Everyone with a website or blog wants more traffic. The million dollar questions is, how do you get it without paying an arm and a leg?
The deck walks through ten different advertising and marketing strategies that are LOW COST to help grow your traffic and make more money from your efforts.
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Ten Low Cost Blog Advertising & Marketing Strategies For Growing Your Traffic
1. Ten Low Cost Blog Advertising
& Marketing Strategies For
Growing Your Traffic
2. Perform keyword research and then
map those keywords to individual
pages on your website
Optimize title tags, meta
descriptions, heading
tags, and body content for
those keywords
Engage in targeted off site promotion to
strengthen your website or blog
authority
3. Email Marketing
Set up newsletter
email capture forms
and then mail their
subscribers on a
regular basis informing
them of new
offers, promotions, or
new blog posts
4. StumbleUpon has a
paid ad network
where you can
distribute your blog
content to your
targeted audience
StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
5.
6. • Identify keywords that your targeted audience
might be interested in
• Set up targeted landing pages on your site that
match those keywords
• Start paying for each click your ads receive
Start out slow and
increase as you get the
hang of it
7. Create a YouTube account, set up a simple,
informational video that is targeted to your
keywords
Now you can generate visibility within
YouTube and then drive those visitors back
to your website
8. Press Release Submissions
The trick with press releases is that your
release has to be newsworthy, or you won’t
get any traction
Press releases cost
about $170per
submission
9. Social Media Participation
Set up accounts on the big
four:
Twitter, Facebook, Google+
, and LinkedIn then
participate on these
different platforms to bring
in an immediate source of
traffic for your site or blog
10. Targeted Reddit Submissions
Reddit is kind of a
social media site
and kind of a
news site where
you can submit
highly relevant
content to sub-
reddits.
If your content is
interesting, high
quality, and
helps address a
need, Reddit is a
great place to
submit it
11. • Pinterest is an amazing way to generate traffic to your
site or blog, however, there’s a catch… You have to have
amazing images to submit to their community
• If you have the time and resources available to create
stunning images to support your content, Pinterest can
be a gold mine of traffic for you
12. • Organic SEO
• Email Marketing
• StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
• Guest Blogging
• Pay Per Click Advertising
13. • Video Marketing
• Press Release Submissions
• Social Media Participation
• Targeted Reddit Submissions
• Pinterest