Do you know why your content marketing campaign is going to fail? It’s not because you can’t write great content… it’s actually because you don’t know how to promote it.
You can learn how to write great content, but if no one reads your content and links to it, there’s no point in putting it out there.
People will tell you that it is easy to promote great content through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, which is true to some extent, but in most cases it isn’t.
See, it’s easy to build a Twitter following around sexy topics like Internet marketing, and web design. But it is really hard to build a strong social following on topics like dog food, auto insurance, mortgages, credit cards… and all of the other boring topics out there.
So how do you promote your content if you have a boring topic like dog food? Well first off, make sure there are 5 good blog posts on your blog. Once you have that, just follow these steps:
Step# 1: Create a list of bloggers, website owners, and twitter users
No matter what industry you are in, there are bloggers, website owners, and twitter users that all talk about it. For example if you are in the dog food industry, there may not be too many dog food blogs, but there are thousands of dog blogs and millions of pet blogs. Same with websites, there will be millions of pet related websites and thousands of Twitter users who like tweeting about their dog.
It will take a while to create a comprehensive list, but it is worth it. Here is how I recommend you build your list:
- Your list should contain at least 200 blogs, 200 websites, and 200 twitter users.
- Make sure no one on your list sells products or services. For example it would be hard to get an ecommerce site to link to you.
- Your list should only contain sites or Twitter users who are active. If you notice a website hasn’t been updated in over a year or a Twitter user hasn’t tweeted in the last week, don’t bother adding them to your list.
- It can take a while to create a good list, but through services like oDesk you should be able to get it all done for under $100.
- Whether you create your list or you hire someone on oDesk, make sure it contains their full name, website URL, name of their website, and email address.
Step #2: Become a guest author
Now that you have a list of 200 blogs, you need to start emailing them to see if they will accept a guest post from you.
Here is the template I tend to use:
Subject: you should blog about [insert your guest blog post topic]
[insert their first name], as an avid reader of [insert their site name] I would love to read about [insert guest blog post topic]… and I think your other readers would as well.
Your content on [insert existing post from their website #1, insert existing post from their website #2, and insert existing post from their website #3] are great, but I think you can tie it all together by blogging on [insert guest blog post topic].
I know you are probably busy and won’t blog on it so I’m going to make you an offer you can’t refuse.
 How about I write it for you? Don’t worry, I’m a great blogger and have written posts such as [insert blog post post URL #1] and [insert blog post URL #2].
Let me know if you are interested, I already know your blogging style, plus I understand what your readers love… as I am one.
Look forward to hearing from you,
[insert your name]
Guest posting will drive traffic back to your blog and help you gain readers. You just have to make sure you link back to your blog in your author byline or within the blog post when it makes sense.
Step #3: Link out to bloggers
Hopefully by now you’ve written at least 2 or 3 guest posts, which means you should have some new readers. So when you write new blog posts it should gain some traction, hopefully a few tweets and Facebook shares.
Alright, so now you are ready to write a new blog post. Hopefully within this post you can link out to a few of the other blogs within your space. For example, you could write a blog post titled “101 Resources For You and Your K9” and within that post you can link to good articles that you find on other peoples’ site.
Once you have the post up you’ll want to manually email all of the individuals that you link out and ask them to share your post on the social web as well as tell them to share it with their blog readers.
In addition to that email you should head to StumbleUpon Paid Discovery and send $100 worth of traffic to your blog post. This way your post will get over 1000 visitors and those 101 sites you linked out to will see you as a referrer within their analytics reports. This will help increase your odds of getting linked to by other bloggers as well as increase your odds of getting more social shares.
Step #4: Ask for tweets
You have content on your blog, but do you have a ton of tweets? Social signals help boost rankings so the more tweets you can get the better off you are.
So how do you get these tweets? You could wait for them to happen naturally, but as you already know, that probably won’t happen. So why not solicit them?
You can’t do this every time you publish a blog post, but every time you write a great one, why not direct message your list of 200 Twitter users and in a 140 characters ask them nicely to tweet your link out.
Here is the direct message I use:
I would love it if you could tweet [insert link] to your followers. Let me know if you need a tweet.
For every 100 Twitter users I direct message, I tend to get 3 to 8 users to tweet my link.
Step #5: Email website owners
The more traffic you get to your blog, the better off you are. So just like you emailed the bloggers on your list above, you also want to email website owners to see if you can get them to link to your blog.
You can use one of these email templates to solicit a link. My favorite is:
Subject:Â [insert first name of website owner], i think i’m in love with you
Hopefully I didn’t freak you out by my subject line, but I’m really in love with you. Don’t worry, it’s not in a creepy way, mostly I’m in love with your website [insert their website name].
You probably get tons of people everyday whom are in love with [insert website name], so I won’t bore you with my reasons. Instead I thought I could show some appreciate by giving you some feedback on how you can improve your website.
- Insert suggestion #1
- Insert suggestion #2
And if you are wondering how you can repay your biggest fan, feel free to link to my website [insert URL].
Ah… just kidding, you’ve already done enough for me by making [insert their website name] so awesome!
Cheers,
[insert your name]
Step #6: Create a top 100 list
The next step for you is to write a blog post that contains the top 100 blogs in your space. You can pick blogs from your list of 200 that you collected in step 1, but you don’t want to limit it to that list. Add anyone that should be on it.
Once you have the blog post all written, you need to find a web designer to help create a badge. The badge should say something like “Top 100 [insert the category of the blog] blog”. You also want to create an embed code so that people who are on that list can easily place a badge on their blog.
A good example of this is the Power 150 list by AdAge and how bloggers like Top Rank Blog place the badge within their sidebar.
Now to increase your odds of getting bloggers to embed the badge on their site, buy traffic from the StumbleUpon Paid Discovery network. This will boost your views on that post, which will cause more people to click on the links, which will cause people to see your site in their analytics reports. And then on top of that you’ll want to email the blogs in the list and share with them the badge code.
Step #7: Create a blogroll
I know people say reciprocal link building is dead, but you aren’t creating a blogroll for SEO purposes. You are creating one so you can link to other bloggers in your space who also have blogrolls.
Once you add a handful of sites to your blogroll, you want to email them and let them know. If they add you to their blogroll within 7 days, keep them on your blogroll… if not replace them with another blog. Repeat this whole process until you have a handful of sites that are linking to you within their blogroll.
Again, don’t worry about the SEO benefit from a blogroll, create a blogroll to gain traffic from other related blogs. In the long run this will help you gain more readers.
Step #8: Leave comments
It’s a tedious task to leave comments on other people’s blog, but it is a necessary evil. Add of all the blogs in your space to a feed reader and once a day comment on at least 5 new blog posts.
Your comments should be thorough, and shouldn’t be spammy or self-promoting. Instead you should just try to provide valuable input that benefits other people.
Also when you leave comments, use your real name and blog URL. This way if people like what you have to say, they’ll click on your name and end up on your blog. This is a great way to gain readers… and it is actually the approach Pete Cashmore used to help gain his first few readers for Mashable.
Step #9: If all else fails, buy readers
Even if you do all of the things above, there isn’t a guarantee that you’re blog will be popular. You should be able to get tens of thousands of readers through the methods above, but getting hundreds of thousands is a much harder task.
What you can do is find other popular blogs in your space and pay them to blog about your blog and how great it is. When they write the blog post make sure you have them tell their readers to subscribe to your RSS feed.
I used that exact approach with Quick Sprout and when I launched it I had over 1000 RSS subscribers within 3 days. Then when I published a blog post I had a decent sized audience, which is how I naturally got comments and link backs.
When buying blog posts from other bloggers, feel free to have them nofollow the links to you as you don’t want to get penalized for “buying links”.
Conclusion
If you do the above steps you should have enough readers coming to your blog. When you publish content, it will get the attention it needs so that you will naturally get back links.
Just make sure you continually rinse and repeat the steps above… as many of the methods such as guest posting can be used on a regular basis. Within 6 months of doing everything above, you should have a popular blog that gets at least 10,000 monthly visitors if not well over 25,000 visitors.
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Very Well Said, I got some very valid points here to Market my content with different tactics. Thank You anywaz.
Regards
Thank you Umar, glad you got some useful tips from this post.
same here i also got some serious point to be learn.
Really Awesome! If a person will apply the above step. I am damn sure he can hit his target!… And I am going to be in the list
thanks neil for sharing such an amazing post this one is my fav <3.
Thanks Sayeed, these tactics have worked for me so they should help others if they follow the above steps.
Hey,
Neil guess what I work on you points and in less than 15 days it has started working for me.Just love you…
Thanks
Awesome, glad to hear it!
Question about Blog Comments and Panda/Penguin Updates.
If you are putting your name on blog comments wont your webmaster tools tell you that you have unnatural links going to your page.
I know it is not the KeyWord you are trying to rank for unless it is your name. But could that hurt you organically?
Brian,
There are two sides to every coin, The reason I like and actually listen to Neil is that he espouses this philosophy.
Whenever I try an idea he has (which I do often) i ask my self this, “what is the tradeoff for each idea” Any idea we try no matter what has a trade off.
The question is which tradeoff brings the most CONVERTING traffic to our websites. Will it hurt organic results….Maybe…..do organic serp results produce more then a 25% conversion rate…..depends….So does it make sense to use this idea if it hurts your organic results?
Answer: It completely depends on the situation
For me at least the most important thing to remember is not where do I rate in a search engine result but what kind of marketing can I use to bring in the most people who’s lives I can positively effect.
That seems to serve me pretty well
-Sam
Totally understand your point. But as someone that positions himself as an SEO guru in this industry that is a question I bring up. If that is his answer then that is fine.
But if if his answer is well so far it has not hurt rankings so far. So far is the key term.
SEO is evolving and people can see with the Panda/Penguin updates.
So going forward to say.. Leave blog comments with your URL really makes me wonder how much thought was put into SEO.
Yes the algorithm can say right now right now…”No follow blog comments are discounted and nothing happens”…. Next algo it could say any websites that seem to have unnatural linking will have lower rankings.
5 a day means 1,825 links a year to your website from 1 anchor text which is your name.
That can be an algo red flag in the future. I would not promote this tactic. Also blogroll which is sitewide links you are running more risky business in the future.
Guest posts for reputable blogs I totally agree with. Those take time and bring authority into your website.
Honestly I would not risk another website with these tactics.
Maybe a profile page is what you can reply with. Now I believe that is a safer option. You can still network and not risk your website.
So far I haven’t seen any website affected negatively as you are leaving good comments and they all usually nofollowed.
Yea, the way I look at marketing is ROI based. You may hurt one channel by doing one tactic, but if your overall ROI goes up, then you are fine.
It won’t as most blog comments are nofollowed.
Hi Brian, I think what Neil was trying to say here, which he did very clearly,is to focus on both content and marketing your content. The marketing aspect is much like distribution. While I may not agree with all the techniques he suggested, he illustrated a good point – content marketing is going to just require as much work as traditional marketing, at a much lower cost and with more effectiveness while being more time-consuming.
So the bottom line is, do what you may, but after writing good content, it’s crucial you distribute it well,and possibly come up with a template/structure for distributing it to enjoy economies of scale in the future.
Jason, thanks couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks for reading guys!
Great post Mr Neil, really great post. you can also post on forums too. Lets assume you have a list of top 100 something about your niche.Go to your niche most popular forum and list about 50 and then put the link to your blog where they can get the remaining lists. This will also drive great traffic to your website
You can also create a youtube video around the post too. Finally you can compile your blog posts convert them into an ebook and submit them to ebook directories.
I hope to write a guest post here someday
Thank you Kenneth for adding more useful tips, appreciate it.
Dude. Your content is epic. The “ask for tweets” is a gem!
Thanks Aaron, it really does work!
Of course it depends on whether or not the person follows you back. I’d recommend using an app like Tweetadder and in an automated way find twitter users in your niche and add them. If they don’t follow you back in a week it will unfollow them and then just rerun the same thing. I got a “mommy-type” account with 1000 of engaged and daily users I leverage.
O wow! Such an incredible post! Absolutely phenomenal information. No wonder your techniques always work, Niel! Thank you for sharing these awesome tips.
Whenever a post comes from you, I am excited because I know something powerful is there to learn from you today! You are simply awesome!
Thank you, I do my best to provide content that my readers will find useful. It is always good to hear that I have accomplished that.
Spot on… You just saved me so much time… Lol… Not to toot your horn, but Your blog is the only blog I read in the marketing industry on the regular and this is why… 80/20… i have been working with a friend on this strategy of building her site in the weight loss industry.
I haven’t had the time to go over as much as I would like on a regular basis… But just forwarded her this post because it says most all of what I have been trying to say over the past few weeks and months in a nut shell.
It’s kindof like a little 80/20 checklist for content marketing that you an refer to on the regular…
Kenney
Great, that is what I strive to do. Thanks for reading, glad you found this post helpful.
I don’t think there is such any post which is not useful for us,your all posts are awesome.
This is really good stuff. Although I don’t do much content marketing, I really like the idea of having a list that you mentioned in #1. Personally, I will be using it to track the relationships within people in the same industry.
-Amir
Sounds good, it will benefit you to start now in case you decide to do more content marketing in the future. Which I would recommend you doing.
Great post Neil, I was looking into this recently. I was certain my content was good but I was not getting the response I was expecting with some of my articles. I just sent you a PM with a little request hope you get it.
Did you email me the message?
Great post Neil!
This one comes on the best time, as I’m starting a new digital marketing blog in the spanish speaking market.
I’ll see if I can apply all of those strategies.
Cheers
Thanks Ivan, let me know how it goes.
I was curious how successful is to pay others to praise about your blog versus a simple blog post exchange with other bloggers. I also thought that Stumble Upon Paid Discovery is very expensive way to promote anything unless it’s meant to go viral. $0.10/hit may turn into a few hundred bucks per day without getting any real traction.
It’s worked well for me. Extremely well… assuming you have good content.
No, It is excellent. The other way is purchasing traffic everyday by Google Adwords.
Would you please write a blog about StumbleUpon Paid Discovery ?
Nader
@coldadco
Thanks for the suggestion, I will consider it for a future blog post.
This is an incredible post.
I am sure this is very useful its probably worth a thousand bucks.
Thanks a lot for sharing Neil.
I have nothing else to add other than come back to this post and utilize it step by step hahaha
Appreciate it David!
Thanks for pointing out the StumbleUpon paid service – I wasn’t aware it existed so will check it out to see if it could be useful.
Definitely do so, hope you like it.
I wasn’t aware the internet existed. Thanks for pointing it out.
Neil Patel
#kindofabigdeal
LOL, as my friend always asks me… “Neil have you heard of THE Google”.
Hi Neil,
I’m so glad I came across your website. This is the definitive one-stop shop for all bloggers out there. including me.
In my opinion, the first step that you mentioned, is one which is of paramount importance. If the effort put in towards generating that list is optimal, the list would reap rewards for a very long time. Most of the other steps can be accomplished, once the first step of generating the list is achieved.
Thank you very Neil, I’m off to generate my list as well. I’ll let you know on the results of my efforts.
Regards
Jay
http://road-to-sanitarium.blogspot.in/
I am glad you came across it as well! Thanks, look forwarding to hearing how it works out for you.
wow!
very detailed and informative blog post!
sounds like a lot of work but I’m sure it will give you results.
It is a lot of work but well worth it!
I always love to listen from you. In short, you are the one who always pull out me from my mailbox to latest blog posts.
I am facing the same issue. I am working with a company, and they got some strict traffic filters for their project. However, after reading these cool ideas. I believe now I can at least bring some quality traffic to them.
Thanks Neil.
Thanks Hamza,
Follow the steps above and let me know how it goes.
Neil,
We recently designed blog site to http://www.blog.incion.com and have started creating good articles to help our Web Design customers. You are absolutely right it can be challenging to get visitors. Hopefully the above steps will help us to increase visitors..Challenge we are facing is that all visitors are not reading the blog. Any thoughts on how to make readers read the entire content and comment…?
Thank you
Chris
Chris thanks for your blog link. Its referral notebook for developer and designer.
I am developer and marketing girl. I do have Bangalore based start up called WebCreators.in (http://webcreators.in/).
I was searching blog like your’s. Finally i got one.
@vijusgk
Thanks Vijayshree..
You can’t do much there… a lot of blogs have that problem. Best solution is to go for more traffic.
Awesome. I found something more in your blog.
Thank you Neil Patel.
Great, glad to hear it.
Great post. This is the perfect blueprint for someone starting out in SEO.
Thanks, it certainly should help if the steps above are followed.
Thanks neil you just impressed me, no body actually share these amount of technicalities as done by you.
Really enriching post.
I would definitely try it out.
Thank you Shouvik, I do what I can to try and share tips I think my readers will find useful.
Awesome post Neil, every post you publish are super great content and it helps me a lot on my sites…this post is the way to go to jumpstart my idle sites…it gives me so much idea and inspiration.
Thank you Mike, I appreciate it.
Great article. I’ve always known content is king. In this saturated Internet, though, good content isn’t enough. You have to promote it as well.
I’ve heard of blog commenting and forum posting (which you didn’t mention). Some of these other tactics are things that I definitely need to apply. I especially liked making a list of blogs in your niche. What better way to get traffic than from other successful sites?
Yep, those are also good tactics. Thanks for brining them up.
These are a lot of tips! Thanks Neil. I’ll be sure to follow them. Right now I’m looking at guest posting to increase traffic, and I’ll also look at this lot to maximize my content.
Awesome, sounds good to me keep it up!
Hi,
Thanks for sharing such awesome tips. You made a very good point that, we can write good content, but it’s of no use is we cant promote it in a right way. Your techniques always work, No wonder in that.
Keep Sharing….
Thanks Rakesh, I appreciate the kind words.
Neil, your tips are really awesome & a must follow for anyone looking to increase traffic. I’ll surely going to get this implemented in very short time.
Thanks
Awesome, let me know if you have any questions as you go.
Another great post Neil! What do you think of TribePro and Onlywire for social backlinks?
I’ll have to check them out. I haven’t used them yet.
Lots of good and very practical advice here Neil. It takes a lot of effort to do this right but is definitely necessary for anyone starting a new project and looking to build some traffic.
Thanks Marko, it does take a lot of time but is well worth it as I am sure you know.
Thanks Neil! I have found that the more “interviews” I do with experts on the subject, the easier it is for me to become an “expert,” too, and I think a lot of marketers are missing that element. Good luck with your future writing!
Nice tip Anderson, that is very true. The more you discuss or interview with an expert the more you will learn and soon will be feeling like an expert as well.
Awesome Neil!
I would add forum posting for getting traffic and having an email list to capture your audience. Having an email list is by far the best method to get people back to your blog.
Other then that, the advice is pure gold.
Yep, you are correct. Thanks for your additional suggestions.
It takes time to make a complete and useful list, but it’s always worth it. I create timeless posts like that from time to time. And posts like that will continue to attract visitors always. You should also go the extra mile to contact all owners of the blog you list, they will likely share the list with their followers.
Definitely, there is no harm in asking!
Is Twitter links worth, considering they are nofollow?
They are worth considering as search engines take social signals into account
Very thorough. Thank you. I would add that the regional targeting of the content should also be considered when doing all of the above+the other tips you have shared in the previous tips.
Worth mentioning in this context might be: don’t overdo it, don’t become a spammer – don’t outsource too much, do not censor, respond to critiques harshly, don’t follow just big players.
I agree, you don’t want to become spammy and should be open to critiques because they will help you improve.
Neil, I like reading your posts – but this one’s not doing it for me.
The two email templates you’ve provided have pretty corny openers. If anyone sent me those I’m not sure I’d bother reading the rest of the email. Also I can’t imagine spamming 100 twitter users with direct messages asking for RT’s. I see you only get 3-8 yay’s out of 100 when you do it. Does that mean 92-97 people get a negative impression of you?
No doubt you’re earning a lot more than me so I’m sure you know what you’re talking about. Just that blindly following advice isn’t the right way to go for long-term credibility. Got to do what fits with your personality and values.
In email link building, it is rare that more than 10% of the people link back. The other 90% don’t really hate you, they just ignore your email… no matter what template you use.
I agree, you should do what fits your values.
So, true! However, I have had clients who got it backwards. We developed strategies for marketing their content. Oh, but their content writer just didn’t produce! And, lo and behold, their content writers didn’t produce because they wanted to pay the amount you would pay for low, quality, mumbo-jumbo that Google would toss out anyway.
If your content wouldn’t get through the first and second draft of a high school paper, I’m not interested. Yep, I’m a high school writing coach, and I’ve told some of my students that they would make great web content writers.
That is very true, you have to have quality content or else these efforts made won’t help.
content is basic fondation to make great marketing. We have to make a great article to make people happy to read it. we not only blogger but marketers too.
Exactly, glad you have got it.
This is perhaps the best read this month, no really I am not joking, its the best I have read so far this month.
I think the idea of the “top ranked blog in your category” is a so windy that it has the ability to blow your blog from a shared hosting to a dedicated one. Nice on Neil Patel sir ji. Namaste to you.
Thank you Shalu, glad to hear you enjoyed it.
Hey Neil,
Seriously. This post is epic. A few things on this list I never thought of or heard of before. I think if anyone followed your method (which I am gonna do) then they will have results and be successful.
Thanks again,
Ryan
Thanks Ryan, let me know how it goes when you do.
Neil, excellent post. Really, that was one of the most informative writings on how to increase one’s blog viewership and how to gain traction one’s social circles.
Thank you Kirby, happy to hear it.
Hi Neil
I love to read you posts now and then, and at times, I come across them online while I search for SEO related queries
Is there a way to, somehow, I could find your post, which mentioned about writing or re-phrasing the title of the blog post appropriately in order, to get maximum visibility on search engines.
I also lost track of something you mentioned about things to consider, while commenting on blogs, now while I don’t remember actually what was mentioned in it, but it definitely said to, write your blog name, instead of your profile name, which is what am trying to do here.
Instead of commenting as a blogger profile name, I’ve tried to use my domain name as a commentator, which is Makeup and Beauty related blog
Thank you and do let me know if am going wrong, with your advises?
Regards
chandrakshicreation.com
Yea, you should use your “real name” as using your keyword or website name instead as your “name” looks spammy.
Thanks for these tips. I found out about you through Brian Clarks blog. He mentioned you pitched him the idea of doing some work for him – FREE. Naturally, He linked to you and here I am on your blog. You do a great job by the way.
Awesome, Brian is a great guy. I am glad you found me through him!
Hi Neil – this is the best post on this topic I’ve read in a while. I see a lot of people writing about content marketing but it’s just regurgitation of the same stuff.
-Joe
Thanks Joe, good to hear it.
I’ll be very keen to test this content marketing strategy Neil for my Japanese site. We have implemented some your suggestions from our Skype call and are seeing improvements.
Cheers
That is great, let me know if you have any more questions as you go.
Wow, some great tips here. Thanks for putting everything into very simple, practical terms. So one question….how can you find blogs that are willing to be paid to blog about you and thus increase your readership?
I got to Technorati.com and search for relevant blogs and then just manually email them.
I have never tried e mailing big bloggers but I feel that your suggestion is worth trying. I have guest blogged on around 15 blogs last week but when it comes to approaching big bloggers they seldom or never reply my emails.
You won’t always get a response, I know when I first started I didn’t but as long as you keep at it you will eventually find someone will and it will be worth it to keep trying until you do.
Thanks for the advice, I will use it to improve my website.
I’m just not ready (yet) to email website owners and asking a backlink. This needs some taught by me.
Great, I hope these tips help when you are ready to do so.
This is definitely an eye opener for people who think good content does not needs to be promoted.
Yep, great content won’t help unless it gets seen.
Search has always been the quickest source of growth for any of my websites. I find that when I have a website that is getting hundreds of visitors a day from search that’s when my website grows more organically because of new visitors, return visitors and links. With search traffic and organic growth everything else becomes WAY easier.
Great, thanks for sharing what works best for you.
Hi Neil,
Truly AWESOME list, thanks for sharing! Have a great holiday season.
Thanks,
Scott
Thanks Scott,
Happy Holidays to you too.
I was wondering – how many guests posts do you suggest we aim for following this strategy?
Fantastic post!!
As many as possible.
Do at least 1 a week if not 2.
Thanks for this post Neil, asking for tweets is great tip, as that has helped me get my content a wider reach just by asking for tweets. I also have been following tips on a post you had done earlier on How to be an Influential Twitter Power User and that has helped me a lot gain influence, spread my content online and gain followers. However I have an issue, my blog isn’t that popular in Kenya, but I have been writing guest posts in 5 leading blogs, should I keep doing that or now focus fully on publishing on my blog alone?
Writing guest post is a great way to bring traffic to your site so I wouldn’t suggest that you stop. However if you feel it is taking time away from the quality of your blog cut back on how often you do it.
This is great information thanks, i will definitely implement some of these strategies with my own internet marketing.
I am happy to hear you talk about linking previous blog posts together as i’m already doing this.
Regards,
Giles.
Sounds good, let me know if you have any questions as you go.
well, I just love your idea of buy readers.
You have explained great points !
Thank you
Thanks, give it a try and see how it works for you.
Great post! I’ve just started toying Twitter, similarly love the idea of scratching each others back for tweets
Thanks, that is great keep at it!
Good post, marketing is an art in itself. You highlight some really points. People tend to copy others rather then think outside the box, and your article showed an example of just that.
Yep, it is important to get creative if you want to get ahead or stand out.
This is surely an excellent advice for sure but I think some brands get so caught up in making sure their content is “perfectâ€. You can’t be perfect at something you’ve never done before.
This article really does bring out some great points. As someone who is relatively new to blogging (4-Months) I didn’t think one could market so heavily without more tenure. Our blog has over 70 posts on it at this point and has hit PR3, but still struggles to get over 250 page views a day. We have been working on improving our SEO, but hadn’t thought about investing so much in content marketing. This was a great eye opener with many actionable items. Thank You!
Hi Neil, great post once again. I loved #2, #3 and #8, creating content and not marketing it is a waste of time end energy. So content created should be well marketed. Happy New Year!
Wonderfull Post Neil.. You are a real eye opener in SEO world.. We commonly do such mistakes.. N after reading your Blog we improve our SEO tactics. Thanks for sharing such insightful information with us.
Persistence is the key. The seed priciple should be engrained in the heart’s of every internet marketer. I enjoy starting a new website project. I like the thrill of the chase. If I don’t get the big results I desire, I always gain knowledge that helps me build my arsenal to help someone below me to step up. That’s the main key. Solve a problem. Help someone out. They’ll appreciate you for it. I know I do you.
Hi Neil,
Have you ever successfully managed to hire people to do this? I did a similar kind of hustle for wikijob.co.uk when that was starting out, but I’ve been unable to get others to do it properly. I haven’t found anyone who has the steely determination to do it. Just wondered what your experiences were.
Chris
Great, thanks for sharing
Hi Niel,
I’m a great fan of your blog! Keep on posting useful SEO and marketing tips and advises. I was saving most of your posts here and applied it on my own site. So far so good for me as it helps me increase my traffic and profit as well.
Thank you so much!
Wow that was inspiring i like the way you have higloghted an alternative way of getting visitiors i.e buying blog post. Thanks Neil
Step 1. Post a comment here with something valuable in it
Enough jokes. Great post which is very descriptive. Only one question:
when creating the top 100 list do you include your own site? Or brand it into the footer/header of the image?
Hi Neil. Very interesting. How can this process work in an agency environment?
Hi Neil. I came across your blog a few days ago and I haven’t stopped reading it since! Just a quick question, for step #9, you mentioned that before you even wrote your first blog post, you paid popular blogs to post about yours and have their readers subscribe to your feed. How much should you offer these blogs? Does the amount depend on how popular the blog is? Is there a formal procedure for doing this or is it more of a play-it-by-ear type of approach? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
Marketing is the best way to go!
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Hi!,m,,,wesome post Neil, every post you publish are super great content and it helps me a lot on my sites…this post is the way to go to jumpstart my idle sites,,,.
Thanks,,,,,,,,,,,,.
great and nice post. this post is very help full for SEO .
thanks
I agree with thanks.
Neil, you mentioned in the comments you use Technorati to find blogs. What tool and search queries do you use to find websites and twitter accounts to build your lists?
I use a number of tools. Email me and we can discuss..
Do you know why your content marketing campaign is going to fail?
Because you don’t read! This one’s got a lot to teach. Nice post Neil. I surely learned a lot.
Gen, glad I could help
Hey Neil, little late on the comments but I wanted to say that buying traffic is always the “oh man, I don’t want to be sleazy” tactic, but it’s actually not AND it actually works. Spending $100 to gain some followers and subscribers is a long-term investment–unless your stuff is garbage. I think you perfectly combine the use of your time vs your money, which is a tough thing to balance personally.
Brian, great points. You are 100% correct it is a long term investment!
Wow, there’s always something great from you Neil. Thanks
Glad you enjoy it
Amazing post… Great job is an understatement. Keep up the great content.
Jacob, thanks for reading!
Good stuff Neil! This is true that content Marketing is among the most biggest thing which we have to do with SEO. In case you have done content marketing you’re going to get the back links naturally and I might suggest that natural back links tend to be more powerful, then most of these scrape links.
Katharine, great points! Thanks for reading