A lot of great content is never seen. How frustrating!!

You have put your heart and soul into doing your keyword research  and writing something that is both meaningful and actionable. You click the publish button and then you watch, and watch and watch to see if anyone turns up to read it.

If this is you, then here are some unique, actionable ideas for getting the word out about your latest posts.

We have all read the usual promotion ideas and don’t get me wrong, they work. But for this post, I have gone in search of some fresh ideas that can inspire you, ideas that take only minutes to implement. [Read more…]

Whilst comment marketing can be very time consuming, it can also be very, very effective.

In what way?

Well first of all, let’s look at what comment marketing is.

For starters, it usually refers to blog commenting and/or forum commenting.  But there is commenting and commenting. Not all comments are alike. In fact, not all comments will get through the moderation process.  However, if you do it correctly, your comment will most certainly be accepted for publishing and, in many cases, it will from then on be published without having to be moderated.

So what is the right way? [Read more…]

Website traffic, or lack of it, is one of the biggest hurdles faced by new bloggers and website owners.

How do you get your blog on people’s radar? How do you get site visitors in the door? How do you get people reading all of the good stuff you are writing about?

I have already discussed a number of strategies that can help with this dilemma, namely in a review of My Blog Traffic Sucks and in another post Is Anyone Visiting Your Site?. [Read more…]

Figuring out how to get more blog traffic is probably one of the biggest stumbling blocks that newbies face.

Actually, I’ll re-phrase that; it is not only beginners but seasoned bloggers and seasoned website owners who end up throwing their hands up in the air in frustration and giving up.

When I saw the book title “My Blog Traffic Sucks!“, I couldn’t resist it. Well actually, I looked at every one of the 63 reviews on Amazon at the time, as well as Steve’s blog, before proceeding with purchasing it. Plus I thought, what the heck, it’s only a couple of dollars (Kindle version), so what if it turns out to contain the same old message that so many other eBooks do on this subject. [Read more…]