Tips to promote your blog and get more traffic

Here is a great article from AffiliatesRated, that has some excellent tips to help you promote your blog.

How to get those visitors flooding in

Introduction
So you’ve got your website published on the net? You have your own great domain name and the design is so perfect. Your site couldn’t look better – and is just as good if not better than you’re competitors. But your missing the vital ingredient: traffic! In this tutorial I will explain how you can get those visitors literally flooding in!

Promotion methods
There are lots of different ways to promote your site, in this article we will look at the pros and cons of some of the different methods of website promotion. We will cover:

• Online Advertising
• Offline Advertising
• Link Exchanges
• Purchased Links
• Articles
• Directories
• Search Engine Submission
• Forum / Email Signatures

Online Advertising
There are lots of different methods of online advertising, PPC (pay per click) is the most easy to manage model, as you only pay for the visitors you get. Let’s say I run a flower website, and I convert roughly 1 in 10 visitors into a buyer, also my average order converts to $10 profit. Then if I pay 50 cents/click, that is $5 for each order. So even though I am paying 50 cents for each visitor from my PPC ads, my business is still profitable as on ever 10 PPC visitors I make $5 profit. ($10 profit – $5 PPC costs)

To find out more about internet advertising, I suggest you read this article: http://www.affiliatesrated.com/article.php?article=cpm_cpc_or_cpa

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