Super Secret Blog Tactic: How 1 blog post brings in 100x the traffic!

Work Smarter Not Harder when you Blog.

Write, write, and write some more. This is a wonderful way to get found in search engines. It stands to reason that the more content that you push out into the blogosphere the more traffic and search engine juice you will get.

This is a true statement.. but it’s not completely realistic. I’ve been caught churning out 3-4 blog posts per day working like a dog for $20 a month, it’s really no way to live and it really doesn’t help. It’s not the best use of my time. I know – I myself have written a lot of blog posts saying: “If you want traffic – just keep writing more and more posts”. Well, I will let you in on a secret that has been sky-rocketing my blogs’ growth recently.

Before I shed this secret with you, I gotta warn you – for this to work you will need to focus heavy on a few articles per week. Sometimes working on 1 article for 4-5 hours if necessary. These posts need to be the highest quality imaginable.

Now, this isn’t a new thing. In fact I’ve blogged about it before, and the more and more that I do it the more flabbergasted I am by the results. My blog over at PatrickCurl.com on Social Media is about 2-3 months old. I had it up a year or two ago as a personal site but took it completely down.

Now that I’m consulting small businesses on social media, I’ve begun heavily branding myself. Check out the site  – it only has maybe 10-20 blog posts, and a pagerank of 1 – yet now it’s ranked on page 3-5 for the keyword: Social Media Consultant, and page 17 for Social Media Strategy(It’s moved up from page 30 a week ago).

I haven’t been comment spamming, or posting in forums. I haven’t been doing blackhat seo – as if I even knew how to do that.

My secret? – Guest Blogging.

Writing a good guest blog post can be extremely important to your marketing arsenal. So far I’ve written most of my content for QuickOnlineTips.com, as they are very friendly towards guest bloggers, have top-notch content, and they have terrific subscriber numbers, alexa rank, and much more.

When guest blogging – be sure to read all their rules for submissions before sending them. Most blogs would like an image to go along with your blog post so be sure to search Flickr for a Creative Commons licensed image to use in your blog post. Don’t be afraid to approach popular bloggers with your guest post. As long as you’ve put a lot of effort into the post, double checked the spelling and grammar, and have written one of your best articles – then you should stand a good chance of being accepted.

Why not give guest blogging a try, and write your first post for Social Media Soup? We are very lenient on what we will post, our only big concern is blatant links to your sites, 1-2 is fine but more than that is just a spam attempt and will actually be edited. Aside from that we will not condone using non-unique content. Content that is posted elsewhere on the internet is not ok to post as a guest post. Google will slap us, and will slap any website that is being linked to. It’s just not worth it.

Additional consideration: Consider this, you spend 90% of your time writing guest posts, and hire guest bloggers to source your blog. This way what goes around comes around. Bloggers with less clout than you get their post in front of fresh eyes. You get to spend your time building your brand by an exponential amount by posting blogs that have more clout than yours. It’s the perfect way to piggyback off one blog’s success to catapult yours – and it really works!

One last word of advice if you do get a guest post out there – promote it heavier than you would for your own site. Let all your friends know about it and ask them to digg / stumble / share it. You will be amazed what this does for your traffic and google ranking.

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