 Hi, this is Mitch Mitchell up. I'm just sharing at least I'm saying that today because I realized that I haven't talked about Blogging in a good long time and it's time that I talked about it. But first I want to show you something dig this Keep calm and let Mitchell handle it. That's what it says. Okay. Let me see. I didn't figure these things out There you go. I ordered this shirt off of the site called tea spring comm. That's T e e E s p r i n g dot com I saw an ad on Facebook that actually one of my cousins put up there and it said keep calm and let Mitchell handle it Hey, I figure I'm Mitchell So I went to the site and I ordered this one for myself I ordered a blue t-shirt for my wife and they just came the other day and and my goodness. I love this This was thirty nine dollars hers was I think twenty five dollars and it's not so bad And they have a bunch of different designs and things and you can have your name put in it And I just thought it was so cool. So I'm just throwing that out there. I get no money for that It's just something that I like so, you know If you if you get a chance tell them I gave him some love because I absolutely love this thing So let's talk about traffic Basically what happened is that pretty much around the end of the year or the beginning of this year I started to see a whole lot of posts showing up on Twitter talking about the top 50 Blogs or blogs about blogging top 100 all this other kind of stuff and my name wasn't anywhere around that now Not that I'm necessarily narcissistic, but we all want some accolades. We want people to know who we are You know, we want a little bit of publicity and let's face it My business blog will have been out 10 years come February 10 years I'm just sharing has been out seven years So I'm sitting there thinking my goodness how the devil am I not known now? I have some pretty big folks who know who I am But there's a lot of people who have no real clue and I started to think well, you know what it's your fault It really is because you haven't really been doing any promoting sure you've been writing a lot of stuff I mean, I'm almost at 1600 posts and I'm just sharing and I'm almost at 1200 on the other blog And I've got two other blogs, but I don't really promote those all that often So I sat there and said well, what could I do and I realized that I've always known how to drive traffic to my blogs I just haven't been doing it because I was traveling, you know When you travel for work, you're working and you're not really spending a lot of time on your own thing And I needed to so I'm gonna give you the top three things that will drive more traffic to your block This hands down, but I'm gonna tell you what really doesn't drive traffic to your blog Which is guest posting I have written tons of guest posts. I've written them on blogs that don't get a lot of traffic I've written them on some very high traffic blogs and you know what they get tons of comments But almost nobody has ever come back to my blog from a guest post I don't know why but probably it's because a lot of people go to those posts and they respect the person whose blog It is but not necessarily respecting the person who just wrote this article. I'll tell you the truth There's a lot of blogs where I like to go if the person who owns it writes it because I like their style But I almost never read a lot of the guest posts that they have so maybe that's really what it is Sometimes I will and sometimes I'll comment and every once a while I may follow along But truthfully, I don't really read a lot of those guest posts So if I'm doing that you got to figure a lot of other people are as well So what do we have let's talk about the first one really it's about promoting posts I did this thing I decided that I wanted to get I'm just sharing up there a little bit more I've wanted traffic because it had been falling and like I said, it's my fault I've been traveling and hadn't been promoting you know, I'd still been writing So what I did is I went through my blog and I went back, you know We'll say a year maybe a little longer than a year and I picked out the top 30 Post that I'd written on the actual topic of blogging and I started to put them out there on Twitter and I interspaced it with articles around not articles with Quotations from my business blog because I knew I was getting close to 90,000 comments or tweets as it were And I wanted to have something to give some balance and people like motivational statements and it turns out That I don't necessarily think I'm quotable until I look at things. I've read realize. Oh goodness I said some pretty good stuff. So I balanced out the blogging things with the comments And I also mixed in sharing a lot of stuff that I already see on Twitter. I've always done that so I started putting more of that out there and Traffic started to increase now. I Know some people are gonna say well Alexa means nothing or whatever, but it wasn't just Alexa I noticed it on Google Analytics I've noticed it in the fact that I get a lot more comments on the blog that I was getting there for a while Not as much from some of the return people, but I have some people who are actually Commenting more often on more posts. So, you know, it's working. It's only been about a month And I'm not gonna say that it's you know blown up Anything like that. I couldn't tell you but I can tell you that stuff has increased. So that's number one Number two are doing interviews whether you do an interview With someone or whether someone does an interview with you what ends up happening is that both of you start promoting the thing now Here's the thing that folks who even tell you well, you shouldn't over You know promote something on Twitter or on Google plus whatever if it's you who's been interviewed You're allowed to share that more often because people expect it You're excited and you're happy that someone actually interviewed you and cared what you had to say So that gives you time to pretty much put that out there a lot and you know Give people a better opportunity to see it at the same time people who did an interview if they liked it Well enough they're gonna promote it and they want people to say hey look I do these promotions So that you know if you like this, I hope you'll let me interview you So it's not just you doing it. It's now someone else and number three blog commenting Blog commenting went works all the time It just does and I hadn't done a lot of blog commenting when I was traveling I really didn't I concentrated more on the work that I was doing as well as making sure that I was still getting my Content out at least on two of my four blogs. So I really did that but I really didn't read a lot of other blogs Well, I started doing it now that I'm back home a little bit more even though I'm still out there trying to get my next contract and that's what independent workers do I've been commenting on a lot more blogs and I've been spreading it around and some blogs are pretty new that I'm going to And you know meeting some new fascinating people But some are blogs that are in my blog reader You know I had about 250 blogs and one of the shocking things is how many people actually have left blogging in the 18 months That I was gone That's somewhat weird, but okay, it happens, but a lot of those folks are still there So I started commenting on there. Hey bitch. Hey, you're back. All right, you know Some of those folks didn't know I was gone. So that has helped. So really, you know those three things will drive traffic to you Now you're probably gonna say, how do you know? Does Google analytics not only tells you, you know, how much traffic you're getting but where you're getting it from and Twitter has moved into my top three when it wasn't even in the top 10 So that's how I know that's working and you can go and see some of the other Blogs that are out there, you know that somewhat pop in and if replace some of the other stuff that had just shown Maybe one or two or whatever So it just show it's working and then of course sometimes you get a new commenter who says hey I came here from such-and-such and that's always kind of cool because it shows You know if you leave good comments on someone else's blog or if they happen to link to you for whatever reason then that's going to work out in your favor and There you go. Those are the top three ways that you can get more traffic coming to your blog now Are you gonna make more money? I don't know Do you want to some of you do and you know we can get into that another time matter of fact? I did a really long video I think a little over a year ago where I kind of talked about that niche blogging and you know Setting things up and whatever and maybe I'll do that topic a little later. So anyway, that's those three things I just want to mention this real quick On Wednesday Wednesday, what is Wednesday's date? Goodness. Let's see. What's today's date? Wednesday the 28th January 28th at 430. I'm doing an interview on Google plus with a friend of mine named Chuck Price who it basically is an SEO This is what he does he helps companies to recover and he gives you know advice on that And he had the number one article on search engine watch this year or this past year and I'm interviewing him and I think that should be pretty cool and then hopefully either over the weekend or next week I'll be interviewing a lady named Marcy Hill who's written a book talk that talking about 62 ways to overcome Bloggers block and yours truly has a little portion in there not the portion. I thought I would have but you know what? I'm in a book That's I think that's pretty cool. So anyway Mitch Mitchell and I'm just sharing Let Mitchell handle it y'all take care You