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If you’ve got a blog you want traffic; and you want to get as much traffic as you can every day. While there are many ways you can win traffic, there’s one method which is very simple and extremely effective. It can also be free.

Here it is: use online press releases.

I’m amazed that more bloggers don’t use this easy traffic-generating method. I suspect that’s because it seems complex. It’s not; if you’re writing posts and posting them on your blog, you can write online press releases.

Online press releases are similar to the press releases which you’d send to print media, but they’re different in one vital way - the keywords you use are important. With an online press release, you’re aiming to gather links, as well as garner attention for your blog.

Write your press release as a news story

A press release is an announcement; it’s news. Indeed press releases are often called “news releases”. Here’s a list of the elements of a media news story. The story you’re presenting in your press release must contain at least one of these elements: timeliness, public interest, conflict, tragedy, humor, sex, money, human interest, the future, or animals.

A press release is not advertising, and it shouldn’t be written as an ad. It’s news. If you use one of the essential elements of a press release (here they are again) - timeliness, public interest, conflict, tragedy, humor, sex, money, human interest, the future, or animals - your press release will be treated as news. You’ll get attention and links for your release.

There’s a well-defined tradition format for a press release. Here’s a good template for you to follow in writing it.

With your release written, where should you post it? Many sites online offer press release services. I’ll mention just two in this article because I’ve used them myself and am familiar with them.

Post your press release free

You can post your press release for free at PR-GB.Com.
Your press release will appear in Google News.

Commercial press release services

PRWeb has been a stalwart of online press releases. Although the basic service is no longer free, their basic service is inexpensive, and well worth the fee. You can track your press releases to see where it’s appearing.

So there you have it: a way to get your blog into Google News. You’ll get a bounce in traffic to your blog immediately, but I call online press releases are the “gift which keeps on giving”, because their effect is cumulative, they bring you traffic over time.

A final tip: post your press releases on your blog too, in a Media section of your site. Journalists and others who are interested in your blog will visit this section; it gives you credibility in the online environment.

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The more links to your blog, the more traffic you’ll get.

If you’ve written lots of articles, try this tip.

How to Build Links with Email Marketing suggests making this offer to potential linkers:

“1) Get a free ebook if you link to us

This ebook can be a compilation of your past blog posts or articles arranged into a ‘bigger picture’ format. Think about not requiring a link to your site at all in exchange for the ebook - simply request that people review the ebook on the site of their choice.”

This sounds good to me. Reciprocal linking is fraught with pitfalls, encouraging one-way links is an ideal way to increase your backlinks.

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You’ve created a blog, and you’ve posted to it. But where’s your traffic? Getting traffic to your blog is easy: you must promote your blog, and you must promote consistently. One of the easiest and best blog promotional methods is article marketing.

If you’ve never heard of “article marketing” this is just a form of promotion in which you write articles, and post them to article directories. Not only do you get traffic to your blog when people read your articles, you also acquire backlinks. Links to your blog are essential, because they help with your search engine optimization (SEO).

Let’s look at three tips which will help you with your article marketing.

1. Be consistent, set a schedule of articles to write and to post to article directories

All marketing methods require consistency. You have to keep doing it. Sending one single article to an article directory helps your traffic. Creating more articles and posting them, brings you more traffic. The more articles you write, the more traffic you’ll get.

You’ll get the best results when you set a schedule for yourself of writing and posting articles. Your schedule will depend on the amount of time you have available - it’s important to keep adding content to your blog so that when your visitors arrive, they have great content to read.

You could schedule one article posted to directories per week, or even one posted per day, to really boost your traffic.

Be patient as you wait for results. There’s only one marketing method which gives you immediate traffic, and that’s paid advertising. However, this is expensive, and once you stop advertising, the traffic stops. With article marketing, the traffic doesn’t stop - your article stay online, and keep sending you traffic.

2. Use a keyword tool to find high traffic keywords to include in your articles

Your blog’s visitors will find you via the search engines, so it’s important to include keywords in your articles. Keywords are those words which people type into a search engine query box to find you.

There are many keyword tools online, both free and paid. For your purposes, the free keyword tools give you sufficient information to find out which keywords you should include.

Remember that keywords are useless on their own. Your articles should be quality: when you provide good content, you’ll draw traffic. You want your blog’s visitors to visit and subscribe to your RSS feed.

3. Article marketing is cumulative, so you’ll see the most results over time

Your results with article marketing will vary - you may get an immediate rush of traffic, or you may not. However, over time you will get a steady increase in traffic, depending on how many articles you post.

Think of your article marketing traffic as a snowball, rolling downhill, and getting bigger as it rolls. As you write and post more articles to the directories, your presence will grow - your snowball will get bigger and bigger.

So there you have three tips to help you to get traffic to your blog via article marketing. All three tips are important. Enjoy the traffic which article marketing brings you.

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Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income - much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars - blogging is fun, and profitable.

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