Guest blogging is one of the most profitable ways to make money online.

I know, you might be confused as to how guest blogging can help you make money online and I hope to have distilled your fears by the time you finish reading this article.

Now that I think about it, writing my first guest post was the most important decision I have made in my blogging career; it opened my eyes to a whole new world of opportunities and the month of writing this (March, 2012) I’m on a challenge write at least 150 guest posts for other blogs in my field.

If you visit your favorite blogging tips blogs today you will probably come across an article talking about guest blogging, but you will rarely come across any article teaching you how to make money by guest blogging. After all, how many people will really want to share their source of income?

To be completely honest with you, guest blogging isn’t only an effective technique for building traffic and subscribers for your blog, it can also be smartly leveraged to help you make money online. In fact, guest blogging alone led to me making exactly $55,753.50 in 2011, and that’s just the numbers I could calculate. What of the resulting traffic from my guest posts leading to affiliate sales? What of the traffic that will end up bringing more income for years to come?

The good news, and why I’m even happy to write this article, is that I’m not doing this alone. Jon Morrow from GuestBlogging.com, who was the associate editor of Copyblogger for years, also says he makes at least $2,000 from every single guest posts he writes.

While I’m not as smart as Jon Morrow and while I don’t actually make as much as he does from guest blogging I was able to make an average of $4,600 every month last year just as a result of guest blogging.

How Did I Do It?

This is probably the question racing in your mind right now but I’d like you to calm down first and read this article slowly. After that, read it again and start taking action. Here’s what this article is not.

It is Not an Article Promising to Show You a Get Rich Quick Approach: Nope, it took me 8 months to make my first cent from guest blogging. Of course, I was still new to the game then and hardly knew what I was doing, but even if I did know what I was doing guest blogging will probably not bring in any real income until after a few months.

It Doesn’t Explain How to Make Money While You Sleep: Nope, it doesn’t. I wrote over 270 guest posts before making my first cent from guest blogging. Although, I didn’t know what I was doing then, nor did I intend to ever make money from guest blogging, but based on my experience now I’d at least have to write 20+ guest posts to start making money guest blogging. That’s a lot for some people and that’s a good thing, because this article isn’t for everyone!

It Is Not About Getting Paid by Blogs You Write Guest Posts for: Nope, you won’t be paid directly by the blogs you’re writing for. Your guest posts will lead to you making money but you won’t be paid to write them. I explain my approach in this article so make sure you keep your ears peeled.

How to Really Make Money from Guest Blogging

You might be surprised about why I’m giving this away for free but I sincerely want to help as many people as possible build a career online in writing and I believe I’ve made enough money from guest blogging that I don’t care about sharing my tips. With that in mind I’d like you to know that the fact that these tips are free doesn’t make them ineffective.

My Main Approach

When you saw the above numbers you might be wondering how they came about if I’m not being paid directly for my guest posts. The actual numbers signifies the amount I’ve made working with various clients in 2011, all of which I got as a direct result of my guest blogging.

In other words, I’m a freelance writer who specializes in helping people get results through my writing. I use guest blogging to drive valuable clients to my business and then make money by working for them.

This approach led to me getting 4 high-quality clients last year without putting up a hire me page. I never even professed to some of these clients that I’m a writer, but when they read my guest posts and fell in love with it they contacted me to come and work for them. Mind you, I got a lot more than 4 clients. In fact, I got over 20 clients but rejected most of them and only chose to work for the ones that will benefit me most.

You are probably aware of the fact that most freelance writers are getting paid peanuts these days. That’s because they have the wrong clients and they probably don’t have an option. Guest blogging exposed me to a lot of clients and I got to choose the very best ones. I rejected some quality ones, too, because you can only take on so much work, but I’m telling you this to let you know the potential that exists.

Here are the steps you should take to start making money from guest blogging right now:

1. Start a Blog and FOCUS on a Topic: You have to start a blog and you need to be seen as an expert. The problem is that most people have the illusion that you have to have been writing online for years to be seen as an expert in any niche. Unfortunately, that is just what it is, an illusion. You can be an expert in two months with the right approach, so in this case all you need to do is start a blog and focus on a topic, my other tips below will help you become an expert relatively quick.

2. Make Your Blog Different by Creating a USP: The problem with blogging is that it is too crowded. There are so many blogs online that readers don’t know which ones to read and bloggers are making that even difficult for them.

The first key to making your blog a magnet for those interested in your services is to create a USP; they have to know your blog is the one for them as soon as they land on it and you need a clear USP to achieve this. A USP is also known as a Unique Selling Proposition and it is the factor that differentiates your blog from that of your competitors. That doesn’t mean you would blog about a different topic, it just means you will blog about the same topic in a unique way and then tailor your blog to a unique audience. For example, instead of just starting a blog of “personal finance”, why not start a blog on “personal finance for students”? That way, when students need tips on personal finance they won’t bother visiting the big personal finance blogs, they will come to yours first. That’s just an example and I’m not necessarily suggesting you tailor your blog to students.

3. Create a Service Tailored at Your Audience: Create a service tailored at your audience based on your USP. The service could be high-end or cheap depending on the people you want to attract and your ultimate goal. You should not be afraid to charge what you’re worth. It doesn’t matter if your service is $1,000+ or $20, it is all about what you have to offer. The first thing you should realize, though, is that you can’t attract every client, so don’t bother to. Work on creating a unique service tailored at your audience, choose a price that is worthy of you and get ready to start  making money. Make sure you create a page on your blog advertising this service and how it can help potential clients.

4. Build Your Profile Using Guest Blogging: This is the most IMPORTANT aspect. All the above steps are like preparation to ensure your guest blogging efforts don’t waste but this is the real deal. Once you have followed the above steps you can start guest blogging smartly for other people.

Here’s how your guest blogging approach should work to ensure you get results fast.

• Look for 20 top blogs in your niche: Guest blogging on smaller blogs is relatively easy but that’s the downside; everybody can do it! Getting real results is difficult but you have to put in the effort if you want to make money. Look for the top 20 blogs in your niche with at least 20,000 subscribers and focus on landing a guest post on them.
• Make sure your post connects to your blog: The blogs you choose might not be blogging directly on your topic but look for a way to tie the content of both blogs. For example, there aren’t much blogs on “Personal finance for students”(following my above example) but there are a lot of blogs on personal finance and money management. You can easily score guest posts on these big blogs and still profit by tying your content with theirs, e.g, “7 Personal Finance Tips for Student”. In the case of a blogger that talks about “blogging” writing for a blog that talks about “affiliate marketing” you can easily write a post titled “5 Ways Affiliate Marketers Can Use Blogging to Increase Sales” – You see how that works?
• Write a really great piece: Of course, everything is all linked to the quality of content you can produce and while some of these blogs publish a guest post a day, why should someone hire you instead of most of the other guest bloggers? The key is in your content. Make sure your guest posts reflect that you really know your stuff and always ensure you put the audience first.
• Write a bio that shows you’re an expert and link to your services page: Don’t say you’re a beginner who just started blogging 2 months ago and don’t quote your “7 months of experience”. Let your bio authoritatively position you as someone who knows his stuff, explain a little about yourself and tell people to know more about you by visiting your blog while also let them know you’re available for hire.
• Rinse and repeat.

Steps 1-4 explained above alone should get a few clients knocking at your door and you can increase your chances of working longer with them by providing quality service and strengthening your relationship with them.

You might have expected something more complicated, but it’s that simple. Don’t just sit there, take action now and see how guest blogging can help you!

Does the above sound interesting? You’re yet to see anything! Bamidele is a young blogger and writer who helps others make money writing online. He recently completed his guide to making money online by writing, The Writer’s Handbook: How to Write for Traffic and Money. The guide is available to his subscribers only and you can download it by visiting YoungPrePro.com. You can also read his article on guest blogging if you’re not familiar with the idea.

I’m Onibalusi Bamidele, a 17 year old blogger from YoungPrePro.com

I started my blog in April 2010, and in just 8 months I was able to build what I could call a successful blog (my criteria being a blog making me at least $1k online monthly and getting over 8k visitors monthly). I know a lot of people build successful blogs in that time frame, or even less, but the unique thing about my blog is the strategy I used to make it successful – GUEST BLOGGING!

A lot of people underestimate the power of guest blogging and in this article I’ll be giving you some tips on how guest blogging helped me build a successful blog and make thousands of dollars every month.

The Current State of My Blog

It is only 14 months of me starting my blog now and I’m really proud of my achievements with it, which are made possible by guest blogging, such as:

Getting over 17,000 visitors in only one month

Making an average of $3,000 online every month

Being ranked as one of the top 10,000 websites in the world by alexa

Having a Google Pagerank 4

And, being featured as one of the top 30 young bloggers making money online.

I know the above results sound impressive and a lot of people will believe I’m a kind of genius for spinning all this in a short period of time but you’ll be amazed at what a lot of new bloggers are doing nowadays and how often they’re getting their guest posts published on big blogs.

You Need a Change of Mindset

I have written hundreds of guest posts and my guest posts didn’t bring similar results, in my attempt to know why some guest posts fail and why some don’t I discovered one golden secret – and that secret is the importance of having the proper mindset in everything you do.

There are two kinds of mindsets you need to eliminate if you really want to be successful with guest blogging.

First, you need to eliminate the mindset that guest blogging doesn’t work or that guest blogging is over hyped and second, you have to eliminate the mindset that you can’t succeed with guest blogging or that your guest post can’t be featured on the big blogs.

One of my major problems when I was just starting was having a mindset that my guest post can’t be featured on big blogs, this made me write hundreds of guest posts on small blogs only to get a fraction of the results I am supposed to be getting. I later eliminated this mindset and my guest post has since been featured on several big blogs including Problogger, DailyBlogTips, MaxBlogPress, JohnChow.com and ReadWriteWeb. In case you’re still not convinced, here’s a screenshot from one of my guest posts on Problogger.

That was only one guest post – and it sent me over 1000 visitors and over 400 subscribers.

What Guest Blogging Did for My Blog

There are countless advantages of guest blogging but I’ll only be addressing how guest blogging helped me build a successful blog below.

It Boosted My Traffic and Subscribers

In case you don’t know yet, your subscribers are the most important asset you can have as a blogger and you can never get subscribers without traffic. Guest blogging gave me a significant boost in my blog traffic and subscribers. I get as much as 500 visitors for every single guest post I submit to a big blog and I get hundreds of subscribers from every single guest post I write on a big blog. As a result of this, I now have over 3,000 subscribers to my blog and over 15,000 visitors visiting my blog consistently every month.

It is true there are several ways to gain traffic to your blog, but in my entire blogging career I haven’t seen a strategy as effective as guest blogging.

It Boosted My Credibility

Do you want to make sales?

Do you want to get clients?

Do you want to make money online?

In one way or the other, your credibility has to do with succeeding online. In everything you do people need to trust you and see that you’re someone who can be related to and that you’re capable of what you promised. Guest blogging made that very easy for me because when a lot of people started to see my name on the top blogs in my niche regularly they began to respect me and that eventually landed me a solid client with whom I have made over $20,000 online till date.

It Positioned me as An Expert

Every now and then I see people linking to my blog posts, requesting an interview with me, featuring me on their blog and even asking me for help. All this is because they see me as an expert.

A lot of people now call me a top blogger, some of them call me famous blogger etc. I’m not trying to be egotistical, I’m only trying to tell you that success in blogging isn’t only about what you are or what you think you are but what people see you to be. You need to be viewed as an expert in your niche to succeed and guest blogging made that possible for me.

How to Build a Successful Blog Via Guest Blogging

The above are just some of the things guest blogging did for me and I believe this post isn’t really complete without me giving you tips on how to build a successful blog via guest blogging. Below are some tips to help you build a successful blog via guest blogging.

1. Don’t Rush Guest Blogging: A great mistake I see a lot of people make when it comes to guest blogging is that they create a blog and start submitting a guest post to every blog around them. Many of these bloggers end up burning out because they won’t get the results they expected. The only way to get real results from guest blogging is by sitting down and thinking about your reason for guest blogging. Let this reason guide your every guest post and you will become a success in no time.

2. Prepare Your Blog: Another important thing you need to do as a guest blogger is to prepare your blog for the traffic and success that will come your way. Make sure you keep your blog updated with regular and fresh content and also make sure you direct your guest blogging efforts to building your subscriber base.

3. Only Guest Post on Relevant Sites: The reason for this is that you need to be seen as an expert in your niche and a lot of people read several blogs in the same niche. For example, if you’re in the blogging niche there is every probability a lot of your potential readers who are willing to read about blogging hang out on the top blogs in the blogging niche so you won’t get much results by blogging in the personal development niche. Focus your efforts on guest blogging on relevant sites only and you will get results faster than you can imagine.

4. Have an End Game: To really make money from guest blogging you shouldn’t just sit down and expect income to be flowing in. Have an end game. It can be in the form of a product, a hire me page, a squeeze page or something of that nature. Don’t just link to your homepage directly in your guest posts but to some of your important “assets” that will keep on bringing in income for months to come.

5. Write More Guest Posts: How many guest posts do you think you need to succeed online? 1 guest post on a big blog, 2, 3? The fact is you need to write at least 5 quality, targeted guest posts on big blogs to succeed as a blogger. You will need more, depending on the kind of blog you write the guest post for and depending on how you optimize your blog for it. In a nutshell, the more guest posts you write, the more traffic you will get, so, start writing, stop waiting!

Onibalusi Bamidele is a guest blogging expert who has been featured on several top blogs online, hire him to take your guest blogging to the next level and also download his free guest blogging guide for practical tips on landing guest posts on top blogs.

I’m Onibalusi Bamidele, a 17 year old blogger from YoungPrePro.com

I have been blogging for 14 months now and one great mistake I made early in my blogging career that I really regret was not building an email list. I quickly fixed this after 4 months of blogging but I still found it difficult to get subscribers to my email list.

Like most new bloggers I waited for weeks to get subscribers but I didn’t progress, I sometimes only get a subscriber in a day and if I am really lucky I will get 3. After two months I only had 150 subscribers. It was really frustrating!

The truth is, the money is in the list, but how can you really make money from your list when it is very small.

Let’s do a simple calculation.

Let’s say you get a 20% open rate for every email you send to your email list, and a 50% click through rate, and you only have 200 subscribers as a new blogger. If you send a promotion to your email list about a product that needs 30 people to make a single sale it means only 40 people will open your email, 20 will click and zero will buy. Make the number of your email list 2000 and it will be 400 people opening your email, 200 clicking and at least 6 whooping sales!

You see a whole lot of difference in having a small list and a big list?

The truth is BUILDING A BIG EMAIL LIST ISN’T DIFFICULT, at least, not after you finish reading this post.

I that used to get  2 subscribers a day now get an average of 20 subscribers every single day, as much as 100 subscribers in some days and a whooping 400 subscribers in some weeks. Do you see that building a subscriber list isn’t at all difficult. What am I doing differently? Below are some major things I did to more than triple my email subscription rate overnight.

I Started “Smart Guest Blogging” Massively

Guest blogging is really effective and is one of the best ways to build a massive subscriber list. In fact, guest blogging is my best blogging investment.

You should also realize that building a successful list from guest blogging isn’t just about writing guest posts as you like but about guest blogging smartly. I wrote hundreds of guest posts early in my blogging career but found it difficult to get 50 subscribers in a week but once I started guest blogging smartly I was able to get as much as 100 subscribers in one day from some of my guest posts.

Guest blogging smartly is all about understanding the pareto principle which states that 80 percent of results comes from 20 percent of your efforts. As a smart guest blogger, you need to understand what that 20% that brings results is. For me, it was guest blogging on big blogs. Once I realized guest blogging on big blogs was the game changer in significantly improving my email list subscription I started targeting more big blogs and my subscription went over the roof.

Here are some of my tips for getting the best from guest blogging:

• Have a great offer that will serve as your lead magnet
• Design a great squeeze page for your offer and try to explain what your offer is and why people should get it
• Start writing guest posts massively and ONLY link to your squeeze page

It’s that simple. Doing the above alone can bring about 500 subscribers every month (which adds to your list significantly).

In case you’re still confused about guest blogging and need more clarification you can download my free guest blogging eBook or hire me for help on that.

I Made Use of My Blog Effectively

A lot of us have a great marketing tool at our finger tips but we under utilize it greatly. Aside from my guest posts, my blog is the second top source of traffic to my landing page and with the different forms on my blog alone I get hundreds of subscribers to my email list every month.

Always do your best to make effective use of your blog to drive traffic to your squeeze page and increase conversions on your blog. You should always mention (and LINK TO!) your squeeze page whenever you have the opportunity and you should have at least two forms on your blog directing traffic to your blog.

In case you want more solid advice on significantly increasing email subscriptions you can read this great post (with a practical and effective video) on SmartPassiveIncome.com.

Tweaking My Squeeze Page

Do you know you can double your email list subscription without increasing traffic to your blog? How? By split testing and effectively tweaking your squeeze page. I used to get a conversion rate of around 12 to 15% from my squeeze page but after making some little tweaks I was able to increase my conversion rate to 30%. Below is a screenshot of my latest conversion rate from my squeeze page.

That means I’m getting 300 subscribers for every 1000 visitors. If you have a 15% conversion rate it will be 150 subscribers for every 1000 visitors and if you have a 50% conversion rate it will be 500 subscribers per 100 visitors.

You should also note that the quality of your traffic matters so you should always do your best to get more quality traffic.

Some simple things you can tweak on your squeeze page to get more conversion are tweaking:

• Your headline
• Your headline color
• Your feature list
• The length of your squeeze page
• The text above and below your subscription form
• The format of your squeeze page

In case you’re really interested in conversion optimization and you want to know more about split testing your squeeze page you can read this post on SiteFurnace.

Sometimes you just need to think properly and look for ways to capitalize on the little traffic you’re already getting.

To increase your email list subscription by over 300% get the Viral List Building Plugin Onibalusi Co founded. Also ensure you hire him in order to learn how to start guest blogging smartly.

I am Onibalusi Bamidele a 17 year old entrepreneur and blogger from YoungPrePro.com. I started my blog on the 2^nd of April 2009 and in approximately 11 months of starting my blog I am already making $5000 online monthly. During this process I learnt a lot of things and one major lesson I learnt is that anybody can start making money online within the shortest period possible as long has he/she has the right plan and information on how to do it. I have decided to write a post that details my step to $5k online monthly and how you also can achieve it.

Before I Start

When most people read the title of this post they will be thinking about the next get rich quick scheme or buying an informational product. While it is easier to write a 32 pages informational product on the subject and sell it to make some quick bucks I believe the same information can be effectively presented in a short post of less than 1,500 words and that what matters most isn’t how long the guide you read is but what you do after reading the guide. I’d like you to know that this isn’t a get rich quick scheme and it took me 8 months of hard work to achieve what I achieved so you should know that before you continue with this guide.

How I Make Money Online

I will also like you to know that there isn’t a single way to make money online. There are numerous ways you can make money online, it can either be by blogging, affiliate marketing, offering your services or doing some other things. One thing you should note is that every one of these techniques requires you to have something really valuable to offer before you can get results.

I make money online by offering my services to others and the tips in this post will be based on that approach. Even though you can still implement what you read in this article into other aspects of making money online it will be more effective if you plan to be offering your services to others.

Below are the steps I took to start making $5k online monthly.

1. I Developed a Skill

While it is easier to be sold by many of these push button scams and get rich quick scams promising to help you make tens of thousands of dollars your first day online I’d like you to know that making money online isn’t that easy. To really succeed online you need to have something to offer to people. In my case it was my writing skills, I write a lot and I love writing, I focused my efforts on writing everyday without even knowing that it will help me make a living at one point in my career.

While you might believe that you know a lot of things it is also very important for you to know that it is better to be a master of one trade than to be a jack of all. Don’t try to know and do 10 things, look for one and make yourself the possible best at it.

You don’t necessarily need to be born with the skill that will help you make money, and it doesn’t have to be what you presently know. Look for one thing you know you’re good at or one thing you’re ready to commit yourself on. Develop yourself on it and others will start seeking your help.

2. I Made Myself an Expert

Being an expert can make a difference in you making money online or not. When I talk about being an expert I’m not saying you need to be a guru with a list of over 100,000 subscribers or a guru making over $50k online monthly. Being an expert is all about you specializing in one skill and making yourself the possible best when it comes to that skill so that you can achieve the best result in it. Being an expert is all about making yourself one of the first person people will think of when they talk about that thing, being an expert is all about making yourself renowned as far as your skill is concerned.

I wrote a lot of guest posts within a short period of time, I learnt a lot about guest blogging and I made sure I got published on some of the biggest blogs in the industry, including here, Problogger, DailyBlogTips, John Chow and even some very big blogs like ReadWriteWeb and Business Insider. This alone brought me a lot of opportunities, people started respecting me when it comes to guest blogging and a lot of new opportunities started coming my way.

It is also important for you to know that being an expert isn’t about you professing it, you have to work hard to achieve that status and people will start calling you an expert. I never called myself a guest blogging expert, people call me that and some people have even gone to the extent of calling me the king of guest blogging – it isn’t because I told them to call me that but because they saw my work and they believed that I know what I am doing. You have to prove to people that you’re truly an expert by giving the best possible when it comes to what you have to offer.

3. I Leveraged Social Proof to Get Results

All the above points are only a part of the game, they made me known and they showed people what I’m capable of but I got no true result until I showed myself, I got no true result until I told people what I am capable of. It all started when I wrote a post on my blog telling people how I wrote 270 guest posts in 8 months, this boosted my credibility, made people to start respecting me, brought a lot of interview offers and eventually landed me a big client. Social proof is really powerful and can help you get a lot of results.

If you’re a blogger selling a course on how to get more blog comments you have to prove to people that you truly get comments to your blog and if you want to teach people how to gain more subscribers you have to have a list of thousands of subscribers to back your claims. If you want to teach people how to make money blogging you have to prove to them that you’re truly a blogger making money online and if you want to teach people how to get traffic to their blogs you need enough traffic to back up your claims.

While it might look very simple I’d like you to know that it really works, ever since making use of social proof to let people know that I’m effective at guest blogging, I’ve gotten more clients than I needed and I’ve rejected a lot of clients – there are so many people in need of your services, you just have to prove to them that you know what you are doing. Here are some ways to leverage social proof in various niches:

• If you’re a life coach you need to show people how many successful people’s lives you’ve helped make better.
• If you’re a marketer you have to prove to people that you really know what you’re saying.
• If you’re a designer you need to have a great portfolio of some of the best works you have done.
• If you’re a freelancer you have to show people your work in order to prove to them that you’re efficient and effective.

Once you’ve been able to realize that it takes effort to make money online and that specialization can help accelerate your journey to online success you will find it easier to make more money online.

Onibalusi Bamidele is a 17 year old entrepreneur making over $5,000 online monthly, visit is blog at YoungPrePro.com to learn more about what he does and download his free ebook: How I Make $3,000 Online Monthly to learn how he makes money online and how you too can.

Getting traffic to a blog is the priority of every blogger because without traffic you can do nothing: without traffic you can’t make sales, without traffic you can’t get subscribers and without traffic you can’t get clients. It doesn’t matter what your online business model is, you need traffic to get results and this post will be explaining how I went from 0 to 10k visitors monthly.

Before You Continue

Before you continue reading I’d like you to know some things about my blog and me. I’m a 17 year old blogger from YoungPrePro.com, and like most of you, I’m just an ordinary blogger who started with nothing so I believe it is easier for most of you to start getting this kind of traffic regularly, because when I started:

• I had zero traffic
• I had no connection
• I had no mailing list
• I wasn’t recognized
• I had no budget.

And with the above I have never spent a cent of advertising on trying to get traffic to my blog so I’ll say the traffic I get is organic. The techniques I will be teaching you in this post are so powerful that by using them, even if you don’t promote your blog for months your traffic will always increase.

I Realized This the Hard Way

There is a saying that a jack of all trades is a master of none. I used to hear this saying a lot, even before I knew what was called a blog but after blogging for months I never realized the importance of that saying when it comes to blogging. Like most of you, I spread myself thin trying to utilize so many forms of traffic generation tactics. I posted on forums, I commented on blogs, I submitted all my posts to every social bookmarking site I knew, I submitted my blog to every directory I knew and I was always ready to utilize any new traffic generation tactic I heard of.

Then one day, everything changed. I wrote a guest post for a particular blog in my niche and that guest post doubled my blog traffic the day it was published, I quickly realized that every traffic strategy I have been implementing are ineffective and I focused all my efforts on guest blogging alone. 8 Months later, I have written hundreds of guest posts, I have gotten tons of authority backlinks, I have been featured on many big blogs, and I have gotten tens of thousands of visitors.

Even though I will be recommending the traffic generation tactic that worked for me to you in this post, I’d like you to know that one thing stands true, and that is that being a successful blogger has a lot to do with specialization and expertise and a jack of all trades is always a master of none. Instead of utilizing 10 different ways to get traffic to your blog, why not focus on one? To me, guest blogging was that one traffic generation tactic I needed, I focused all my efforts on it and it worked for me.

Great Content Made a Difference

Even though I know I’m not the best when it comes to this and there are some times when I become really ashamed of my content, one thing I can’t really deny is the role content played in building my blog.

Even though I get over 10,000 visitors to my blog monthly a lot of you might think I get an average of 350 visitors every day; I know that looks almost true and is a great calculation, but the reality is there are days I only get as low as 190 visitors and there are days I get as much as 600 visitors without getting linked to by or having a guest post published on a big blog. The one thing that makes a difference is my content.

People are reading your blog for a reason, they want information! If you know your audience well you will know the kind of information they want and how they respond to it and you will be able to write content that go viral easily.

It doesn’t matter how much traffic you will get or what traffic generation technique you plan on using the one thing that can make it last is your content. You have to prove to your readers that you truly know what you’re saying and that you’re really there to help them. Once you start giving your readers the best you will start seeing an exponential increase in your blog traffic.

When I talk about not promoting my blog, yet, being able to maintain my traffic, what I’m talking about is the effect of quality content. Quality content brings about a spike in my blog traffic while at the same time putting my name in front of other people.

I Built a Brand

Every single month, hundreds of people are coming to my blog from search engines through the keyword “YoungPrePro”, which happens to be the name of my blog. Others are coming to my blog through my name and many others are coming through variations of my blog name. The name of my blog is the most popular keyword people use to find my blog in the search engines, both monthly and in my overall traffic stats (since I started my blog) and there could only be one explanation for this, I have built a brand people want to connect with, I have built a brand people want to identify with and I have built a brand people keep on talking about.

It is when people start talking about blogging and entrepreneurship to people around them that they will mention my blog, and those they tell will also tell others and in that way traffic will increase significantly and the result I get will skyrocket.

Try building a brand for your blog and yourself by investing your time in techniques that help you put your name in front of many eyeballs. Participate in forums, comment on other blogs, write guest posts for other blogs, and attend as many events you know can help spread the word about your online business. There is a great power in a brand and once you could make the name of your business common among your audience you will find it relatively easy to get more traffic to your blog.

I “Mastered” Guest Blogging

This was the one thing that made a whole lot of difference because even if I have the best content online there is no how it can be respected and shared if it is not read. As a new blogger with zero traffic, subscribers, mailing list and authority I had no reader of my own and I needed one. I needed readers to share and interact with my content, I needed readers to praise and appreciate my work and I needed readers to keep on talking about my brand. I immediately knew how important guest blogging is when it comes to building an audience and getting traffic and I was “dead determined” to get the best from it so I started learning everything I can about guest blogging, I started looking for ways to get my guest post published on every blog I know and in no time I have written hundreds of guest posts, some of which were published on some of the biggest blogs online, including ReadWriteWeb, Business Insider, Problogger, Maxblogpress, DailyBlogTips and JohnChow.com.

Before you start telling me that getting my guest posts published on those big blogs was the reason I am getting the traffic I get now I’ll like you to know that it all started from somewhere and nobody knew me when I started.

The takeaway here is that you should replace “I “mastered” guest blogging” with your own “I mastered {traffic strategy}“. If blog commenting is what you know how to do best then focus all your efforts on it till you get results.

And if you’re determined to make use of guest blogging but don’t know where to start, no need to worry, I already have a guide on it and you can download my guest blogging guide to know what you need to succeed as a guest blogger.

Onibalusi Bamidele is a 17 year old blogger making over $3,000 online monthly. You can learn more about how he makes that much online by downloading his ebook titled How I Make $3000 Online Monthly and by visiting his blog at YoungPrePro.com.