{"id":718,"date":"2010-08-19T17:04:24","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.free-web-submission.com\/blog\/?p=718"},"modified":"2010-08-19T18:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T17:58:00","slug":"traffic-generation-in-niche-themes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/free-web-submission.co.uk\/blog\/traffic-generation-in-niche-themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic Generation in Niche themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great concept! Here goes my 2 cents:<\/p>\n<p>This idea is more adequate if your web\/blog is somehow in a niche, and traffic is hard to get. In this case some direct actions are necessary, but some tricks may be usable for non-niche sites\/blogs.<\/p>\n<p>Search in twitter, blogger.com, webcities about the theme, issues or the niche that interests you (and btw your web site is about the same).<\/p>\n<p>Look at the lists of persons and blogs and make a list of those that have something in common with you, the same interests, similar topics, etc. Some will have a huge list of followers or many subscribers to the blog.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the tricky part is: how to contact these high-profile webizens? You would not like to knock at their door and ask for a retweet or a backlink in a blog post\u2026 right? That would look like \u201cplease sir can I have some of your traffic?\u201d. Nope, wrong approach IMHO.<\/p>\n<p>You have to offer something, first it\u2019s a good idea to start with great content in your site\/blog. But that\u2019s not enough.<\/p>\n<p>In a direct contact a start-up point is just asking for feedback on your site, or about a specific issue. Or, more intelligently, you can add comments in relevant (and popular) blogs leaving the link to your site\/blog in the signature. But, hey it needs to make sense (please see shameless example bellow).<\/p>\n<p>Check your network, certainly you know or know someone that knows someone in your hit list. Check your Facebook and Linkedin for contacts in your friends list.<\/p>\n<p>Another way to go is to spread twit-like in other social networking sites like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.reddit.com<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/digg.com<\/a> (take care to place stuff in right category).<\/p>\n<p>And now an shameless example about a niche blog.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m starting now a blog that contains a Comic Strip (ok, well\u2026 actually a Beta Comic Strip).<br \/>\nI have not yet made a great effort to spread the word but sometime in the Future I will need feedback and will search some people to check it out and spell a few comments.<\/p>\n<p>Some may even be not obvious, some contacts that I\u2019ve pre-listed just use comics to fill in their business powerpoint presentations. So screaming out loud \u201cfree comic strip for powerpoint presentations\u201d may produce some results (if I remember to place a link in each comic strip\u2026 hum, that reminds me of something).<\/p>\n<p>Have to go make a urgent change.<\/p>\n<p>Take care,<\/p>\n<p>The Spin Doctor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nursingspins.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/nursingspins.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great concept! Here goes my 2 cents: This idea is more adequate if your web\/blog is somehow in a niche, and traffic is hard to get. In this case some direct actions are necessary, but some tricks may be usable for non-niche sites\/blogs. 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