Did you know that installing a blog on your website can make a huge difference in how much traffic your website gets. Blogs and especially wordpress draws a lot of attention from google. If you currently have a website and it’s just not getting much attention try installing a wordpress blog on the sub folder.

Wordpress has a plugin called All In One SEO that will instantly make your wordpress blog optimized. I recently used this plugin on a client’s blog and it’s doing wonders. Check out Attorney Woodland Park and you will see a blog that is optimized for specific keywords.

6 traffic-building techniques to jump-start your blog marketing campaign plan

Whether you’re still in the planning stages, or already have an established blog that doesn’t yet enjoy a large number of visitors, your objective is to gain attention from as wide an audience, in your topic matter, as possible. You most definitely need to develop an aggressive blog marketing campaign to successfully compete on the net.

While having an aggressive campaign, you also want to exercise discretion and subtlety so you don’t turn readers – and the search engines – off to your site. If you make your objectives too blatant and obviously self serving, your site’s rankings will suffer, with sometimes disastrous results. Our discussion centers on a blog marketing campaign that garners you the attention you deserve!

Highly targeted ads can produce a significant amount of your revenue. In addition to participating in the Google Adsense program, research other high quality sites with products or services which are highly relevant to your entry or page category. Do each page ‘by hand’, matching content, keywords and ads as closely as possible. This will do wonders for your rankings.

Develop links to sites with lots of their own links and high quality content. The spiders take notice of this, you gain credibility and the popularity factor of the sites you link to reflects, in some measure, back on you. Match relevancy of the content and keywords closely to your own.

Starting an e-newsletter and implementing an RSS feed is a highly effective blog marketing technique. This marketing vehicle makes for eager readers, who, incidentally, often forward your newsletter to friends. You can double the advantage with advertising, judiciously used – just a few per newsletter issue –  to generate more revenue!

Art work and photos accompanying postings is an indirect, but effective method of blog marketing. Interesting images serve to make your blog stand out from the crowd. Carefully chosen, these images can be thought provoking in the context of the content, thus increasing the value to your readers.

Your blog marketing campaign is not complete until you’ve investigated the various social networking sites that are appropriate to use to promote your blog. Some will be suitable for promotional purposes, while others won’t be worth the effort. Find those whose participants will be interested in what your blog covers.

Forums pertaining to your subject matter can give a big boost to the number of visitors to your blog. You must exercise finesse here. This marketing vehicle requires that you are willing to participate and make contributions, sharing your knowledge with others, without expecting anything in return and not overtly promoting your blog. A simple signature line that links to your site and an avatar should be the only ‘advertising’ you do. If, as an avatar, you choose a photo of yourself, this is a good personal touch which makes people feel they ‘know you’ – eventually. This is also a good networking technique.

Successful blog marketing campaigns are a subtle form of branding. Properly executed, you’ll soon enjoy a large and loyal group of readers.

One of the most effective Internet Marketing tactics these days is using video to drive traffic to your local business. Have you ever noticed how much video you see online these days. Well, guess what, video is hot and will continue to be for some time to come. Take a look at the top most visited websites online…Youtube is #3 http://alexa.com/topsites. How about putting your business on the front page of google for your main keywords.

If your business hasn’t begun creating videos you’re behind and your competition is taking your spot online. Make sure you create a good informative video that talks about your business and what you provide. Focus on the keywords people are searching for and watch as new visitors come to your site. If you and your business need help call me Dominic 719-262-0723. I’ve created many videos and use Youtube everyday to promote different products.

Hope to hear from you and if not me, make sure you find someone to get you listed on Youtube and start driving website traffic to your website today.

Many companies are in need of Search Engine Optimization or SEO, here in Colorado and elsewhere but it’s not that difficult if you want to do it on your own. What you first need to understand is how search engines work and which are the most important. Not all search engines are a like but for simplicity let’s use Google as our example. Google get’s an estimated 50% of all internet traffic so if you optimize for them you will be doing good.

To optimize your site, get as many backlinks to your site as possible and have good content. One of the best solutions for getting backlinks is to use Web 2.0 sites and Social Bookmark sites. Make sure you use your keyword in the active link so that Google will give you credit for that keyword.

As I mentioned above, please don’t go create links to sites with little or no content. You may get the credit for the backlink but that will only last as long as Google doesn’t notice which will only take time.

If you own a business or you are looking for help with Colorado Internet Marketing then I have a couple of items you should consider before you hire any company.

First, of the most important considerations when hiring an Internet Marketing Company is for you to decide if the individual or company has your best interest in mind or their own. Many Advertising and Marketing companies will sell you whatever they think you will buy and not necessarly what’s best for your company. Example..you may not need to market to the whole world if all your customers come from Colorado.

Second, item to consider before hiring an Internet Marketing Company is to take a look at how they rank online. If they can’t rank in the top 10, in Google, then what good will it be to hire them. It doesn’t do your business much good to have a really nice looking site if nobody can find you online..

Finally, your website is more than just your business card, it’s a way to begin the relationship with potential customers and maintain communication with existing customers. Remember, if you’re not staying in touch, someone else is. Use your website as a tool to talk and listen to your customers.

Stay tuned for more Colorado Internet Marketing Tips.

If you business needs Internet Marketing Help, call me 719-262-0723

Until next time,

Dominic Ferrara