Getting More Traffic to Your Direct Sales Blog

The success of your direct sales online business depends heavily on traffic and the right kind of traffic. You want targeted traffic to your blog.

If you’re not getting the right kind of leads then you don’t have any prospects to work with.

Here are some easy ways to get more traffic to your blog:

#1 Increase your blog posts. Write at least one new article a week. If you’re going to blog and get serious online, this isn’t an option, just commit to writing.

#2 Write more targeted articles on the topics in your business by using the appropriate keywords/phrases that your potential market is searching for.

Example: if you’re in the personal development business the title of your article should have the long-tail keyphrases of the keywords personal development.

Why is this important? – Unless you have a well established blog – Steve Pavlina, as an example, it’s very hard to rank on the first page of Google with the keywords personal development alone.

In fact, there are about 171,000,000 results with the keywords personal development on Google.

By using the long-tail keywords in the title of your article you’ll see more targeted traffic to your blog.

With that said, focus on writing for your audience instead of over analyzing on keyword density. Write naturally but be mindful to optimize your article for organic searches.

The important thing is to provide an informative article to your target audience.

#3 Article writing is my best method for getting consistent, targeted leads. Use your articles and submit them to multiple directories and social networks. Then use Google Analytics to see where the traffic is coming from.

"Article marketing is very effective depending on how it is been used. I have seen articles with less than 100 views and those with tens of thousands of views after a year of writing them on EzineArticles". -Sitesketch101

If you’ve done keyword research before you write and optimize them appropriately, you will get traffic to your site. Whether or not someone subscribes to your blog depends on several factors…

• Do you have an opt-in box?
• Is it positioned where visitors can see it?
• Is there a compelling reason for them to subscribe?

These are just some of the reasons why someone would choose to opt-in or not. You don’t have to be a SEO ninja or pay top dollars to get traffic to your blog because the basics work: create quality content and marketing your content.

There are many ways to get traffic to your blog. Commenting on other blogs, guest posting, participating in social networks, and so forth. The question isn’t whether these strategies work but a better question to ask yourself is: are you doing the work every day?

This is a short list of many, many ways to get more traffic to your blog.

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Janette Stoll helps direct sales home business owners how to generate tons of targeted leads from article writing, blogging, and internet marketing. Her blog is visited by thousands of work-at-home professionals monthly. Download your FREE Report for tips to grow your direct sales home business. Or click here –> http://www.marketingdirectsales.com