A few nights ago, I was chatting with a friend on Skype when he asked me this incredibly important question about his blog:

“Why don’t I get any traffic or back links?  Are my posts really that bad?”

Most bloggers wonder this at some point.  You dig through your Google Analytics reports and you stare at day after day of 30 or 50 visitors and you can’t seem to get above those numbers.

You sit with a blog that seems great and yet you only see a fraction of the audience that you really want.

What in the world can we do to change that?  How can we get some more people to stop by our site and interact with us?  How can we get our articles in front of the masses?  How do we make a bigger splash in the blogosphere?  How do we do it?

5 Steps to Reach More People with Your Message

Here’s one exercise to get you going.  It’s a simple practical exercise that I do nearly every day that results in about 20 or more unique visitors per day…sometimes even more.

1. Look Around: Locate five blogs with a good community of at least 500 RSS subscribers.
2. Get Involved: Leave a good, solid comment on each of their most recent articles.
3. Provide Value: Ensure that the comment is at least three sentences long…and proof read it.
4. Engage Others: In your comment, ask a question related to the article and check back later for a response.
5. Be Genuine: Use a real name.  Brand yourself as a credible authority and then branding your site will be easy.

Put all of those tips into one comment on a site that has 500+ readers and you will probably get 4 or 5 visitors from it.  Do that 20 times on blogs that size and you will probably get between 50 – 100 visitors.

Also take note that these are the types of visitors you want at your blog.  They will likely become repeat visitors to your site because they are obviously already interested in blogs and in engaging with the authors if they are perusing the comments section of an already large blog.

Let me Mentor You to Greater Success

When your done with these five steps, stop back by here and let us know what five blogs you visited.  Let me view your comments and mentor you into creating the greatest possible impact for your website and for your brand.

I can almost guarantee that this 10 minute exercise will bring in at least four or five visitors per site that you interact with.  This practice works wonders.

Success Demands Hard Work and Dedication

The principle is that you’ve got to be engaging with others if you want others to engage with you.  You’ve got to get out and about and start exposing as many people as you can to who you are by leaving well-written and engaging comments at popular blogs.  This is one of the absolute easiest ways to build blog relationships and to drive traffic to your site.

And remember that if you want success that your going to have to work for it.  It’s not going to come overnight.  Let me leave you all with a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:

“The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.”

Group Discussion:

Yup.  You guessed it.  I want to know where you left your comments.  In fact, this article can be the first on your list.  Let me help you grow.