Creative List Building

This is my first blog and it’s all the fault of that guy Alex Jeffreys!
 
A couple of weeks ago, we signed up for Alex’s latest coaching program, “Marketing With Alex”  One of his suggestions  was that we should make use of “Blogging”.  As blogging has been around since the late 90’s, I think it’ll be difficult to make mine stand out from the crowd.  Having said that, I’m going to try and inject some sort of personality into it.  I’ll  use this blog as a platform to record my progress through Alex’s program and the steps I’m taking to bring visitors here and hopefully entertain and inform you whilst you’re here.
Obviously, without visitors, any website or blog is a waste of cyberspace, and as such I’m going to be looking at various ways to attract visitors to my websites.

Things such as:

1. Article Marketing – Where I’ll be writing articles and posting them to article directories such as Ezinearticles.com
2. Blogging – Obviously
3. Search Engine Optimization - I understand that SEO can take a ton of work, but I’ll give it a go anyway.  Basically  this is all about making the site attractive to the search engines like Google and Yahoo thereby gaining a high ranking in  their search pages and hopefully getting organic traffic from them.
4. Pay Per Click – This is where I pay Google or someone else to run a small ad for me so that when someone searches on Google using a particular term my ad is shown and Google get paid each time someone
   clicks on my ad.  This can be very expensive and again it’s not easy to do it effectively.
5. Link Exchanging – I have links on my website or blog that direct my visitors to someone else’s blog andin exchange they have a link on their site whereby their visitors can link back to me.

As time goes on I’ll be trying these methods and anything else I can think of.