Increasing Website Traffic: 6 Steps to Guest Blogging

You might have wondered how much this guest blogging consumes your time? It doesn’t have to be difficult or overly time consuming. You simply follow these six steps to get started:

1.     Social channels link

All you need to do is to set up your social channels: Google+ profile, Facebook page, Twitter account and LinkedIn profile. The important of all, you need to make sure that your website has all links to your social channels and that your social channels link back to your website. Many people have no idea how powerful this social media is today. This will increase the traffic to your website quickly if you only follow this.

2.      Great content on your website

Frankly, how great your writing style is or how beautiful your writing or whatever it is that appeals your fans will not help. You need to have a great content on your website that intrigues or amazes editors of well-known websites. An author, Jayson Demers notes that your article should include:

• Helpful, insightful or interesting information.
• Perfect spelling and grammar.
• Subheads to break the article into more easily consumable segments.
• Appropriate text formatting (bullet points, italics, bold, etc.).
• Images

Here are some ways to come up with ideas for topics to write about:

• Visit question and answer websites like Quora or Yahoo Answers and search for your industry keywords to see what questions people are asking. Then answer those questions in-depth with your article.
• Visit other blogs or publishers in your industry and see what they’re writing about. Can you give a different or unique spin on something they wrote?
• Think about common questions your customers have and compile those into an article.
• Give your opinion on recent industry news.
• Write about a problem you recently faced and how you solved it.
• Analyze proprietary, original or unique data and publish your findings. Or analyze existing, publicly available data in a way that creates new insights or conclusions.

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These bullet points will shift the way you write, which means that may end up getting more fans! I am pretty sure that is what you want, right? If you do, all you need to do to give it a shot!

3.      Develop your connection

This one is quite difficult to identify sites or any connections for anyone who might be able to help you to get your article noticed or get your article published.

In fact, Google’s Adwords tool to research the keywords is a great tool! It can help you to identify all keywords that may get you article noticed by readers or bloggers. You can search for some keywords that you can peruse the top ten pages and keep track of which website appear to be content published instead of having these companies that sell a product or provide a service because they normally do not accept guest authors or bloggers.

You can also do some search queries so you can find some publishers such as the keywords (blogs, submit post, guest blogger, guest column, and many more).

4.      Outreach

There are countless ways to contact editors throughout social channels – LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook and reaching out via social media. You can also find an editor’s email address or the contact address on the website.

When you contact them, please let them know about yourself as in a business owner or a writer or whoever you are and that you’d be honored to contribute to their website. You could share your goals for contributing such as to build your reputation as an expert while providing all useful education and things that benefit content to the community and provide links to the best article you’ve written.

5.      Writing and sharing now

When you start to receive positive responses, so continue working with the editors on acceptable topic pitches, formats write the articles and send them back. This way grows your relationship with the editors, which may impact on your future with them. If you haven’t heard anything from them, then you can contact them to see what is going on.

Once your article is published, share your articles throughout your social channels and please share your appreciation to the editors for publishing them. From there, you can record your article URLs in a spreadsheet. Do this method repeatedly so that will build links to your other published articles so that will make your articles rank higher, which means that you will get more exposure and visibility.

6.      Be sure to stay on the top of the process

If you are rising to the top, then you will need to be sure that you continue throwing some new topic ideas to new publishers. Keep track of all the publishers with whom you work in a spreadsheet and set a formula to figure out how many days it is been since your last post was published at each one. You can easily identify some posts that have not published for a while so you can reach out and offer to write another article. You will definitely build your authority, credibility, and a great working relationship with each publisher.