Keeping up with all the forums, blogs, social-networking sites, video sharing sites, bookmarking sites, etc... can feel down-right impossible at times. There are so many different sites that you can use to help get visitors over to your blog that it can be extremely difficult to keep up with them after you've joined a few.
To make things easier, you should set up a schedule for all of the things you will be doing to help promote your site. After you have your schedule set up, you should create and print out a daily task-list. It'll be a lot easier for you to manage all of your postings when you have a checklist to reference.
Your task-list should consist of daily tasks, a specified time alloted for each task, and it's also a good idea to leave a slot open for notes.
The first couple of days or weeks(depending on how you work), will be your testing period. Make sure to take good notes during this time as it will determine how you'll revise your task-list in the future. For example, a task that you thought would only take you an hour to complete might actually take you two hours. In this case you would change your schedule and task-list to allow the proper amount of time for that particular activity.
It was hell when I first started this blog. I just started blogging without a plan. My feeds weren't burned, I didn't have analytics set-up, I had no method of organizing my affiliate links, I had absolutely nothing in order. I began looking for information about analytics for blogs, burning rss feeds, & blog widgets on search engines. The more reading I did, the more I learned about how to properly set up a blog.
Anyhow, back to traffic building techniques & keeping up with them. Even if you have a schedule, you may find it difficult to keep up with it. That's the main problem most people face when working from home. When you work from home you're on your own. I haven't mastered the technique yet, but, a good method to use is to act as if your blog/site is a part time job. Set your schedule, allow time for a break so that you can check in with the rest of the world, and then work hard at keeping up with your schedule.
One of the most difficult hurdles I had to jump when I first started to blog was the feeling of never being done. I would spend countless hours online looking for topics to research, posting on forums, & leaving comments on blogs. Here's something to keep in mind - everything can't be done in one day. If you can devote a certain amount of time to different areas of your web business daily, then you're on to a good start.
There's only so many hours in the day, so you have to decide what is priority and what can get done tomorrow.
The Aspiring Affiliate,
Antonio
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