In the past, I’ve had a few blogs and thought that traffic, money, exposure will all come once I had some content on my blog, but as you can guess I was wrong.

How could I possible get traffic without marketing my site, right?

After submitting my site to a few directories and a few search engines I waited…waited…and waited….but still no increase in traffic and money.

I used to promote my site whenever I felt like.

Until one day I thought to myself, hang on, this isn’t working for me. In order to develop a good blog I will need to continually and consistently promote my blog. So what I did was develop my own daily marketing schedule. From that point on, I’ve learned a lesson that no matter what you do, if you have the right idea for handling certain situations, you will always progress and succeed at what you’re willing to achieve.

Before I started this blog, I already made a detailed daily marketing schedule and have been following this marketing schedule from day one. Many people say content is king, although this is true I think marketing is just as important or better said I would say you need to find the right balance between marketing your blog and writing your content. Just think about this, what is the point of having a blog when nobody ever reads it?

I have created a kind of rough marketing schedule sketch so you get a idea of what I do to promote my blog. Most of the things I’ve listed here are always the minimum I do to market my blog, but if I have more time I’ll always do more things.

My daily marketing schedule below.

• Participate in 5 different forums-I personally think that this is an effective way of marketing because you get to learn from other people and you get a free back link for your blog. This mostly takes me around 20 minutes.
• Leave 10 comments on related blogs-Commenting is one of my favorite methods of promoting because I like reading other blogs and you get to leave comments with a free back link to your blog. Takes me around 30 minutes.
• Submit my blog to 10 different blog or web directories-Even though many people don’t consider this very effective any more. I still do submit my blog to as many seo friendly directories, because it helps you gain some back links and will benefit your seo rankings in the long term. Takes me about 30 minutes.
• Try to get a link exchange partner – I mostly do this to gain some nice back links. Takes around 10 minutes
• Post new fresh content- Ah, as they say content is king, probably the most important part of your blog. Without quality content you will get no traffic and that means no money. This mostly depends on how long and information rich the post is as this sometimes takes 30 minutes while other times it takes me 1 hour to write new posts.
• Read other related blogs- If I have time I mostly read other related blogs before I crawl into bed. I try to get ideas for some future posts and try to expand my knowledge. I mostly spend around 30 hour reading other blogs.
• Brainstorm-When I have a bit of time I like to relax in a peaceful environment and just brainstorm about some posts I’d like to write about. I mostly do this around bed time or when I feel lazy.
  
• Monetize my blog- Also a very important element of your blog. If I see that an advertising network isn’t doing well or isn’t earning much money, then I switch to another. I like to experiment until I find a good advertising network

These are the main things I do to promote my blog. Of course there are times I promote my blog with different methods, but I’ll make a post about that in the future.

The main reason I have a daily marketing plan is because it keeps me focused and motivated. I always know that I’ve got some work to do and that it’s got to be done. I’m pretty much sure that if I didn’t have a marketing schedule I would be playing games or doing something else, while I could be working on my blog.

So guys, do you have a daily marketing schedule as well? Why do you use one? Does it actually help you as well?

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Page rank has evolved to be a very important part of evaluating how popular your site is. Although some people think page rank is of no use all I can say is that they are horribly wrong. The ones that do care about page rank including myself are on the right track.

So you want to increase your page rank huh? Why not, page rank shows your visitors how popular your blog is. If you look at all the popular blogs like Johnchow, Problogger or Shoemoney they all have a page rank higher than 5 and are making good money. The higher the page rank, the more visible you will be in search engines and that means lots of traffic. Google will also consider your site more valuable if your pagerank is larger and will visit your site almost daily.

Page rank is also very importent for potential advertisers  who want to advertise on your blog. Basically the higher your page rank the more advertisers you will get and the the higher they will be wanting to pay.

Have you ever wondered why your page rank never increases, if so here are some easy steps to to increase your page rank.

Increase Backlinks

Having many sites linking to your site is a very fast and valuable way to get a increase in page rank. The thing here is that you have to try to get as many quality blogs or sites to have a back link on their site pointing to your blog, because the more links Google sees on different sites that are linking to you, the more valuable you will be in Google eyes.

The higher the page rank of that particular site, the higher your page rank will be. Don’t forget that you should aim to get a back links only from quality sites and not from any weird spam sites. So you should rather aim for a page rank 3 quality back link instead 100 page rank 0 spam sites.

Submit to Directories

Submit to hundreds or let’s say submit your blog to as many blog or general directories as you possibly can. There are literally thousands of directories and not submitting to any directories is a big mistake because you’ll be missing out on lots of nice back links. Only submit to seo friendly as Google prefers seo friendly directories.

Update your blog

Probably the most important aspect of owning a blog. If you want to rank high and make money online then you have to update your blog frequently with new unique content. If you can’t update daily then every 2 or 3 days is also ideal. Once you have quality content on your blog then Google will automatically come to your blog.

As they say content is king

Depending on the factor of how well you’ve gained the back links and if there of good quality I would say that you could easily gain a page rank 1 in 1 month.

Now don’t expect your traffic to explode, because these methods are only focused on increasing your page rank and back links. You won’t get much traffic with these methods.

So guys how do you increase high page rank?

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