Double Your Online Business With A Blog

by Kale McClelland

Web traffic is not guaranteed, but one thing is.

If the quality of the content on your website is good and you have the right keywords in your blog, Google will take note of this. If people stay for marked periods of time on your site, Google may decide to consider you an "authority" on your particular topic.

And if you pass that test, Google will index it, and allow thousands of people to find it. This can result in tons of quality prospects visiting your business website daily.

That said, Google can also be unforgiving. Depending on what you do, it can be "unpredictable."

If Google changes its algorithm or makes the standards for a so-called "authority blog" higher and yours no longer fits within these standards, you may be out of luck. Of course, Google also does not tell you what that standard is, exactly, so it's not as though you can adjust your own behavior accordingly.

What does that mean? Traffic can disappear just like that.

Fortunately, Web 2.0 is now on the scene, and it can be much more effective and much quicker than a search engine (even Google) in ensuring you get a lot of traffic. Blogs, therefore, mean that you as a business owner can take full advantage of Web 2.0.

In Joe Vitale's Hypnotic Marketing 2.0 bonus interview, David Ledoux explains how he gets over 10,000 visitors to his blog, and over 7,000 of those visitors come from social bookmarking sites alone.

What does that mean? If David had simply sat back and waited for Google or another search engine to recognize him, he'd be getting less than half the traffic he's getting at the present moment.

There are numerous sites such as Digg.com, Stumbleupon.com, and OnlyWire.com that allow you to share your blog posts and articles with communities of millions of users with just a push of a button.

In addition, these social bookmarking sites are free and can produce amazing results if you use them properly.

However, there are a few things you must keep in mind before you go haywire submitting your blog content to them. The effectiveness of your blog largely depends on the community members on these sites.

In these communities, democracy is key. People vote your blog article up or down. If enough people like it and vote it up, the article becomes highly visible, which means that you get more traffic. It depends on your content and its quality.

If you blog with marketing in mind and you write things that really sound like ads or otherwise come across as very self-serving or otherwise scream "marketing," people will run away. Advertising and marketing really have no place when you share content on the site. People don't like to be sold "to," so you shouldn't try it.

And yep, you have to make content interesting. Boring just won't do. Keep your content engaging, funny, interesting, or whatever particular pull is appropriate for your venue. You can play your blog articles back into your product or service in some way, but do it creatively and without "selling" to people.

One good way to do this is to create articles based upon the calendar. Events, holidays, or seasons can be very interesting to write about. If you write about things currently in the news, this can also be very effective, as long as you keep it interesting.

Dr. Joe Vitale wrote a blog article titled 'Desperate Valentines', and wrote 15 things you can do if you're alone on Valentines Day. Once he launched it on February 14th and submitted it to Digg.com, he generated close to 20,000 unique hits to his blog.

The possibilities are literally endless, so make sure you blog to take advantage of this key component in Internet marketing, gone Web 2.0.

Dr. Joe Vitale and David Ledoux use Blogs and Web 2.0 strategies to multiply their businesses quickly; to find out how, check out their bonus interview over at Hypnotic Marketing.

Published July 21st, 2008

Filed in Marketing


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