There are absolutely tons of gurus and “experts” on the internet nowadays, telling you about this technique or that technique of SEO, or about some software that will explode your website traffic figures to make you a billionaire by next Tuesday, without you having to lift a finger. It seems to me that most of their methods are just wishful thinking or made-up stuff. It is also very interesting that most of them involve some cash outlay by you, which cash goes into the pockets of the guru.

I have found a way of generating a steady stream of traffic to your blog. This method will almost certainly not give instant results, but it will give solid results in terms of increased traffic over a reasonably short period of time.

And the beauty of it is, you will not have to lay out so much as a single penny. Not to me, not to anyone.

This is how it works. First you start a blog on one of the free blogging platforms, such as wordpress.com or blogger.com. Add some AdSense and maybe a few affiliate links. These can be fairly unobtrusive, they do not have to jump out into the reader’s face. In fact it is probably better if they do not. Once you have your blog set up, post one article per day on the blog for a month. At the end of the month, you will have a blog that has about 30 posts, and you will be getting a modest but steady stream of visitors.

In the second month, post one article every week. Then in the following three months, post an article on the blog each month. After this time, your traffic should be flowing in at a constant rate, and it will thereafter run on autopilot. Check the blog stats occasionally. If it starts to dip, just post another article and the traffic will rise again. You can even bring up the traffic by adding a comment in your name as a kind of update on one of your own posts!

I know that all of this works, because I have done it myself. This is not a made-up thing, it is a proven method.

Experience seems to indicate that the blog should be focussed, that is, that the articles should all be on pretty much the same subject or topic. This is often described as “blogging to a niche”. People say that you should do this so your readers are clear on what the blog is about, but that is not the reason at all. Your readers do not mind one way or the other. The reason for the focus is so that the SEARCH ENGINES know what the blog is about, because search engines LOVE categories. So if you are interested in a lot of different things, why then, start a lot of different blogs!

When I tried this method out the first time, at the end of the first month the blog was getting around 300 visitors a day. Now if you have AdSense, you will get roughly 1 in 10 visitors clicking on an ad, each one generating an income of about 10c a click for you, giving you $3 a day or $90 a month. Now that may not sound like very much, but remember that this is for an initial cash outlay of absolutely nothing. And once the blog reaches the autopilot stage, you are getting cash for doing nothing at all. Leaving you free to do what you want. Maybe start another blog?

Now, I am not going to try to sell you an ebook, or even give you an ebook worth $97 absolutely FREE, in return for you adding yourself to my mailing list so I can send you a whole string of pointless emails that try to sell you something you do not want. Once you have tried the method above, you will be able to write your own ebook. So leave the gurus and “experts” to it. They cannot even agree among themselves. The biggest secret, which is really no secret, is that you need to have patience, and experiment, experiment, EXPERIMENT!

Cynthia ~Social Cowgirl
www.SocialCowgirl.com