Article marketing is definitely the next step after I hunt down a guest blog gig for this month’s SSWT challenge. I’ll probably hit you up thereafter.

Thanks!
Bill

I am a big fan of article marketing. Every time I post a good article on eZineArticles.com I see a good bump in traffic both from eZineArticles.com as a referrer and later from backlinks the syndicated content creates.

I am in the Elite Group and I have some resources for article marketing if you want to pm me I am happy to share.

I’m glad you stopped by. Your plan is ambitious, and it’s a fantastic resource to point people to for a quick overview of marketing. It’s a great challenge!

I think that Twitter is my history blog’s biggest traffic source. I say I think because according to Analytics, “direct traffic” is number one, followed closely by search engine. I’m assuming these direct traffics are caused by people clicking links in their Twitter clients (as opposed to Twitter on the web.) I just can’t imagine there’s anybody out there that is typing in “germanhistoryblog.com” directly.

This shows me that I should be building up my Twitter following. I’ve neglected it for about a month now, after getting off to a pretty good start with my @germanhistory account. Time to get back to it!

Thanks!

I agree, the 90-Day Content Marketing Challenge is probably overly ambitious for most – in fact, it is overwhelming for me and I created it! However, I set it up that way to show a broad cross-section of the various ways to market your site with content without spending a lot of money.

That said, based on my own experience half-way through the challenge – I believe that 1) daily blogging, 2.) Social Media (HUGE – I barely leverage this – yet Twitter is still one of my biggest sources of new traffic) – and I only have 72 followers – its the strength of everyone else’s retweets and followers that drive it! and 3) commenting on other blogs and forums.

I only set the goal on this last one at 1 per week – personally, to market a blog – I would cut back in other areas and increase that number to 10. So far, the traffic from comments has exceeded what I’ve gotten from article marketing.

I do believe article marketing will have better results long term as comments get buried – but they’ve been great for me so far in the short term.

Thanks so much for the mention and good luck driving traffic to your blog!