Use other People’s Blogs to Promote your Niche Affiliate Blog

This is our final guest post from Mary Lutz. We’ve had a great week learning about niche affiliate blogging.

In this, my final guest post here on WAHM Talk Radio, I’m going to talk to you more about how to promote your niche affiliate blog. This time, I’m going to teach you how to use other people’s blogs to drive traffic to your site.

Be Social and Interactive

I’m sure most of you reading this know what blog comments are and would probably like to get more on your own blog…at least that seems to be the consensus when talking with other bloggers and work at home moms. Well one of the best ways to get more comments is to give more comments.

If you’ve ever posted a comment on someone’s blog, you know that you usually have to fill out a form that contains your name, email and website URL. This is so that you can be notified, if so choosing, of subsequent comments on that post. I highly recommend doing this (which is usually just a click of a box) so that you can help continue the conversation on that particular post.

The other purpose for this is it links your name back to your website or blog. So, if readers of that particular blog you’re commenting on like what you have to say, they will click on your name and go see what other interesting things you have to say.

Another way commenting works is if the owner has the plug in called “Comment Luv” enabled on their website. If they do, there’s usually an icon with a check box that says “Comment Luv” enabled which will search your site (based on the URL you entered in the form) for your latest blog post. This is another reason to keep your blog up to date at all times. You don’t want to go around commenting on other blogs and have it link to an outdated article.

When you’re more social and interactive on other blog of the same topic, others will begin to notice you and trust you. I’ve found many blogs I enjoy reading this way and I know others have come to my blogs because of comments I’ve left.

Guest Blogging

Guest blogging is another way to help promote and drive traffic to your niche affiliate blog, just as I’m doing here. I was invited to be a guest blogger here, but you can also invite yourself to be a guest blogger on sites similar to your niche.

Now you might be thinking, “why would I want to be a guest blogger for my competition?” The answer is because you will gain exposure from their traffic and vice versa. Most bloggers are pretty friendly and open to having guest bloggers, even if they are deemed their competition. Having a guest blogger on their site means they don’t have to come up with the content for several days.

You can turn this concept around too by inviting guest bloggers to your site. If you know of some well known bloggers in your niche, ask them to be a guest blogger. Be sure to offer back links to their site and then they in turn will promote their posts creating more incoming links to your site.

Guest blogging can be a lot of fun, but it can also be a lot of work. Let Mary Lutz show you how she can help you save time and money by doing your guest blogging for you. Click here!