Work From Home

Setting Up Your Work From Home Blog - Part 3

For previous parts:

Setting Up Your Work From Home Blog - Part 1
Setting Up Your Work From Home Blog - Part 2

Getting Traffic To Your Blog

Now that you’ve set up your blog, got it looking the way you want and added a few posts  comes the most important part - Getting people to come and look at it.

All too often it seems that it’s at this point people give up on setting up their own work from home blogs (or other niche sites/blogs) as they feel they’ve put in all this work and have received no reward for it.

One of the very first and most important things to remember is that it takes time - much like setting up an offline business would, you can’t expect to open the doors one day and earn enough customers to retire the next. Instead you need to take the time to provide people with what they want (good content) get some publicity (inward links) and take the time to show others you’re not a fly by night business - open one day and having a closing down sale the next (age of blog, page rank etc) there are a variety of ways to do this and I have written several articles and posts  on it (some you can find within this blog)

But here’s a few things you can try.

Write and submit articles to as many of the free article directories as you can (NZPCS members will have received as part of their free downloads an article submitter and rss announcer program)

Submit your site to the major search engines - and rss directories.

Use social networking - Social Networking and Bookmarking 

Take the time to visit and join related forums (for eg - for mums that work from home join my work from home mums forum and add your link to your signature)

Visit related blogs and if you have relevant information to add take the time to leave a comment.

Update your blog on a regular basis - if people (and search engines) can see you taking the time to update with good keyword related content they will come and keep coming back for more.

Be patient - you may not get traffic overnight but it will happen and what starts as a trickle will eventually build to regular traffic everyday.