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Everyone with a website or blog wants more traffic. The million dollar questions is, how do you get it without paying an arm and a leg? The deck walks through ten different advertising and marketing strategies that are LOW COST to help grow your traffic and make more money from your efforts. Visit http://www.youappi.com/blog for more tips and strategies!
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Ten Low Cost Blog Advertising & Marketing
Strategies For Growing Your Traffic
Organic SEOPerform keyword research and then map those keywords to
individual pages on your website
Optimize title tags, meta descriptions, heading
tags, and body content for those keywords
Engage in targeted off site promotion to strengthen your
website or blog authority
Email Marketing
Set up newsletter email capture forms and then mail their
subscribers on a regular basis
informing them of new offers,
promotions, or new blog posts
StumbleUpon has a paid ad network
where you can distribute your blog content to your targeted
audience
StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
Guest Blogging
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Identify high traffic blogs
where you can contribute
a high quality guest blog
post
Find the blogs that attract
your target audience, can
drive traffic to your site,
and generate social shares
• Identify keywords that your targeted audience might be interested in
• Set up targeted landing pages on your site that match those keywords
• Start paying for each click your ads receive
Pay Per Click Advertising
Start out slow and increase as you get the hang of it
Video MarketingCreate a YouTube account, set up a simple, informational video that is
targeted to your keywords
Now you can generate visibility within YouTube and then drive those visitors
back to your website
Press Release Submissions
The trick with press releases is that your release has to be newsworthy, or
you won’t get any traction
Press releases cost about
$170 per submission
Social Media Participation
Set up accounts on the big four: Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn
then participate on these different platforms to bring in an immediate source of traffic for your site or blog
Targeted Reddit Submissions
Reddit is kind of a social media site and kind of
a news site where you can submit highly
relevant content to sub-
reddits .
If your content is interesting, high quality,
and helps address a
need, Reddit is a great place to submit it
• Pinterest is an amazing way to generate traffic to your site or blog, however, there’s a catch… You have to have amazing images to submit to their community
• If you have the time and resources available to create stunning images to support your content, Pinterest can be a gold mine of traffic for you
Summary
• Organic SEO
• Email Marketing
• StumbleUpon Paid Discovery
• Guest Blogging
• Pay Per Click Advertising
Summary
• Video Marketing
• Press Release Submissions
• Social Media Participation
• Targeted Reddit Submissions
