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Almost all bloggers want to make money from their blog. Unfortunately, more than 80% couldn’t and the problem is always the same. And that problem is getting traffic to their own blogs. Even since blogging for money started a long time, this is still the same problem that most of us face. And in this post, I do hope to help you guys in terms of gaining more traffic to your blog.
The usual misconception of blogging goes like this. The blogger is going to make a post, proofread a bit then hit the publish method. Then he would sit down and wait for traffic. Obviously that is the wrong method. One should always go out and do lots of marketing and promoting after the post has been published. So for today I am going to share the technique which I call as content distribution method. Without further ado, here they are:
- Distribute them into a podcast – These days podcasts have been really popular and a lot of bloggers have seem to really turn into it by making it a part of their content. What I usually do is sign up with a free service called as Odiogo. What Odiogo does is automatically create a podcast/mp3 from each and every article of your blog. You can then let people download it or better yet submit them to podcast directories.
- Distribute them as videos – Like podcasts, videos are also now part of the content for most bloggers. Unfortunately, there’s no software that can automatically convert an article to a video. What you can do is just take some time on doing a video about the article. Then upload it to as much video sharing sites as you can. Luckily for us TubeMogul does that thing for us. And the best thing? It’s free!
- Distribute them in PDF format – Post2PDF is a little plugin that helps you convert your article into pdf format in a breeze. People love free eBooks and by having a PDF format of your article, you’re letting people spread the word for you. It doesn’t end there, like in podcasts you can also submit your eBooks to some eBook directories.
- Distribute them in Social Networks – Many people do so much work trying to get traffic from bookmarking sites that they forgot there are a lot of social network sites that they can benefit from. One of the best example is Facebook and it can be done by utilizing the Facebook Fan Page of your blog (w/c is a must-have!). Of course Facebook is not the only social network out there.
- Distribute them in Twitter – Ok this one is no way a new idea and almost all people use it already. Twitter is probably the fastest growing website in the past 2 years and I can see striving more this year. I love to use a plugin called Tweetmeme. Tweetmeme lets your readers retweet the article for you with just one simple click.
With those techniques I mentioned above, I can almost guarantee that you can double your traffic. I used these techniques with some variations and they always have good returns of traffic for me. Of course I would love to hear out your opinions about it. If you have questions don’t hesitate to use the contact form.
About Author :
Melvin is a young blogger and entrepreneur who blogs at MelvinBlog.com. He aims to share all his best marketing tips to fellow bloggers. If you find this post awesome consider visiting his blog. Don’t forget to follow him on Twitter too.
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I use Twitter and FB, I don’t have fan page, but I simply talk about my blog wherever I can.
And I have a lot of friends, so in one hit I can get nice traffic from that too. I found social bookmarking sites difficult to turn into significant traffic generating methods.
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at the end of the day it still depends on your goals. I mean if you really intend your blog to be a personal one then don’t market it. Otherwise, market it the best you can
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Melvin, I have already follow your blog and subscribe it.
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hey man thanks. I appreciate it.
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Haha…You’re welcome. Hope you done a good job.
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I have tried Odiogo in past. Its a nice service but I almost forgot about it. Looks like I have to give it a try again.
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Its actually a plugin that automatically turn the words into a voice.. although the voice obviously sounds like a robot.
A voice that sounded human would indeed be a million dollar idea.
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Yes! I will try to convert my article to pdf format and free distribute to my readers. This is a great way to promote my blog too. Thanks for sharing!
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Or you can market it in popular forums. Just make sure you’re not looking spammy..
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Great thoughts Melvin. I love the point of turning blog posts into small ebooks! This would work especially well if you had a post series, and would definitely help build your email list.
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I just realize about this.. gosh. Thanks a lot! I love the ‘convert into pdf’ idea. Thanks again!
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hey bloggerdaily, Im glad you found this post beneficial. Don’t forget to really put it into action.
Great tips.I never thought of giving podcasts.I will check it out and issue some
Me too. I totally love it.
Great post Melvin. very concise.
@Lee
Nice banner. In fact very lovely banner.
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hi lee…i’m interested to post ads in your blog…
can you pass to me the rate for all types of ads…
1 more thing, is it necesaary that ads must be in english?
many thanks
firdaus
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@Firdaus,
Yea Firdaus, you can check the rate at the Advertise page and simply contact me via the contact form.
You can also place banner in any language, but English ads would convert better.
About the content to PDF conversion, will Google actually penalize it because of duplicate content?
Definitely not. Google views PDF files differently from the usual content. And besides you’re not gonna upload it into your server but instead have it stored in article directories.
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I once tried distributing to article directories but the sad thing is the articles I did got copied somewhere else.
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Nice post.
While it is a great idea to redistributing content to different mediums.. one must be careful to monitor it’s effectiveness in all those mediums.
Here’s my 2 cents on different mediums and traffic.
it’s very simple.. really.
just google any keywords (example: Make Money)
Now, take a GOOD look at the search results.
How many different mediums they have?
1. Blogs
2. Videos (Youtube etc)
3. Google News
4. Images
5. Some.. even Maps
If you use ALL those mediums that Google LOVES.. yeah, you will have a better chance to get those traffic into your websites.
Off course, you can outsource most of these jobs nowadays.
or just get a system to fully automate all this. Easy money.
Cheers,
-D
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Useful tips melvin. I will try post to pdf thing because i think it is more suitable for my current blog state.
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Hey Dana thanks. Im intrested to hear why do you think its more suitable for your blog. hmm..
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Nice tips. I have been telling myself to get some kind of video’s on my blog to help others out and this year I must do it. I have prolonging it for to long.
I will have a look at the PDF plugin, looks interesting. Might incorporate it soon if ok.
BTW, I will help Melvin and your site by adding this post to next week Monday roundup. Goog to see guest posts here.
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Thanks George. I am looking forward to that..
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Good guest post. It is true that too many bloggers simply sit back and wait for traffic once they publish a new post. These strategies are good examples of ways you can generate some additional exposure for your post. It’s also a good idea to comment on blogs that have the comment luv plugin that links to your last blogpost.
Like Tom I thank you for the PDF idea and link, this should prove very resourceful!
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You have forgotten the most important fact of them all. distribute it to article directories.
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I wouldn’t say that’s the most important place to submit articles anymore. In the past that strategy was effective, but now most of the article directories have been so diluted with countless outbound links, some of which are spammy. So it is now more beneficial to get your articles published on more trusted sites.
great post Dud, I am too, starting distributing my post into any social network and bookmark sites, but the result has not balanced the effort that I give. maybe I don’t do it right, well I don’t know…???
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just be patient and focused. The work is behind the stage so you’ll never when it will start benefiting your blog.
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simple as write about something, and talk about it on audio or video, re write about it for other purpose, share about it, comment about it and make book out of it
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Yep but I believe doing it manually will require a heck of work
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I really love to use podcast and pdf versions of my posts as It takes very low efforts from my end. Willing be testing it soon and lets see how it goes
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I think Twitter and Facebook are most popular use by many blogger. another that, that is the article marketing too.
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never knew i could do a lot more with my blog post..thanks for the info..
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Hi, I almost missed this post until I saw in the email about today’s published blogs from Blog Engage. Thanks for the resources. I was listening to someone’s post the other day using Odiogo but I didn’t follow up on it. Thanks for the link. Hey do you know if there’s a pdf converter that I can use on my Blogger blog?
Melvin, it’s nice to add this guest post to your list of accomplishments.
Cheers!
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Thanks Ileane.. Appreciate it.
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I think most of the people who are blogging for the sole purpose of making money have MMO blogs. Traffic coming from social networking (Twitter, other MMO bloggers, etc.) will not buy your affiliate products or click on Ads. They are all too familiar with affiliate marketing and will sign up to something under their own affiliate link if they really want to get the product. They are also too familiar with ads.
I think most of the people who are blogging for the sole purpose of making money have MMO blogs. Traffic coming from social networking (Twitter, other MMO bloggers, etc.) will not buy your affiliate products or click on Ads. They are all too familiar with affiliate marketing and will sign up to something under their own affiliate link if they really want to get the product. They are also too familiar with ads.
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Hi Melvin,
Thanks for commenting on my blog.
which tools do you use for your podcasting and videos?
Cheers,
Olusegun
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These are good suggestions with some caveats. First, social media often brings immediate traffic but not long term traffic. Social media is great for inbound links. For making money though, social media is not good. Social media users are computer savvy and typically avoid clicking ads and buying products. The bottom line for long term, money making traffic is that you need to write about what people are searching for and have people like it and link to it.
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That is something, which i should give a try. Thanks for the tips. I like the PDF thing. But i guess i wish to make a full ebook to publicize my blog, because a single post cannot have enough content to make it worthwhile.
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Some good tips there. I have just started blogging again, and are going to focus building up my twitter account and facebook page.
I’m also going to start building email lists. E-mail is one of the best if not the best way to generate profit from your traffic.
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Thanks for the ideas. I plan on creating a video once the weather warms up a bit, so hopefully I’ll see some results. I’m curious about your .pdf idea: how do you recommend I market the pdf article?
Hey Lee,
People just starting out online REALLY underestimate the power of social media and i’m glad you mentioned point 4 on Social Network distribution.
I think seo and the whole serp mumbo jumbo will play an important role in the future, but with google going on their rampage google slapping webmasters left, right and center there is only going to be one constant that will remain. People.
Being listed on the first pages of google may be an important ingredient but in my opinion building relationships with people will stand the test of time and not even google can control that. I say, “viva la revolution” ;-D
Excellent article bro. Keep up the great work !!!!
I must agree on your view as Google search results got personal, its became more than just essential to share your posts and contents on social sites where users can get easy access to your contents.
I’ve found that automatically tweeting blog posts has greatly improved traffic, as well as adding replies to those tweets as blog comments. It makes the blog much more dynamic and can create a good subscription base as well.
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All the points are new for me except Facebook and twitter. Podacasts and videos can be so impressive. i dont know
Atul
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