A great way of generating traffic to your blog is to regularly update it with quality posts and then ping it to all the blog services. There are a number of free blog pinging services around and they all do pretty much the same job of alerting the blog services that your blog has been updated.

Over time, this will bring a number of curious blog readers to your blog. If they like what they see, they will come back often and that number will grow, raising the popularity of your blog.

One upside of this is of course the potential to generate an income from your blog. This can be done in a number of ways. For instance, you can directly monetise your blog by adding google adsense ads. You could also add affiliate links with some good ad copy and boost your sales of affiliate products.

Best of all is you can use the increased traffic to your blog to direct them to your website and increase visitors there. To get these visitors to go to your website you have to offer something that will interest them.

By posting on your blog a short but informative introduction to a well written article on your website can be just the thing to get their interest and have them clicking the link over to your site to read the main article. That’s where you will hopefully entice them to either sign up to your list or buy one of your well advertised affiliate products, or your own product if you are marketing one.

The Honest Way Blog Pinging Service

As part of The Honest Way‘s ongoing assistance to newcomers to the cut and thrust of the Internet Marketing world, we have added a special page to our website to enable you to ping your blog without having to leave the site. Just go to the homepage, click on the “Ping Blog” tab on the menu bar and you’ll be taken straight to our own custom blog pinging service. Just type in the name of your blog and it’s url and hit the “Ping the Empire” button.

Job done!

I hope this has added to your knowledge of Internet Marketing and Promoting your blog and website. Feel free to leave a comment if you want – we all need feedback and it will help to make this a better place.

Thanks for your visit and come again soon!

Terry Didcott
The Honest Way

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