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While you are trying to improve your writing skills and blogging regularly, I decided to help you out with other things that are very important to succeed as a blogger or an entrepreneur in 2012. Even though I say how to market your blog in 2012, I actually mean your business or your product. For me my blog is my business and my product.
Market Your Blog
You do everything from on page seo to off page seo and all the marketing that you can to ensure you get maximum visibility. But that is not all, its all about generating leads, making sales and bringing in that revenue that puts the food on the table. Today, I will share with you some of my secrets to marketing my blog successfully in 2o12.
Optimize Your Blog For Lead Conversion
There are several thousand bloggers out there still not focusing on lead conversions. Its important for a blogger who is looking to make money online to set up optins to generate leads. Create landing pages, drive traffic to landing pages to increase conversion. Entice your readers to sign up. In every sales process, Leads are key. Without leads you cant really sell anything.
Work Out A Social Media Strategy
Many marketers randomly post out content on to social networks hoping to drive traffic and gain popularity. It does not always work that way, even though it might work for some, its not the best way forward. Write out a plan, put down what your going to do and when, keep your social media activities organized. Do no over do it. In this process do not neglect your blog.
Analyze Your Data
As part of your social media strategy, remember to have a section to track your activities so that at the end of the month you can analyze that data and understand what worked well and what did not work. This way you can tweak your social media strategy for better performance.
Measure ROI For Your Social Media Initiatives
Because you were smart you set up a social media strategy, and you analyzed your data. Now because you did these things, you are now able to measure ROI on your social media activities. But how are you going to measure them? A big question that even the large enterprise businesses are fumbling over. Its simple though, you measure them just the way you measure a traditional marketing campaign.
Engage With Your Audience
Its important to constantly engage with your audience on social networks, because unlike traditional marketing you are expected to be there and respond to questions, share tips and tricks and more. This was not there with traditional marketing. Social media also provides you an opportunity to build a rapport with your potential customers and build trust.
Now, that I’ve shared my plan to make your blog success in 2012, what are you planning on doing? Follow me, or do you have something planned?
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very nice explanation eddie gear
keep rocking 
Thanks Sai, Appreciate your comment here.
I believe in the power of social media, targeted audience and SEO. It gives your blog greater exposure to search engines like Google. It’s also important that we should optimize our blog posts well using the basic on-page SEO tactics. Plugins like Easy WP SEO and SEOPressor may help evaluate your blog post until you get a perfect SEO score.
Dan Lew
Hi Dan, Appreciate you stopping by and leaving your comment. Yes, optimizing blogs for SEO is very important especially if you are using it as a marketing tool. SEOPressor is an awesome as well.
I like this list; it’s definitely true that you need to combine SEO and Social Media to find success in this day and age. I do see many webmasters who try to enter the social networking market haphazardly and hope that it all works out. Formulating a key plan and then measuring your ROI is crucial.
Hi Andrew,
Thanks foir visint gmy blog and sharing your views. Appreciate your comment. Yes, its very important that you have a good plan, and you always have the option to tweak your plan to improve your marketing.
Hi Eddie,
Thank you for the steps you mention. I think that the website design plays a very important role for lead conversion.
I focus on that for the moment. I guess the rest are equally important but…one thing at time.
Very true, Lenia. Focus on one thing at a time and your blog will do well.
My focus will be on more guest posts and engaging more with my audience on my fan page. It’s not easy, but I will be working hard to stay on top of my content, sharing content, and creating my first eBook. These were great tips to follow.
Sonia, I’ve been trying to write a few posts as well. However it does take a lot of time for me to write for my blog and guest blogs as well. Thanks for sharing your goals and ideas.
Make sure you have a way to check analytics from a social media.
Many people mistakenly believe, many followers in Twitter or Facebook will bring many visitors to them.
There is much more to social media analytics. Its not always about the followers your facebook or twitter account has.
Hi, Social media is web based technology that use for communication. Now, It is more famous communication method. It provides comment option for our review on news or views. It also provides good advertisement for business.