Spread the word. Build links.

Now that you’re interacting with the community, you need to get out to other sources of information and spread the word. What will happen is you will increase your relevancy in SEO and generate some buzz about your blog project while you’re at it.

There are some shortcuts too, but they really detract from the authenticity of your venture. If you’re purely business minded, you can’t argue with the results though. One of the big lessons we learn in this post is that money and paying for advertising are great ways to accelerate the growth of your blog.

Commitment

15 hours or more and/or article creation/submission fees.

Produce Fresh Types of Content

This is no different than last week or the week before. I’m only going to mention it this less and less, but I don’t want to undermine how important it is. This is why people come to visit you and it’s why they’ll come back. Don’t disappoint them.

Always be creative with your content and do new things. Try a series like this one, make lists, solicit guest posts, or do interviews. Remember to always be changing things up and keeping things new for your users. When you’re developing your plan for posts each month, before choosing your topics, try determining the types of posts you’ll do.

Writing and Submitting Articles

The best way to do attract attention is to write for other people and get websites to talk about you. Write articles for article directories and do guest posting. Spend all of your time writing articles, but not for your own blog. Submit those articles to article submission sites and other blogs for guest posts.

You’ll have the most success writing 500+ word articles and pounding the pavement. That should cover most of the article directories out there in terms of minimum requirements and is a decent enough sized post for most blogs to accept it as a guest post. Make sure each article is unique, but about similar or the same topics. Link back to your websites main page or specific posts in every article.

If you’re not a great writer (you should probably reconsider doing something like a blog, but that’s for a different day), you can pay copy writing services to write for you. If you’re looking to go the even cheaper route, you can pay a service to build links for you. I’ve had amazing results with seolinkwheelers.com. I don’t really feel like link building services and copy writers are authentic to a real product, but one really must argue for their effectiveness and they do have their place.

I’ll hopefully be doing a post on link building later this week, so keep an eye out for that.

Problems I Had Last Week

My biggest problem last week was staying on track. I had a lot of business and life things happen, and the week just flew by. Life can be tough sometimes and it will catch up with you, but you need to push through! Be committed and don’t fall behind and you’ll be successful.

Last week, did you have any problems? successes? failures? Let me know.