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Blog Traffic: What’s Wrong With This Article?

I absolutely believe in this guy’s advice, but can you tell me what’s wrong with this article?

Traffic to Blog – 3 Easy and Fast Ways to Drive Traffic to New Blog Today!

By Brandon Jamison

#3 – Video Marketing

This is one of the greatest ways to drive traffic to the blog. People will go to your video on these following sites:

• YouTube
• Google Video
• Veoh
• Daily Motion
• AOL Video

Or many of the countless video websites around the web. It’s a great tool that you should definitely think about starting today. Video marketing allows your visitors to visually identify what you and you blog is about, it makes you look professional, and in the end – you can use keyword targeting to recommend people to your blog as lifetime subscribers!

#2 – Social Bookmarketing

It’s actually social bookmarking but you are actually social bookmarketing. You want to establish a community, relationship with tons of friends, and even book mark other websites. Social bookmarking websites with “do following” links are the best because you can build up backlinks and attract the social bookmarking website links to your website.

You should definitely start today as well! Search engines find these social book marking websites and eventually find your blog, this can instantly bring traffic to your website, and bring you a great deal of lifetime subscribers who are eager to click, read, buy, shop, or do whatever you want them to do!

#1 – Google AdWords

This is for those advanced users. If you want a sudden influx of traffic, then you will want to read everything you need to know about Google AdWords. This is not something that is easily done – otherwise everybody would do it.

Now that’s not to say you can do it, or even succeed your first time. You simply have to sign up for Google AdWords, find the correct keywords to what you think people will type in who are interested in the content you have to offer – and in the end; you’ll enjoy the amount of people who visit your blog over a lifetime.

So the question is, why not start today and find out how many people you can get to your blog!

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I certainly agree with this advice, but there is one fundamental thing wrong with this article. Before I tell you, however, let me add:

Viddler is another good video website that I see a lot of video bloggers using today. Secondly, social bookmarketing is one of the best ways to accomplish your marketing initiatives online and many of our clients are taking advantage of that service.

Now, have you figured out what’s wrong with the article? Hint: He’s not taking his own advice.

See the link where he tells you to go for more information? If you click that link and read the page he tells you to buy a domain name to sell your product. He didn’t buy a domain name, but he’s telling you that you should. I agree that you should buy a domain name, but why isn’t he following his own advice?

This is one example of how not to do article and blog marketing. If you tell someone else to do it then build your own credibility by following your own advice.

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Beware The Pro Blogger’s Advice

There is a lot of advice online. Most of it is bad.

I, for instance, was reading an article today and one article writer suggested that bloggers should “hide” their AdSense ads. Not a good idea. This is against Google’s guidelines. You don’t want to hide your AdSense ads. You can play around with sizes and colors to see which ones work best for you. But don’t get too crazy with hiding them and camouflaging them. Tricking people to click is not good. You’ll lose your credibility.

That’s just one example. Here’s a point of fact: Most bloggers are not making money. If they were they wouldn’t be looking for work. I received an application just the other day from someone who has a website on which they sell one of those “Let me tell you how to get rich online” books. Why would she be looking for a job as a blogger if she knew enough about online marketing to sell how-to books on the subject? I didn’t hire her.

When it comes to blogging and online marketing, don’t believe everything you read. Not all advice is good.