6 Free Ways To Drive New Traffic To Your Business Blog

One of the hottest marketing tools for online business owners is to publish an online blog. If you are not familiar with what a blog is, it is similar to having a web site but it's less formal. It is a great way to publish informative content that is directed towards establish customers and clients...and a great way to attract new ones. A blog is a lot easier to handle technology wise, as compared to building and updating a full blown web site.

Once you publish your own blogging site you are left with the challenge of how to market it...after all, the reason for publishing one is to get traffic to it so that you can expose your business products and services to your readers. Now that you have your own blog and some content published on it, it's time to drive some traffic to it. Here is how you can market your blogging site online.

1. Link Exchanges - Search out and find similar sites to your own. Contact those site owners and ask them to exchange links with you. You will add their links to your ongoing blog roll or link list.

2. Use Your Web Site and E-Newsletter - If you have a web site for your business, add your blog link to your home page in a prominent spot. Invite your web site visitors to pay a visit to your blogging site. If you send out a e-newsletter to your clients and customers, make sure you link is included in every issue.

3. Social Media Networking Sites - Join several online social media networking sites such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Ning and Twitter. Add your link to your profile page or add a button so that readers can easily click on it and find your blogging site.

4. Site Directories - Join a few online blog directories that pertain to your niche. You can find these by visiting a major search engine site and doing a search for them. The majority of these directories are free to join or require a link back to their directory site.

5. Guest Blogging - Contact some site owners and offer to become a guest blogger on their web site. When you publish your guest posts, attach your link in your author's resource box to drive new traffic to your own site.

6. Article Marketing - A great free way for you to drive traffic to any of your web sites or blogs is to get involved in article marketing. You will want to write up several great articles related to your business niche and submit them to various article directory sites. You will want to include your blog web site link in your author's resource box so that you can drive new traffic to your site.

As you can see, there are many ways you can advertise your site online that are free or just require a little bit of your time. The most important thing is to get out there and advertise your site every where that you can so that you are attracting new readers.

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Shelly Hill has been successfully working from home since 1989 and has been blogging for 4+ years. Shelly currently owns 7 successful online blogs. You can visit Shelly's Work At Home Business Options blog at www.workathomebusinessoptions.com or you can visit Shelly's Shakin 'N Bakin recipe blog at wahmshelly.blogspot.com

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