| Did you just start a new blog and you are | | | | ask them if they would mention your blog in their |
| wondering why no one visits your blog and read | | | | next post. Of course, you would do the same for |
| your killer content? Perhaps you have read | | | | them. |
| somewhere that writing and posting killer content | | | | Alternatively, you can make use of article |
| is all you need to do. The rest will take care of | | | | distribution services to help promote your blog. |
| itself. | | | | Such services will post your content to other |
| Unfortunately, someone may be leading you down | | | | blogs and article directories with your links in them. |
| the wrong route. Killer content is one thing, but if | | | | To do this right, make sure that you have your |
| you don't have a way to actively promote your | | | | target keyword phrases in your text links. These |
| blog, nobody will ever find your content! It's just | | | | are called anchor texts. |
| like precious diamonds that are buried deep | | | | When you have the right anchor texts in the links, |
| underground, just waiting to be found. | | | | the search engines will take note of that and rank |
| And that's exactly right because all you need to | | | | you accordingly. For instance, if your target |
| do, is to expose your content to the world. So | | | | keyword phrase is "blog for money", you will |
| how do you do that? You can do that by getting | | | | most likely rank well when someone searches for |
| others to link to you. The good news is, because | | | | those keywords. That is how you get traffic, and |
| you have such good content, others are more | | | | that is how others will find your blog. With traffic, |
| likely to link to you. For example, you can | | | | you may then start to build a readership. |
| approach bloggers who are in similar niches and | | | | |