Twitter and Facebook have long been good traffic sources for me. Interacting with the various social networks and using them can be an excellent source of traffic for your blog.

Now I am finding a third site that has started climbing up the stats for traffic. IM Faceplate is very new (about 6 or 7 weeks) but has started showing up more and more in the tip 5 of referrers for my blog.

There is a reason for it and it is not because I built a huge group of followers. After all I have twice the number on Facebook and many times that number on Twitter.

The reason is that I am active on the network. I add new content and items of interest regularly.

See the key with any social site is to actually be active and taking part in the conversations going on there.

It does not matter if it is the big ones like Twitter and Facebook or newer ones like IM Faceplate. It is being active and having interaction.

The same thing is true of forums too.

Everyone is always looking for the easy traffic sources but just joining and expecting traffic does not happen.

Now you do not need to take a lot of time on any of these networks but it is important that you are interacting and adding to the conversations.

If you are not getting traffic from your social networking look and see how much you are adding to the conversations there. If you are not getting traffic you probably are not taking part in the conversations.

Your comments and questions are always welcomed. Lever them below.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps

Technorati Tags: blog, blog traffic, conversations, Facebook, im faceplate, social networking, social networks, traffic sources, twitter

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One of the over looked way to generate more traffic is by paying attention to how people find you that you did not target. I do this but was reminded of it yesterday.

I had a Twitter conversation with a good friend of mine. Long time readers know my good friend Steve Roye. He runs a blog to presell his Killer Standup Comedy System.

We are always bouncing ideas back and forth even though Steve has gone away from internet marketing and is focused on his comedy business.

I saw a post he wrote “Is The Killer Stand-up Comedy System A Scam? Is Steve Roye A Scam Artist? “

So I dropped him a direct message asking if someone had been bad mouthing his course. (They should not be but he teaches a different method so I thought maybe someone had tried to rip him.)

The answer was no that no one had but he was getting traffic from the terms with his course name and scam. So he wrote a very specific blog post to target that topic. It will increase his traffic and it also is a very targeted topic for targeting his buyers. Someone interested enough about his course to be searching about it being a scam is definitely a potential buyer.

He was taking advantage of what people had already been searching for and wanted to rank higher. It is something I do when I go through either my Google Analytics account or MyBlogLog stats and see searches for topics I did not initially target.

This is a great way to get additional traffic and to increase your ranking for terms that people are already searching for and finding you through. Write a blog post targeting those keywords and you will stand a very good chance to rank much higher for those terms.

If you are getting one or two visitors this could easily get you even more traffic.

So pay attention to your stats and if you are getting one or two visitors for a term you never targeted then a blog post can move you up the serps for that term and send you even more traffic.

Your questions and comments are welcomed.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps

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There are a variety of ways to promote your blog. Are you promoting yours?

All too often the answer is no.

You can have the greatest content but if you are not promoting and getting the word out you will not get the traffic and readership you are looking for.

Most of us bloggers love to write on the topic we love and all to often that is where it ends.

Nobody likes to take the time to promote especially as your blog grows.

You do need to make it part of your regular schedule and it does not need to take a lot of time.

If you are active in your niche it should be easy. Commenting on blogs in your niche, being active in forums (with a link to your blog if allowed) are easy to do while you are being part of the community.

Repurposing your content to create articles for submission, creating podcasts and video from your posts and setting up link networks with that content will take you a bit of time but can make a huge difference in your traffic.

The key is to just do things regularly and make them a habit. Do that and your time commitment will be minimal but the results can amaze you.

If you need more information on some of these topics Sunday Night Cash Plan can help you to repurpose your content and Backlink Flood will show you how to create powerful link wheels.

Finally my free report on Benefit Of Content Syndication.will show you how to automate things so you do one time effort and promote on autopilot.

The key is to always be promoting your blog and make it a daily habit.

Your questions and comments are always welcomed.Leave them below.

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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps

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I think that every reader here understands that that the more back links you develop to your pages the higher Google will tend to rank you. One more thing to say here in total transparency is that these will take some time and it has value which is the reason I have the * next to free.

If you are blogging regularly these will be quite easy for you to do and actually there are many more than 3 places that you can use for creating your back links.

The 3 ways are using the following sites.

1. Ezine Articles
2. Squidoo
3. Hub Pages

You are already creating content and re-purposing your content is a great way to get links and best of all you can control the anchor text of those links. All 3 of these sites are high PR site so are seen as authority sites by the search engines.

It is best to add your content to Ezine Articles first or make sure what you are submitting at Ezine Articles is unique. It is not hard to do a quick rewrite of your blog posts to create a unique article. Use the anchor text to point to your blog that is the keyword you are trying to rank for.

Squidoo is the least strict of the three places for having unique content but you will need more than one article to complete a lens. Both Squidoo and Hub Pages allow you to add a RSS feed to your pages. This can be an excellent way to get blog posts indexed as the search engines spider both of these sites frequently.

Use multiple posts to create your Squidoo lens and add a proper anchor text link to your blog and a couple of your posts. Do not overdo this as too many l;inks to the same domain will get your lens shut down.

For Hub Pages you will need to rewrite your content as they only want unique content. Use only one link per Hub Pages as anything overly promotional will be flagged as spam.

In all cases make sure that you are providing quality content and you can use these sites to generate high quality back links.

If you would like to see other ways that you can generate back links through content syndication grab this free report with no opt in needed – Benefit Of Content Syndication.

Your questions and comments are always welcomed. Leave your comment below.

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Beyond creating content, the toughest thing about blogging is promoting it…

Making sure you get traffic, ranked in the search engines and ultimately creating a blog that makes money is a full time job in itself…

What if you’re blog promoted itself every time you posted?

WP Syndicator

Andy Fletcher has created a new WordPress plugin that automatically promotes your blog every time you post…

It syndicates your content across the top web 2.0 properties and automatically generates high quality, high traffic one-way links with the anchor text in the keywords of your choice back to your blog.

WP Syndicator

The reviews are in and people are seeing some serious results. This takes a job that would normally take all day and does it automatically…

Every time you make a new post, you get free permanent links and a surge of targeted traffic. This is hands-down the coolest “must have” WordPress plugin I’ve seen this year…

WP Syndicator

If you need more traffic to your blog, or you want to get a new blog indexed and ranking high in the search engines in record time, then you need to check this out…

WP Syndicator

This is a plugin I have been using since the beginning of last month on multiple blogs and both the plugin and the support has been excellent.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps

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Andy Fletcher just released a new plugin called WPsyndicator. He is selling it through the 19th at less than $10 and all proceeds go to charity.

The plugin automates some tasks that I would normally do manually over a wide array of mina blogs and other platforms. This creates solid backlinks to your post for each post without you doing anything else.

Now it will take you a bit of effort to get the accounts set up at the various sites. For the first blog I did it for it took me about 45 minutes including creating a new Gmail account.

It will be priced at a bit below $50 once this charity effort is done and will be a worthwhile purchase at that price.

Grab WP Syndicator while he is running this special and save 80% and support the asthma charity at the same time.

This will help you increase your backlinks quickly. For more on how to generate backlinks check out the Backlink Flood.

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Regular readers know that one of the people I follow closely is Tinu Abayomi-Paul. She has a fascinating story and is someone I have learned a lot from.

Due to some changes in her life she is testing a new idea and you can follow along. I will be.

Go to her blog and listen to the audio from this post – [warning] personal but fun traffic tip ahead #audio #mp3 #gr

Get involved in the test by leaving a comment.

Tinu has released a great new product on Fast Facebook Traffic that I grabbed and have started implementing.

Recommend you check that out too.

Should get back to normal here tomorrow as it has been a tough week here as readers of the Sunday Rant can understand I am sure.

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Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses blogs to enter various niches profitably. Get the details at Profitable Blog Steps

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Traffic that is targeted is one of the keys to monetization. Whether it is your blog, a squeeze page or a sales piece targeted visitors are the key. Here is one of my most effective traffic sources.

Twitter is no where near as much in the news as it was a year ago but…

It has become one of my best ways to drive targeted traffic to my blogs or specific offers.

Now a lot of people say that it is not true. The key is to provide quality information and to be a resource that people want to read. If you are doing that then when you tweet your blog post or offer people will click and often they will retweet it and tell all of their followers. This is the real power of Twitter.

If you are providing quality information from a variety of sources to your followers you become a valued resource not a pitch man.

You get moved to that special column where they put the people that they don’t want to miss their posts in their tweet deck or other twitter app.

Do that and Twitter becomes a great traffic generator.

Now the key is to find and share quality information without spending forever doing that.

That is why I put together Twitter Time Saver.

Use the automation of various free programs to be a great resource without having it take all your time.

If you want to be able to really use Twitter you need to build your authority. The key will be to do it without it becoming all that you do.

Automation is key.

Check out Twitter Time Saver and discover all the secrets I use to do this in a few minutes each day.

Use your time wisely to get the most out of Twitter.

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Generating traffic to your blog is the key to having a successful blog. Unfortunately there are way too many ways to do that and some work better than others.

Quite often generating that traffic can take quite a bit of time. Now I am not adverse to spending time or spending money to outsource some methods to generate traffic but it is extremely important to find out what time or money is well spent and what time or money is being wasted.

That is why taking the time to track where your traffic is coming from is so important. If you do not know what is working it is impossible to do more of it and less of what is not working.

It really does not have to be hard or expensive to do just that. Google has a free service called analytics that can be set up in just a few minutes and allow you to see exactly how people get to your site.

• Do they come from other sites where you have commented?
• Are they finding you in the search engines because of your link building?
• Are they returning because of your email reminders?
• Are they coming from the guest post you did last week for someone else’s blog?

Knowing these things is the key and setting up Google Analytics is quite easy. You sign up for an account and put in your url. Now you add a piece of code to all the pages of your site and the next day you can start getting the information.

If you use WordPress you can do this with a plugin and save a lot of time and aggravation. Add your code once and you are done.

Now you can begin to find out exactly what is working and do more of it. After all you do want more traffic for your blog, don’t you?

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One of the best ways to generate back links and additional traffic for your blog is using major sites where you can control to an extent the content and most importantly the anchor link text.

Sites like Squidoo, Hub Pages, et al. This is often called parasite hosting. You can act like a parasite and use their reputation to help build authority to your own site.

These sites work best when you use them to build back links to your own site and sell from your site. Some are very particular about linking to affiliate sites.

Here is an example of how you can use these sites

Create a review of a product on you blog. Add content to these sites and link to that review using anchor text that benefits you. Now you have stayed within the terms of service of the sites and are driving traffic to your presell page.

This is just one way to take advantage of these sites.

A quick aside – You may have noticed that I have started hiding some of the content here and allowing access to it only those that have registered for this site. Make sure to take advantage of that extra content by registering as you never know what is hidden below which you are missing. I am testing something and members will be the ones to find out about it when the testing is done.

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For more information on using these types of sites check out “Taking Advantage Of Parasite Hosts.”

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