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By now, you should have gotten your business blog up and running.
(If you’re still lost at the technical part of setting up your blog, watch this Video Tutorial)
Today’s lesson is about getting your first visitor to your blog (besides your mom 
). Don’t worry if you have yet to get all aspects of your blog up and running (Opt in box, pages etc). The goal here is to get you to focus on one aspect of traffic generation so that you will feel more motivated once you see visitors pouring into your site.
Ramit Sethi in his blog I Will Teach You To Be Reach teaches that if you want to receive tangible results, your results must be measurable. Therefore, I highly recommend you signup for a Google Analytics account so you can monitor your daily traffic.
Google Analytics will allow you to see how many unique visitors come to your site and what are your main traffic sources. I will post up a video soon on how to setup your Google Analytics account on your WordPress blog but for now, let’s start drawing some traffic!
The simplest and most easy way to draw free traffic is to do submissions to article directories. How it works is like this:
Let’s say you are in the Debt reduction niche. You want to draw visitors to your Debt Reduction blog and turn them into your long term customers. To do that, you post articles related to reducing debt such as Debt reduction tips or money saving tips to Article Submission Directories.
Article submission directories are websites where people can post articles in exchange for traffic. These websites can give you lots of traffic because:
1) Their site is huge due to the amount of articles posted daily. This makes it the perfect resource for people looking for articles.
2) They rank very highly on search engines. So if you post an article on one of these websites, so will your article as well.
3) Article directories allow you to include a resource box at the end of your article. This will allow you to promote your blog and link back to your blog.
In short, article submission will help you get targeted visitors to your blog. What happens when they reach your blog is another story. Your blog has to be full of useful content and able to catch your visitor’s emails through opt-in boxes so that you can keep in touch with them even after they have left.
Your action plan:
1) Brainstorm 10 titles for articles related to your niche which you can use as articles to be submitted to those article directories above.
2) Submit one article daily.
