigger sites, but I think it will work best on micro niche site with max.1-3 product review pages, then the valuable information written long content you have on the guest blog, so you not need any more content on your own site, on your own site there is the presell written product review.

    best wishes
    marco005
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