20 Feel Good Ways to Drive Traffic To Your Blog

What's the best way to make traffic for your blog or site? Actually, there's no best way to do it but to try out different tricks. What works for you might not work for everyone but there are some methods that can produce better results than others.

Some experts or gurus may tell you to do this and don't do that. For me, I suggest to follow what you feel is right. Experiment on tips and tricks that they teach you and find out which works for your blog.

In relation to this, here are 20 easy-to-do and almost FREE ways to drive traffic for your blog. Do try some of it out 'cause I certainly have had results!

1. Turn your articles and blog posts into PDFs using free PDF converters like OpenOffice. Then submit your PDFs to document sharing sites like Scribd and DocStoc.
2. Write truly informative and useful articles related to your niche, and publish them on WikiPedia.
3. Hold a contest and give prizes to your readers. Use social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook to let people know about the contest. A good contest with good prizes will attract a lot of people.
4. Write list posts like the one you are reading. Readers love posts like “10 ways to make money” or “6 ways to drive traffic to your blog”. List posts are amongst the most popular kinds of posts, and people tend to share list posts with others more often than other posts.
5. Post frequently, but don’t sacrifice quantity for quality. Both search engines and visitors like to see fresh, quality content. The more content you have, the more chances you have for ranking for variety of keywords, which will mean more organic traffic for your blog.
6. Submit your blog to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. Or simply use AdMe.com to submit your site to over 25 search engines for free.Submit your blog to social bookmarking sites like Digg and StumbleUpon.
7. Write with what you are passionate about and what makes you feel good.
8. Turn your articles to videos using free video creation services like Animoto, and submit them to video directories such as YouTube and DailyMotion.
9. Create a hub about your blog on HubPages.
10. Controversial posts attract visitors. Write a controversial post. Be creative and bold, but be careful not to cross the boundaries.
11. Leave quality comments on blogs that are related to your niche. Make sure your comments add value to the blog. Don’t just spam-comment and hope for the best. It never works, and your links will get deleted. If you leave a useful comment, people will be more likely to visit your blog.
12. If you find interesting posts on other blogs, write a post about them and link to them. The other bloggers will notice and might do the same for you.
13. Submit your site to review sites that write reviews on other websites and blogs, like CoolSiteOfTheDay.
14. Use your keywords in the title of your posts. Having your keyword in the title makes it easier for you to rank for that keyword, thus bringing you more organic traffic. That's a little bit of SEO too.
15. Make a Twitter profile for your blog and tweet each and every post you publish on your blog.
16. When you eat out, leave a good tip along with a business card with your site info on it.
17. Go to YouTube, find popular videos related to your niche and start commenting on those videos with a link back to your blog.
18. Make a bumper sticker with your blog address on it, and place it on your car’s bumper. You can even ask your friends and family to do the same for you!
19. Use your blog’s name as your username on forums, social networking sites, and other places like YahooAnswers.
20. Introduce your blog to Google+ and make your "circles" engage with each other.

Courtesy of: Problogger.net

My Life as a Virtual Assistant

Good Day fellow VAs,

              Are you still enjoying being a virtual assistant? Well, to make you feel good and a bit envious of being a VA,  I decided to take pictures of my day as a social media manager. 

               First of all, I would like to apologize for the quality of the pictures. I was supposed to use my Sony digital camera but I just found out this morning that it was broken! I just used my Samsung Corby's camera and I hope that these pics  are clear enough. My work starts at 8 in the morning and what's good about it is - no TRAFFIC and no COMMUTE! Jealous much? LOL! Just kidding! Anyway here's my life as a virtual assistant. 

Just woke up at 730 in the morning. I'm still wearing my pajamas and checking my mail and Facebook. 

Here's my biggest fan, Miggy, my doxie!

See, even dogs are interested in becoming a Virtual Assistant!

Wouldn't it be great to get paid by spending time on Facebook and Twitter?
That's the life of a Social Media manager! 

Here's my sumptuous and hearty breakfast that I cooked.
Yes, you have time to cook and eat breakfast when you're a VA!

I'm a big basketball fan and I can watch my favorite games while working!
You can call it distraction - I call it multi-tasking! hahaha!

My "work" ends at 1 in the afternoon and then I can go to the mall or play Frisbee with my friends. But today, I chose to go to my nearest Sony service center and get my digital camera fixed. So that's my day as a Social Media Manager / Virtual Assistant! 

I hope this makes you change your mind about corporate work or employment and start feeling good working at home as a Virtual Assistant!

Life is too short to waste, so start living it now! ~ Anonymous

Thank you, Steve Jobs

Today, a truly amazing man has passed away. Steve Jobs, the chairman of the board of Apple and an icon in this techie generation, has died.


Here a statement given by Apple:

"We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed away today.

Steve’s brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives. The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.

His greatest love was for his wife, Laurene, and his family. Our hearts go out to them and to all who were touched by his extraordinary gifts."

I was really surprised when I heard it from the news that Steve Jobs has passed away just a day after the announcement of the new iPhone 4S. This will certainly create a buzz for Apple in the social media sites and all over the world.


Jobs left Apple and stepped down as its CEO on August to rest and recover from a chronic case of pancreatic cancer. Here's what he wrote on his resignation letter:

“I believe Apple’s brightest and most innovative days are ahead of it. And I look forward to watching and contributing to its success in a new role.

      “I have made some of the best friends of my life at Apple, and I thank you all for the many years of being able to work alongside you.”

Contrary to popular belief, Microsoft's former CEO, Bill Gates, is a good friend of Jobs and has shared his sentiments on The New York Times as saying that he was "truly saddened to learn about Steve Jobs' death." He also quoted saying that: 


           “The world rarely sees someone who has had the profound impact Steve has had, the effects of which will be felt for many generations to come. For those of us lucky enough to get to work with him, it’s been an insanely great honor. I will miss Steve immensely.”


          I'd like to share one of the speeches given by Steve Jobs on a Commencement ceremony in Stanford University that truly makes him a great thinker and innovator.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” ~Steve Jobs (1955-2011)


Thank you, Steve Jobs. 

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What Can A Virtual Assistant Do in ONE hour?

What Can A Virtual Assistant Do in ONE hour?


Imagine this: More clients that you could connect with; more billable hours you could clock, or simply FEEL GOOD to have more time for your family, friends and for yourself!

With a virtual assistant handling the day-to-day administrative tasks associated with running and growing your business, you’ll find that you have more hours in the day, and more time to do the things you really want to be doing. The following list details just some of the things a professional virtual assistant could handle for you, in just one hour:

1. Call 25-30 prospective clients.
2. Mail merge 50-100 letters including stuffing and mailing.
3. Create and schedule an email marketing campaign.
4. Data Entry of a minimum of 75 contacts in an Excel spreadsheet.
5. Manage customer service correspondence.
6. Proof and edit a five to six page white paper.
7. Create a PowerPoint presentation.
8. Create a signup process on your website for an ezine or newsletter subscription.
9. Balance your business bank statement for the month.
10. Research travel, hotel and meeting facilities for an upcoming holiday or convention.
11. Provide personal or group training via webinar for a specific software or service.
12. Update web site content to be more search engine friendly.
13. Manage article and press release submissions.
14. Transcribe thirty minutes of audio from a conference, meeting, speech or similar.
15. Gather and organize research for a specific project.
16. Type handwritten notes from a seminar or meeting.
17. Utilize client’s content to create a basic sales page with PayPal.
18. Create a header graphic for website/blog.
19. Set up a Facebook page for the client’s business.
20. Manage a client’s Facebook business page (sending invites, interacting with users/comments, adding recent images, etc.)
21. Do follow-up research on a client, prospect, applicant, or competitor.
22. Manage incoming emails: delete spam; sort, answer, or redirect important emails.
23. Create a custom spreadsheet.
24. Organize files, label them appropriately, and mail them back.
25. Make confirmation calls regarding your appointments, engagements, or reservations.
26. Open and sort mail one week’s worth of mail.
27. Stuff, seal, label, and stamp a bulk mailing.
28. Write, format and post a detailed, relevant blog entry with image.
29. Collate and label personalized packets for your seminar or presentation.
30. Build at least 30 SEO-friendly links back to your website or blog.
31. Monitor and forward info from multiple sources of client industry news headlines, blog posts, and forum discussions.
31. Create and/or analyze and update Google Adwords campaigns.
32. Setup and/or analyze Google Analytics and relative conversion reports.
33. Add a press page to the company website.
34. Select and schedule 15 individual handwritten greeting or thank you cards for delivery to clients, colleagues, etc.
35. Edit and prep for download a 30-60 minute audio file using Audacity or similar.
36. Update shopping cart with new product images and information.
37. Create a customized, detailed Google business listing with images.
38. Manage the company Twitter account (providing Tweets, responding to @s, following/unfollowing per the company policy)
39. Create a draft of a company white paper out of last year’s relevant blog posts.
40. Scheduling a week’s worth of Tweets.
41. Planning two week’s worth of blog topics.

This is just a sampling of what a virtual assistant can do for you and your small business. The possibilities are truly endless!

A professional virtual assistant can handle any of these tasks in one hour – freeing you up to focus on more important business tasks and enjoy more personal time.