The personal blog is the marketing center for many in Multi Level Marketing and Network Marketing. The blog serves a variety of functions including, advertising products and affiliate programs, providing information, and most importantly, attracting associates to our business. Therefore, the success of our business is greatly determined by the amount of visitors to our blog. The following ten tip are proven ways to increase traffic to your blog.

1. Create Original Content 
You’ve heard this before but it’s too important not to mention. You MUST have unique content. This is what separates you from the rest of the crowd. It is what brands you as an expert in your field.

2. Include Content With A Plan Of Action
 The information you provide should include action steps that can be taken immediately and the resources to do it with. Use affiliate programs that provide tools and training or have them opt-in to your own trainings. The content should be motivation for them to begin your program.

3. Communicate With Personality Write as though you are speaking with a friend. You want this to be understood by as many as possible so do not use jargon on difficult vocabulary. Your writing and the blog itself should help visitors become familiar with you. Trust will develop as they get to know you. Use a style of writing that is casual and conversational.

4. Be Trust-worthy Advertise and support products and affiliate programs that you have used and believe in. It’s important that you truly like and would use the product or service yourself. It’s not worth loosing a new down line member over a small commission.

5. Continual Posting You will be ranked higher and more often by search engines if you are making contributions to you blog regularly. Ideally you make a new post at least once each week, but 3-4 times a week is better. Search engines will like it and it will keep readers coming back for more.

6. Specialize Choose a segment of your business and learn it very well. This will give you the ability to discuss it with greater knowledge than most people. This allows you to provide useful and unique information as well as create respect and trust for you.

7. Post On Forums Forums are places on the Internet where people interested in a specific topic gather to discuss and ask questions. Find forums related to your business and post content that informs and educates. It will create awareness about you and your business with people already interested in your field. Don’t forget to provide your URL or RSS feed somewhere in the post. You can find forums related to you business by Googling “my biz” forums.

8. Include Links within your blog You can include a link in each post on your blog to another post or page on your blog. This is a no-cost and easy way to get Google and others to index your site faster and more often. Each of these ten steps may increase your traffic a small amount but when they are all combined, you will see a significant difference.

9. Visit Other Blogs And Comment You can create additional back links to your site by going to other blogs and sites and posting relevant content. Do this on sites with high traffic if possible. The other sites like it and you get a back link.

10. Do Website “Value Calculations” There are free sites that estimate the “value” and effectiveness of other sites. It can give you some interesting information and establish more links back to you. Search engines like these sites and sample them frequently. You can try http://www.cubestat.com or http://www.websitegrader.com

Generating traffic to your site is a critical part of your business, these ten steps will be a start in the right direction.

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