SET UP YOUR BLOG!

The second step is… Start driving traffic to it.

A blog is the perfect platform to start building an online income because it’s relatively easy to set up and as soon as you start adding content to it the search engines will pick it up and start sending traffic your way.  You can then monitize your blog by adding affiliate links and adds and as long as you provide some great free content and real value along the way, people will start to know who you are, like you and finally trust you… and once they trust you, they’re more likely to buy from you.

My mentor Alex Jeffreys has been drilling this into us since the start of his coaching program, but this week he’s really stepped it up a notch.

He’s been showing us the methods he uses to drive bucketloads of traffic to his blog and I’m now buzzing with ideas and can’t wait to get started and share my ideas and progress with you.

To motivate us further, Alex is running a competition for his students to see who can drive the most traffic to their blog by 14th August using the methods he’s taught us and also any of our own methods.

The rules are as follows:-

  1. We have to show proof of our blog traffic using the Google Analytics tool.
  2. We have to use our blog to write about how we are driving the traffic!

The benefit of writing about how to drive traffic to a blog, is that those posts will automatically begin to show up in the search engines for keywords, such as “driving blog traffic.”  So the effect is that traffic will end up on our blogs naturally.  (Nearly confused myself then so hope you still follow! :) )

The benefit to my readers, will be that as I implement each traffic driving step, I’m going to tell you what I did it and what the results are.

So here’s where I am right now…

I have never really done anything to drive traffic to my blog.  Most people who land here, do so by chance after searching for something in Google.

The only way I currently send anyone here is through my eBay “About Me” page, therefore my traffic is pretty low as you can see from the Google Analytics Screenshot below.

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Google Analytics Screenshot for www.steve-wakefield.com 31st July 2009

Google Analytics Screenshot for www.steve-wakefield.com 31st July 2009

Over the next few days I’m going to use various methods to try to drive traffic and I’ll outline the steps I take each time, then share the results with you as soon as I have them, so check back regularly.

Hopefully, I will start seeing some big traffic increases and also teach my readers some new techniques along the way!

So, if you don’t already have a blog, then get one set up asap and you’ll also benefit from this exercise.  If you are unsure where to start, check out http://www.blogsetuptutorials.com/free/ which was created by Tommy Mclaughlin – a former student of Alex and another of his success stories!

Best of luck and will speak to you again soon,

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