Content Marketing

29 July 2013

What is this?

I did my first case study on my God of SEO Blog a few weeks back now, and as time has passed and my traffic, engagement and affiliate sales have continually grown, I thought I’d go into a bit more detail on building a Blog’s audience from scratch.

I’ll be going over:

How to find your Audience
Where to find your Audience
Building a Reputation in your Industry/Niche
Gaining Traffic from your Target Audience

Who are they?

It’s pretty easy if you’re writing about an industry/niche you’ve grown into over a few years, but what if you’re working on a big clients site or a brand new blog that you really don’t know much about the industry on?

Well, there’s a few steps you can take. Firstly I’d start off with finding the generalization of your niche, if I’m an SEO then I’d generalize it to an internet marketer. If I’m a tree surgeon then I’d generalize it to Gardener, this makes it a lot easier to find people and find potential targets.

10 July 2013

In Content Marketing

By Usama

43 Free Directories to Submit Your Infographic to

The Back Story

With Infographics still being a killer tool in the Inbound Marketing world, and with us recently creating an Infographic for a client – I was set the task of submitting the Infographic across the world.

So, like any good online marketer does, I setup an outreach target list of some of the best and most importantly – free directories to submit an infographic to!

The List –

1. http://infographicsonline.com
2. http://www.reddit.com/r/infographics
3. http://theinfographics.blogspot.com
4. http://www.nerdgraph.com/
5. http://infographixdirectory.com/
6. http://infographicsite.com
7. http://infographicjournal.com
8. http://www.loveinfographics.com
9. http://www.graphs.net/
10. http://www.bestinfographics.info

17 April 2013

In Content Marketing

By Usama

How to Get Traffic to Your New Blog and Keep it Coming

Creating anything from scratch requires a lot of foresight and planning, whether it be a new mobile application, a new blog website or even just one of those dodgy flat-packed desks from IKEA. I’m not going to give you a step-by-step on how to put a desk together but what I can do is give you a few tips, based on my personal experience, on how to drive traffic through to your brand new website.

When you’re first developing a strategy for your new blog it’s really important to set yourself some targets that have time-scales placed upon them. More importantly, these targets have to be achievable. There’s no point in setting yourself the task of achieving 10,000 unique visitors to the blog within your first couple of weeks unless you are prepared to dedicate some serious financial resources toward it. A lesson that I have learnt very quickly during my time within online marketing is to be prudent in your predictions.

If I Make Great Content Then People Will Pay Attention

This statement is true in the sense that once someone is presented with your content in front of them and they get a chance to actually see it and enjoy it then yes, people will certainly pay attention to it. The only issue lies in the visibility of the content itself. Having good quality content that is genuinely interesting to your target audience is crucial to the sustainability of visits to your blog, however quality content isn’t always enough.

Traffic Generation for Blogs: Hunting your Audience