Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Getting Traffic to Blogger Blogs

One problem that I've been having is getting traffic to my blogs. Someone alerted me to some blog posts that might have a solution to the traffic problem I'm facing, so I wanted to go over the ways that this blog suggested to get traffic.

Notes on cheap targeted traffic: buying traffic from other websites. Caveat: use Google’s Ad planner (or Quantcast.com) to get some demographic data on a site before deciding to advertise.

Buysellads.com - Large inventory of sites to place your ads. Pay attention to what banner ads are showing up on the sites as a starting point for making your own.

BlogAds - a network of over 3,000 influential blogs connects advertisers with readers and the social media elite. Interesting that they mention social media in their outreach.

AdSella - Ad buyers can choose from a variety of blogs and websites to buy ad space and increase traffic. Some of the publisher sites listed weren't even functional, so make sure you do your due diligence here.

Advertise Space - Gives publishers the power to set rates and reject any ad creative that is not appropriate for their site. Site has an unfinished feel to it, so I think they are just starting out.

Project Wonderful - This looks like a network of mostly comic and gaming blogs, but there are also a few other niche websites in their network. You can reach InsaneJournal.com readers through ProjectWonderful, as well as people in Boston looking up schedules for the underground T trains.

Blog Banner Ads: this blog post details the buysellads.com marketplace. That's potentially a really good site - advertising on a site is possible for for less than $10 a month.

SEOClerks vs. Fiverr - I confess that I usually go to Fiverr for one-off SEO tasks, but this blog post makes a great point: charging five dollars for a quality SEO task is a false economy. The better SEO services on Fiverr should be allowed to charge more for a better service, which is exactly what you get at SEOClerks. It's also nice that SEOClerks.com just focuses on SEO tasks. Some examples include: