Getting connections with people is an important part of the independent publisher’s day-to-day work. Before to connect with other people out there, is very important to reflect which are your brand and the niche you are collocated.
Blogging is a great way to do this, because give you the opportunities to choose your niche(marketing, technology, insurance, and so on), then to connect to other bloggers and share your content with them.
Thus, the following 3 ways are primarily about finding those people and connect with them.
1. Join To Facebook Group - Facebook allows you to find directly the people interested in your niche. The groups are so numerous that a way to find members in your niche is to check the wall posts and the discussion boards. Look at most active groups, check out the profile of each member, then add them as a friend. Why not, you can join to my Facebook Group at http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=56335891527
2. Blog community – If you want to find particular blogs on a particular subject, then Blog Communities are ideal. In brief, they are web directories that archive thousand of blog.
By using their search box become easy to find other blogs in the same niche. Also, each blog has a community where the members are interest for that niche. There are different way to find blogs on any niche, here are three services to check:
- SEOmoz
- Problogger
- Metafilter
- Freelance Writing Jobs
- Blog Catalog
- Technorati
- Google Blog Search
3. Comment on blog – If you want to starting to connect with other blog, you can simply let a comment on other blog. Focusing on those blogs with more traffic and try to be the first few to leave a comment. Make your comment relevant and you’re likely to receive some visitors from others who visit the same niche. This method can bring to positive things: first you increase the traffic to your blog, second you can start a relationship with the blog author.





How To Find Traffic For A Saturated Niche
So you’re thinking about starting a blog but you’re afraid because you’ve chosen a niche too saturated. Unfortunatly, many of blogs out there already ranked for good keywords. If you are a beginner and you think you don’t know how to get started, then continute reading this article.
In general, saturation is the point at which a site is fully occupied. In internet the term saturation is used to suggest that the market simply cannot take more blogs, no more services, no more ideas. In my view, is not true.
For instance, can not you think if Mercedes stop producing cars because market is satured. Also, can not you think if Apple stop developing new iphone models because there were too many already?
Worth the same things in all areas of business, such as clothes, notebook, and so on. In my view, This is a world that always change and consumers always want again and again. People want new ideas, new blogs, new websites, there can never be a saturation point!
A niche can’t be saturated, but you can find a lot of site in competitive niches, where the search engines are covered from some sites for all the top keywords. For the begginer can be hard but there are ways to break through!
In this case, increasing exposure to your blog is the best way to increase sales, and if we look at the most successful bloggers out there, you’ll find a common trait they have traffic too.
Here, my strategies for getting blog traffic in highly competitive niche.
Social Media
Usually, people who are searching for new traffic use social media like Digg, Stumbleupon, Twitter or Facebook. However there are a lot of choices out there and the list is long enough.
While social media like Digg can be very hard to get the front page without a little hand from friends, social media like Stumbleupon have an algoritmich that allows you to get a bit of traffic to any new page you submitted in their system.
Several month ago I wrote a post about how to get 1000 visitors with Stumbleupons which I urge you to read if you wish to adopt this strategy.
Search Engine Traffic
If I look through my Google analytics stat or Woopra stat, I note that the most of my traffic(about 75%) come from search engine.
The most of traffic comes from terms that have been typed in just once. For example, I get a lot of traffic from “WordPress newspaper” term. As long as you blog about topics that in general get some traffic, then you’ll grab a bit of it over time.
Blog commenting
A blog commenting strategy is a perfect way to drive several potential new visitors to your site. The better strategy to get comment is to make comment on blog in your same niche. If you comment something useful on a blog that has 20k subscribers, then you have more chance that someone read your comment and that some of those people will click through to your own blog.
Categories: Marketing - Tags: blog, comment, niche