You’ve probably been there: you spend hours writing a great blog post, get some good feedback on it, and (justifiably) feel like a brilliant blogger. But then, a week or two later, the post has been replaced by newer entries on the front page, effectively relegating it to the dark corners where readers seldom venture.

Sure, you might still get a little Google traffic, and if it was a really good post, hopefully some other bloggers linked to it and you’re still getting a few visitors clicking through. But wouldn’t it be nice to keep the post alive and kicking on your own blog?

Fortunately, it’s not that hard, especially if you’re using WordPress (I mention some plugins below that are for WordPress blogs, but you might be able to find equivalent ways of doing these things on other platforms, too). Read on to discover a few tricks you can use today.

It occurred to me recently that many new bloggers can’t afford our services but are still interested in getting lots of traffic to their blogs.

I’ve been thinking about how I can help (affordably!) and here’s what I’ve come up with: An online tool that makes marketing your blog an easy, …

If you’re like me, there are a whole bunch of things that you’ve been “meaning to do” for a while and never seem to get around to. For me, and perhaps for you, pay-per-click (PPC) advertising is one of those things.

My perfectionistic tendencies get the better of me and I …

In my last post I explained the value of blog comment marketing. This one will give you details on how to find appropriate posts to comment on.

First, the dead-obvious suggestion: start with the blogs you’re already reading. Hopefully you’ve selected some high quality blogs that are written for people who are a lot like your ideal reader.

As you’re reading through posts, stay alert for points that catch your attention, give you an idea, remind you of something else, or even irritate you a little. Those things are excellent comment-fodder and, if you can communicate a response with clarity and intelligence, you’ll probably get the attention of the blogger and the readers.

Once you’ve visited all your “usual suspects,” though, where should you turn next?

If you want to get more interested visitors to your blog, blog comment marketing is something you should invest a little time in doing.

What is blog comment marketing? It’s just a fancy way of saying “leave comments on other people’s blogs”—taking something you’re probably doing already, and just making it …