Monthly Archives: June 2015

How To Get More Blog Traffic: 101 Essential Tips

By |June 25th, 2015|

Maybe you’ve just started blogging and you’re wondering about the traffic part. Or perhaps you’ve been blogging for a while, and it’s all feeling a bit, well, empty.

You check your traffic stats – again – and feel a bit disheartened. Again. Should you continue? Or is this ‘blogging for traffic’ thing a bit mythical?

It’s easy to lose heart and become demotivated. Far too many give up way, way too soon.

It takes time. The most important tip of all is to hang on in there and keep blogging. For traffic, it’s the best investment you can make.

It also takes certain key tactics that can make all the difference, and accelerate your traffic attraction. This list of 101 essential tips for getting more blog traffic gives you most of them.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, as they say, and you won’t get all of this built and in place at once either. But implement a new tactic every few days or so and you’re one step closer each time.

You’ll start to see your traffic build and your blog transform. You, the influencer. You, the authority. Yes, you. It’s all within reach.

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How To Use Pinterest For Your Business

By |June 18th, 2015|

Many businesses still treat Pinterest as a low-ranking cousin of social heavy-weights like Facebook and Twitter. But that mode of thinking is now outdated, and likely to mean such businesses miss out on all that Pinterest has to offer.

For example, did you know that, as the fastest growing social network in 2014, Pinterest is now estimated to have 250 million unique monthly visitors? That’s roughly the same as LinkedIn, and not far off Twitter with just over 300 million. Clearly not something to be sniffed at.

But it’s not just the size of their user base. It’s also about the characteristics of their users and how they behave that make Pinterest particularly relevant for business.

Firstly, Pinterest was found to drive more referral traffic than Google+, LinkedIn and YouTube combined.

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How To Post On LinkedIn Pulse (And Why Every Business Should!)

By |June 11th, 2015|

Need more eyeballs on your content? Posting content on LinkedIn Pulse could be the answer. In fact, as you’ll discover, it gives business owners so many advantages, it should be an integral part of your marketing activities.

This post shows you exactly how to post on LinkedIn Pulse, as well as how to extract the maximum benefit from doing so.

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Creating Social Media Images: How To Create Images For Social Media That Engage And Attract Traffic

By |June 4th, 2015|

Images are increasingly essential when posting to social media. Recent research shows that the use of images can increase interaction with a social post by more than 20 times.

Social media platforms are very visual places. Posts that contain text alone are likely to get drowned out by those using various types of imagery. They attract far more attention and are easier to consume. With social media users often scanning through hundreds of posts or tweets at a time, you literally have micro-seconds to attract someone’s attention. To do this, images are key.

However, once you’ve created an image, there’s no reason why it can’t be used across different social networks. For example, the same image you post to Facebook when posting about your new blog post, can be just as easily pinned to Pinterest, tweeted to Twitter, and so on.

Even better, why not just start with a Featured Image for your blog post? Then just use the same one when posting your blog post to social media.

This is the approach I always take, the one I highlight in my Be Everywhere Blueprint, and will be the approach I focus on here. Start with your blog. Repurpose, reuse, and adapt as necessary elsewhere.

So … how should you go about creating these social media images that engage and attract traffic?

There are a number of ways to approach it, and I’ll go through some of these options.

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