Do you want to figure out how to increase blog traffic through a simple, easy to follow strategy?
Watch this video as I explain:
Online Traffic and Offline Traffic
I snapped the featured image for this photo in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Traffic is kinda heavy there with millions of motorbikes on the road.
Getting a surge of online traffic to find its way to your blog gets easier if you will get over yourself and promoteother bloggers.
Get Over Yourself
Get the heck over yourself to see increasing traffic returns.
When I scroll Quora to answer blogging questions I see bloggers who tend to think only of themselves and how these people can build blog traffic by their own steam, solo.
This is madness. Because 1,000 is better than 1. Or, thinking of other bloggers and helping other bloggers is better than trying to do all on your own. In truth, you will fail miserably being a blogging lone wolf because nobody succeeds in their own little world.
Stop thinking only of yourself. Focus on helping other bloggers out, make friends and watch how quickly your friends will expand your reach online.
Think of Others to Befriend Others
Think of other bloggers to befriend other bloggers.
Condition yourself to promote other bloggers before you promote your latest blog post.
I am often seen browsing through Triberr or various social media blogging tribes, picking helpful blog posts to share, because I am genuinely intent on thinking of other bloggers before I think of me.
Admitted; I do have a slightly selfish driver because I see how freely traffic flows to me by having fun promoting other bloggers.
I dig being social after being a blogging wall flower for so many years. I also enjoyed leaving most of my self-obsessed worries and fears behind.
This gig gets easier if you think of other bloggers before you think of yourself. Not from a fully altruistic space – we all have ego calling some shots – but because it’s fun to spread love, to connect with humans and to make friends, and as your friend base grows, so does your blogging success.
Why this Works So Well
When you help, you shall be helped.
Think beyond blogging karma. Dwell on this idea: if you help bloggers without looking for anything in return, other bloggers will help you. Generosity is met with generosity.
Example; I connected with internet marketing coach and online pro’s pro David Boozer via a few blog comments and social shares. I helped him out. I looked for nothing in return.
He went and bought all of my blogging tips eBooks – that is over 60 eBooks – and wrote me a glowing endorsement through his blog and via his podcast. He also regularly promotes my posts and shouts out my eBooks and coaching services through social media and his blog, which I appreciate.
This is just a single rocking blogger who is wildly successful, and who heads a loyal tribe.
Imagine how much awesomeness has flowed to me over the years through all the blogging buddies I have made by promoting other folks?
This concept works well because if you are generous, like-minded people will be generous to you, expanding your reach far and wide.
Note; no limits exist when you go about promoting yourself by promoting successful bloggers generously. Your traffic will increase exponentially, eventually.
Think Network Growing Your Net Worth
If you want to make money through blogging think of your network growing your net worth.
I can only do so much on my own, promoting my blog posts to my 60,000 Blogging From Paradise community members.
My network can do so much more.
By building bonds, and promoting other bloggers, I land guest posts that expand my reach far and wide. Influential bloggers promote the stuffing out of me on Facebook, Twitter and through their blogs.
Money and traffic flow to me with greater ease versus the days I tried to go solo because 1000 is better than 1. 1000 friends promoting you expands your reach more quickly than 1 person – you – promoting yourself.
Buy into this idea of your network growing your net worth. Success will be yours. Traffic will flow in easily, as will profits drip in, steadily, if you promote other bloggers freely and easily.