Need a Marketing Plan

[Ferox]

As most of you know, I have two blogs; Nearly-Dr Ferox and Corollax

I'm pretty happy with how they are set up, but I really need to market them more strongly before I get back to uni when I wont have the time to do it anymore. At the moment I'm still getting about 10 visitors per day to the vet site, and about 2 to Corrolax.

I need help establishing a strategy for marketing these sites. If I could get up to 100 visitors a day that would be great, but I think 50 is a more realistic goal.

According to statcounter I'm getting most of my traffic from 'no refering link' - whatever that it. It may be blogengage because blogengage doesn't show up in the stats anywhere. I have a few from blog directories and forums (about equal).

I've started doing some article submissions at Associate Content, but haven't seen an increase in visitors.

I don't really want to spend any money until I've found something that works or until April.

Thanks for your suggestions those that do help me out

[evelester]

well the first thing I noticed was that they are both new, and that is one problem.

Given time, regular posting of great informative articles you will naturally grow traffic.

Some things you can do in the meantime:
use stumble upon and stumble your articles (not all of them, just the great ones.)

Submit a sitemap to goodle- use this wordpress plugin (WordPress › Google XML Sitemaps « WordPress Plugins) to make it super easy

make sure to submit to search engines- I use Free Website URL Submission - Submit Google, Yahoo, MSN

find and join forums about your niche, like for the dr. one, join a forum about being a vet or about animals in general. Add your blogs to your signature and offer up good informative replies to questions and such.

Comment on blogs in the same niche as you. Do a search for vet blogs and frequent them and add value to conversations.

While there is a lot more ideas out there, those are some that have worked well for me. I get an average of 350-480 visitors a day now. But I have been blogging for over a year. It does take time.

hope this helps!

[skleiner]

I agree with Evelester - find some vet students in the US and different countries and swap stories of the differences, etc.

I did get some traffic through blog carnivals. I googled blog carnivals animals and some interesting stuff came up.

Keep adding content, maybe get some more friends and family on your blog roll.

I like the Nearly Dr. Ferox site alot, very interesting!

[evelester]

yeah, carnivals bring some traffic to me as well, forgot about those!

[Ferox]

I have only found one active vet student blog, where I have a blogroll link, and in truth it's not that active. D&D blogs are also pretty rare. Vet blogs aren't active, or aren't hte sort that allow you to leave comments, directing you to buy an ebook instead.

The 'forums' for vets and vet students aren't like this one - they're really a colelction of research papers not the sort of thing where you can post comments with a sig link. There are about 3 forums for a D&D niche that I've found. Finding active pet forums that allow a signature or even a link in your profile description is also giving me trouble. If you know of any please that do please tell me.

[skleiner]

I searched for blog carnivals and ran across one why do panda's do handstands at blogspot dot com - perhaps you can comment on some of the articles there with your knowledge.

You could add comments to people's personal animal blogs as well in regards to what you have experienced in similar situations or from your perspective.

I googled animal vet blogs there is one thats e-vet clinic, weare animal hospital has a blog that you may be able to get some ideas from or get your name out there.

Im surprised about D&D - I would think there was still alot of attention on that. I guess they have all moved on to Rock Band..

[skleiner]

Keep searching, I think you will find something!

[PaulR]

Try joining and starting groups at mybloglog and facebook and yahoo.
You could set up a veterinary lense at squidoo and use flickr and slide to share your photos of animals.
And submit your rss feed everywhere.
If you have access to student webspace, talk about your other projects and link to them .edu links are nice and hard to get.

Best of Luck

[Dashsaurabh]

I have also created a blog and trying desperately trying to get traffic.

I burned a feed and through that I'm getting more strikes on the feed than my actual hosting place.

I'm looking forward to trying because wherever I've read, I've learnt that it takes two years at least for a blog to become popular if you write devotedly.

Anyways, my blog URL.

CHATTER BOX

[AndrewPavelski]

I recommend checking out my website and reading the article entitled "How To Increase Website Traffic." I think you may find it helpful.

Best wishes,

Andrew

Originally Posted by Ferox

As most of you know, I have two blogs; Nearly-Dr Ferox and Corollax

I'm pretty happy with how they are set up, but I really need to market them more strongly before I get back to uni when I wont have the time to do it anymore. At the moment I'm still getting about 10 visitors per day to the vet site, and about 2 to Corrolax.

I need help establishing a strategy for marketing these sites. If I could get up to 100 visitors a day that would be great, but I think 50 is a more realistic goal.

According to statcounter I'm getting most of my traffic from 'no refering link' - whatever that it. It may be blogengage because blogengage doesn't show up in the stats anywhere. I have a few from blog directories and forums (about equal).

I've started doing some article submissions at Associate Content, but haven't seen an increase in visitors.

I don't really want to spend any money until I've found something that works or until April.

Thanks for your suggestions those that do help me out