Getting Traffic 108 - Pay With A Tweet Button

Social sharing is a hugely effective way to market your blog.  We've talked about this before in other posts, but it's definitely worth the mention again here.  Let me introduce you to the 'Pay With A Tweet' service.

Your first step is to create an e-book with highly valuable information, or offer something else of value to your visitors (mp3's you've created, entrance to your site, entrance to a raffle for a big prize, etc).

Next you'll go to Pay With A Tweet and make a free 'Pay' button.

Offer your free merchandise on your site, and let visitors know that all they have to do to get what you're offering is 'pay with a tweet' by pushing the button.  That's it.

Why is the 'Pay With A Tweet' button so awesome?  Well let's look at the way Google works now.

After the newest panda/penguin updates, Google doesn't give a lot of importance to low quality backlinks anymore.  What they do give a lot of importance to is social media and social sharing.  If Google sees your blog or url being shared hundreds or even thousands of times all of a sudden, then they move your site up in the search engine rankings at least temporarily, because they want to share what's hot, and they figure if a lot of people are tweeting about it, then it is.

You're basically letting other people do all the hard work for you of moving your site up in the search engines.  Lets just say ten people tweet out your site to get your free offer.  Each of those ten people has ten followers that come and get your free offer by tweeting it out... now you've got 100 tweets in just a short time.  Each of those 100 has ten people that tweet it = 1,000 tweets, etc etc.  Not only are you going to be getting organic search engine traffic because your site will move up in the SERP, but also traffic from twitter itself.

You will of course need to offer something more than just the free e-book or mp3 on your site in order to keep your visitors browsing or coming back for more, or else your traffic is just wasted.  Your goal is to offer something incredible that everybody in your niche wants just to get their attention, and then catch their eye with all of your other great content.


Social sharing sites like Twitter are important to boosting your search engine rankings, so give it a try. Do you know of other similar free Twitter Services? Have you used Pay With A Tweet on your site? Let us know in a comment below. We'd love to hear if you had success, or failure using Pay With A Tweet. Don't forget to subscribe and follow for more great blogging, page rank, and Twitter resources!

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Building Your Blog 204 - The Death Of Your Blog

Welcome to the death of your blog: you.  That's right, I said the death of your blog will be you.  You are your blog's own worst enemy.  It's not the blog down the cyber street that you've been competing with, it's not the search engines that refuse to put you in the #1 spot, it's not the readers that aren't coming to your blog.  This is reality talking, and begging you to listen up, lest your blog die a painful, lonely death.

At this point you might be thinking, 'how can I be the death of my blog?  I made it look sexy and I wrote a bunch of awesome content!  I've even got a few followers.'

Ok, so your blog does look good and you did put up some content, but let me ask you this: are you still actively posting to your blog?  Are you engaging your readers?  Have you left room for your blog to grow?  Truth time.

Death Stage 1) If you're not actively posting to your blog on (at the very least) a weekly basis, then your blog is getting ready to shrivel up and die, and your readers may be getting ready to leave and not come back.  Nobody likes a stagnant blog.  Your readers want to see new content in new ways.  Don't leave them hanging because you got bored with your blog or ran out of steam.  Take the time to learn to come up with awesome content with our article HERE, and how to dominate your time HERE, so that you can keep going strong with your posting.

Death Stage 2) Failure to engage your readers and keep them interested, involved, and invested is a fast way to lose them.  There are lots of strategies you can use to keep them engaged.  Let's look at three of them here:

    - Ask your readers questions at the end of posts in order to get them commenting.  You want your reader to feel invested in the topic by giving their input.  Where a reader is invested, they will want to come back again and again.

   - Keep readers interested with contests, polls, sexy graphics, and a constant stream of new and interesting content.  If a reader feels bored with your blog, they won't be coming back.  You want them to be excited about coming back to your blog on a daily basis to see whats new for them.

    - Give readers the option to share your content with others, in as many ways as possible.  If your blog doesn't have social bookmarking options like the option to share on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc, then it's time to upgrade.  You want your readers to share your content with as many others as possible, and they'll want to share your articles if they're truly awesome.  You're only deterring them from sharing if you don't have the option for them to easily share.

Death Stage 3) Did you build your blog in a box with no room to grow?  This is a problem.  From the start you need to take steps to leave room for your blog to grow.  When one of your posts goes viral you want to have the space for several things, including: hiring more authors, adding new pages, and growing into new topics in your niche area.  Don't forget that you'll want to have room for selling advertising on your blog if you plan on monetizing it, and also have ways for your new readers to follow you in a variety of ways including: Twitter, Facebook, and feeds.

Death Stage 4) Giving up.  Too many bloggers get discouraged when their blog doesn't become an instant hit or they're not making the big money they thought they would.  If there's one lesson I've learned in my blogging career, it's been not to give up.  In the blogging world, you get out what you put in.  If you aren't dedicated to your blog, then you won't be getting the big results.  It's a lot of hard work, and I haven't lied to you about that yet and don't plan to.  If you're planning on giving up, have a look at what we have to say HERE.  If you give up on your blog, it will be the blog's instant death.

Reality says blogging is hard, time consuming, and is not for everybody.  Reality also says that anybody can be a great blogger if they put in the thought and effort.  I don't want your blog to die, and I'm positive that you don't either.

What do you think?  How many times have you been close to giving up?  What are some ways you use to keep your readers engaged?  Let us know in a comment below, and don't forget to subscribe to us on Facebook, Blogger, and Twitter.

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