| 1. Find someone that has a blog related | | | | a "guest" blog post for them, if they |
| to your topic. Offer to blog about their | | | | will do the same. That way both of you |
| blog if they will blog about yours. In | | | | will be giving fresh content from a |
| doing this, you'll both be swapping blog | | | | different person to your readers. Adding |
| readers that you may have not been able | | | | some variety to your blogs will keep |
| to reach otherwise. Do this with several | | | | people coming back often. |
| different people that have blogs related | | | | 6. Create an audio blog post (podcast) |
| to your topic and soon you will have a | | | | for a few blogs related to your blog. |
| huge blog readership. | | | | Make sure to mention your blog in it. |
| 2. Endorse a product that belongs to | | | | Tell the blog owner if they post the |
| someone else via your blog. Ask them to | | | | audio blog post on their blog, that you |
| endorse one of your products in | | | | will create an audio blog post |
| exchange. By doing this both of you will | | | | mentioning their blog for them, and post |
| benefit from each others blog visitors. | | | | it to your own blog. You'll only want to |
| 3. Grab a sheet of paper and a pen, or | | | | do this with blogs that have a lot of |
| open your word processing program. Now | | | | readers because there is a bit more work |
| go to a blog search engine and search | | | | involved in this tactic. |
| for keywords related to your blog. When | | | | 7. Large businesses actually hire people |
| you find blogs related to your blog, | | | | to blog for them. Not because it's |
| write down (or type) the blog website | | | | profitable for these big companies but |
| address, any side notes about the blog, | | | | because it let's the outside world know |
| and the contact information of the blog | | | | what's going on with these big |
| owner. Now take your list and start | | | | companies. This starts to build a trust |
| emailing each blog owner for a link | | | | with the people who read these blogs. |
| swap. | | | | Knowing this information, I decided to |
| 4. Get a group of people together that | | | | start a testimonial category on my blog. |
| are bloggers. All of you pick one topic | | | | In doing this, people begin to trust me |
| that can be profitable either by | | | | and see me as an authority figure on the |
| promoting affiliate products or by | | | | topic I am blogging on. You can also do |
| Google Adsense revenue. All of you will | | | | this by telling people you have started |
| start blogging about the topic. Take the | | | | a testimonial category on your blog. Ask |
| RSS feeds from each persons blog, and | | | | them to leave a true testimonial on your |
| place them on one website. All of you | | | | blog in exchange for something like a |
| will make reference to this site where | | | | free ebook. If they have a testimonial |
| the RSS feeds are placed. By doing this | | | | category on their blog, tell them you |
| you will all share traffic via a group | | | | will give them a testimonial if they |
| effort. | | | | will give you one. Always remember |
| 5. If you know someone that blogs on the | | | | though only give true to heart |
| same topic that you do, ask for a blog | | | | testimonials. |
| post exchange. Tell them you will write | | | | |