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There’s quite a lot out there, depending on what you’re looking for :)Some free online tools (in no particular order):Dropbox. Save and share everything.Evernote. Best note app ever.FreePik. Find thousands of free images.SurveyMonkey. Create surveys to gauge customer feedback.Rapportive. Useful tool for Gmail that allows you to see other people’s social media profiles.Trello. Project management made simple.Slack. Work communication simplified.AdCat. Allows you to use a single picture to get perfect-sized, up-to-date ad images for Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Free.Easel.ly. Great infographic generator for creating attractive content. Engaging content is vital for attracting audiences.Google Analytics. See who’s coming to your site and from where, among many many other awesome functions.Sidekick. Awesome email tool that tracks when emails are opened — super useful for proper follow-ups.Hotjar. Recordings of users on your website. Amazing to understand user behavior, which drives marketing strategies.Hootsuite. For social media management in one easy to use dashboard.Leadin by Hubspot. For lead management.Ahrefs. Powerful SEO tool.Later. Instagram consistently shows amazing engagement with users. This tool manages scheduling for you.Crowdfire. Great tool to figure out who to follow on social media for optimal engagement.BuzzSumo. Analyze what content performs best.Social Rank. Allows you to see which are your most valuable followers.UberSuggest. Free keyword suggesting tool.LinkMiner. Free tool for the link building strategy.JustsignNowOut. Finds journalists interested in covering you.Keyword.io. Free keyword research tool for SEO.MailChimp. To run automated email campaigns.Optimizely. A/B testing to optimize your website.Google Trends. Shows how often a particular search-term is entered.TweetDeck. Owned by Twitter, it makes discovering content easily digestible and allows you to find the topics and people you want.Title Maker. Content idea generator.Explore. Get to know what’s trending.Engage Master. Convert visitors to customers.Startup Bootstrap. Website building templates.Submit.co. Get press for your startup.SumoMe. Tool set to grow your website traffic.Quip. View documents on any device.Atomic Squirrel. Startup checklist.There’s tons more out there depending on what you are looking for specifically. I’m happy to update and reorganize if you need more :)Disclosure: I’m working on AdCat.

Shades of Nero Wolfe! I am not and never have been a criminal defense attorney, but in my articles I have occasionally been assigned issues of criminal law or procedure, so have isolated bits of knowledge. I do believe, however, that criminal defense lawyers are in the front lines of those who defend democracy since their constant job is to see that every defendant receives a fair trial before an impartial adjudicator and that the result is supported by the trial evidence properly admitted. Plus they seem to always have the best stories.I once did have a witness, not mine, who more or less “broke” during a trial. This was a state court matter. My client owned a business selling cell phones and leasing service for them. The future defendant came in and purchased a cell phone and service, and for some reason signed the related documents over the course of two days instead of all at once. I don’t remember why and it didn’t matter to the trial. He paid the phone fee on the second day, but refused to pay for service over the course of nearly three months. His reason for not paying, he said, was that he was “testing” the service. My client had records of the numbers he called and the length of time for each call. I had taken his deposition, and he had admitted he signed each document I showed him concerning the purchase. The only real issue was whether his claim of testing the phone service was going to stand up.For our trial judge, we drew an older man who probably presided at God’s case against Cain, but was one of my favorites because he was experienced, didn’t like having his time wasted but would listen politely, and knew contract law. It was an excellent draw for us since I wouldn’t have to spend time explaining how contracts worked.The defendant showed up for trial with another fellow he introduced as his cousin and said he had been with him on the second day when he signed the rest of the documents and picked up his phone. I assumed the cousin was there to try to bolster the defendant’s claim of testing. But if they hadn’t already discussed the case, I was going to deny them the opportunity to coordinate further, so I invoked the “Rule” at the start, meaning the exclusionary rule that said anyone not a party had to wait outside in the hall until called.I started with the defendant. I put him on the stand and we began the basic stuff - the contract and its terms. I asked him the same stuff I had in the defendant’s deposition - “do you recognize this exhibit? what is it? is that your signature on page #?” Usually these are pretty routine, but the defense hadn’t wanted to stipulate admissibility, so I was just laying the groundwork. Needless to say, there was nothing in the documents about a period for testing, but there were warranties. So I am just loping along doing something I had done lots of times before and then …For some reason never made clear, the defendant decided to deny he had signed the second day’s paperwork. This really was the less important stuff, but it had warranty language in it, so one would think he would want it in. I suspect he just lost track or panicked. I am standing there with the transcript of his deposition in plain sight in front of me. It even had little paper tabs in it. I was careful not to react in any way to his denials - just a bit about being sure he looked in the right place and knew he’d seen them before. I took him through the rest of the paperwork and he insisted he hadn’t signed anything on day 2. No one seemed to catch it except my client. But what I did next got the judge’s attention because it was unusual.I asked the judge if I could suspend the defendant’s testimony for a bit, subject to recalling him later, while I called another witness out of order to “clarify” a point. Still no penny dropped with the defendant or, as far as I could tell, with his attorney, although I noticed the trial judge changed his posture so I figured he knew something was up and it had to do with the signatures. The judge let me call the cousin in from the hall, and now looked alert, waiting to see what was going on.The defendant went back to his seat beside his attorney and there was a lot of whispering until the judge shushed them. I called the cousin in from the hall, telling him only that we were going to be there for a while yet, and were taking him early so he wouldn’t have to stand around in the hall any longer than necessary. Now he is not my witness, so I designated him as hostile before I called him in so I could lead him some, but there really wasn’t much need.He obligingly recognized his cousin’s signatures on all of the documents, even correcting me when he thought I missed one, and explaining that he was present when the paperwork was all signed. He was pleasant, cheerful, and completely oblivious to the implications, so I knew they hadn’t discussed denying the signature beforehand - plus I still had the deposition statements to whack the defendant with if necessary. But it wasn’t.After the cousin finished and was excused, subject to later recall by the other side, the judge invited counsel up to the bench. And here is where experience mattered. The judge caught on that I wouldn’t have done what I did if the defendant hadn’t lied about signing some of the documents.I don’t use profanity, so I will use *** instead. The judge was annoyed by the defendant’s obvious lies. In whispers, the judge asked me if I had any further evidence regarding the question of the defendant’s signatures on the documents we’d been discussing and this was when the defendant’s lawyer woke up. He tried to object to the question, but the judge burnt him with a look that was better than a ruling. I just said I had a transcript of his deposition during which his memory was different, and that was all I said. The judge gestured to the defendant’s lawyer to come a bit closer (he’d backed up some during the burning) to the bench and the judge said words to the effect that his “G**D*** client had better settle with me before he was judicially determined to be a ***** perjurer and maybe recommended for prosecution for wasting the court’s time on a ****show like this case, and he was giving us a recess to resolve it without his [the judge] having to listen to any more **** from the *********** defendant.So we went outside, the defendant’s attorney “conferred” with his client, and we did just what the judge ordered. I never did find out why the defendant thought three months of free testing was appropriate.

25 Ideas for free advertising and increasing your brand awarenessThere are enough promotion channels that do not cost anything.Think of all the possibilities to increase your name recognition through social media.But there are also many ways you may never have thought of.That's why I give you 25 possibilities to put your company for free in the spotlight.A list with possibilities to increase your brand awareness for free#1 WebsiteAlthough it is possible to make a website for free, I do not recommend it. Free websites do not have their own domain name (web address) and that is not professional. And often others show advertising on your site. You should not want to. With WordPress you can have a site online in just a few hours.#2 Search engine OptimizationIf you make sure that your website is well found in Google, that generates free visitors. A good place to learn more about search engine optimization is backlinko.com#3 Blogging on your own websiteIf you regularly post an article, Google can send interested people to your blog if people search for information about that subject.You can then reuse the blog in many ways: you combine different blogs into an e-book. You can use that e-book as a giveaway to collect e-mail addresses for your e-mail marketing.You can share blogs in your newsletter. You can post blogs on your social media channels . You can read the lyrics and make a podcast of them or you film if you explain the information. Then you have a video for your youtube channel.#3 Guest BlogYou do not have to do blogging on your own site. Other bloggers and major online magazines have many readers and they need new articles every day.If you can write nicely, you can get started as a guest blogger on websites that get a lot more visitors than your own website.#4 Writing articles for article sitesThe article sites are very well found in Google. Much better than your own site. Make use of this by placing an article about your field from time to time.You can link to interesting articles on your own site and you can post a profile with links to your website.#5 Social mediaStart with LinkedIn and one or two other social media channels (Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Pinterest or Instagram for example) and invite people to follow you.Every social media channel can be grown and used to show customers how you can help them.#6 Editorial attentionAttention in newspapers, magazines and trade journals is free. If you learn how to write and send a press release , media attention can bring you free customers.it is the best way to quickly increase your brand awareness and your social proof.#7 Radio interviewsEspecially regional radio is jumping for topics. Give them some fun for a radio interview . You can use a press release for that.#8 Writing an article Doyou solve a social problem with your company? Then you have a strong opinion about some political decisions and laws and regulations.Perhaps you have even come up with a good solution for a social problem. Then you can write an opinion piece in trade journals, the local newspapers and the national newspapers.#9 WritingColumns in newspapers, magazines and trade magazines are usually written by entrepreneurs or people like you and me.If you have a smooth pen, you can send some sample columns to the editors. If they want to place your pieces, you often have their own stage in a newspaper or magazine every week and they often pay you sometime.#10 Youtube as a search engineDid you know that Youtube is the second largest search engine? Number one is Google, but many people prefer to watch an instruction video than to read an article.Those people search for information on Youtube. So make videos on your own Youtube channel to be found.#11 Pinterest as a search engineUsers of Pinterest also increasingly use this platform as a search engine. Useful if you also show your products on Pinterest .#12 SlideshareAnother free online library where people search for information is Slideshare . It is mainly used to share slides of presentations, but you can also upload PDFs and share videos and webinars.Slideshare is linked to LinkedIn and has more than 70 million visitors per month worldwide.#13 PodcastA podcast is a kind of radio broadcast that you can listen back to. As some people prefer to watch a movie, there are also people who prefer to listen.Sometimes a podcast is a good alternative for blogging or a Youtube channel. You can find podcasts in I-tunes etc..for example . You can start a podcast yourself and share information or interview interesting people. Of course you can also try to see if you can join another's podcast as a guest.#14 PresentationsEverywhere people come together to listen to presentations, associations, open coffee's, the library, the Chamber of Commerce.If you can convey your information correctly, you will find a free audience there. If you are really good at presentations, you can even ask for money. To get better#15 WorkshopsA baker can organize a cupcakes workshop to introduce customers to the products. You can give free workshops, but often people want to pay for it.Developing a workshop seems complicated, but that is because most people want to stuff too much information in a workshop. Make sure that you teach people one small part of your field during such a workshop.Give less information than you thought up beforehand and do a few exercises instead so that people get actively involved with the learning material.#16 CourseThere are platforms where you can share your courses and workshops with a much larger audience than you yourself have. Skillshare and Udemy are a few examples of this.#17 ExhibitionsYou can visit some exhibitions in your field free of charge. You can meet customers and colleagues there. If you want a stand yourself, you usually have to pay for it.#18 Network meetingsMany business meetings can be visited free of charge. If you do business to business, you can find customers here. But the importance of networking is mainly making knowledge. There are also networks in which your customers look for each other.#19 E-bookWrite an e-book for free distribution to (potential) customers, colleagues and competitors. Or ask a blogger to review it on his website.It confirms your expert status. Use the last pages in your e-book for a good biography and a business offer for the readers.#20 E-mail signatureBy default you can place an e- mail signature under each e- mail you send . Is there already a link to your website? And your phone number? Your tagline? And a link to your last blog?#21 Word-of-mouthStill the most important form of free advertising. Make sure you deliver good work so that customers recommend you to others. Ask for it.For example, put your email signature: "We get new customers mainly through satisfied customers. Are you satisfied? Then tell us. "#22 Email marketingBuild an e-mail list as quickly as possible and regularly send the people on your list a newsletter with interesting information. Occasionally you can also send an offer via email.Automate the sending and collection of e-mail addresses with Mailchimp , which is free up to 2,000 e-mail addresses.#23 Organize a webinarA webinar is a combination of the words 'web' and 'seminar'. It is an event on the internet where only an online audience is present.You can create a simple question and answer webinar, where you answer questions from your customers and / or followers. You can give Webinars for free with the Periscope app.No investment in expensive equipment or software is required, but an I-phone or I-pad is required. Periscope is not yet available for Android. It can even be simpler: you can now also broadcast live with Facebook Live with Facebook. It is a free way to show what you understand.Additional advantage: Facebook wants users to upload more videos and therefore promotes your live broadcast. Many more people receive a report of a live broadcast than of a regular status update.#24 ForumsEach field has an online spot somewhere on the internet where you can ask and answer questions. A good place to show that you exist. Answer questions from others to show what you are worth.#25 Facebook groupsFacebook groups work the same as forums. You can meet people online, exchange information, ask questions and answer questions. If you answer the right questions, you make yourself visible.There are business groups or groups with a theme or subject. Use the search function in Facebook to find groups that suit your company.

Hello, Harry Sisco!I would like to share with you one of the best guides written by Karen Evans. I believe this is the only guide you’ll need if you want to unleash an avalanche of traffic on your blog.Enjoy:Publish More Articles:One of the most effective, but often ignored, ways to get traffic to a blog is by publishing more articles; research from Hubspot has shown that businesses that publish 16+ blog posts monthly get 3.5 times more traffic and 4.5 times more leads than businesses that publish between 0 – 5 blog posts monthly.Seven-figure blogger Neil Patel also revealed that his monthly traffic went from 46,134 visitors to 59,787 visitors because he increased content frequency from 1 article to 2 articles weekly.No matter your niche, research has shown that publishing more content will always lead to an increase in traffic for you; increase your content frequency to 2 or more articles a week, and you’ll notice a signNow increase in traffic to your blog.Publish Longer Content:Research has shown that Google and other search engines give preference to longer, comprehensive articles; research by serpIQ that analyzed top 10 results for over 20,000 keywords came to the conclusion that Google ranks content that have more than 2,000 words better than content with fewer words.Research by Buzzsumo, in a partnership with Moz, which analyzed over 1 million articles, found that articles that are 3,000 – 10,000 words get twice as many shares and 3 times the links content that have fewer than 1,000 words get. The screenshot below shows the average shares and links articles analyzed get based on their word count:In the Neil Patel article we referenced earlier, he also reveals that one of the top reasons why his blogs get a lot of traffic is because he writes in-depth and comprehensive articles; the average article on Neil’s blog ranges from 4,000 to 8,000 words, and the result is that he ranks for lots of long-tail keywords, which leads to signNow traffic on the long run.Start an Email ListAsk most successful bloggers what the top source of traffic to their blog is and they’ll tell you that email is in the top 3. Highly successful blogger Darren Rowse always record a traffic spike (the kind that almost doubles his blog traffic) whenever he sends an email to his list about a new blog post (see a screenshot of one of his traffic spikes below).Email is such a powerful medium for generating traffic that many bloggers vouch for it; the reason is simple, all things being equal, your email list will only keep growing and rarely decrease. Even more, unlike your blog traffic that can fluctuate, you have access to a database of the people on your email list and can always email them.The best email management tool is constant contact. I recommend you sign up and start building your list immediately. You can get a 20% discount if you purchase here. Don’t wait.If you haven’t started building an email list, start now. Install the free SumoMe plugin and use their email list building options including the ScrollBar, Popup and Welcome Mat.Guest BlogOne of the fastest ways to grow your blog is by writing for other people’s blogs; in other words, you can look for a blog that is much bigger than yours and write an article for that blog. You’ll be allowed to have a bio that includes a link to your site in your guest post. This can result in a lot of traffic for you.To make guest blogging work, try to only guest blog on blogs that are more popular than yours; look for blogs with tens, or hundreds, of thousands of subscribers and submit your guest post to them.Optimize Your Blog for Search EnginesSearch engines are the #1 source of traffic for most established blogs. Just take a look at the below screenshot:The above screenshot shows traffic to an authority blog in one month; you can see that out of 582,000 visitors, 476,000 came from search engines. That’s how powerful search traffic is; after all, Google is the biggest website in the world!It’s important that you don’t ignore SEO; familiarize yourself with the concept of SEO and optimize your blog and your articles to rank well for relevant keywords in Google and other search engines.Comment on Other BlogsThe right comment on a highly authoritative blog can send you lots of traffic; identify the top blogs in your niche and start interacting and commenting on blogs on a regular basis. This will get the blogger and members of his community to notice you and visit your blog, leading to more traffic for you; you might even get a link, or invitation to guest blog out of it.Develop a Blogger OutsignNow PlanMany bloggers fail to get traffic because they take a passive approach to blogging; if you simply publish your article, rest and wait for traffic to come then nothing will happen.For every article you publish, make sure you have a solid blogger outsignNow plan; compile a list of dozens of relevant bloggers that you can email your article to and ask them to share or link to your article.Feature Other Bloggers in Your Articles and Ask them to ShareOne of the techniques superstar blogger Neil Patel uses to grow his blog is that of linking to dozens of bloggers inside his articles (according to him, his articles usually contain 100+ links) and then signNowing out to the bloggers who he linked to letting them know that he linked to them. The result is hundreds, sometimes thousands, of shares per article and eventually lots of traffic back to him.Regularly link to other bloggers in your articles and email all of them to let them know about your article; many of them will share your article, resulting in lots of traffic for you.Do “Expert Roundups” and Get Featured Experts to ShareHow will you like to leverage the signNow of 10, 20 or more experts in your niche to grow yours? Is this even possible? Yes, by doing “expert roundups” in which you interview a group of experts and ask them one or two questions to be compiled inside one article, you can massively boost your blog traffic.Once your expert roundup has been published, ask all the bloggers featured to spread the word about it; the result of this will often be thousands of extra visitors to your blog.Do Case Studies of Influencers and Get them to ShareIdentify influencers in your niche with good signNow, do a case study about these influencers and get them to share it. A good example is this case study of Quora influencer Oliver Emberton; Oliver shared the article on social media when it went live, eventually resulting in 100s of shares and thousands of views. The article also ranks on page 1 for his name in Google, bringing in long-term search traffic.Publish a Resource ArticleResource articles are exceptionally effective for boosting traffic to your blog, much more than the average blog post; this article on Digital Current shows that it’s possible to get 100,000 views per article by publishing resource articles, and that resource articles can get up to 10,000% more views than the average article.Feature or Interview Owners & Influencers of Popular Social Media GroupsThere are several Facebook and LinkedIn groups with thousands and tens of thousands of followers; unfortunately, most people try to get traffic by spamming these social media groups, only to end up having their articles removed. A better way to get traffic from social media groups is to interview owners, or influencers, of these groups and ask them to share the article you feature them in. Even if they do not share your article, you can share it in the group yourself as a member of the group.Feature/Interview Owners of Popular ForumsCompile a list of the biggest forum owners in your niche and interview them; if possible, get them to participate in a round up post on your blog. Send them a link after your article has been published and encourage them to share it.Run a Blogging ContestHost your own blogging contest and make it a condition that participants share your article on social media or blog about it; if possible, try to get some sponsors and have them blog about your contest as well. This will go a long way to boost your blog’s signNow.Develop and Execute a Social Media StrategySimply creating social media profiles and sharing your latest articles won’t cut it. Develop a social media strategy by focusing only on key social networks, engaging with influencers and top pages, and, interacting in groups to grow your social media signNow. Also make sure you constantly post updates, and regularly recycle old articles on social media; simply sharing your article once, or once in a while, won’t cut it. Most popular bloggers share links to old articles on their blog for years. Posting frequency should vary depending on the social media site; research shows that it is optimal to post twice daily on Facebook, thrice daily on Twitter and Google+ and 5 times daily on Pinterest.Syndicate Your Content to Top BlogsMany top blogs and networks will allow you to republish your content on their site with credit back to you; most big blogs, including mega publications like Business Insider and Huffington Post, do it if they feel that your content is good enough.Look for a list of publications and network sites in your industry that republish content and see if they’d like to republish your articles.Do Cross-Promotion with Other BloggersFind a blogger with similar audience to yours and see if you can do a “shout out exchange”; in other words, you mention them on your blog and they mention you on theirs. You can also promote them to your email list while they promote you to theirs.Submit Your Content to Blogging CommunitiesBlogging communities have existed for a long time and are a good place to get traffic; some notable examples are Bizsugar in the business niche, Blokube in the blogging and social media niche and DesignFloat in the design niche. Look for a blogging community in your niche that you can share interesting articles with and occasionally submit your articles.Promote Your Blog on Top Forums in Your NicheForums can also be a good source of traffic; many of the top forums in your niche probably get millions of monthly visitors, and many have hundreds of thousands of members, but you can’t simply start spamming the forums with your links. Instead, focus on making valuable contributions to the forum in form of ideas, response to other people’s discussions and being active in popular discussions; make sure to have a link to your blog in your forum signature, and you’ll notice an increase in your traffic.Create an Ultimate/Advanced GuideAn ultimate guide is designed to be the first and last article your readers read on a subject; due to their nature, ultimate guides are usually very comprehensive in nature. It isn’t unusual to see an ultimate guide that is 5,000 – 10,000 words.As we saw earlier in this article, search engines favor comprehensive articles rank them better; people love them too, so they’ll share them massively. By publishing an ultimate guide, you’ll benefit from all angles.Once you’ve published your ultimate guide, signNow out to bloggers in your niche and ask them to spread the word about it.Include Social Share Buttons on Your BlogMany bloggers fail to include social sharing buttons on their blogs and this is costing these bloggers social shares, exposure and traffic. While it is not clear to what extent, research shows that adding social share buttons to your page will lead to more shares of your content and as a result increased traffic.Publish Regular InfographicsResearch shows that infographics shared on Twitter get 823% more retweets than images and articles. Neil Patel reveals that infographics have been so effective for him, often helping him catapult his blogs from no traffic to over 100,000 visitors monthly. In his words, old infographics generate more than 50,000 monthly visitors to one of his blogs.You can promote your blog by creating good looking infographics, especially those that share important facts and statistics, and tell influencers in your niche to share it and republish it. You should also submit your infographics to several infographics directories.Publish Slides to SlideshareDo you know that Slideshare is popularly known as the sleeping giant of content marketing. The reason for this is simple; over 70 million professionals use Slideshare, and it is one of the 100 most visited websites in the world. The good news is that you can use it to promote your blog.Create your own Slideshare presentations too, using fewer words and visually rich images to communicate your points, and watch your traffic grow.Facebook GroupsFacebook groups can also be a good source of traffic and exposure for your blog but, unfortunately, many people fail to get results because they approach these groups in a wrong way and can barely be differentiated from spammers.In a case study analyzing how he increased traffic from Facebook groups by 3,000%, Bruce Zhang revealed that the best way to get traffic from Facebook groups isn’t just to post your links; instead, make sure to use catchy text images as well as a compelling message that shows how people will benefit by reading your article.LinkedIn GroupsSimilar to Facebook Groups, LinkedIn groups are a good source of traffic. Sharing your content with just your LinkedIn connections won’t send you traffic; instead, look for the top LinkedIn groups in your niche, join them and occasionally submit your best articles to them.Promote Your Blog on QuoraExactly how powerful is Quora for promoting your blog? Quora superstar Oliver Emberton used Quora to launch a popular blog. Within 7 month of start his blog, he was already getting millions of views monthly. Oliver did this by contributing great value and being very active on Quora; eventually, this paid off in quality traffic that led to articles on his blog going viral.Look for Interview OpportunitiesThere are blogs and websites that are dedicated to interviewing successful people and showcasing their stories; if you have an exciting story or have a success that you can showcase, you can signNow out to these websites and ask them to interview you. A good example is IdeaMensch, and there many more similar sites.Ask Podcasts to Interview YouSimilar to being interviewed on sites, you can ask podcast shows to interview you; many podcasters will happily oblige if they find that you have an exciting story.Look for Opportunities to be Included in Link RoundupsEvery niche has at least a dozen blogs that do weekly or monthly roundups; at the end of the week, or month, these blogs will publish an article with a summary of the most interesting content they read in a particular month. You can get some nice exposure by emailing these bloggers and asking them to include your article in their next roundup.Key into Major EventsA major election, death, birth, sports event, etc? Smart bloggers are creative, and as a result they know how to leverage happenings around them to boost their signNow and influence.When major events happen, lots of people tend to get interested and start searching for it on search engines and social media; by capitalizing on this and using an angle relevant to your niche, you can get quality traffic. Example: “What the Superbowl Can Teach Us About Successful Blogging” or “What the Election Debates Can Teach You About Success”, etc. You get the idea? No matter the event, you can tie it to your blog’s topic and capitalize on it to boost traffic.Blog About a Major PersonalitySo what does blogging about Obama, or Justin Beiber or some other major personality have to do with promoting your blog? In June 2010, Think Traffic published an article titled “The Diddy Guide to Constant Creativity and Relentless Marketing“; the result was a Tweet of the article by P. Diddy himself to his 2.6 million Twitter followers.Write Controversial PostsWriting controversial posts, or attacking sacred cows in your niche, can be very powerful for generating traffic and boosting your exposure; this article on Shopify showed how publishing a controversial post can help skyrocket a blogger’s fame and traffic.Include Elements of TransparencyIf done right, transparency can be a very powerful weapon for promoting your blog. Several top blogs and startups can testify to this; seven-figure blogger Pat Flynn is a good example; one of the techniques he used to accelerate his blog growth was publishing income reports. People were excited about his income reports, so they visited it en mass and shared it a lot; it is also widely linked to across the web. Startups like Buffer and Groove are also using this principle to grow their blogs and business; by being transparent, they get people excited about what they are doing and this leads to more exposure for them.Reduce the Number of Share Buttons on Your BlogWhile we earlier noticed that including social sharing buttons on your blog can help increase traffic and social shares, there’s the paradox of choice factor to consider as well; research shows that giving people too many choices will ensure that they do not make any. In other words, having 10 social sharing buttons on your blog will make sure that your readers use none.Promote Your Blog on PinterestPinterest can be a great source of traffic to your blog and many bloggers have leveraged it with great source to massively boost their blog traffic; Mandy Wallace was able to take her new blog to 1,000 daily visitors hugely thanks to Pinterest.Look for quality interesting images, and focus on using irresistible headlines and you’ll be getting quality Pinterest traffic in no time.Leverage Sound Bites to Increase Social SharesAccording to successful blogger and psychology expert, Derek Halpern, “a sound bite is a short message, often no longer than 10 words, that describes the main idea of your content or sales message.”Essentially, a sound bite is a persuasive summary of the message of your article that is easy to remember and easy to quote; because it is short and persuasive, people can, and will, share it, leading to more traffic for you. Mainly due to using this technique, Derek Halpern was able to generate 300 shares and around 9,000 hits for one of his article.Tweetables and ShareablesSimilar to sound bites, Tweetables and Shareables help you get more traffic by encouraging people to share your content; a “Tweetable” is a message you highlight from your article and design to be shared on Twitter while a “Sharable” can be shared on any social network.You’ve probably visited your favorite blogs to see “Click to tweet” embedded inside the article? Well, that’s a Tweetable.Highlight key points all through your article and use sites like Click to Tweet to get people to share your key points.Pursue Media Syndication OpportunitiesMany top publications and media sites thrive on publishing a lot of content, and it isn’t unusual to see these sites publish 50 or more articles in a single day; of course, this is difficult to pull off and they have to rely on content from guests and other sources to meet their content schedule. To get around this, top media sites like Lifehacker and Business Insider republish quality content on other sites; often, they only feature content from experts but you can try to signNow out to them to see if you can be a part of their content syndication program.Convert Your Blog Posts into PDFs and Submit to PDF/Document Sharing SitesConvert your blog posts into a PDF and submit it to PDF sharing sites; make sure that the final PDF file includes your bio and a link to your site so that people know how to find your blog after they finish reading the PDF. Here’s a list of PDF/document sharing sites to start with.Start a PodcastData from Edison Research shows that there are more than 46 million podcast listeners in America; podcasts are quickly becoming the best way people consume content, because it makes it easy to consume content on a commute, while exercising and in a lot of comfortable positions. Boost your blog traffic today by starting your own podcast.Convert Your Blog Posts into Presentations and Share Them on Presentation SitesTurn your blog posts into Presentations and submit them to top presentation sites. Here’s a list of presentation sites to get you started.Publish a List of Power Users in an Industry or on a Social Media SiteMany of these power users will get an ego boost from this and will share your content on social media.Advertise on RedditReddit is one of the biggest online communities, with an estimated 17 million monthly users. While many people are familiar with advertising on Facebook, Google Adwords and other PPC options, very few people pay attention to Reddit; surprisingly, Reddit’s CPM, at $0.75 CPM, is much lower compared to bunch of other social media sites.Advertise on FacebookFacebook is increasingly becoming most brand’s favorite advertising platform, and rightfully so. Facebook has in-depth understanding of your audience and allows you to target your content to them; also, advertising on Facebook is 3 times cheaper than Google Ads.Advertise on StumbleuponWith over 25 million users, StumbleUpon is one of the web’s biggest community as well as one of the cheapest places to advertise online. In a case study on his blog, Stefan Maescher revealed that he got 60,275 visitors to his blog by spending just $128.90.The key to success with StumbleUpon ads lies in having shareworthy content, promoting it with a few dollars and letting it go viral on Stumbleupon.Sponsor a Blogging ContestBlogging contests are being run every day, and sponsoring one can result in some nice traffic and quality backlinks for you; most contests will make it a requirement to blog about the contest and link to the website of their sponsors and this is where you benefit. Look for blogging contests of this nature and see how you can participate.Run a Viral GiveawayViral giveaways can have massive impact on your bottomline, and a good case study to this effect is Josh Earl, who was able to get 482,044 people to visit his blog and 187,991 people to subscribe to his blog in just 11 days. Now, that’s a phenomenal result!If you’re struggling to get traffic to your blog, perhaps it’s time to start your own viral giveaway; look for a product that is in high demand in your niche and offer people an opportunity to win it by joining your giveaway. Let their chances of winning increase by inviting more people to join your giveaway.Join H.A.R.OH.A.R.O, also known as Help A Reporter Out, is a platform that brings reporters and “sources” together; when looking for sources to quote in an article, reporters often visit H.A.R.O to find people to interview. If you have a relevant story that a reporter needs, then you might be mentioned as a source when the reporter publishes their article; just tell the reporter to mention your website in the article if relevant/possible.Join Communities where Bloggers Support Each Other (or Communities Where Bloggers Exchange Shares)There are secret bloggers club and websites that foster a community where members promote themselves; in short, every community member promotes each other’s content and benefit from the support of a massive community. Two good examples are JustRetweet and Triberr.Create a Viral FREE Report eBookCreate a high-value, concise ebook and make it available for free, no strings attached (don’t even ask for an email). Now, share that ebook everywhere you can and encourage readers to share it as well, be sure to include a bio inside the ebook. Corbett Barr did this in 2010 with his ebook “18 Months, 2 Blogs, Six Figures”. The result was that this ebook led to a massive increase in traffic to his blog, and lots of new subscribers.Run a Blogging ChallengeIn 2013, Natalie Sisson was about to do a book launch and decided to run a blogging challenge; the challenge was a 30 Day Blog Challenge designed to coincide with the launch of her book, and she reports it to be the most successful initiative she’s ever ran on her blog. The blogging challenge led to a 100% increase in traffic, 1,000 new subscribers to her list and her book becoming a #1 bestseller the week it was published.Blogging challenges can unite your community and make them passionately involved in your project, and this will always lead to more traffic to your blog.Run a Traffic ContestInvite members of your community to promote your blog and do their best to send traffic to your blog for a whole month, award the people who send the most traffic a price.Publish an Ultimate Link/List RoundupCompile and publish an ultimate list of resources/articles on a particular topic; include as many relevant resources as possible and email all the bloggers you featured on your list and ask them to share your article.Leverage “Social Locker” TechnologyOne of the most creative ways to promote your blog is by restricting part of your content and making people share your article to access it; Will Franco did this by creating an article and adding a “social locker” to his article; the result of this was 11X more shares compared to the average article on his blog.Give Viral List Building a ShotPrepare a series of incentives and design a viral list building system; start with a basic incentive that will be your opt in incentive, then offer people more attractive incentives if they share your content or invite a number of people to join your list.Convert Your Blog Posts into Podcast and Distribute to Podcast and Audio SitesResearch shows that an estimated 33% of Americans have listened to a podcast, and that a total of 2.6 billion podcast download requests were made in 2014. Seven-figure blogger Pat Flynn credits his podcast to be one of the top ways new users find his blog.If you can’t start a podcast, you can record an audio version of your blog posts and submit them to podcast sites.Create Your Own Website ThemeCreate your own website theme with a link back to your website in the footer; there’ll be a link to visit your blog on every website that uses your theme. Be sure to make the link nofollow so that it doesn’t give you problems with Google and other search engines.Create Your Own Website PluginsSimilar to having your own theme, create your own plugins and give people that use it an option to link back to your blog.Leverage Image Sharing Sites to Grow Your signNowImage sharing sites like Flickr have millions of users, and this presents you with a great opportunity to increase your signNow; take cool pictures around you that you own a copyright to, and publish them on these sites with a Creative Commons license on the condition that those who use them link to you. This will result in bloggers using your images and linking to you, and occasionally top media sites will use your images and send you some quality traffic.Effectively Leverage Email SignaturesMany of us interact with hundreds or even thousands of emails every month; these are some nice eyeballs for your blog, and you can convert them to readers by including a link to your blog in your email signature.Focus on the Mobile ExperienceResearch shows that the number of mobile internet users has now exceeded the number of desktop internet users. Google also recently made an upgrade to their algorithm that favored sites that were optimized for mobile users and that penalized sites that were not optimized for mobile users. Some sites lost as much as 46.6% of their search traffic due to not having a mobile-optimized site while some gained as much as 30.1% traffic by having a mobile-friendly website.Something as simple as optimizing your blog for mobile users can give you a traffic boost, so make sure you have a website that is focused on a better mobile experience for your readers.Leverage User Generated ContentForums, comments and other types of user-generated content can be big wins for your blog; Mizzou Alumni Association was able to boost their site traffic by 15% while Chobani experienced a 225.9% increase in revenue by leveraging the power of User Generated Content.Have a Keyword Research StrategyMany bloggers enjoy lackluster search rankings and, as a result, poor search traffic due to not having a keyword research strategy; do you research keywords before publishing article on your blog, or do you just publish new articles? Incorporating a keyword research strategy into your content marketing strategy will go a long way to boost traffic to your blog.Publish a Controversial Response to Top Bloggers and Thought LeadersWhen an industry leader publishes an article, or says something, that you disagree with; publish a response on your blog explaining why you disagree with the industry leader. Most industry leaders will share your article, especially if your response is well-thought out and informative.Be an Influential Blogger’s Success StoryWhile most bloggers struggle to get traffic, authority bloggers with hundreds of thousands of readers go over and beyond to send traffic to people who can validate them; if you take the advice of a popular blogger and get results from it, he will happily showcase you to his audience and send traffic back to you.Ask Experts to Contribute Advice to Your ArticleOne very effective way to unleash an avalanche of traffic on your blog is by asking experts to contribute their advice to your articles; this is especially effective if you’ve written an ultimate guide to a subject, or a long list of article with a lot of points. Identify key experts in your niche for various points and ask them to give you their input; include their input inside your article and let them know when it goes live so that they can share.Constantly Refresh Old PostsOne of Google’s ranking factors is content freshness, and this reportedly affects as much as 35% of Google searches; this supports research from Hubspot that shows that blogs that publish 16+ articles monthly get 3.5X more traffic than blogs that publish less than 4 articles monthly.One way to benefit from Google’s freshness algorithm is by publishing more articles on your blog, while another way is by updating old articles; review articles you published months and years ago, eliminate outdated information and bring them forward. This will impact your blog’s search rankings and lead to more traffic.Proper SEO Slug/Permalink StructureDo you know that your blog’s SEO slug/permalink structure can go a long way to influence your search rankings and traffic to your blog. The best SEO slug is the one that includes your title in a descriptive way, while removing unnecessary words like verbs.Proper Site StructureJust as a good SEO slug is important, it’s also important to have a proper site structure; make sure your site structure makes it easy for search engines to index your content. Make sure that every page on your blog is indexable, and have an archives page or sitemap that will make it easy for search engines to crawl your content.Deep Internal LinksInternal links are an essential part of your on-page SEO, and quality internal links will impact your rankings in the search engines. Make sure you regularly link to relevant pages and articles on your blog.Improve Your HeadlinesDo you know that a simple headline change can result in a massive boost in traffic to your blog? According to Copyblogger, on average, 8 out of 10 people will read your headline but only 2 out of 10 will read your content. This is why it is very important to learn how to write better headlines and put serious effort into your headlines.A case study that demonstrates how much of a difference the right headline can make was featured on Lifehacker; a New York Times article was originally titled “How Companies Learn Your Secrets” and it only managed to get 12,902 views. The very same article was republished on Forbes and retitled “How Target Figured out a Teen Girl Was Pregnant before Her Father Did” and got a whopping 680,000 views. That’s over 600,000 more views than the original articles, and that’s interesting considering that The New York Times is a much bigger site than Forbes. The difference in traffic was solely due to the headline.In revealing why their articles go viral, Upworthy revealed that they write at least 25 headlines for every post they publish, they test the best ones and go with the very best one; if Upworthy, a site that gets over 87 million visitors monthly, does this, you have no reason not to.Enable Trackbacks on Your BlogAnytime you publish a new article on a blog hosted with WordPress, it gives you an option to enable comments and trackbacks; a “trackback” is an automatic notification sent to any website you link to, allowing your link to be featured in their comments section as well if approved.If you link to top blogs in your article and you and the blogs you linked to both have trackbacks enabled, a link to your article will appear in their comments section; this will ensure people seeing comments on their blog can see a link to your articles, and it’ll eventually lead to more traffic for you.Link to A Lot of Authoritative SourcesGoogle uses a lot of factors to rank websites, including how many links points to a website, but very few people know that Google also ranks you based on how many people you link to.If your website constantly links to authoritative websites and resources that are relevant to your niche, Google will assume that you’re a good and authoritative resource in your niche, and they’ll rank you better as a result; this, in turn, will lead to more traffic for you.Invite Others to Guest Post on Your BlogGuest blogging on other blogs is indeed a powerful way to get traffic and gain exposure to your blog, but inviting others to guest post for your own blog can be equally powerful.If you invite others to write for you, especially if they have a much bigger signNow than you do, they are more likely to share their guest post with their readers. The result of this will be more traffic to your blog.Start Paying People to Write for YouThere are websites that regularly publish lists of sites that pay writers, and these lists occasionally get tens of thousands of views and hundreds of links thus making them highly authoritative. By offering to pay people to write articles on your blog, and emailing the publishers of these lists to include your website, you’ll be getting an instant boost in traffic and an authoritative backlink.Offer Incentives to People Writing for YouA technique that can give you a massive boost in traffic to your blog is incentivizing contributions to your blog; whether you pay writers for articles or accept guest posts, you’ll be able to get more traffic by compensating people whose articles become your most popular post or get a certain number of views in a month.Email People With Lists of Blogs that Accept Guest PostsThere are hundreds of lists of different blogs that accept guest posts online, and many of these lists are read by thousands of people weekly; if you accept guest posts on your blog, email these bloggers and ask them to include your blog on their list. This won’t just result in some nice traffic and potentially quality contributions to your blog, but it will also yield an authoritative backlink that can help your search traffic.Listen to Your ReadersSometimes, you’ll notice that certain articles on your blog will become big hits while some will barely get read by anybody; oftentimes, the reason for this has to do with demand for the topic an article covers. If an article is in high demand, it’ll do a great job of promoting itself and traffic will only keep increasing; if an article has low demand, promotion you do will yield minimal results.Ask your readers what content they want to read about the most, and create your content based on popular demand.Analyze Your Blog TrafficThe key to blogging success lies in identifying what’s working and doing more of it; once your blog starts to gain traction and get some readership, start paying special attention to your blog traffic to see what kind of content is getting the most views. If you notice a trend with a certain type of content, do more of that type of content and you can be assured of increased traffic.Don’t Ignore Basic SEOMany bloggers ignore basic SEO, and they eventually suffer from it. Most successful bloggers get as much as 50% or more of their traffic from search engines; taking the right measures when it comes to SEO can double your blog traffic within a short period of time.Things like using the right title tags, having a catchy description, ensuring that your site is easy to navigate, etc, can lead to a signNow increase in traffic to your blog.Write for the ScannerResearch shows that on average, most web users won’t read more than 28% of words on a website; in other words, while having longer, comprehensive articles will help your search engine rankings it won’t increase the chances of your content being read; the more people read your content, the more people will share it and the more traffic you will get. The solution to this problem is to write your content for scanners.Using headings and sub headings, bold, italics, numberings and bullets, you can make your blog content more presentable and scannable, and as a result boost traffic to your blog.Only Offer Partial Blog Feed, or Customize Your FeedIf you own a blog, you’re most probably allowing people to consume your blog content through feed readers; a great way to capitalize on this to boost blog traffic is either by offering partial feeds, or by customizing your feeds in such a way that you can include a note and link to your blog/article below the feed. The benefit to doing this is two-fold:It gets readers to come directly to your blog; this increases the likelihood of them sharing your article, thereby leading to more traffic for you.It ensures that you get attribution when your content is being scraped; a lot of sites scrape content via feeds without attribution, and this isn’t good if there’s no way for you to get credit back to your blog.Use Images in ALL Your Blog PostsResearch shows that articles with images get 94% more views compared to articles without images. Make sure every article on your blog include one or more relevant and appealing image, and this will signNowly boost traffic to your blog.Retweet Old ArticlesResearch shows that only 1.4% (and I suspect that the actual number is much lower) of your Twitter followers will engage with your Tweet; the question is, what happens to the remaining 98.6% of your followers who will not see your Tweet? How do you get their attention? The answer to this is to constantly retweet old blog posts.Master the Best Time to PostResearch shows that the success of a viral campaign can be influenced by the time that campaign is started as well; a study by BuzzSumo that analyzed over 100 million articles came to the conclusion that the best day to publish an article is on a Tuesday, and that articles published on a Tuesday generally get up to 3X more views than articles published on Sundays.Join Bundle Offers to Expand Your signNowOccasionally, there are events such as Only72 that offer a bundle of products for a limited period of time at a discount price; the time limit and discount is the appeal of this, and it isn’t unusual to see hundreds of thousands of people hearing about the offer and thousands of people taking advantage of it.If you have a product, signNow out to organizers of these events and ask them to include your product; you’ll be increasing your signNow due to the cross-promotion other, often more influential, participants and affiliates will do.Do Solo AdsA “solo ad” is an email newsletter that only contains an ad; so if someone emails their list and a recommendation of your blog or product is the only thing in that email, that’s a solo ad. Solo ads can be great for boosting blog traffic; find relevant bloggers in your niche with good email lists and offer them a fee in exchange for sending an ad to their list about your blog/email list.Take Advantage of Local MediaThe online and blogging craze is so high that many people now fail to realize the power of offline media. Seek out radio presenters, TV presenters, local magazines and newspapers in your country and ask them if they want an expert in your capacity. Due to the blogging craze, fewer people are disturbing them than used to be; this increases your chances of actually getting coverage, resulting in a boost in your brand image and blog traffic.Give Affiliates 100% Commission to Your ProductsIf you have a product, it’s much easier to get traffic to your blog. Identify influencers with a big blog and email list, especially if they have no product, and offer them 100% commissions for every sale of your products that they make. Make sure you get all buyers of your product to subscribe to your email list, and you win; you win because those buyers might not otherwise know about you, but now they are readers who have bought a product you created.Sell Your Products on Promo Sites at a Massive DiscountWhile it might not look like a win to sell your products on sites that offer products at a massive discount, it can be a big win if this suddenly exposes you to thousands of new people; find sites of this nature and offer your product at a discount. Make sure people are required to sign up to your email list before they can access your product.Leverage Kindle Free Promotion to Boost Your signNowIf you sell an ebook, you can also leverage limited-time Kindle promotions to boost your email list; Tristan King was able to get 600% more people to download his ebook by leveraging Kindle’s KDP ebook promotion system, and that gave him a nice boost in readership. Here’s a list of 76+ places to submit your free Kindle KDP ebook promotions.Leverage Hashtags When Promoting Your Articles on Social MediaYou can also boost your readership by using #hashtags when promoting your articles on social media; by using relevant hashtags, you’ll make your content discoverable when people search for content in your niche, and you’ll also benefit should an hashtag you use become trending around the time you used it.Submit Your Blog to Blog/Website DirectoriesWhile not as effective as they used to be, blog and website directories can still be a good source of traffic. Being listed in some blog and website directories can also boost traffic to your blog. Here’s a list of free website directories you can submit your blog to.Rewrite Some of Your Articles and Post them on Article DirectoriesArticle directories are not as effective as they used to be, but you can rewrite some of your articles in minutes and have them distributed to article directories. Make sure you include links to your blog in these articles.Identify Top Community and Q&A Sites in Your Niche and Participate RegularlySites like Quora, Yahoo! Answers and other niche-specific communities and Q&A sites can be a good source of traffic. Participate in relevant popular discussions and occasionally include a link back to learn more on your blog.Get Your Blog Listed in Google NewsBeing included in Google news can result in a massive boost in traffic to your blog, especially if you’re first to cover major events. If you cover news-related stuffs, be sure to apply for inclusion in Google News.Translate Your Blog Posts into Other LanguagesTranslating your blog into another language is an effective but little-known way to boost traffic to your blog; this works because translated versions of your blog will start to rank in the country-specific search engines of the languages you translate into. Neil Patel reported a 47% increase in traffic to his blog by translating his blog into 82 languages (screenshot below); translating his blog didn’t cost Neil anything as he used the Transposh plugin.Create an App for Your BlogCreate an app for your blog and submit it to Google store and Apple store; regularly invite your readers to download your app and feature it on relevant app sites. If more people download your app, Google will start showcasing it to more of their readers and this will boost your traffic.Organize Events in Your Area and Tell Attendees to Visit Your BlogOrganize offline education events in your area in partnership with schools, churches and communities. Make your events entertaining and educative, and invite attendees to read your blog.Create an Industry Survey and Make the Results PublicInvite your readers to answer a survey about topics of major interest to your niche, publish your survey results and create an infographic about it. Email bloggers in your niche to notify them about your survey results and ask them to write about it.Make your website fasterResearch shows that a one second delay in website loading time will result in a 7 percent loss in conversion, and that slow websites cost the U.S. e-commerce market $500 billion annually. Not just this, but you’ll also lose 40 percent of visitors to your website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. If your website is slow, then you’re already losing half your visitors. Make your website faster and watch your traffic increase signNowly.I hope you have been helpful!!!Good luck!Kristiyan

My blog if you need more information: Fun Food and FactsWell lets get right to it blogging isn't easy if you are new blogger like myself and want to be successful to make some money down the road blogging. I just want to give you some insight I what social media sites that I had some decent traffic coming to my blog so far1.Reddit this site seems to be drawing some traffic to my blog Reddit is a good way to start in my opion a huge discussion web site and has a lot of different topics such as news and web content rating.2. Facebook as you all know you can push out your blog to your friends, family and the public its helped me but so far hasn't drawn a lot of traffic to my blog but I will keep using Facebook if you connect to more people more traffic.3.Twitter I seen some traffic from twitter but with twitter the more followers you have you will get noticed but getting the followers first so you will have to find some topics within you niche for example cooking,travailing,music etc... and follow as many people as you can and hope to have people following you.4. Quora This would be a excellent way to get your blog noticed its a good way to share your knowledge and get a better understanding on a wide variety of different topics. If you use Quora and get your information on this site and answer some question and help others this site could work to your advantage.So far these sites have worked for me again I am a new blogger there a hundreds or maybe thousands that start blogging each day and need a insight on where and how to start. There are many social media sites that you can use but these have worked for me so far. Please if you have more insight on other excellent social media sites to use please leave a comment.I hope this helps!!!!

A backlink means that another website links back to your own website.This will ensure that you end up in the search ranges of google.The website must be of a high quality and have a high page range.How popular a site is paid is how high a page rank is of a website.A very popular site that links back to your website gives a good backlink.The website that links to you must also be of good quality, a model agency that recommends a photographer weighs heavier than a vegetable farmer who recommends a photographer.How can you ensure good backlinks?Talk to forums and give your opinion, place a link to your website and get more visitors on your website. Keep writing good texts and make sure people share your articles and place a back link.

Here are some free methods to increase blog viewers:Do Cross-Promotion with Other Bloggers: Find a blogger with similar audience to yours and see if you can do a “shout out exchange”; in other words, you mention them on your blog and they mention you on theirs. You can also promote them to your email list while they promote you to theirs.Optimize Your Blog for Search Engines: Search engines are the #1 source of traffic for most established blogs.Comment on Other Blogs: The right comment on a highly authoritative blog can send you lots of traffic; identify the top blogs in your niche and start interacting and commenting on blogs on a regular basis. This will get the blogger and members of his community to notice you and visit your blog, leading to more traffic for you; you might even get a link, or invitation to guest blog out of it.Guest Blog: One of the fastest ways to grow your blog is by writing for other people’s blogs; in other words, you can look for a blog that is much bigger than yours and write an article for that blog. You’ll be allowed to have a bio that includes a link to your site in your guest post. This can result in a lot of traffic for you.