Why I will do a blog tour again
Now it won’t happen right away but as I just finished the blog tour Friday it is time to decide if it was good, bad or indifferent.
One of the best parts was that it made me create more content than I normally would. Each week there were an additional 5 posts to do for someone instead of just mine.
Because they were promised to someone else there was no procrastinating on getting them done. Giving your word in public definitely makes you keep on schedule.
It also helped me become more efficient in my blogging. As each week I was covering a specific topic and wanted the series to go together it saved time to do them together.
Once the planning was done the actual writing worked best and took the least amount of time when I did them in batches. It is something I have started doing on my other blogs for me.
Series on a topic tend to bring in more consistent traffic and the ability to interlink between them has helped the rankings in the search engines on some of the niche blogs.
So as a blogger the 2 month tour has improved my skills in some crucial ways. For quite some time I have been fairly prolific on my main blogs but this has and will continue to increase from this exercise.
The tour has increased traffic to this blog, added more people to my Twitter following and gotten my name and my content in front of new audiences.
Is it a lot of work to pull it off? You betcha. A blog tour is not for the faint of heart but the increase in traffic, the new friends and followers definitely has made it worth the effort and something I will do again in the future. (Just not in the next month or two 
)
If you want to increase your traffic, get exposure in more places for your message and willing to be organized and dependable then check out Nicole Dean’s Blog World Tour Guide and follow the plan.
Step out of the comfort zone and just go do it. I did and am glad I did.
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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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6 comments
Luca DiNicola
Twitter: rsonline
on January 18, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Hey Mike,
I enjoyed your recent blog tour and it introduced me to new sites that I would not have known about otherwise. I look forward to your next one.
Luca DiNicola´s last blog ..How to Create Effective Goals for 2010 and Beyond
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Chuck Bartok on January 18, 2010 at 4:24 pm
WOW,
I would be Honored if the next time you “went on the road”, you stopped by our new blog.
I have enjoyed our guest bloggers so far and they have benefited also
Thanks for everything you do
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Fred Lotgering
Twitter: lotcon
on January 18, 2010 at 5:58 pm
Mike, I enjoyed your blog tour to my blog. I learned a few things (thanks for that Mike). Visits to the blog doubled and even tripled towards the end of the week. Impressive. Even more, I got five original content posts from you in one week. For me that is hard to do in one year! Thanks again and I’m glad you benefited from it too
Fred Lotgering´s last blog ..ezArticlelink – Article Spinning
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Lonnie Minton on January 18, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Mike, I enjoyed your last blog tour and followed a good portion of it. I was very impressed with the posts that you left on my blog as well as the other stops. Will look forward to your next one.
Lonnie Minton´s last blog ..Learn Affiliate Marketing With Power Start 2010 4-Week Coaching Program
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Earl Netwal
Twitter: EarlNetwal
on January 19, 2010 at 5:11 pm
You continue to lead by example. Well done Mike. I appreciate your reference to accountability. I find it easy enough to let myself down and excuse when I don’t hit the days goals. But to be so public and out on a limb as you were with the blog tour. Powerful, but also scary. Congratulations on your success.
Earl Netwal´s last blog ..Four Times? He’s Serious About This!
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Valentina on January 20, 2010 at 5:37 am
Hi Mike,
It was an honor to play host to your posts … thank you so very much. I enjoyed your “stay” and I think that the visits will continue long into the quarter and possibly the year! I certainly have added more than a point or two to my blogging arsenal.
Wishing you continued success …
best………….valentina
Valentina´s last blog ..Blog Income Org Chart
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